Project Grant SNZ95021GR3111

This Project Grant award, valued at $682,186 and effective August 15, 2024, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The goal of the "Culturally Responsive Education and Teaching Empowerment in Mathematics in Hawaii (CREATE-MATH-HI)" project is to recruit and retain highly effective, culturally responsive mathematics teachers to serve Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) multilingual students in Hawaii. The project...

This $299,925 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of a research-practice partnership between Teachers College Columbia University and elementary school teachers on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. The goal is to co-design curricular units that integrate science modules from the Full Option Science System (FOSS) with computational thinking and computer science projects for elementary students. The project aims to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of a teacher learning sequence to help teachers learn how to build on "mathematical opportunities in student thinking" (MOSTS) during classroom instruction. The key products and services being delivered through this $663,577 award to Brigham Young University include: Designing and evaluating a professional development program that trains teachers to recognize...

This $1,502,771 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) will fund the development and piloting of an asynchronous, collaborative online professional learning (PL) course for middle grades mathematics teachers. The course aims to help teachers provide equitable mathematics instruction to their students by interweaving equity-based teaching practices, such as student positioning, with core mathematical content like transformations-based similarity,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,072,633 to The Algebra Project, Inc. over 5 years beginning October 1, 2023. The key products and services delivered include: Developing a comprehensive, standards-aligned Algebra II curriculum based on the Algebra Project's "polynomial calculus" and "five-step curricular process" approach. This geometric introduction to differential and integral calculus does...

The federal Project Grant award of $565,859.75 was provided 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). The grant will fund the "HAWAI'I ALIVE DIGITAL CURRICULUM" project, which aims to develop and improve literacy skills for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Nd-Diagenomix, Inc. (Adapta Education, Inc.) will develop a web-based formative assessment system for high school math education. The system will use innovative machine learning algorithms to identify student strengths and weaknesses in real-time, allowing teachers to provide personalized, targeted instruction. The system will leverage advancements in large language...

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 American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) was awarded a $703,950 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to improve the development of high-quality, free, online interactive mathematics textbooks for calculus and linear algebra courses. The two-year project, which began on June 15, 2024, involves collaboration between AIM, teachers, students, and researchers to create engaging interactive textbook questions that target core mathematical...

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to Parents And Children Together, a non-profit family service agency, for the "PACT COMMUNITY TEEN CENTER - BRIDGES BACK TO SCHOOL - HELPING YOUTH RE-ENGAGE WITH SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY" program. The project will be carried out from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025. The grant funding supports the organization's efforts to provide services under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy;...