<div dir="ltr">upcoming NSF grant solicitations<div>1) <a href="http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/announce/show/id-360">http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/announce/show/id-360</a><div><h2 class="gmail-alpha" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.1em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;font-size:1.6em;color:rgb(70,108,158)">NSF DR K-12 Solicitation Webinars (NSF 17-584)</h2><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(71,71,71);font-size:12px"></p><div class="gmail-metadata" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:10px 0px;float:left;width:486px;border-top:3px solid rgb(70,108,158);border-bottom:3px solid rgb(70,108,158);color:rgb(71,71,71);font-size:12px"><div class="gmail-meta_label" style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(70,108,158);font-weight:bold;width:106.906px;white-space:nowrap;float:left">URL:</div><a href="http://cadrek12.org/informational-webinar-dr-k-12-solicitation-17-584" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(140,118,80)">http://cadrek12.org/informational-webinar-dr-k-12-solicitation-17-584 </a><br><div class="gmail-meta_label" style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(70,108,158);font-weight:bold;width:106.906px;white-space:nowrap;float:left">Posted to Site:</div>Aug 23, 2017 <br><div class="gmail-meta_label" style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(70,108,158);font-weight:bold;width:106.906px;white-space:nowrap;float:left">Submitted by:</div><a href="http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/showcase_member/user_id-6263?cat_id=4258" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(140,118,80)">Kimberly Descoteaux</a></div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div>Join NSF program officers for an informational webinar on the newly released </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2017/nsf17584/nsf17584.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(140,118,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Discovery Research K-12 Solicitation (17-584).</a><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Register today for one of the following options: </span><br style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><strong style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Thursday, August 31, 2-3pm ET</strong><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span><br style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><strong style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Monday, September 11, 2-3pm ET </strong><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"></span><br style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. </span><br style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Register here: </span><a href="http://cadrek12.org/informational-webinar-dr-k-12-solicitation-17-584" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(140,118,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">http://cadrek12.org/informational-webinar-dr-k-12-solicitation-17-584</a><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span><br style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">In addition, we encourage you to visit our </span><a href="http://cadrek12.org/resources/nsf-proposal-writing-resources" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(140,118,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">NSF Proposal Toolkit </a><span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">for resources to support you in writing your NSF proposal.</span></div><div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computer science (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. Projects should result in research-informed and field-tested outcomes and products that inform teaching and learning. Teachers and students who participate in DRK-12 studies are expected to enhance their understanding and use of STEM content, practices and skills.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The DRK-12 program invites proposals that address immediate challenges that are facing preK-12 STEM education as well as those that anticipate radically different structures and functions of preK-12 teaching and learning. The DRK-12 program has three major research and development strands: (1) Assessment; (2) Learning; and (3) Teaching. The program recognizes the synergy among the three strands and that there is some overlap and interdependence among them. However, proposals should identify a clear focus of the proposed research efforts (i.e., assessment, learning, or teaching) consistent with the proposal's main objectives and research questions. The program supports five types of projects: (1) Exploratory, (2) Design and Development, (3) Impact, (4) Implementation and Improvement, and (5) Conferences and Syntheses. All five types of projects apply to each of the three DRK-12 program strands.</p><div><br></div><div>2) <a href="http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/announce/show/id-359">http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/announce/show/id-359</a></div><div><h2 class="gmail-alpha" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.1em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;font-size:1.6em;color:rgb(70,108,158)">NSF AISL Solicitation Webinar (NSF 17-573)</h2><div>Advancing Informal STEM learning. In education and human and resources. The only one that specifically targets STEM learning in informal contexts. Includes TV, radio, clubs, and can include learning outcomes to be measured on impact on parents, mentors, and students.</div><div><br></div><div>Interested in all aspects of learning and learning outcomes. 6 Priorities: (1) maximize strategic impact (planned, intended and focused impact) goes beyond project level. (2) Must describe how you build knowledge for the STEM learning field. (ask: what is happening? to what extent? why? how? what works for whom and under what circumstances? refer to research) <a href="http://informalscience.org">informalscience.org</a> (3) Promote innovation. Build on or extend current work or go in a new direction. Can challenge existing understanding (4) Advance collaboration. Interdisciplinary team, describe how the expertise is incorporated in the project and who does what. (5) Strengthening infrastructure and build capacity. (6) Broadening participation.</div><div><br></div><div>This is very broad across many target demographics and areas of science.</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff, CS Matters in Maryland</div></div>
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