National Center to Improve Faculty Capacity to Use Educational Technology in Special Education Personnel and Leadership Preparation Programs

Overview

This competition includes one absolute priority. This priority is: National Center to Improve Faculty Capacity to Use Educational Technology in Special Education Personnel and Leadership Preparation Programs.

The purpose of this priority is to fund a cooperative agreement to establish and operate a National Center to Improve Faculty Capacity to Use Educational Technology in Special Education Personnel and Leadership Preparation Programs. For the purposes of this priority, educational technology includes AT devices and AI. This project will support faculty at IHEs by improving their knowledge and use of educational technology, and their capacity to sustain its use in special education personnel and leadership preparation programs.

The project must achieve, at a minimum, the following expected outcomes: 

(a) Increased knowledge of faculty at IHEs about the range of educational technologies that can be used within special education personnel and leadership preparation programs; 
(b) Increased capacity of faculty at IHEs to use a range of educational technologies within special education personnel and leadership preparation programs; 
(c) Increased capacity of faculty within and across IHEs to establish and sustain professional learning networks related to the use of educational technologies within special education personnel and leadership preparation programs to keep up with technological innovations; 
(d) Increased integration of educational technologies and practices throughout special education personnel and leadership preparation programs; and 
(e) Increased number of special education personnel and leadership preparation program graduates who enter the field well-prepared to integrate educational technologies and innovative technology practices, especially evidence-based technology and practices that improve literacy outcomes, to better serve children with disabilities and their families.

Type of Award: Cooperative agreement. 
Estimated Available Funds: $700,000. 
Contingent upon the availability of funds and the quality of applications, we may make additional awards in FY 2026 from the list of unfunded applications from this competition. Maximum Award: We will not make an award exceeding $700,000 for a single budget period of 12 months. 
Estimated Number of Awards: 1.