Project Grant SJA80017GR0053

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $144,544 project grant to Public University Corporation Akita International University under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program. The grant funding will support improving the communicative English language teaching skills of Japanese teachers of English from February 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The Public Diplomacy Programs aim to advance U.S. foreign policy goals through informing...

The Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs awarded a $195,790.94 cooperative agreement to Teachers Of English To Speakers Of Other Languages (TESOL) on September 30, 2021 to engage English trainers from state governments in India to use student-centered practices in their classrooms. The trainers will work to improve the quality of English instruction in government schools through September 30, 2022. This award supports the Department of State's Public Diplomacy Programs...

The U.S. Department of State, through its AEECA/ESF Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.900), awarded a $1,499,999 Cooperative Agreement to World Learning Inc. to prepare at least 200 early-career English-language teachers from Central Asian countries to teach quality English language programming for adult and youth audiences. The award date is July 31, 2024, with a completion date of July 31, 2026. Under this Cooperative Agreement, World Learning Inc. will manage the C5 + ONE (Opening Networks...

This Project Grant award of $155,000 from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) aims to increase diverse, high-quality media content and strengthen English proficiency among journalists and content creators in Kazakhstan. The awardee, Next Level English, a for-profit sole proprietorship, will provide tailored English language training courses designed to improve the professional skills of journalists, enhance their...

PROJECT TEACH: Training Educators and Audiologists Working with Young Children with Hearing Loss The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) awarded The Washington University a Project Grant of $283,164 (obligated October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2026) under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325). The PROJECT TEACH initiative focuses on developing and...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $661,598 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Lowell on September 1, 2024. The grant, titled "Responsive Opportunities for Personalized Educator Systems and Supports (ROPESS): A Multi-Tiered System of Support for Bilingual Educator Development and Retention," aims to support English language learners (ELs), including immigrant children and youth, in attaining English proficiency and...

This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare science teachers to engage multilingual learners in scientific argumentation through mixed-reality simulations. The key goals are to identify essential elements in teacher-student interactions that help elicit student thinking to improve scientific argumentation among secondary multilingual learners, and to explore the preliminary effects, acceptability, and...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $273,782 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant to provide training services in Japan. Through the Women's Startup Lab Impact Foundation, the Project Grant will fund onsite and virtual training for 5,000 women across five Japanese cities from July 2021 through December 2022. The training will target female entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, students, and ecosystem builders to advance the...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $203,200 Project Grant to the Consortium For Enhancement Of Ukrainian Management Education to develop and implement a pre-service English teacher methodology program in pilot pedagogical universities in Ukraine. This award was made under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) to provide civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs within Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia, including Ukraine. The grant...

The Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to conduct the "Koo At Latouwx Has Naxsatee, Let Them Be Teachers" project from June 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The primary goal of the project is to increase the Tlingit language proficiency of 10 Tlingit language teachers through 116 total...