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Future Ready Schools to Host 8 Learning Institutes
Beginning this summer, FRS will host eight learning institutes that offer personal professional development opportunities for district leaders, IT directors, principals, teachers, instructional coaches, librarians and media specialists planning to implement personalized learning strategies for their students.
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3D Printing with Plants? Researchers Find a Way
A project at MIT has succeeded in replacing the common plastics frequently used for 3D printing with cellulose, the same abundantly available fiber that gives plants their structure.
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NERD Undertakes Cataloging of 10,000 Ed Researchers
The National Education Researcher Database, or NERD, as it's known, is a joint project undertaken by the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and Jefferson Education Accelerator. The goal: to spark collaboration among those researchers, school people and education technology entrepreneurs.
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Apple Unveils $329 iPad With Improved Display and Performance
This week, Apple released a slew of product updates that included a more affordable iPad device with an enhanced display.
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Google Helps Students Get Online on Buses
Eighth-grader Lakaysha Governor spends two hours on the bus getting back and forth to school each day. Thanks to a grant from Google, she can now use that time more productively and get her homework done.
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Prince William County Grants $100K to Startup Scriyb to Produce a Cloud-Based Teaching Platform
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has authorized a $100,000 performance agreement with Scriyb, a technology startup company based at the Virginia Serious Games Institute, to pioneer a new cloud-based live-streaming teaching platform for online education.
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LMS Launches 35 Courses in Science, Math, ELA, Social Studies
The new courses are part of the first phase of seamlessly integrating Gooru resources into the itslearning LMS platform. The courses are tagged with metadata and offer assessments that can be shared with students. Additionally, courses can be customized to support varied instructional models, such as blended learning or project-based learning.
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Measured Progress Releases eMPower Assessments
Measured Progress has launched eMPower Assessments to K–12 districts nationwide. This new suite of assessments measures student growth for grades 3 through 8 and connects to the SAT Suite of Assessments.
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Upcoming K–12 Grants
- Acer Extreme Classroom Tech Makeover
  Sponsor: Acer
  Award: $20,000 in Acer equipment (a classroom set of Acer Switch Alpha 12 two-in-one notebooks)
  Number of Awards: 1
  Application Deadline: March 31
- SparkFun Community Partner Program
  Sponsor: SparkFun
  Award: STEM/STEAM-releated prize packages, event and team sponsorships and other types of support
  Number of Awards: Varies
  Application Deadline: Third Thursday of each month; awards announced on the last business day of each month
- LIFT Prize 2017
  Sponsor: Lumina Foundation
  Award: $25,000
  Number of Awards: 2
  Application Deadline: April 9, 2017
- Magnet Schools Assistance Program Competition
  Sponsor: United States Department of Education
  Award: $12 million to $15 million over a period of three to five years
  Number of Awards: 23 to 30
  Application Deadline: April 11
- Academic Enrichment Grants
  Sponsor: McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation
  Award: $30,000 maximum ($10,000 over three years)
  Number of Awards: Not specified (five awarded last year)
  Application Deadline: April 15
- Teacher Development Grants
  Sponsor: McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation
  Award: $30,000 maximum ($10,000 over three years)
  Number of Awards: Not specified (two awarded last year)
  Application Deadline: April 15 (submissions open Jan. 15)
- Siemens Possibility Grant (2017 Siemens STEM Day Sweepstakes)
  Sponsor: Siemens Foundation
  Award: $10,000
  Number of Awards: 1
  Application Deadline: April 28, 5 p.m. ET
- Champion Creatively Alive Children Grant Program
  Sponsor: Crayola and the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
  Award: $2,500 plus $1,000 in Crayola gear
  Number of Awards: Up to 20 major prizes, plus one Crayola Classpack for every applicant submitting by the early bird deadline
  Application Deadline: June 23 (June 5 for early bird prize)
- TAF Project-Based Learning Grants for Grades 6–12
  Sponsor: Toshiba America Foundation
  Award: Two categories: Up to $5,000 and more than $5,000
  Number of Awards: Not specified
  Application Deadline: Up to $5,000 awarded on a rolling basis; Aug. 1 deadline for applications for more than $5,000
- Adopt a Classroom
  Deadline: Ongoing
- Brinker International Grants
  Deadline: Ongoing
- Brown Rudnick Community Grants
  Deadline: Ongoing
- Corning Foundation Grants
  Deadline: Ongoing
- DonorsChoose.org
  Deadline: Ongoing
- Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Grants
  
  Deadline: Ongoing
  Award: No more than 10 percent of an organization's annual operating expenses or 25 percent of the total budget for the project being funded; awards have ranged from the hundreds to the millions of dollars.
  Number of Awards: Varies
  Qualification: Project should "directly serve or impact children living in urban poverty, particularly in the areas of education, family economic stability (including microfinance) and childhood health."
- Naiku Innovative Teacher Grant
  Deadline: Ongoing (approx. 10 awards per month)
- Sony Grants for Education
  Deadline: Ongoing (grants awarded on a rolling basis)
Call for Papers & Proposals
- Innovative and Creative Education and Teaching International Conference
  Proposals Due: March 31, 2017 (one-page abstract)
  Proposal Submission URL: icetic.net/online-abstract-submissions
  Event: June 21–23
  Badajoz, Spain
- Submit calls for papers/proposals to [email protected].
Upcoming Events
- NSTA 2017
  March 30–April 2
  Los Angeles
- Blended and Personalized Learning Conference
  March 31–April 1
  Providence, RI
- CoSN 2017
  April 3–6
  Chicago
- ICEEEL 2017 : 19th International Conference on e-Education and e-Learning
  April 24-25
  Boston, MA
- More events at thejournal.com
- Construct3D 2017
  May 5–7
  Duke University (Durham, NC)
- ISTE 2017
  June 25–28
  San Antonio, TX
- More events at thejournal.com
- 2017 Clute International Conference on Education (ICE)
  July 30–Aug. 3
  New York
- More events at thejournal.com
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