Congratulations to the following for successfully submitting a grant proposal to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Drs. Kanav Kahol, Carole Greenes, Alan Leibowitz, Marshall Smith, and Mary Cavanagh. Their project, titled “Excel: Experts through Clinical Embedded Learning,” will explore the potential of alternative health and biomedicine workplace activities. If funded, the project will receive $598,000 over three years.
Thanks,
Dali
Congratulations to Drs. Susan Haag and Dale Baker for successfully submitting their grant proposal titled “Supporting Hispanic Heritage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics” to the National Science Foundation. This project represents a partnership between ASU and Mesa Community College and if funded, will be awarded over 1.4 million dollars.
Congratulations to Drs. Jeanne Wilcox, Shelley Gray, and Mark Reiser for successfully submitting a grant proposal to the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES). If funded, their project “Teaching Early Literacy and Language across the Curriculum (TELL+): A Efficacy Study with Preschoolers with Developmental Speech and Language Impairment” will be awarded over 3.7 million dollars. Partners on this project include the Peoria, Scottsdale, Gilbert, Kyrene, and Mesa Unified School Districts.
Congratulations to Drs. Dale Baker, Roy Levy, Steve Semken, and Michael Lang for successfully submitting their grant proposal, “An Evidence-based Test of the Efficacy of the Communication in Science Inquiry Project Model of Teacher Professional Development to Promote Student Achievement,” to the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES). Partners on this project include Tempe Union and Phoenix Union School Districts. The proposed budget for the project is $2,725,000.
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Ridley and his team for their recently funded Teacher Quality Partnership grant proposal. The U.S. Dept. of Education has awarded their project $ 33,800,000 over five years. The PDS NEXT: Reformed Teacher Education Program (with the Teacher Advancement Program) Project is a statewide, school-university, teacher education partnership among Arizona State University’s College of Teacher Education and Leadership, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and Office of the Vice President for Education Partnerships. Other institutions involved in this project include the Rodel Foundation and fifteen high-need urban and rural partner districts comprising 230 schools, 10,809 teachers and 174,308 students.
On August 20, Secretary Duncan and Jim Shelton, deputy assistant secretary for innovation and improvement, provided an overview of the $650M Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, which will reserve the largest grants for schools, districts, and nonprofit organizations that wish to finance programs with proven track records and the capacity to grow. The transcript of Secretary Duncan’s remarks is available online: http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2009/08/08202009.html
Dali
On Wednesday, August 26, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Sen. Harry Reid announced $3.5 billion in Title I School Improvement Grants to be awarded to states through ARRA. This provides an unprecedented opportunity for states to provide schools in need with the financial support to implement significant reforms and increase student achievement. More information is available at this url: http://www.ed.gov/programs/sif/factsheet.html
Dali
Congratulations to the teams that worked on the following NSF proposals:
· The NSF Math-Science Partnership Innovation Through Institutional Integration Grant—The Modeling Institute has been awarded $ 1,250,000 (over five years). This project draws upon work on middle level STEM improvement and teacher preparation and addresses the issue of professional advancement for in-service teachers by integrating the efforts of Arizona State University’s most successful NSF-sponsored initiatives: Modeling Physics; Learning through Engineering Design and Practice and Prime the Pipeline Project; Ask-a-Biologist ( NSDL); SMALLab (CISE & IGERT); the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER); and the MARS Education Program (NASA funding). Over the five year life of the grant the project aims to produce 150 additional teachers, highly qualified in the STEM disciplines by tapping and developing a new market—elementary certified teachers with an interest in professional advancement in science or mathematics education. Led by Provost Elizabeth Capaldi (PI), the project team includes members from CRESMET, CTEL, MLFIGSE, Provost’s office, CLASS, SAME, GIOS, and Mars Education Program.
· The NSF proposal Arizona Science Teaching Excellence Program (AZ STEP) by Dr. Susannah Sandrin and her team (Chad Johnson, Ray Buss, Robert Culbertson, and Mehmet “Dali” Öztürk) was successfully submitted yesterday. Total funds requested: $ 5,376,095 (over five years). If funded, the project will simultaneously offer enhanced science content understanding and improved design of inquiry-based instruction to Arizona’s middle school science teachers and pre-service science teachers. AZ STEP will involve 144 pre-service teachers, 144 in-service middle school teachers and numerous college-level faculty members. Within the first year of training, each cohort of 36 middle school teachers will impact more than 5000 students in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The project includes K-12 Education Partners and the following community partners: AZ Geographical Alliance, Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER), Salt River Project, and AZ Agriculture in the Classroom.
Dali
Obama Administration Starts $4.35 Billion “Race to the Top” Competition, Pledges a Total of $10 Billion for Reforms
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/07/07242009.html
Executive Summary is available at this url: http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/executive-summary.pdf
Secretary Duncan’s op-ed in the Washington Post can be read at this url:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/23/AR2009072302634.html
Dali
