Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development - August 1996

Professional Development

* - designates programs that have a particular usefulness at the school or school district level

Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program*

Provides fellowships to permit exceptional teachers to have sabbaticals for study, research or academic improvement to increase the teacher's knowledge in an area of expertise, learn a new area of expertise, increase professional abilities, or enhance teachers' abilities to work with special populations. Teachers are selected by a State panel typically consisting of educators, teachers and parents on the basis of an evaluation of the teacher's abilities and commitment to remain a teacher, and a proposal for work during the fellowship period.

For more information, contact the state education agency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development - State Grants*

In addition to formula grant funds that the program provides to school districts, the program (Title II, Part B, ESEA) provides funds to state agencies to support for two categories of programs: state leadership activities that the state educational agency designs to promote high-quality professional development linked to high standards; and competitive grants, which the state agency for higher education makes to institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations in conjunction with one or more school districts, for sustained an intensive high-quality school districts, for sustained and intensive high-quality inservice activities or preservice training activities.

For more information, contact the state education agency and the state agency for higher education or:

Christine Jackson or Audrey Smith
U.S. Department of Education,
OESE, School Effectiveness Division
Room 4500, Portals Building, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6140
Phone: (202) 260-2516, (202) 260-2465, respectively

Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development-Federal Activities*

The program awards grants for projects of national significance that support activities that contribute to the development and implementation of high-quality professional development activities in the core academic subjects. State education agencies, state agencies for higher education, local education agencies, education service agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions.

Annora Dorsey
The U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20208-5543
Phone: (202) 219-2087

Minority Science Improvement

The program is designed to create long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions of higher education and to increase the participation of under represented ethnic minorities in scientific and technological career fields. Under the program, awards may be made to public and private, nonprofit minority institutions, nonprofit science-oriented organizations, professional scientific societies, and all nonprofit accredited colleges and universities providing service to a group of eligible minority institutions or providing in-service training for project directors, scientists, or engineers from eligible minority institutions.

Lawrence Grayson, Division Director
Higher Education Incentive Programs
U.S. Department of Education
Room C-80, Portals Building
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 260-3235

Territorial Teacher Training Assistance Program*

Provides assistance for the training of teachers in elementary and secondary public and private schools in Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of Palau for as long as it remains a trust territory, and the Virgin Islands.

Joseph A. Wilkes
Education Networks Division
Program for the Improvement of Practice
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement
Department of Education
Washington, DC 20208-5645
(202) 219-2186
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