Crosscutting
NSF GRADUATE STEM FELLOWS IN K-12 EDUCATION
(GK-12)
 
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CONTACTS
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Members of the NSF-wide GK-12 Committee represent their respective NSF organizations. They contribute funds as well as intellectual and labor capital to the program. In addition to the GK-12 staff, members of the GK-12 committee are: o Denise Barnes, Office of Integrative Activities o Renee D. Crain, Office of Polar Programs o Fahmida N. Chowdhury, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences o Sally E. O'Connor, Directorate for Biological Sciences o Kathleen McCloud, Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences o Celestine H. Pea, Directorate for Education and Human Resources o Jessica Robin, Office of International Science and Engineering o Mary F. Poats, Directorate for Engineering o Diana R. Rhoten, Office of Cyberinfrastructure o Elizabeth L. Rom, Directorate for Geosciences o Maria Zemankova, Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering General inquiries regarding this program should be made to the GK-12 staff at gk-12@nsf.gov. |
PROGRAM GUIDELINES
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Solicitation
09-549
As announced on May 21st, proposers must prepare and submit proposals to the National
Science Foundation (NSF) using the NSF FastLane system at
http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/.
This approach is being taken to support efficient Grants.gov operations during this busy
workload period and in response to OMB direction guidance issued March 9, 2009. NSF will
continue to post information about available funding opportunities to Grants.gov FIND and
will continue to collaborate with institutions who have invested in system-to-system
submission functionality as their preferred proposal submission method. NSF remains
committed to the long-standing goal of streamlined grants processing and plans to
provide a web services interface for those institutions that want to use their
existing grants management systems to directly submit proposals to NSF.
Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes
revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA)
(Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests
funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring
activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply
with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I:
Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of
this new requirement).
DUE DATES
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: April 20, 2010
Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 3, 2010
SYNOPSIS
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This program provides funding for graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to bring their leading research practice and findings into K-12 learning settings. Through collaborations with other graduate fellows and faculty from STEM disciplines, teachers and students in K-12 environments, and community partners, graduate students can gain a deeper understanding of their own research and place it within a societal and global context. The GK-12 program provides an opportunity for graduate students to acquire value-added skills, such as communicating STEM subjects to technical and non-technical audiences, leadership, team building, and teaching while enriching STEM learning and instruction in K-12 settings. This unique experience will add value to the training of U.S. graduate students and will energize and prepare the students for a broad range of STEM careers in a competitive globalized marketplace. Furthermore, the GK-12 program provides institutions of higher education with an opportunity to transform the conventional graduate education by infusing and sustaining GK-12 like activities in their graduate programs. Expected outcomes include: 1) For graduate fellows Enhanced understanding of their own research subject area, and its societal and global contexts; improved communication skills of STEM subjects with technical and non-technical audiences, leadership, team building, and teaching capabilities. 2) For K-12 education Professional development opportunities for teachers in both STEM content and pedagogy; and enhanced learning and STEM career interest for students. 3) For institutions of higher education Transformation of graduate programs; strengthened and sustained partnerships with local school districts, industry, non-profit sector, etc.; and enhanced institutional impact of graduate education to society.
RELATED URLS
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GK-12 Program and Project Information
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Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program
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