Barbara Boone
Principal Investigator: Barbara Boone, Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE)
Co-Investigators: Robert Mahlman
Project Dates: 7/01/2016 – 6/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $70,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
IDEA coordination of regional family-community engagement network
The Ohio Department of Education’s (ODE) state-wide system of support is made up of 16 regional State Support Teams (SST). The goal of the state-wide system of support is to build the capacity of local and related education agencies to engage in systemic and sustainable improvement. The regional SSTs are the means of delivering a unified system of support that meaningfully connects research-based processes to the work of early intervening and prevention, early learning and development and special education functions with a focus on improving instructional practice and student performance on an on-going basis.
Since October 2013, The Ohio State University, Center for Education and Training for Employment (CETE) in the College of Education and Human Ecology worked with OEC and the SSTs to build the capacity of SSTs for engaging families of students with disabilities and communities. The 2016-2017 Family and Community Engagement Project with The Ohio State University – CETE will continue and build the capacities of SSTs through supports, products and services from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. This will include collaborating with OEC to integrate family engagement, particularly the families of students with disabilities, into systems such as the Ohio Improvement Process, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, Early Literacy, and the State Personnel Development Grant. CETE will work with the SSTs and OEC to develop resources for families and to improve regional networks as identified by the priorities and needs identified by SSTs through the Performance Agreement and the family and community self-reflection tool developed by OSU.
Richard Bruno
Principal Investigator: Richard Bruno, Human Sciences
Project Dates: 3/1/2016 – 12/31/2016
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $27,440
Project Sponsor: Pennsylvania State University
Cheese consumption and human microvascular function
Earl Harrison
Principal Investigator: Earl Harrison, Department of Human Sciences
Project Dates: 4/01/2016 – 3/31/2019
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $160,459
Project Sponsor: Columbia University
Vitamin A homeostasis: Retinyl ester stores
Laura Justice
Principal Investigator: Laura Justice, Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC)
Co-Investigators: Mileidis Gort; Tzu-Jung Lin; Jessica Logan; Richard Lomax; Kelly Purtell
Project Dates: 6/01/2016 – 5/31/2021
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $4,493,683
Project Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences
Early Learning Network: Critical contributions of classroom ecology to children’s learning
The goal of this project is to generate a comprehensive, empirically driven model of the dimensions of classroom ecology and how they shape children’s academic and social development during the elementary grades. To arrive at this model, three studies are proposed, to include a systems-level policy and practice analysis, a cross-sectional observational study, and a longitudinal study, the latter focusing on the role of the classroom ecology in the transition to kindergarten for preschool participants and non-participants.
Nicole Luthy
Principal Investigator: Nicole Luthy, DICE
Project Dates: 6/1/2016 – 6/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $18,462
Project Sponsor: Mentor Public Schools
Blended & project based learning teacher practice network
The Blended & Project-based Learning Teacher Practice Network is a grant that was awarded to a consortium of Ohio school districts (Mentor Exempted Village (lead district), Forest Hills, Lawrence County ESC, Northwestern Local, Plain Local, and Worthington City) and their partners (Battelle for Kids and Ohio State University) under the Ohio Straight A Fund. Teacher teams from each district are collaborating to develop blended, problem-based learning modules for students in grades 7 and 8. The purpose is to improve student achievement by making challenging academic content more accessible and engaging for student.
Luthy’s role in the project is to work with teachers and project leaders to establish criteria for evaluating the quality of the teacher-developed modules and to lead the process for evaluating the modules and providing feedback to teachers.
Rick Petosa
Principal Investigator: Ruchika Prakash, College of Medicine
Co-Investigators: Rick Petosa, Department of Human Sciences
Project Dates: 10/1/2016 – 9/30/2019
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $631,261
Project Sponsor: National Multiple Sclerosis Society
A physical activity-based tracking intervention to enhance cognitive and neural plasticity
Christopher Zirkle
Principal Investigator: Christopher Zirkle, Department of Educational Studies
Project Dates: 7/1/2016 – 6/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $112,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
FY17 CTE teacher preparation and retention
Christopher Zirkle
Principal Investigator: Christopher Zirkle, Department of Educational Studies
Project Dates: 7/1/2016 – 6/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $10,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
FY17 career-based intervention ODE contract