Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program
Solicitation Title: Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program
Funding Amount: Estimated Range of Awards: $300,000–$1,000,000
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Solicitation Link: https://innovation.ed.gov/what-we-do/teacher-quality/teacher-quality-partnership/
Solicitation Number: NSF 17-565
Overview
<p>The Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) Grant Program aims to increase student achievement by improving the quality of new prospective teachers by enhancing the preparation of prospective teachers and the professional development activities for current teachers; holding teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education (IHEs) accountable for preparing talented, certified or licensed and effective teachers; and recruiting effective individuals, including minorities and individuals from other occupations, into the teaching force.</p> <p>More specifically, the TQP Grants Program seeks to improve the quality of new teachers by creating partnerships among IHEs, their schools/colleges of education and arts and sciences, high-need school districts (local educational agencies (LEAs)), their high-need schools, and/or high-need early childhood education (ECE) programs. These partnerships will create model teacher preparation programs at the pre-baccalaureate level (or in a 5th year initial licensing program) through the implementation of specific reforms of the IHE’s existing teacher preparation programs, or model teaching residency programs for individuals with strong academic and/or professional backgrounds but without teaching experience.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>An eligible applicant must be an “eligible partnership” as defined in section 200(6) of the HEA. The eligible partnership means an entity that–<br>Must include each of the following:<br>A. A high-need local educational agency;<br>B .A high-need school or consortium of high-need schools served by the high-need local educational agency, or, as applicable, a high-need early childhood education program<br>C .A partner institution;<br>D. A school, department, or program of education within such partner institution, which may include an existing teacher professional development program with proven outcomes within a four-year institution of higher education that provides intensive and sustained collaboration between faculty and local educational agencies consistent with the requirements of this title;<br>E. A school or department of arts and sciences within such partner institution; and<br>F. An eligible partnership</p> <p><span> </span></p>Last Updated:
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