• Carol Clymer, associate teaching professor of education and co-director of the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy (ISAL) and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, is principal investigator (PI) of a three-year grant funded by the William Penn Foundation that is a partnership between the Philadelphia Office of Children and Families Adult Education and Philadelphia Works. ISAL has been awarded $162,500 to provide leadership and subject matter expertise on the project. The project is focused on building a coordinated, collaborative and integrated workforce/adult education system to ensure residents have the right supports to help them reach their education and career goals. KayLynn Hamilton (Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy) is the subject matter expert for the project.
• Christine Cunningham, professor of practice of education and engineering, is PI of a three-and-half-year project titled “Elevating Engineering with English Learners.” The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has awarded $2 million to WestEd and Penn State. This project develops, studies and refines a model of professional learning for teachers in grades 3–5 that benefits all students, while creating opportunities to learn engineering in ways that honor, privilege and center the experiences of emergent multilingual learners. The project will generate foundational understandings about the specific knowledge and attributes elementary teachers needs to provide inspiring, standards-aligned engineering education, as well as effective ways to prepare teachers in this area. The $241,827 Penn State subaward focuses on developing conceptual frameworks, designing professional learning experiences, and conducting research studies.

Information about external grant awards is provided by the College of Education Research Office. For information about all active research projects in the College, visit https://bit.ly/3DsQblp online.