Sujin Kim, Assistant Professor, Advanced Professional Teacher Development and International Education, Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Exceptional Learners (TCLDEL), Kathleen Ramos, Associate Professor, Education, and Joan Kang Shin, Associate Professor, Advanced Professional Teacher Development and International Education (APTDIE), Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Exceptional Learners (TCLDEL), Global Online Teacher Education Center (GOTEC), received funding from the U.S. Department of Education for the project: "Advancing Content-Integrated Education for English Learners with a STEM focus (ACE-STEM)."
ACE-STEM will provide a rigorous, evidence-based, and innovative professional development program to enhance Northern Virginia teachers' content-integrated instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students with a focus on STEM content and literacy development.
Partnering with Prince William County Public Schools, the second largest school district in Virginia, with increasingly diverse English learner populations, ACE-STEM will support 60 cohort teachers to obtain Virginia ESOL add-on endorsement through ESOL coursework; provide additional support for STEM-enhanced instructional capacity building for teachers through Saturday Workshops and Summer Institute programs; extend professional development opportunities to 60 pre-service teachers and 80 non-cohort educators through Summer Institutes; and enhance family literacy development by supporting school-community based literacy programs.
The researchers received $594,305 from the U.S. Department of Education for Project Year 1 with the total expected funding of $2,982,778 for the entire project period (2021-2026). Funding began in September 2021 and will end in late August 2026.
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