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Recent Grants: Secondary Education
Secondary Education grants are made primarily for the early stages of innovative professional development programs that strengthen high school teachers and their teaching. Some awards also are made to support new ideas that will have significant impact on established programs and/or replicate the program elsewhere. (Please see the Secondary Education Program guidelines and FAQs for additional information.)

2011

A Museum-Based Partnership - $195,889
PIER PEABODY FELLOWS PROGRAM, YALE UNIVERSITY
New Haven, CT
Support for teaching the histories, contributions and importance of contemporary indigenous peoples of the Americas. (more)

Online Support for Beginning Science Teachers – $200,000
EXPLORATORIUM
San Francisco, CA
To create and pilot a web-based approach that makes a proven program available to beginning science teachers across the country. (more)

Expansion of DNA Training Through the Use of LEGOs - $200,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
Cambridge, MA
To support further replication of MIT’s hands-on training in molecular biology. (more)

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) - $200,000
CAST, Inc.
Wakefield, MA
To create the UDL Action eKit. (more)

District-wide Inquiry-Based Learning - $200,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA
To implement a biology inquiry learning model in the Pasadena School District (PSD). (more)

Literacy Training for High School Teachers - $191,532
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Providence, RI
To develop the Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders (CALL) program. (more)

Teacher-Scientist Partnerships - $199,950
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Atlanta, GA
To expand the successful pilot of the Direct to Discovery (D2D) program to urban and rural settings. (more)

2010

Video Clubs for Algebra Teachers - $200,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Evanston, IL
Northwestern has received support to develop innovative video modules that can be used for the professional development of secondary mathematics teachers through their participation in video clubs. (more)

Expansion of an Inquiry-Based Approach to Mathematics - $200,000
INSTITUTE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT (ISA)
Lake Success, NY
The Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) has been successful in improving student performance in mathematics. (more)

Language in Motion - $200,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
Hanover, NH
To establish the Language in Motion (LIM) program. (more)

Learning School Alliance - $200,000
LEARNING FORWARD
Dallas, TX
To expand the Learning School Alliance (LSA). (more)

Solutions-Based Learning - $200,000
LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (LAEP)
Los Angeles, CA
For teacher training in Solutions-Based Learning (SBL). (more)

SMART Mentoring - $200,000
BOSTON COLLEGE
Chestnut Hill, MA
To develop an online mentoring and support program for new high school teachers. (more)

Content Seminars and Curriculum Development - $200,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE
Davidson, NC
This grant will support the newly established Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI), a partnership between Davidson College, UNC Charlotte and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. (more)

2009

Identifying and Filling Learning Gaps - $150,000
NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT (NEP)
Oakland, CA
To expand the Impact 2012 Inquiry Initiative from nine to fourteen high schools. (more)

Neurologically-Based Learning Variations - $165,000
ALL KINDS OF MINDS (AKOM),
Durham, NC
To adopt a large cohort teacher training model in high schools. (more)

English as a Second Language - $150,000
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
Salem, OR
To train high school teachers how to manage and teach students for whom English is a second language. (more)

Math for America - $150,000
HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE
Claremont, CA
Towards induction programming for 25 beginning secondary school math teachers from the first two cohorts of Math for America – Los Angeles (MfA-LA). (more)

Teaching Difficult Languages - $150,000
AMHERST COLLEGE
Amherst, MA
To help strengthen high school teaching of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Arabic languages through a new method of instruction. (more)

iWalkthrough - $149,709
MITCHELL INSTITUTE
Portland, ME
For continued development of the iWalkthrough project. (more)

2008

Grounding in Botany - $150,000
THE HUNTINGTON
San Marino, CA
To expand the reach of the Grounding in Botany (GiB) program. (more)

Professional Learning Communities - $150,000
PIVOT LEARNING PARTNERS
San Francisco, CA
To develop and pilot test a new high school teacher leadership program. (more)

New Teachers Academies - $150,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE
New York, NY
To support expansion of the New Teacher Academies (NTA), which provide beginning teachers with a year-long, job-embedded intensive professional development program. (more)

Board Certified Teachers as Mentors - $150,000
CENTER FOR TEACHING QUALITY (CTQ)
Hillsborough, NC
To support the early stages of a mentorship program for novice high school math and science teachers in high need schools. (more)

Conservation Biology - $135,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
San Diego, CA
To further develop, refine and expand the reach of a new conservation biology teacher training program. (more)

Multi-Modal Science - $149,359
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Iowa City, IA
To train high school science teachers in the use of “multi-modal” teaching techniques. (more)

Teacher Induction - $149,460
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
Swarthmore, PA
To partner with the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania to establish a new teacher induction program. (more)

Latin American Resources for Teachers - $150,000
PRIMARY SOURCE
Watertown, MA
For start-up costs associated with developing the high school segment of a new Latin America program. (more)

LEGO-Based Molecular Biology - $150,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
Cambridge, MA
To support training for 80 high school life science/biology teachers in MIT’s Molecular Biology Learning Lab. (more)

Language in Motion Consortium - $150,000
JUNIATA COLLEGE
Huntingdon, PA
To expand the award winning Language in Motion (LIM) program. (more)

Contact: Dr. Jonathan T. Howe, Executive Director
Telephone: (904) 359-0670 | Fax: (904) 359-0675
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