The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently announced a new competition for the National Professional Development (NPD) discretionary grant program to aid the expansion of bilingual programs. The NPD program provides grants for pre-service and in-service professional development activities to support improved instruction for PK-12 English learners (ELs) by funding teacher training and certification. This […]
Meet Us in March
Meet Scott Burg at the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) 4th Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development held in Washington, DC on March 5th through 7th. If you plan on attending the conference or would like more information, don’t hesitate to reach out. Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be attending the National Afterschool Association Convention at the Hyatt […]
Meet Us In January and February
Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be a virtual panelist in the session, “Evaluation and Assessment: Methods and Preliminary Results,” during the NSF BIO-RETS PI meeting on Thursday, January 25th at 1:30PM EST. This meeting is by inviation only. If you would like to learn more about the NSF BIO-RETS funding, please reach out. Meet Anna Jennerjohn at […]
AISL Spotlight: Exploring Impacts of an Afterschool Science Club on STEM Graduate Student Mentors
The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program is a National-Science Foundation initiative that funds research on a variety of STEM-based informal experiences and environments. At Rockman et al Cooperative, we’ve conducted research and evaluation of almost 30 AISL projects! Over the next month, we’re highlighting a few of those projects here. Today, we’re spotlighting the […]
NSF Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) Funding Opportunity
The NSF Advancing Informal Science Learning proposal deadline is rapidly on the horizon. We wanted to highlight a few recommendations from past blogs to help make your proposal stand out from the crowd. First, the AISL program prioritizes equitable collaborations among program participants. Collaboration can mean different things to different people. When thinking about how […]