Faculty and researchers at the NC State College of Education, including the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, were awarded $4,090,192 to support 23 projects from Oct. 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
Editor’s note: All dollar amounts listed are reflective of the grant funding awarded directly to the College of Education and do not include funding awarded to other collaborators.
NC State STEM Education Scholars Program
This $1,176,730 grant from the National Science Foundation will develop the NC State STEM Education Scholars program to increase the number of highly qualified teacher candidates in secondary science and mathematics by reducing financial barriers to teaching, provide participants with targeted experiences to develop teacher candidates’ pedagogical content knowledge with a focus on building community funds of knowledge and increase STEM teacher retention by providing ongoing professional development. Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Karen Hollebrands is the project’s principal investigator. Assistant Teaching Professor of Science Education Matt Reynolds is a co-principal investigator on the project.
NSF CAREER: Supporting Teachers to Leverage Students’ Languages in Mathematics
This $926,102 National Science Foundation CAREER grant will be used to partner with a mathematics department at a public middle school to co-design, analyze and improve teachers’ translanguaging pedagogies to draw on students’ full linguistic repertoires as resources for their learning and help teachers, teacher educators and researchers to better understand how students’ languages can be leveraged as a resource for mathematical learning. Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education Samantha Marshall is the project’s principal investigator.
NSF CAREER: Integrating Robotics and Socio-emotional Learning for Incarcerated Middle School Students
This $587,700 National Science Foundation CAREER grant aims to provide new choices to confined youth by developing and investigating robotics learning activities within a juvenile justice alternative education program and engaging pre-service teachers in mentoring youth participants. Assistant Professor of Technology, Engineering, and Design Education Daniel Kelly is the project’s principal investigator.
Examining Rural Dual Language Programs, Multilingual Learners, and Rural Community Cultural Wealth
This $413,811 grant from the Spencer Foundation will examine rural dual-language immersion education programs, the rural community ecosystems in which they operate and how rural educators of multilingual students leverage the linguistic resources of their students and families. Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Educational Equity Maria Coady is the project’s principal investigator. Assistant Teaching Professor Joanna Koch is a co-principal investigator on the project.
Falls Lake Partners in Forensic Science II
This grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund will kindle students’ interest in aquatic science careers through short interactive presentations. Professor of Technology, Design, and Engineering Education Aaron Clark will serve as personnel on the project.
Project Connect
This $157,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will provide a comprehensive formative and summative evaluation of Project Connect from the Program Evaluation and Education Research (PEER) group at the Friday Institute for Educational Evaluation. Director of Program Evaluation and Education Research Callie Womble Edwards is a co-principal investigator on the project.
Validation of the Equity and Access Rubrics for Mathematics Instruction (VEAR-MI)
This $152,733 grant from the National Science Foundation will facilitate the analysis of cognitive interview data from the VEAR-MI project as well as the analysis of mathematics lesson videos. Associate Professor of Mathematics Education Temple Walkowiak is a co-principal investigator on the project.
Project Read: Reading Extension Activation and Deliver
This $151,196 grant from the Mebane Foundation will launch and deliver a reading-specific extension initiative in connection with convenings that will be held through a partnership between the College of Education and NC State Extension. Assistant Dean for Professional Education and Accreditation Erin Horne is the project’s principal investigator.
Project Adding Direct Support (ADS)
This $85,555 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will uncover in-service needs related to school counseling, create a recruitment plan, conduct a community needs assessment and develop the planning and implementation of trauma-informed, equity-focused virtual training sessions that will be offered to school social workers and social work programs across North Carolina. Professor of Counselor Education Stan Baker is the project’s principal investigator. Assistant Professor of Counselor Education Rolanda Mitchell is a co-principal investigator on the project.
IRIS Center
This $71,183 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help develop and disseminate digital, open educational resources – including training modules and online tools – for Vanderbilt University’s IRIS Center with the goal of supporting educators’ use of evidence-based practices. Assistant Teaching Professor of Elementary Education and Special Education Jordan Lukins is the project’s principal investigator.
Hattie’s Influences on Student Achievement Under an Institutionally Racist System: What Works for Black & Brown Students
This $68,742 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation will fund a study revisiting Hattie’s List to identify and restrict the original studies to only those that include American Black and Brown students and conduct a new meta-analysis based on that data. Assistant Professor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Lam Pham is the project’s principal investigator.
