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The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Educational Partnership Grant Program.
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The DoDEA Educational Partnership Grant Program provide resources for local education agencies [LEAs] to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of the highly mobile military-connected students in their community. The Grant Program specifically provides resources to military-connected LEAs to develop and implement projects that are designed to: • Engage students where disciplines converge, including programs that meaningfully integrate science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) subjects as well as other disciplines such as Career and Technical Education (CTE), arts & humanities. • Designing innovative remote learning experiences to teach literacy, mathematics, computer science, and/or other CTE courses. • Develop partnerships or consortia approaches to implement education and outreach programs with a holistic approach to understanding real-world applications. • Fill gaps in schools that lack necessary infrastructure through innovative programming and/or novel interventions to address student achievement gaps in any curricular subject. OR progress World Languages for military-connected student through one on the following: 1) Establish and implement programs that showcase a meaningful integration of world language(s) across subject areas. Projects under this scope would include world language immersion or partial world language immersion of any of the languages included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL. 2) Establish and implement an exploratory pilot program that seeks to create new world language experiences for students. For example, this type of project may link native speakers of languages other than English within the LEA with the target schools in order to promote two-way language learning. The language used for this scope must be included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL. 3) Improve or expand content-based instruction in the target school’s current world language program of one or more of the languages included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL. 4) Effectively use technology, such as computer-assisted instruction or distance (virtual) learning, to establish or expand course offerings of one or more world languages included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL.
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DoDEA grantees continue to successfully implement their grant projects with fidelity and sustainability. A full listing of DoDEA grant program accomplishments can be found on our website at https://dodeagrants.org/ or on any of our social media platforms under the handle @dodeagrants.
In Fiscal Year 2022 DoDEA awarded 11 grants to school districts that provides solutions that will establish, improve, or expand world language study for Pre-K-12 public school students their district. For this effort, world language is defined as American Sign Language (ASL) and/or any of the languages included on the DoD Strategic Language List (SLL) as defined in DoD Directive 5160.41E, Defense Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture Program. All awarded schools had at least a 10 percent or greater military-connected student enrollment for that school year. Additionally, all awarded school districts are members of a school district which currently hosts a unit of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) in one of their local high schools and all provided a professional development component to teachers to build their capacity in a specific world language.
In FY2023 - DoDEA awarded 54 public school districts with grants, an investment of over $73M. More than 80% of the active DoDEA grants, incorporate a STEM goal and/or strategy. This includes initiatives such as introducing students to STEM careers, promoting STEM among various subgroups, and enhancing engagement in STEM participation and achievement. It’s worth mentioning that DoDEA has granted 15 specific STEM grants in the field of Cybersecurity/Coding, with 7 for Cybersecurity and 8 for Coding.
The most prevalent academic strategies support of STEM initiatives involves in-class curriculum and instructional support. This includes the implementation of project-based learning in STEM classes, the introduction of AVID and AP courses, the adoption of new curricula, and the use of innovative teaching methods. These strategies are being employed by over 98.80% of active grants with a focus on STEM goals, impacting more than 300,000 students. DoDEA STEM-funded grants have resulted in a multitude of accomplishments and outcomes such as improvements in student performance (primarily in academic areas of math and science), and the procurement and development of technology and educational resources, such as makerspace kits, STEM software, virtual learning enrichment, and mobile labs, all of which are aimed at enhancing student achievement.
Success factors for DoDEA STEM-funded grants include: • Providing a “playlist” of STEM professional learning opportunities for broader access (e.g., new teachers, experienced teachers, etc.) and providing time, compensation, certification, and/or CEU credit for teachers. • Understanding and communicating how Cyber, Code, Esports, STEM are interrelated and impactful through the development of common language. • Providing professional learning with time/activities for relevant application/integration; using a train the trainer model to build teacher capacity. • Providing STEM specialists/coaches at the building level to provide “just-in-time” support. • Affordable and accessible STEM summer camp opportunities for students.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
