DID YOU KNOW?

The William T. Grant Foundation is currently accepting applications for its Institutional Challenge Grant, which awards $650,000 over 3 years.
 
From the program overview: “The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
The grant requires that research institutions shift their policies and practices to value collaborative research. Institutions will also need to build the capacity of researchers to produce relevant work and the capacity of agency and nonprofit partners to use research.”

Applications are due September 13.

The following  W. T. Grant resources may be helpful for the application process:

--Webinar: The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
--Webinar: Applying for the Institutional Challenge Grant—Identifying and Supporting the Mid-Career Fellows
--Interview: Advancing Engaged Research: How Two Deans are Fostering Change Through the Institutional Challenge Grant
--Interview: Engaged Research and Lasting Change: Lessons from an Institutional Challenge Grantee

EVENTS

In our most recent virtual brown bag, we heard from Jose Eos Trinidad, incoming Assistant Professor of Education Policy at the University of California Berkeley, who presented parts of his book project examining the spread of school practices through neither top-down policy mandates nor bottom-up social movements, but the often invisible infrastructure of “outside” organizations.
Using the case of high school dropout prediction systems, Eos documented strategies organizations used to spread innovations through macro-level changes in paradigms, meso-level alliances of organizations, and micro-level shifts in school routines. In particular, Eos highlighted how “outside” organizations have taken on the role of spreading and standardizing practices in a highly decentralized educational system, not only impacting their local school districts but in fact shaping the larger institution of American education. The brown bag concluded with participants sharing their own observations and thoughts.


If you weren’t able to join us, you can find the recording for this brown bag on our Virtual Brown Bag website.
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