Project Grant SLE20020GR0033

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $499,960 will fund the development and research of integrating data literacy and text analytics instruction into middle school English language arts courses from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The goal is to build students' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills by analyzing textual data using techniques like word frequency visualization that are relevant to fields like data journalism and language...

This $703,651 Project Grant awarded by 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 fund the "The Latino STEM Education Initiative: Engaging Kids and Families in STEM Pathways" project implemented by Moco Kidsco Inc., a...

This Project Grant award of $491,411 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a research project by WestEd, a nonprofit education research and development organization. The project will investigate how to design mathematics tasks and curricula that best support the learning of mathematical concepts, practices, and language use by English learner students in eighth grade. The research will include individual interviews, paired interviews, and small...

The Children's Museum, Inc., doing business as Childrens Museum, received a $1,636,029 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education on October 3, 2022 to support the Center for STEAM Advancement Collaborative. The grant funding will support the Center for STEAM Advancement Collaborative's efforts to develop and deliver innovative approaches to literacy, as well as programs aligned with the goals of the Promise Neighborhoods,...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $644,957 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The project aims to design and implement a novel STEM education curriculum focused on supporting the development of secondary students' abilities to reason through ambiguous and ethical challenges through engineering design projects. The curriculum will empower youth as transformative agents with skills to negotiate risks and benefits, scope and...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $1,695,853 Project Grant 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) to Bpe, Inc., a non-profit organization in Boston, MA. The grant funding supports the development of PREK-16 STEM career pathways in the Dudley and Nubian Square...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Nd-Diagenomix, Inc. (doing business as Adapta Education, Inc.) will fund the development and validation of a web-based formative assessment system for high school math education. The system will leverage machine learning and large language models to provide highly efficient, personalized, and teacher-customizable assessments that identify students' strengths and...

The Children's Museum will provide hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM)-based programs to over 1,000 local youth ages 3 to 14 and their caregivers under a $187,210 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). In collaboration with six Hartford Public Library branches, three Hartford Family Centers, and the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, the museum will design and develop field...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $849,931 to support a collaborative research project that aims to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project will work with 18 teachers and up to 4,800 students to understand how teachers can adapt next-generation STEM+CS curricular materials to their local school and community contexts. Key outcomes...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $421,000 Project Grant to The Water Council, Inc., a non-profit organization, for the "Water Sector Mentoring and Employment for High School Students and Clubs (WSMAE)" program. This grant, funded under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program...