Grant Awards

Ashlyn Pierson, Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving undergraduate education for future elementary science teachers.  The overall goal of this project is to support undergraduate elementary teacher candidates’ learning about science and equitable science teaching. The project plans to achieve this goal by designing learning activities for elementary science methods courses that leverage successful practices from the prior work of the project team, including immersive learning, collaborative planning, and reflection.

Noelle Arnold, Professor; Senior Associate Dean in the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Outreach, Department of Educational Studies

The Columbus City Schools Research Fellows are a unique partnership between Columbus City Schools (CCS) and the College of Education and Human Ecology (EHE) at The Ohio State University. The partnership is established to advance the work of up to five faculty members for to pursue research for two years in the Columbus City School System.

“What makes this partnership unique is that fellows are funded by CCS to address initial strategies that are pressing in their own district to meet their goals for providing equitable and adequate educational opportunities for their students,”- Noelle Arnold.

Sunny Munn, Director of Evaluation and Innovation at the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC)

Read It Again! (RIA) is a curriculum supplement that promotes language and literacy foundations.  The curriculum focuses on building phonological awareness, print knowledge, vocabulary, and narrative skills.

This grant supports an evaluation of the expansion of RIA in the Linden and Whitehall communities to identify an implementation process that (a) creates provider buy-in, (b) supports the fidelity of RIA delivery at a larger (and less cost-intensive) scale, and (c) supports the development of learning communities to enhance and sustain provider implementation and collaboration around RIA practice.

Lauren Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Human Sciences

Our project team is partnering with the Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to evaluate Ohio’s publicly funded child care (PFCC) program. During the nine-month project, we will be analyzing the payment structure for families participating in the program; evaluating the efficacy of alternative Market Rate Survey methodologies; analyzing the utilization rate of families authorized to participate in the program, with rates disaggregated by differing characteristics and demographics; and examining federal funding regulations for the program and permissible supplemental funding streams.

Melissa Ross, Associate Director of Research Partnerships and Impacts, CETE

This project was designed to address the learning loss that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. Although it is clear that the need for this support existed prior to the pandemic, the pandemic exacerbated the existing need and increased the gap of academic achievement between English learners and non-English learners.  In addition, this project offers the opportunity to support district and school administrators, instructors and other personnel in their efforts to continue to improve their capacity to effectively address the unique needs of English learners.

For more information: https://ehe.osu.edu/news/listing/providing-language-translation-serve-ohios-english-learners-families-educators