Investing in Innovation Fund—ScaleUp Grants

Overview

<p><span>Scale-up grants provide funding to support expansion of projects supported by strong evidence of effectiveness (as defined in this notice) to the national level (as defined in this notice). In addition, as Scale-up projects seek to improve outcomes for students in highneed schools, they also generate important information about an intervention’s effectiveness and the contexts for which a practice is most effective. We expect that Scale-up grants will increase practitioners’ and policymakers’ understanding of the implementation of proven practices and help identify effective approaches to expanding such practices while also maintaining or increasing their effectiveness across contexts. All Scale-up grantees must evaluate the effectiveness of the i3-supported practice that the project implements and expands. The evaluation of a Scale-up project must identify the core elements of, and codify, the i3-supported practice that the project implements in order to support adoption or replication by other entities. We also expect that evaluations of Scale-up grants will be conducted in a variety of contexts and for a variety of students in order to determine the context(s) and population(s) for which the i3-supported practice is most effective. Applicants must address one of the first four absolute priorities. An applicant that addresses Absolute Priority 4, Serving Rural Communities, must also address one of the first three absolute priorities. Because applications will be rank ordered by absolute priority, applicants must clearly identify the specific absolute priority that the proposed project addresses. </span></p> <p><span>Absolute Priority 1—Implementing Internationally Benchmarked College and Career-Ready Standards and Assessments. </span></p> <p><span>Absolute Priority 2—Improving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education. </span></p> <p><span>Absolute Priority 3—Improving LowPerforming Schools. </span></p> <p><span>Absolute Priority 4—Serving Rural Communities. </span></p> <p><span>1. Innovations that Improve Achievement for High-Need Students </span></p> <p><span>2. Innovations that Serve Kindergarten-through-Grade-12 (K–12)</span></p>