Grants
Extramural Funded
2010 – Present Principal Investigator. NapaLearns Fellows. This fellowship program provides tuition grants to Graduate School of Education candidates who earn their master’s degree in the Educational Technology or Innovative Learning programs. To date, NapaLearns has paid $650,000 in tuition directly to the university on behalf of more than 130 Fellows.
2013 Co-Investigator. Intel Teach Elements Online Professional Development. This program provided intensive training for faculty to learn to teach online through EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) and use of the Intel Teach Elements courses by our faculty. Only six colleges internationally were selected for this grant in partnership with the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE). Course modules were valued at $100,000 per module for each of the six Elements courses for a total of $600,000.
2011 Co-Investigator. simSchool Modules Project. Next Generation Learning Challenge funded project in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This international collaboration of colleges and universities created instructional modules and used deep analytics to help pre-service teachers better contextualize and target their own learning and improve their overall self-efficacy professionals. The simSchool module project was selected from a field of more than 600 pre-proposals and 50 finalists. Provided free access to the simSchool simulator for all Touro credential candidates. Licenses valued at: $35,000.
2004 – 2006 Principal Investigator. University Internship in the Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs. Program Improvement grant. Awarded $36,855 accumulated from San Francisco Unified School District.
2004 – 2006 Principal Investigator. University Internship in the Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs. Program Improvement grant. Awarded $18,524 accumulated from Oakland Unified School District.
2001 – 2005 Principal Investigator/Project Director. The Teaching and Learning Interchange Project. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology implementation grant. The primary goal of this grant was to utilize case methods and Internet technologies to provide mentoring and professional development for under-prepared teachers in Math and Science. http://www.teachinginterchange.org Awarded: $1.5 million.
2001 – 2002 Interim Project Director. Infusing Technology into Teacher Preparation. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology implementation grant. The primary goal was to infuse technology throughout the teacher education curriculum at University of San Francisco. Awarded: $582,000.
1999 – 2003 Co-Investigator; University partnerships at College of Notre Dame and University of San Francisco. Staff Teacher and Restructured Technology Education Consortium: Project StarTEC. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Catalyst grant. Developed models for professional development for institutional-level implementation of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing technology standards. Writing team member; responsible for data collection and analysis at sites, project dissemination at state, national, and international conferences for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing; Locally directed grant activities, oversaw budget and assessment (1999-2002). http://www.startecproject.org Initial Award: $1.5 million; Additional Award: $1.8 for total of $3.3 million.
2000 – 2004 Co-Investigator. Project TNT: Teaching with New Technologies. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Implementation Grant. The primary goal of this grant was to use video technology to support higher education faculty development regarding effective use of technology in the curriculum at California State University, Bakersfield. http://www.projecttnt.com Awarded: $1.6 Million
1999 – 2000 Principal Investigator. Building an Online Community for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Project. Oracle Community Foundation Grant. Developed internet-based communication resources to support new teacher mentoring, lesson planning, skill development as well as formative and summative assessment. A number of experimental groups were chosen to explore the means and methodology of using technology and video to support teacher mentors and apprentices. Project results published in dissertation. Awarded $25,000.
1999 – 2000 Co-Investigator. Teaching with New Technologies. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology capacity-building grant. California State University, Bakersfield. Awarded: $150,000.
1999 – 2001 Coordinator of Faculty Development. Tamalpais Digital High School Grant. California Department of Education. Coordinated and designed faculty professional development, installation of local area network, hardware and software. Tamalpais High School, Tamalpais Union High School District. Awarded: $260,000 in the first year and $42,000 each continuing year. Total Award: $344,000
1998 – 1999 Touch the Future: Teach a Child. An Apple New Connections Grant to College of Notre Dame in partnership with Roosevelt Elementary School in Burlingame, CA, two local senior centers, and the Coyote Point Museum. One of ten grants awarded nationwide, this grant sought to bring students and seniors together to use computers together and learn about the environment both online and in a newly created Senior Center on the school campus. Awarded: $100,000.
1994 Director. College of Notre Dame Weigand Foundation Grant. Weigand Foundation. Grant. Designed, installed, and modeled use of a multimedia laboratory for teacher education at College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA Awarded: $98,000.
Intramural
2012 Principal Investigator. Teacher Candidate Development through Gaming. Touro University California Intramural grant to fund presentation of the simSchool Modules Project findings. $2,000.
