Teacher Quality Grants Program (TQGP) - Texas (TX)

 
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    CFDA#

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    Funder Type

    Private Foundation

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)

    Summary

    Under NCLB the purpose of teacher professional development is to increase student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom. Under NCLB professional development activities must be designed to increase teachers’ content knowledge, conceptual understanding in the subjects they are required to teach, and discipline-related pedagogy. Research indicates this professional development approach helps teachers help students meet challenging state content and student performance standards.

    The purpose of awards granted under this Teacher Quality Grants Request for Applications is to provide assistance to inservice teachers and principals responsible for instructional leadership to gain access to professional development in core academic subjects that:
    • is sufficiently sustained, intensive, and of high-quality to have a lasting and positive effect on the teachers’ classroom performance;
    • is tied to challenging state content standards and challenging state student performance standards such as TEKS and the College and Career Readiness Standards; is integrated into the systemic reform efforts of states, school districts, and individual schools;
    • reflects recent, scientifically-based research on teaching, learning and instructional leadership;
    • includes strong academic content and content-specific pedagogical elements;
    • incorporates activities and effective strategies for serving historically underserved and
    • underrepresented populations to promote learning and career advancements; and
    • is part of the everyday life of the school and creates an orientation toward continuous improvement throughout the school.
     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    • The application must provide evidence of cooperative planning and formal agreement for professional development with at least one high-need LEA. 
    • A faculty member from each school or department must be designated as an IHE partner as required explicitly in statute by NCLB. One of these faculty partners must be a project director or co-director.
    • IHE partners may be from different universities. In addition, 2-year IHEs are eligible to apply as long as they include partnerships with a 4-year institution of higher education and thereby meet the requirements of joint efforts between faculty in Arts and Sciences, and faculty in Colleges of Education.

    Please refer to the Program Guidance for additional program details.

    Contacts

    Elizabeth Powers, Director

    Elizabeth Powers, Director
    Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)
    P.O. Box 12788
    Austin, TX 78711
    512-427--6535
    512-427-6444
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants must:

    • have project directors or co-directors who are higher education faculty members with background and expertise in writing, science, mathematics, or education. This must be supported by providing 2-page vitae in the online application.
    • document partnerships that include accredited public or private, 2-year or 4-year colleges and at least one high-need LEA as defined in federal regulation.
    • document the joint efforts of faculty in the IHE’s school or department of education (College of Education) and departments in the specific writing, mathematics and/or science disciplines (College of Arts and Sciences) in which the professional development will be provided.

    Please see the Additional Information section of this posting for more details.

    Deadline Details

    The application period for 2014-2015 TQ grants has closed. Information about future Requests for Applications will be available on this site.

    Award Details

    The maximum amount that may be requested for a 15-month project is $1,500,000. The award range will vary from $250,000 to $1,500,000. The TQGP expects to fund no more than 10-12 projects for the 2014-2015 project year.

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