Submitted Proposals – September 2024

Principal Investigator: Christopher Anthony (SESPECS)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: ACES-2 Brief: Development and Validation of a Brief Measure of Academic Skills and Enablers

Requested Amount: $1,999,982

Principal Investigator: Pavlo Antonenko (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: AccelNet Implementation Phase 1: Accelerating Biodiversity Research and Education Leveraging Unmanned Vehicles and Edge AI

Requested Amount: $1,498,968

Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Co-PI: Avery Closser (STL)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Leveraging Auxiliary Data Across Platforms to Increase the Precision of Treatment Effect Estimation

Requested Amount: $896,648

Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Co-PI: Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger Center)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Grouped Understandings for Instruction, Discourse, Assessment, and the Notification of Common Errors

Requested Amount: $1,996,191

Principal Investigator: Carla-Ann Brown (PKY)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: University of Birmingham (Subcontract – Spencer Foundation Flow Through)

Proposal Title: Beyond Right-Wing Bans and Silencing: Youth, Teachers and Communities Making Space for Equity-Based Learning in Florida and England

Requested Amount: $11,393

Principal Investigator: Matthew Burns (SESPECS)

Co-PI: Valentina Contesse (SESPECS), Holly Lane (SESPECS)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Impact of UFLI Foundations

Requested Amount: $3,915,705

Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Polk County School Board

Proposal Title: Polk Ave Elem. Small Group January 2025

Requested Amount: $20,000

Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: School District of Manatee County

Proposal Title: Manatee SG PL 2024

Requested Amount: $48,455

Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Union County School District

Proposal Title: Lake Butler Elementary SG Literacy PL

Requested Amount: $99,000

Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Episcopal Children’s Services (Subcontract – Administration for Children and Families Flow Through)

Proposal Title: ECS EL Coaching and CoP Program

Requested Amount: $174,199

Principal Investigator: Tracy Centanni

Co-PI: Valentina Contesse (SESPECS), Holly Lane (SESPECS)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Exploration of the Effect of UFLI Foundations on Trajectory of Early Neural Reading Network Development and Literacy Acquisition

Requested Amount: $1,514,186

Principal Investigator: Avery Closser (STL)

Co-PI: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Now I See It: Supporting Flexible Problem Solving in Mathematics through Perceptual Scaffolding in ASSISTments

Requested Amount: $255,074

Principal Investigator: Avery Closser (STL)

Co-PI: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Exploring Factors Associated with Perceptual Scaffolding to Support Elementary Math Learning in Digital Learning Platforms

Requested Amount: $1,645,195

Principal Investigator: Catherine Corbin (SESPECS)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: University of Delaware (Subcontract – National Science Foundation Flow Through)

Proposal Title: Exploring the Roles of Elementary Teachers’ Mathematics Emotions and Beliefs in their Response to Mathematics Professional Learning

Requested Amount: $138,276

Principal Investigator: Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: Florida Math Language Routines Design and Dissemination

Requested Amount: $500,000

Principal Investigator: Daryn Dever (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Gamifying Infectious Disease Education: Empowering High-School Students to Combat Misinformation

Requested Amount: $1,908,317

Principal Investigator: Dwight Irvin (SESPECS/AZCEECS)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Ohio State University (Subcontract – Institute of Education Sciences)

Proposal Title: Read it Again – Social Emotional Learning (RIA-SEL)

Requested Amount: $1,106,002

Principal Investigator: Dwight Irvin (SESPECS/AZCEECS)

Co-PI:  Nelson Brunsting (SESPECS), Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Using Innovative Technology to Uncover the Impact of Teacher Stress on Talk and Outcomes of Racially & Ethnically Diverse Preschoolers

Requested Amount: $1,699,999

Principal Investigator: Maya Israel (STL)

Co-PI: Andrew Bennett (STL)

Funding Agency: Google

Proposal Title: Accessibility in Block-Based Programming Environments

Requested Amount: $483,084

Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Wei Li (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Propensity Score Analysis of Multilevel Data: A Systemic Review

Requested Amount: $349,379

Principal Investigator: Kathrin Maki (SESPECS)

Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL), Do Koh (STL), Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Factors Influencing Math Anxiety and Performance (Project FIMAP)

Requested Amount: $1,699,890

Principal Investigator: Brady Nash (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: US National Endowment for the Humanities

Proposal Title: Read Against the Machine: Literacy in the Age of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

Requested Amount: $74,984

Principal Investigator: Nigel Newbutt (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Design Your College: Exploring Institutional Barriers within Computer Science through Co-Design of a Virtual Reality Experience with Autistic Undergraduates

Requested Amount: $852,812

Principal Investigator: Philip Poekert (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: Catherine Cavanaugh (Lastinger Center), Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger Center)

Funding Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: Gates Planning Grant

Requested Amount: $100,000

Principal Investigator: Seyedahmad Rahimi (STL)

Co-PI: Anthony Botelho (STL), Avery Closser (STL)

Funding Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: PRODUCTIVE: AI Math Problem-Solving Platform for Productive Failure

Requested Amount: $451,563

Principal Investigator: Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)

Co-PI:  Tiffany Aaron (SHDOSE), F. Chris Curran (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Institute of Educational Sciences

Proposal Title: Evaluating Florida’s Year-Round School Pilot Program: Implementation and Achievement Outcomes

Requested Amount: $1,268,955

Principal Investigator: Darbianne Shannon (SESPECS/AZCEECS)

Co-PI: Crystal Bishop (SESPECS/AZCEECS), Patricia Snyder (SESPECS/AZCEECS)

Funding Agency: Tuscarora Intermediate Unit (Subcontract – Pennsylvania Department of Education)

Proposal Title: Technical Assistance Services to EITA

Requested Amount: $148,756

Principal Investigator: Sara Smith (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: University of South Florida (Subcontract – Institute of Education Sciences Flow Through)

Proposal Title: Effect of Bilingual vs. Monolingual Methods of Explicit English Vocabulary Instruction on 4th Grade Spanish-Speaking English Learners (ELs)

Requested Amount: $20,000

Principal Investigator: Wanli Xing (STL)

Co-PI: Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger Center), Zhihui Fang (STL), Wei Li (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: MAGICAL-Math: Multimodal Artificial Generative Intelligence Championing Advanced Learning Sciences for Math Education

Requested Amount: $3,750,002