Applications for New Awards; Supporting Effective Educator Development Program

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
Solicitation Title: Applications for New Awards; Supporting Effective Educator Development Program
Funding Amount: Estimated Range of Awards: $1,000,000–$6,000,000 for the first year of the project.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $4,000,000 for the first year of the project.
Estimated Number of Awards: 5–8.
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, June 19, 2017
Solicitation Link: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/04/20/2017-08042/applications-for-new-awards-supporting-effective-educator-development-program
Solicitation Number: CFDA 84.423A

Overview

The SEED Program provides funding to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of Evidence-Based 2 practices that prepare, develop, or enhance educators. These grants will allow eligible entities to develop, expand, and evaluate practices that can serve as models that can be sustained and disseminated. This competition includes two absolute priorities, two competitive preference priorities, and one invitational priority.

Solicitation Limitations: Applicants may address only one absolute priority and must clearly indicate the specific absolute priority their project addresses. Absolute Priority 1: Supporting Effective Teachers. Under this priority, we provide funding to projects that are designed to improve teacher effectiveness and increase the number of Highly Effective Teachers in schools with high concentrations of High-Need Students. Absolute Priority 2: Supporting Effective Principals or Other School Leaders. Under this priority, we provide funding to projects that are designed to improve principal or other School Leader effectiveness and increase the number of Highly Effective Principals or Other School Leaders in schools with high concentrations of High-Need Students. Competitive Preference Priority 1: Promoting Diversity in the Educator Workforce (0 to 5 points). Under this priority, we provide funding to projects that are designed to address both of the following priority areas: (a) Providing educator development activities designed to improve cultural competency and responsiveness skills that contribute to an inclusive school culture; and (b) Improving the recruitment, support, and retention of educators from diverse backgrounds. Applicants must respond to both of the priority areas in order to receive the maximum available points under this competitive preference priority. Competitive Preference Priority 2: Support for Personalized Learning Environments (0 to 3 points). Under this priority, we provide funding to projects that are designed to support teachers, principals, or other School Leaders implementing personalized learning environments in their classrooms or in classrooms in their schools, using data to inform their instruction, and increasing students’ engagement, voice, and choice in their learning. Projects may support educators’ implementation of college and career ready strategies such as project based learning, competency based education, or blended learning. Invitational Priority: Support for the Use of Micro-Credentials. Under this priority, we are interested in projects that support teachers, principals, or other school leaders earning Micro-Credentials based on demonstrated mastery of competencies and performance-based outcomes. Other Information:The Secretary intends to award grants under each absolute priority for which applications of sufficient quality are submitted. we will award up to five points to an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 1 and up to three points to an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 2, depending on how well the application meets these competitive preference priorities. Applicants may choose to address zero, one, or both of the competitive preference priorities. The maximum total competitive preference priority points an application may receive under this competition is eight. For FY 2017 and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, this priority is an invitational priority.

Last Updated: 04/08/2019

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