Project Grant S206A220048

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $468,821 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to train 30 undergraduate students (10 per year) over a 3-year period to conduct culturally responsive research in developmental science. The key products and services delivered through this grant include: Providing students with skills and mentorship to formulate new research questions and...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Renaissance Arts Academy (RAA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support RAA's tuition-free multidisciplinary arts education program for students from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. As part of its mission to provide opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, the NEA grant will allow RAA to deliver integrated...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, totaling $144,497, will fund research examining culturally responsive measures of reasoning and executive function development among Latinx and European American children. Led by researchers at California State University, Fullerton, the project aims to refine developmental models of these cognitive skills by exploring how meaningful participation in everyday social and...

This $787,042 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project to engage Latinx families as design partners in creating equitable informal engineering learning opportunities for young children. The project, led by the Chicago Children's Museum in partnership with Loyola University Chicago and community organization Palenque LSNA, will utilize oral storytelling as a basis for designing hands-on engineering...

The National Science Foundation's STEM Education Program awarded a 5-year, $272,964 Project Grant to Oakland University to conduct research on cultivating and strengthening productive mathematical identities in early childhood and elementary students. The project aims to: 1) identify and document students', families', and communities' funds of knowledge related to mathematics learning, 2) support educators in designing and implementing number talk discussions that leverage these funds of...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) provides $947,891.89 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the "PROJECT I-SMART: INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT MINDSET AND READING TOGETHER" initiative. This 14-month project, running from Sep 18, 2024 to Nov 15, 2024, will focus on developing and evaluating an intervention to improve mindset and reading skills for...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to design, develop, implement, and evaluate accessible computational thinking curricula for middle school students with autism spectrum disorder. The $587,690 award to Youngstown State University will support a research-practitioner partnership to create a sequential three-grade-level curriculum tailored to the unique learning needs of this student population. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program is funding a $299,813 project titled "Engaging Individual Education Plan Teams as Co-Designers of Middle Grades Computing Activities for Autistic Students." The project aims to develop tools and resources to create computational thinking activities for autistic students that are co-designed with their Individualized Education Plan (IEP) teams. The co-design process will...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), provides $694,434 to Colorado State University to refine and test the EXPO (Executive Function Play Opportunities) intervention for improving executive function in young children with Down Syndrome. The project aims to transform EXPO into an adaptive intervention to better meet the diverse needs of children with Down Syndrome. During the R61 phase, the research...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $6,625,889 Project Grant to Young Audiences, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City, under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program (CFDA 84.411). The grant, titled "Equitable Access to STEM Engagement (EASE)", is a five-year initiative that aims to generate evidence-based educational solutions to improve student achievement and attainment, particularly for high-need...