Grant Awards

Shayne Piasta, Professor of Literacies, Literatures, and Language ArtsShayne Piasta

In this study, the researchers will examine the effect of a teacher professional development program in literacy called Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS). LETRS is a fully developed, commercially available, and widely used professional development program to support literacy (language, reading, writing) outcomes.  Despite its wide use, causal evidence of its impact on teacher knowledge and practice and student literacy outcomes is limited. The researchers aim to examine the effects of LETRS on teacher knowledge, teacher instructional practice, and student literacy outcomes.  They will implement LETRS under real-world conditions within authentic educational contexts and with the intended end users.

Paul Granello, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies

We at OSU will be investigating Heart Rate Variability change as a result of participants practice of Lectio Divina meditation.

Link to more- https://www.templetonworldcharity.org/projects-resources/project-database/32530

Jay Plasman, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational StudiesJay Plas

The purpose of this project is first to explore and then to evaluate career development opportunities in Baltimore City Public Schools. The research team will first identify patterns related to differences in student participation in, access to, and benefits of career development opportunities and then they will conduct an impact, implementation, and cost study of a career development opportunity.

Link to more- https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=6046

Becky Huang, Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning

This four-week Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program in Taiwan will include twelve K-12 pre-service and in-service educators from Ohio. The four objectives for the program are: 1) Provide pre-service and in-service educators from Ohio with service learning experience by teaching English (as an additional language) in a public K-12 school in Taiwan; 2) Promote pre- and in-service educators’ intercultural competence and understanding of multilingual and multicultural education via a comparative lens; 3) Grow pre- and in-service Ohio educators’ capacities to develop culturally efficacious pedagogical materials and practices that will be shared with colleagues in Taiwan and in Ohio; and 4) Develop pre- and in-service Ohio educators’ Mandarin language proficiency with intensive Mandarin language lessons and authentic engagements with Mandarin speakers and the multilingual/multicultural spaces in Taiwan.

Link to more – https://ielp.ehe.osu.edu/team/ivan-stefano/