Are you seeking a flexible learning resource that will enhance your educational activities? Are you interested in a highly customizable experience that spotlights critical reflection? Designed for both individual and group reflections, the Principled Innovation card decks are designed to inspire positive and reflective decision-making that engages core values and fosters human-centered cultures and climates in schools and beyond.

What if solar panels didn’t just generate electricity — but also helped grow your lunch? That’s the idea behind agrivoltaics, a science-based approach to farming that was the inspiration for a three-year initiative that encouraged K–12 students and educators to develop solutions in collaboration with their local communities.

The Spencer Foundation invests in research to improve education, broadly conceived. There is a critical need for innovative, methodologically and disciplinarily diverse, large-scale research projects to transform education systems for equity. Importantly, we believe that ambitious research must begin with the challenges, problems, and opportunities in education systems.

This Funding Opportunity invites potential partners to propose innovative approaches to engage USG exchange alumni and strengthen their role as advocates for strong, mutually beneficial ties between the United States and Kazakhstan. Proposed programs should focus on sustained outreach, strategic communications, and professional engagement that reinforce alumni connections to the U.S.

The Foundation is focused on improving postsecondary education outcomes so that all students have a better chance of career success. The scope of higher education includes credit-bearing career and technical education (CTE), and other two- and four-year postsecondary credentials. The Foundation focuses particularly on improving outcomes for underserved populations and is committed to evaluation and learning from our grantmaking and field expertise to drive evidence-based innovation in higher education.

This funding opportunity is designed to strengthen the U.S. government’s relationship with local communities in Rwanda, advance mutual goals, and amplify the positive impact of collaborative projects. We encourage innovative proposals that address the below outlined priority areas. 

This program supports research on strategies focused on improving the use, usefulness, and impact of evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We welcome impact studies that test strategies for improving research use as well as whether improving research use leads to improved youth outcomes. We also welcome descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. Finally, we welcome measurement studies that explore how to construct and implement valid and reliable measures of research use.

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