AGENCY’S Correction: Improving Teacher Quality State Grants: Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund Partnership Grant Program (ITQ)
Agency: Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC)
Deadline: September 17, 2008
Please be advised that MHEC has issued a revision to the original Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) program announcement distributed on April 25, 2008. On page 3, the list of Maryland high-need local educational agencies should include only: Baltimore City, Dorchester County, Prince George’s County, and Somerset County. According to the program definition and the U.S. Census Bureau information for 2005, Baltimore County and Montgomery County are no longer considered high-need LEAs. A corrected RFA has been posted on MHEC’s website.
URL: http://www.mhec.state.md.us/Grants/ITQ/ITQ.asp
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Institutional, University-Wide, or Multi-Disciplinary Opportunities
Picturing America School Collaboration Projects
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: October 1, 2008
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites proposals for projects that foster collaboration between K-12 educators and humanities scholars to encourage engagement with the rich resources of American art to tell America’s story. The Picturing America School Collaboration grant opportunity is designed to help teachers and librarians whose schools display the Picturing America images form connections with courses in the core curriculum. These projects will be grounded in the great works of art included in Picturing America, which is part of the Endowment’s We the People program. Information about Picturing America, including a Teachers Resource Book, can be found by visiting the Picturing America Web site.
The images in Picturing America reflect a variety of media and talents spanning several centuries, ranging from the work of early American Indian artists to painters such as Mary Cassatt and Jacob Lawrence, from photographers such as Dorothea Lange to architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. These images will help students better understand America’s diverse people and places and connect them to our nation’s travails and triumphs. Half of the initial distribution of high-quality reproductions (through NEH’s partner, the American Library Association) has gone to schools and school libraries in communities with a population of up to 25,000.
Goals of the Picturing America School Collaboration Projects grants are:
- to strengthen understanding of the connections between great works of American art and significant events, themes, and topics in the American experience;
- to encourage collaboration between K-12 educators and humanities experts who can bring appropriate knowledge to the integration of American artworks in core subjects; and
- to provide access to rich scholarly resources and primary materials to support teaching.
In order to provide a forum for exploring and deepening students’ understanding of art, American history, government, social studies, literature, language arts, civics, and other core subjects, funded projects should:
- support two or more conferences;
- accommodate at each conference forty to eighty participants who reflect geographic diversity; and
- provide opportunities for participants to collaborate with resource scholars, master teachers, museum and library professionals, and other experts.
Successful proposals will present a conference schedule of plenary and concurrent sessions in engaging formats that provide opportunities for participants to:
- observe or demonstrate models for teaching American art, history, and culture with the Picturing America portfolio and accompanying Teachers Resource Book;
- explore the curricular value of visual literacy for core subjects (for example, using images in the teaching of history or literature as a powerful investigative tool, a stimulus to Socratic inquiry, or a catalyst to improve student writing); and
- develop individual or team plans with mentoring resources, as available.
Successful applicants will also provide plans for post-conference support for participants as well as for Picturing America portfolio recipients unable to attend the onsite activities. Post-conference activities will include:
- use of listservs or e-newsletters to connect participants to an array of resources, including each other, and to assist with exchange and discussion around experiences using new materials and approaches;
- dissemination of the resources of the conference on a public Web site that could include online audio and video and transcribed conference presentations; and
- publication of the results of instructional initiatives in digital or print form and presentations or other in-service activities.
Eligibility note : Towson University, on its own, may not apply to this program but may apply in partnership with an eligible appliccant. Eligible applicants are K-12 public, private, parochial, and charter schools and home school consortia and public libraries in the United States and its territories. Multiple schools within a school system or school district or multiple libraries within a library system may apply for the Picturing America reproductions and teachers resource book. One application is permitted from each home school consortium.
Picturing America School Collaboration Projects can be funded up to $350,000 in outright funds for projects involving at least two conferences. The grant period will be eighteen months. Cost sharing is not required.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PASCP.html
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Individual Grant Opportunity
Traditional Fulbright Scholars Program
Agency: Council for the International Exchange of Scholars
Deadline: August 1, 2008
The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. The program consists of over 900 award opportunities in over 130 countries for U.S. college and university faculty, administrators, professionals and independent scholars. Awards are listed in 45 different fields or disciplines and a variety of sub-disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and are open to every academic rank—from instructor to professor emeritus—as well as untenured faculty, adjuncts, professionals outside academe and retirees.
Some awards call for a specific discipline or field, a specific host institution and prescribed grant activities. Other awards—called All Disciplines—offer applicants greater flexibility over project activities and host institution, within limits depending on the country. Awards vary in activity and length of stay, and grant stipends and benefits vary by country program and type of award. The various categories of awards are described below.
Once you have identified an award, you would be well advised to consult the program officer responsible for the country you are considering. Program officers are experts on the countries assigned to them and can offer tips for shaping a competitive application, as well as additional information on the award, institution or country. Contact information for program officers can be found at the beginning of each country section or on our Web site at www.cies.org/amstaff.htm.
Eligibility requirements apply at the time of application. Applicants must meet all of the following requirements—unless specific exemptions are stated in individual country or award descriptions. Applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin and/or physical impairment.
- U.S. citizenship at the time of application. Permanent resident status is not sufficient.
- A Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree (including a master's depending on the field) as appropriate at the time of application. For professionals and artists outside academe, recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments.
- College or university teaching experience at the level and in the field of the proposed lecturing activity as specified in the award description at the time of application.
- Foreign language proficiency as specified in the award description or as required for the completion of the proposed project. (Note: Except in certain world areas and countries, lecturing is in English.)
- Sound physical and mental health
The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) assists in the administration of the Fulbright Scholar Program for faculty and professionals.
URL: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/
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