NCTE Research Foundation Teacher Resource Grant Program

NCTE Research Foundation Teacher Resource Grant Program is sponsored by NCTE Research Foundation. This program supports teaching and learning language, literacy, and culture. Applicants must be full-time classroom teachers at the time of proposal submission and for the length of the grant and must currently work with students at any level from birth–Grade 12.

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Research Foundation Grants Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Research Foundation Teacher Research Grant Program Research Foundation Trustees Research Foundation Grants Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Research Foundation Teacher Research Grant Program Research Foundation Trustees Congratulations to the 2026 Research Foundation Teacher Research Grant recipients: Chayanee Brooks , Ka’u High and Pahala Elementary School, “Bridging Worlds: An Interdisciplinary Digital Storytelling Framework for Developing Critical Literacy in Underserved Youth” Viviana Iturbe , Puentes Multilingual School, and Melissa Brooks-Yip , Eastern Michigan University, “Bridging Language, Honoring Identity: The Impact of Scaffolded Bilingual Bridging on Spanish Language Development” Aliemma Kanu , University of San Diego, “‘We Want to Be Heard’: Family Voices in Early Childhood Special Education (Ages 3–6)” Mayah McPherson-Campbell , University at Albany, and Reid Ramirez , Academy for Careers in Television and Film, “Hats of Creative Ownership: An Exploration of Adolescent Role-Taking and Identity Building in Multimodal Composing” Rafael G.

Pizarro-Yepes , District of Columbia Public Schools, “A Holistic Instructional Model for Multilingual Learners: CLIL, Translanguaging, SEL, and Restorative Practices in Elementary ESOL Classrooms” Mary Sloat , Garber High School, and Kelly Berry , University of Oklahoma, “Silence in the Heartland: Analyzing the Educational Discourse and Public Memory of Native American students at Ft. Sill Indian School and Japanese Internment at Ft.

Sill Military Base in Oklahoma” Justine Williams , Belfair Elementary School, “How do multimodal opportunities enhance genre-focused writing curriculum? ” Research Foundation Teacher Research Grant Program Resources for Potential Applicants Are you a preK–12 classroom teacher looking for ways to support your professional and/or student-centered work?

Are you interested in or currently engaged in classroom research but need funding to support your project? Watch the recording from this session to learn more about how to create a proposal for the NCTE Research Foundation Teacher Research Grants. Former Research Foundation Trustee Betina Hsieh walks attendees through the application format and process, as well as answers questions about how to draft a proposal.

Listen to Teacher and Trustee Kim Parker talk about the call, and what it means to be a teacher-researcher .

Read these testimonials from previous Teacher Research Grant recipients: Kristie Camp , 2024 recipient Scott Storm , 2021 recipient Janell Miller , 2019 recipient Past Research Grant Recipients 2027–2028 Research Foundation Teacher Research Grant Program (One-year grants, for which calls are announced every two years, in odd-numbered years) The call for the 2027–2028 Research Foundation Teacher Research Grants will be available by September 2027.

Direct questions or requests for further information to researchfoundation@ncte. org . The Trustees of the NCTE Research Foundation support projects related to the teaching and learning of language, literacy, and culture.

Applicants should be full-time classroom teachers (including teachers on special assignment with a part-time classroom placement or teachers who are full-time classroom teachers) at the time of proposal submission and for the length of the grant. Proposals are invited from teachers of children and youth at any level from birth through grade 12. Teachers in urban, suburban, and rural settings are eligible.

Applicants must be current members of NCTE.

Suggested Research Topics The Trustees of the NCTE Research Foundation seek proposals that reflect the diverse interests of our NCTE membership, including but not limited to proposals focusing on better education for underrepresented populations; equity pedagogies; curriculum changes; the effects these changes have on students, school policies, teaching methods, student interaction and learning, community literacy, home-school literacy relationships, after-school programs, student literacy practices in and out of school; and other relevant topics of study.

For further information on this grant program, please contact the NCTE Research Foundation by emailing researchfoundation@ncte. org .