Submitted Projects for June 2020

Best wishes to Hannah Bayne and Jeffrey Pufahl for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Christopher Busey for his proposal to the William T. Grant Foundation; Maria Coady and Nidza Marichal for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Hitomi Greenslet, Kent Crippen, Nam Kim, Jorg Peters, and Dapeng Wu for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Lynda Hayes for her proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Lynda Hayes and Karen Kilgore for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Latoya Haynes-Thoby, Ana Puig, Jacqueline Swank, and Sondra Smith for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Herman Knopf and Elizabeth Shenkman for their subcontract proposal ACF Flow Through from the Florida Office of Early Learning; Walte Leite and Wanli Xing for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Michelina MacDonald for her proposal to the National Education Association Foundation; Ashley MacSuga-Gage for her subcontract proposal Spencer Foundation Flow Through from the University of Helsinki; Justin Ortagus for his subcontract proposal Gates Foundation Flow Through from Pennsylvania State University; Jennifer Park-Jadotte for her subcontract proposal ACF Flow Through from the National Association for Family School & Community Engagement; Philip Poekert for his proposal to Lauren’s Kids; Philip Poekert for his proposal to the School Board of Seminole County; Paige Pullen for her proposal to the Detroit Public Schools Community District; Matthew Schmidt and Carla Schmidt for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Patricia Snyder, Herman Knopf, and Maureen Conroy for their subcontract proposal ACF Flow Through from the Florida Office of Early Learning; and Joni Splett for her subcontract proposal NIJ Flow Through from University of South Carolina.

For more details, see the Submitted Projects table.

College of Education
Submitted Projects June 2020
Principal Investigator: Hannah Bayne (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Jeffrey Pufahl (Center for Arts in Medicine)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: The Role of a Digital Storytelling Group in Supporting Socioemotional Needs of LGBTQ+ Students During COVID-19 School Disruptions
Requested Amount: $49,798
Principal Investigator: Christopher Busey (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Proposal Title: Afro-Latinxs and Education: Meeting Educational Needs at the Intersection of Blackness and Latinidad
Requested Amount: $349,657
Principal Investigator: Maria Coady (STL)
Co-PI: Nidza Marichal (STL)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Disrupting Educational Inequities for Rural Secondary English Learners during COVID-19
Requested Amount: $50,000
Principal Investigator: Hitomi Greenslet (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL), Nam Kim (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering), Jorg Peters (Computer & Information Science & Engineering), Dapeng Wu (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: FMRG: Human-Centric AI-Enabled Manufacturing-Knowledge Searching and Transfer Learning for Autonomous Cyber Manufacturing
Requested Amount: $479,789
Principal Investigator: Lynda Hayes (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Proposal Title: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
Requested Amount: $119,729
Principal Investigator: Lynda Hayes (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: Karen Kilgore (P.K. Yonge)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Virtually PKY: Sustaining a Community of Learning During Emergency Remote Learning
Requested Amount: $50,000
Principal Investigator: Latoya Haynes-Thoby (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Ana Puig (Office of Educational Research), Jacqueline Swank (SHDOSE), Sondra Smith (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Revisioning the Learning Process During COVID-19: The Role of Family-Based Resilience-Building
Requested Amount: $48,403
Principal Investigator: Herman Knopf (AZCEECS)
Co-PI: Elizabeth Shenkman (Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatic)
Funding Agency: Florida Office of Early Learning (Subcontract – ACF Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Sunshine Portal Year 2
Requested Amount: $824,966
Principal Investigator: Walte Leite (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Wanli Xing (STL)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Investigating Teacher Strategies to Use Virtual Learning Environments to Facilitate Algebra Learning During School Closures
Requested Amount: $49,518
Principal Investigator: Michelina MacDonald (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Education Association Foundation
Proposal Title: Developing Tiered Support for Remote Instruction in the Era of COVID-19: Using Brain-Based Research to Address Engagement and Rigor in Culturally Diverse Social Studies Classes through Curricular Redesign
Requested Amount: $5,000
Principal Investigator: Ashley MacSuga-Gage (SSESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Helsinki (Subcontract – Spencer Foundation Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Educating Incarcerated Youth in the Time of COVID-19
Requested Amount: $18,177
Principal Investigator: Justin Ortagus (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Pennsylvania State University (Subcontract – Gates Foundation Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Equity and Effectiveness of State Higher Education Funding Policies
Requested Amount: $109,565
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Park-Jadotte (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Association for Family School & Community Engagement (Subcontract – ACF Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Head Start PFCE Resources
Requested Amount: $1,619,174
Principal Investigator: Philip Poekert (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Lauren’s Kids
Proposal Title: Lauren’s Kids Courses Maintenance Agreement & Content Review 2020-2021
Requested Amount: $75,000
Principal Investigator: Philip Poekert (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: School Board of Seminole County
Proposal Title: Seminole Instructional Coaching Professional Development Year 8 Support
Requested Amount: $21,450
Principal Investigator: Paige Pullen (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Detroit Public Schools Community District
Proposal Title: Top of the Nation – Detroit
Requested Amount: $783,270
Principal Investigator: Matthew Schmidt (STL)
Co-PI: Carla Schmidt (SSESPECS)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Reducing Psychological Burden of Returning to Education during COVID-19 for Transition-aged Youth with Autism: A Novel Virtual Reality Intervention
Requested Amount: $49,789
Principal Investigator: Patricia Snyder (AZCEECS/SSESPECS)
Co-PI: Herman Knopf (AZCEECS), Maureen Conroy (AZCEECS/SSESPECS)
Funding Agency: Florida Office of Early Learning (Subcontract – ACF Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Screening Early Intervention Workgroup and Tracking System
Requested Amount: $74,999
Principal Investigator: Joni Splett (SSESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of South Carolina (Subcontract – NIJ Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Interconnecting PBIS and School Mental Health to Improve School Safety: A Randomized Trial – Amend 8
Requested Amount: $57,500