Project Grant P031S170019

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) will support the development and implementation of a professional development framework for school administrators and teachers. The framework aims to build...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $1,150,000 Project Grant to Loyola Marymount University to establish the Center on English Learners and Multilingualism (CELM). This grant, authorized under the Comprehensive Centers Program (CFDA No. 84.283), will support the creation of a specialized center to provide comprehensive training, professional development, and technical assistance to state, regional, and local educational agencies. The center...

The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) was awarded a $568,048 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition to support the PARA TODOS program. Under the one-year award beginning September 1, 2021, NABE will promote accelerated reading, language, and literacy achievement among multilingual students through its PARA TODOS program. The grant funding will support NABE's efforts to help ensure that English learners, including immigrant...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition has awarded a $600,719 Project Grant under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365) to the Cal Poly Corporation in San Luis Obispo, CA. The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, will fund the "CAL POLY BRILLANTE PROGRAM: BILINGUAL/RESPONSIVE INSTRUCTION FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND NEW TEACHERS/EDUCATORS." The program aims to improve language instruction, academic...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $670,397 Project Grant to Dual Language Education of New Mexico for the "PROJECT SEMBRAR: SUSTAINING EQUITY THROUGH MENTORSHIP, BILINGUAL TEACHER RECRUITMENT, ALLIANCES, AND RETENTION" program. This CFDA 84.365 English Language Acquisition State Grants program award will fund activities to improve language instruction, academic achievement, and educational outcomes for English language learners,...

The Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $699,298 Project Grant under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365) to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The grant, titled "BLOOM: BUILDING LANGUAGE AND OPENING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MULTILINGUALISM," will support the college's efforts to improve English language instruction, academic achievement, and educational outcomes for English language learners, including immigrant...

The Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $476,822 Project Grant to East Texas A&M University under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365). The grant, titled "LEOTEACH BILINGUAL EDUCATOR ADVANCEMENT AND CERTIFICATION OPPORTUNITY NETWORK FOR PARAPROFESSIONALS IN TEXAS (LEOTEACH BEACON)", will fund a one-year project from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025. The project aims to support English language learners...

The University of California, Santa Barbara was awarded a $360,506 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365). The grant, titled "Increasing the Recruitment and Retention of Multilingual Teachers through the Language in Society Teaching Apprenticeship (LISTA) Program," will support efforts to recruit and retain multilingual teachers to serve English language...

The Department of Education awarded a $706,688 Project Grant under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence—Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428) to the University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino. The grant, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will support the EXMILE (Excellence as Multilingual Innovators and Leaders in Education) initiative. This program aims to strengthen teacher preparation...

This Project Grant award of $1,272,902 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop reliable diagnostic protocols for identifying language and reading disorders among Spanish-English bilingual learners in kindergarten through 2nd grade. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop empirically-derived protocols to identify word reading difficulty (dyslexia) and...