Grants

Below is a list of the grants I have written or on which I have been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator. I am always looking for more grants to work on...so if you need a hand, contact me.

Competitive Grants Pending

None at this time

Competitive Grants Received

University of Kentucky (March 2011) . Presentation to European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction.
Amount: $1,500 
Role: Presenter with Ellen Usher 

University of Kentucky (March 2011). Keynote presentation to Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society in Ascona, Switzerland.
Amount: $1,500
Role: Presenter with Ellen Usher 

University of Kentucky (September 2010- August 2012). University of Kentucky College of Education Push to the Top: Developing a Cross-Institutional Online Graduate Certificate, Masters Program, and Doctoral Program in School Technology Leadership.
Amount: $215,000
Role: Co-Principal Investigator with Justin Bathon

University of North Carolina Wilmington (October 2009-May 2010). Presenting, presiding, and peer collaborations in Turkey.
Amount: $1,500
Role: Principal Investigator

University of North Carolina Wilmington (October 2008-April 2009). Developing an
international practicum for masters and licensure add-on students
Amount: $1,000
Role: Principal Investigator

Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (May 2008-November 2008).  Building model eliciting activities (MEAs) in the middle grades: Supporting teachers and enhancing student learning through technology. Grant # ED-08-PO-0643 to Seward Incorporated. Small Business Innovation Research Program, Phase I.
Amount: $100,000
Role: Principal Investigator with Tamara Moore

University of Minnesota (March 2008-June 2008). Analysis of environmental safety and occupational health and safety training at the University of Minnesota . Grant to Seward Incorporated.
Amount: $31,500
Role: Co-Principal Investigator with Greg Sales

Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (July 2007-July 2009). The first 4000 words. Grant #ED-07-CO-0043 to Seward Incorporated.
Small Business Innovation Research Program, Phase I and Phase II (Fast Track)
Amount: $850,000.
Role: Project Manager

World Health Organization (November 2007-December 2007). Pacific open learning health net . Grant to Seward Incorporated.
Amount: $24,000
Role: Principal Investigator

External Grants Received

Freedom House (2011-2012)
Lead consultant on a contract to serve as evaluation advisors on a USAID grant, Suport for Human Rights project. With Dr. John Nash, we worked closely with various local NGOs to build research capacity.
Amount: $7,200 

Technology Leadership Professional Development (June 1, 2011) 
Hosted day-long workshop through with administrators at Danville Independent Schools around school technology leadership.
Amount: $1,000 

Technology Leadership Professional Development (February 7, 2011)
Hosted day-long workshop through the Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative to 27+ principals, information officers, dean of students, instructional supervisors, curriculum directors, media specialists, and superintendents on the topic of school technology leadership.
Amount: $3,000

Grants Applied for but Not Received

United States Department of Education
2012-2015
Serve as subcontract to Syntiro on Creating Opportunities for National Networking of Educators Collaborating with Technology for the Supporting Effective Educator Development Grant Programs. 
Role: Investigator
Amount: $2,582,076

Carter Woodford Academy
2011 - 2016
Serve on a team of evaluators on a $3 million U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) grant submitted by the titled The Carter Woodford Academy. 
Role: Investigator 
Amount: $300,000

Green River Regional Evaluation Cooperative
2012 - 2016
Serve on a team of evaluators on a $3 million U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) grant submitted by the Green River Regional Evaluation Cooperative (GRREC). The goals of the project are: 1) support principals and assistant principals to increase their effectiveness; 2) through improved leadership, increase student achievement
Role: Investigator 
Amount: $463,000

Jessamine County Schools
2011 - 2012
Investigator on Kentucky Department of Education's Enhancing Education through Technologygrant submitted by Jessamine County Schools in Kentucky. The goals of the JessTechU project are: 1) to improve student achievement through the use of technology; 2) assist every child to become technologically literate by the end of the 8th grade; and 3) encourage the effective integration of technology in teaching and learning.
Role: Investigator 
Amount: $157,730 

Insitute of Educational Sciences. (July 2011-June 2014). Building Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) and Simulations in First Year Algebra: Supporting Teachers and Enhancing Student Learning through Technology.
Amount: $1,499,877 
Role: Principal Investigator

National Science Foundation. (July 2011-June 2014).  Developing Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) and Simulations in  the Middle Grades to Support Problem Solving Skills.
Amount: $1,349,941 
Role: Principal Investigator in Collaboration with  Tamara Moore  (University of Minnesota) and  Greg Sales
(Seward Incorporated)

Felix Martin Foundation and Muhlenberg County Schools (February 2011). Evaluation of Muhlenberg County Schools' 1-1 iPod Touch Impementation.
Applied on behald of the Univerity of Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab.
Amount: $14,950
Role: Co-Evaluator with Drs. Ellen Usher , Justin Bathon , and Xin Ma . 

University of North Carolina Wilmington (January 2010).  Building Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) and Simulations in the Middle Grades: Supporting Teachers and Enhancing Student Learning through Technology.
Amount: $1,496,152.64
Role: Principal Investigator

University of North Carolina Wilmington (January 2010). Measuring Intercultural Competence at UNCW: Training on the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) in Portland, Oregon.
Amount: $2,688
Role: Principal Investigator

University of North Carolina Wilmington (October 2009). Intercultural Exchange: Bringing British Educators to UNCW and Southeastern North Carolina
Amount: $1,500
Role: Principal Investigator

Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (January 2009).  SimMath: Building Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) in the Middle Grades. Small Business Innovation Research Program, Phase II.
Amount: $750,000
Role: Co-Principal Investigator with Tamara Moore

Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (February 2008). Teaching reading comprehension strategies:  Expanding the Digging Reading program to third and fifth grades . Small Business Innovation Research Program, Phase I and Phase II (Fast Track)
Amount: $750,00
Role: Project Manager