Citizen Math: Using Math Class to Create Informed, Thoughtful, and Productive Citizens
This $61,739 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will enable the Friday Institute’s Professional Learning and Leading Collaborative team to engage middle school administrators and teachers from across North Carolina in order to recruit study cohort participants for a scalable, low-cost program that addresses issues of societal importances in ways that engage students while developing social-emotional skills and rigorous mathematics learning. Friday Institute Senior Research Scholar Emmy Coleman is the project’s principal investigator.
Empathy and AI: Towards Equitable Microtransit
This $59,450 grant from the National Science Foundation aims to identify, test and evaluate technologically enabled and community-supported solutions for equitably distributing travel demand over time for on-demand public transportation services with a focus on understanding the feasibility and tradeoffs involved in enabling and incentivizing prosocial behavior. Associate Professor of English Education Crystal Chen Lee is a co-principal investigator on the project.
Understanding the Long-term Effects Adaptation Strategies on Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Ocracoke Island through Co-Production
This $37,933 grant from the U.S. National Park Service will use a barrier island model and adapt participatory modeling and deliberative dialogue approaches while using best practices for co-producing decision-relevant science in order to co-create a process and tools that will support adaptation planning along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and surrounding communities. Associate Professor of Science Education K.C. Busch is the principal investigator for NC State.
Hosting the USGS Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
This $32,106 grant from the United States Geological Survey, will bring partners, community members and researchers together to discuss global change impacts and train graduate students on how to use and develop global change science. Associate Professor of Science Education K.C. Busch will serve as senior personnel on the project.
Asset Inventory: Eastern NC Digital Equity
This $27,202 grant from the Camber Foundation will enable NC State’s Institute for Emerging Issues and the Friday Institute to collaborate with the Camber Foundation to support data collection and analysis in the development of Digital Equity Asset Inventories in three eastern North Carolina Councils of Governments to include in their digital inclusion plans. Friday Institute Associate Director of Program Evaluation and Educational Research Erin Huggins is a co-principal investigator on the project.
Inclusion Diversity Equity & Accessibility (Ideas) To Forestry and Renewable Energy Careers
This $25,982 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will leverage scholarship funds with existing initiatives in the NC State College of Natural Resources to improve access to forestry and renewable energy careers and graduate education among Indigenous, Black and Hispanic/Latino populations as well as women. Friday Institute Director of Program Evaluation and Education Research Callie Womble Edwards is a co-principal investigator on the project.
Virtual Training to Manage Legal Risk for Turkey Producers and Processors
This $14,736 grant from the USDA will contribute to the development of a virtual, on-demand education program to help turkey producers and processors manage legal risk regarding animal welfare using engaging multimedia methods presented in both English and Spanish. Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Educational Equity Maria Coady is a co-principal investigator on the project.
NC State Improvement Project IHE Partnership
This $10,556 grant from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will prepare teachers to implement research-based curriculum, employ high-yield instructional practices and utilize an assessment system to make instructional decisions. Assistant Teaching Professor of Elementary Education and Special Education Jordan Lukins is the project’s principal investigator.
Preparing the New Teacher Workforce to Foster Deeper Learning
This $10,000 grant from Stanford University will contribute to the design and piloting of new online modules and supplementary resources aimed at developing pre-service teachers’ capacity to draw on learning science to effectively foster deeper learning. Director of Professional Education Sarah Cannon is the project’s principal investigator.
Data at Work Course Development and Pilot
This $9,944 grant from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will support the NC State Data Science Academy in facilitating the development, piloting, and assessment of a customized course for the Early Childhood Division to help participants understand data, tools and analysis within the context of their work at DHHS. Friday Institute Senior Research Scholar Gemma Mojica will serve as an evaluator on the project.
PK-2 North Carolina Math Convening
This $8,300 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund supported a convening of an interdisciplinary group of experts in Pre-K-2 mathematics teaching and learning to examine areas of agreement and disagreement related to mathematics education, special education and cognitive science. Dean Paola Sztajn is the project’s principal investigator.
Building Eastern North Carolina Teachers’ Understanding of Climate Change and Community Resiliency
This $1,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund will enable 20 educators from Eastern North Carolina to participate in a series of virtual and in-person experiences to build a statewide perspective on climate change and climate resiliency. Friday Institute Research Scholar Kevin Winn serves as personnel on the project.
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