2010 – Present Principal Investigator. NapaLearns Fellows. This fellowship program provides tuition grants to Graduate School of Education candidates who earn their master’s degree in the Educational Technology or Innovative Learning programs. To date, NapaLearns has paid $650,000 in tuition directly to the university on behalf of more than 130 Fellows.
2013 Co-Investigator. Intel Teach Elements Online Professional Development. This program provided intensive training for faculty to learn to teach online through EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) and use of the Intel Teach Elements courses by our faculty. Only six colleges internationally were selected for this grant in partnership with the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE). Course modules were valued at $100,000 per module for each of the six Elements courses for a total of $600,000.
2011 Co-Investigator. simSchool Modules Project. Next Generation Learning Challenge funded project in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This international collaboration of colleges and universities created instructional modules and used deep analytics to help pre-service teachers better contextualize and target their own learning and improve their overall self-efficacy professionals. The simSchool module project was selected from a field of more than 600 pre-proposals and 50 finalists. Provided free access to the simSchool simulator for all Touro credential candidates. Licenses valued at: $35,000.
2004 – 2006 Principal Investigator. University Internship in the Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs. Program Improvement grant. Awarded $36,855 accumulated from San Francisco Unified School District.
2004 – 2006 Principal Investigator. University Internship in the Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs. Program Improvement grant. Awarded $18,524 accumulated from Oakland Unified School District.
2001 – 2005 Principal Investigator/Project Director. The Teaching and Learning Interchange Project. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology implementation grant. The primary goal of this grant was to utilize case methods and Internet technologies to provide mentoring and professional development for under-prepared teachers in Math and Science. http://www.teachinginterchange.org Awarded: $1.5 million.
2001 – 2002 Interim Project Director. Infusing Technology into Teacher Preparation. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology implementation grant. The primary goal was to infuse technology throughout the teacher education curriculum at University of San Francisco. Awarded: $582,000.
1999 – 2003 Co-Investigator; University partnerships at College of Notre Dame and University of San Francisco. Staff Teacher and Restructured Technology Education Consortium: Project StarTEC. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Catalyst grant. Developed models for professional development for institutional-level implementation of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing technology standards. Writing team member; responsible for data collection and analysis at sites, project dissemination at state, national, and international conferences for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing; Locally directed grant activities, oversaw budget and assessment (1999-2002). http://www.startecproject.org Initial Award: $1.5 million; Additional Award: $1.8 for total of $3.3 million.
2000 – 2004 Co-Investigator. Project TNT: Teaching with New Technologies. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Implementation Grant. The primary goal of this grant was to use video technology to support higher education faculty development regarding effective use of technology in the curriculum at California State University, Bakersfield. http://www.projecttnt.com Awarded: $1.6 Million
1999 – 2000 Principal Investigator. Building an Online Community for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Project. Oracle Community Foundation Grant. Developed internet-based communication resources to support new teacher mentoring, lesson planning, skill development as well as formative and summative assessment. A number of experimental groups were chosen to explore the means and methodology of using technology and video to support teacher mentors and apprentices. Project results published in dissertation. Awarded $25,000.
1999 – 2000 Co-Investigator. Teaching with New Technologies. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology capacity-building grant. California State University, Bakersfield. Awarded: $150,000.
1999 – 2001 Coordinator of Faculty Development. Tamalpais Digital High School Grant. California Department of Education. Coordinated and designed faculty professional development, installation of local area network, hardware and software. Tamalpais High School, Tamalpais Union High School District. Awarded: $260,000 in the first year and $42,000 each continuing year. Total Award: $344,000
1998 – 1999 Touch the Future: Teach a Child. An Apple New Connections Grant to College of Notre Dame in partnership with Roosevelt Elementary School in Burlingame, CA, two local senior centers, and the Coyote Point Museum. One of ten grants awarded nationwide, this grant sought to bring students and seniors together to use computers together and learn about the environment both online and in a newly created Senior Center on the school campus. Awarded: $100,000.
1994 Director. College of Notre Dame Weigand Foundation Grant. Weigand Foundation. Grant. Designed, installed, and modeled use of a multimedia laboratory for teacher education at College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA Awarded: $98,000.
Intramural
2012 Principal Investigator. Teacher Candidate Development through Gaming. Touro University California Intramural grant to fund presentation of the simSchool Modules Project findings. $2,000.