<p>The Community Impact Grant program demonstrates our ongoing support to improve the lives of the communities we serve. Funding preferences will be given to initiatives that deliver on our key community focus areas of economic development, leverage OneAZ’s community involvement, and make an impact in the communities served.<br>As part of the application process, please submit a summary of how this grant will help your organization (Max 500 words).</p>
<p>CRITERION 1: Educator Professional Development Partnerships.<br>Help professional educators develop resources, programs, lessons or activities inspired by Department-sponsored educator professional development training. The training may be orientated toward a specific school/district, Arizona County, college/university pre-service program, or non-profit organizational program. Preference will be given to continued and sustained training, as opposed to one-time workshops.
<p><span>Supports efforts to bring together scholars whose substantive knowledge, theoretical insight, and methodological expertise can be assembled in ways that build upon and reach beyond familiar modes of thinking concerning conundrums or problems in education research, specifically those related to critical questions in the area of Teaching and Learning.</span></p>
<p>The Russell Sage Foundation's program on Behavioral Economics supports novel research that uses insights and methods from psychology, economics, sociology, political science and other social sciences to examine and improve social and living conditions in the United States.
<p><span>The Russell Sage Foundation launched its program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in the spring of 2015. This program seeks investigator-initiated research proposals on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American.
<p>One of two focus areas for WT Grant Foundation. We recognize that research use is rarely a simple process whereby research “facts” are passed from researchers to research users and then applied in a rational decision-making process.
<p><span>The Investing in Innovation Fund (i3), established under section 14007 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), provides funding to support (1) local educational agencies (LEAs), and (2) nonprofit organizations in partnership with (a) one or more LEAs or (b) a consortium of schools. The i3 program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent educational challenges and to support the expansion of effective solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students.
<p>This award is designed to stimulate development and innovation, which will bring into harmony all those agencies which have direct involvement in the preparation of teachers. It also is intended to emphasize the Association's concern for quality in teacher preparation.
<p>The Promise Neighborhoods program is newly authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The purpose of the Promise Neighborhoods program is to significantly improve the academic and developmental outcomes of children living in the most distressed communities of the United States, including ensuring school readiness, high school graduation, and access to a community-based continuum of high-quality services.
<p>We are seeking for proposals for the development and implementation of a ten-day exchange program in the U.S. for 27 Brazilian awarded public school principals who will travel accompanied by an education leader assigned by the National Council of State Secretaries of Education (CONSED). Participants in this exchange are the Brazilian public school principal winners (onefrom each of the 26 Brazilian states, and the Federal District) of the National Public School Management Award (Premio Gesteio Escolar - PGE). This exchange program in the U.S.