Discover ways to fund your projects with resources and support from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the university or external organizations.
Internal funding
The MLFTC internal grants program, coordinated by Scholarly Initiatives in the Office of Scholarship and Innovation, supports the diverse research of all full-time faculty members. The program offers four funding streams.
Research grants
Research grants support individual or group research projects intended to have a clear, visible impact such as securing external grant funding or contributing towards publications. The internal research grants program is competitive with proposals evaluated by a team of peers on key criteria: intellectual merit, feasibility, and promise of impact. Call for proposals are released each spring semester, with awards and funding decisions made to align with the upcoming fiscal year.
Here are the links to the call for proposal with full application instructions and required Excel budget worksheet. The process and eligibility remain similar to prior years, with the addition of equity-related research as a priority area. Please note as in years past, a conversation with Research Opportunity Development and Advancement (Sarah Polasky’s team) is required as part of your application.
2020-21 Internal research grant recipients
Melanie Bertrand: Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and the Potential for Equity-Oriented Change in Policies and Practices
Carla Firetto: Exploring Active Learning Exercises in Introductory Anatomy and Physiology Courses
Meseret Hailu: Experiences of Black Immigrant Women in Undergraduate Engineering: A Basis for Understanding
Jeongeun Kim and Gustavo Fischman: Talent, Ambition, Academic Capital and Luck: Research Awards and the Construction of Influence and Merit in Education
Lydia Ross, Medha Dalal and Adam Carberry (The Polytechnic School): Evaluating the Efficacy of an Engineering Education Professional Development for High School Guidance Counselors
Mi Yeon Lee: Developing preservice teachers’ algebraic reasoning through pattern generation activities
Jeanne Powers: Imagine the Possibilities: Implementing an Innovative Educational Model
Research grants - past recipients
2019 Research Grant Recipients
- Kathleen Farrand: Stepping into interdisciplinary learning with dramatic inquiry and 3D printing
- Michelle Jordan, Clark Miller (School for the Future of Innovation in Society), Steve Zuiker: Teacher-student teams for community-based energy engineering projects
- Pamela Kulinna, Hans van der Mars, Michelle Jordan: Sustainability in whole-of-school health programming
- Carrie Sampson, Melanie Bertrand, David Garcia: Democratic participation toward educational equity in the era of school choice
- Yi Zheng, Kevin Close (PhD Candidate, Learning, Literacies and Technology): Applying translanguaging theory to testing: Designing a new technology-enhanced accommodation for English language learners
2018 Research Grant Recipients
- Katie Bernstein: Discourse as destiny in dual language education? A multi-scalar ethnography of language policy
- Katie Bernstein, Kate Anderson: Teacher Beliefs about Multilingual Learners: Understanding Language Ideologies to Inform How We Teach about Language Learning
- Ying-Chi Chen: Productive Management of Uncertainty: Supporting Science Teachers to Raise, Maintain, and Reduce Uncertainty toward Student Conceptual Development in Argumentation
- Carla Firetto, JP Hyatt, Jeffrey Kingsbury, Tonya Penkrot (co-PIs from College of Integrative Sciences and Arts): Supporting Undergraduate Students’ Construction of an Integrated Understanding of Anatomy and Physiology
- Jeongeun Kim, Yeukai Mlambo (postdoctoral scholar): Is Taste for Science Enough? Exploring Factors that Influence Career Aspirations of Engineering Students
- Keon McGuire, Saskias Casanova (UC Santa Cruz): The Lived Experiences of Black Muslim students attending a Predominantly White Institution
- Andrea Weinberg, Brent Maddin:Teacher candidate affordances and perceptions of efficacy in collectively-taught elementary and typical student teaching settings
2017 Research Grant Recipients
- Mildred Boveda: Toward Establishing Evidence of External Validity for the Intersectional Competence Measure
- Lauren Harris: Teachers’ Perceptions of Instructional Significance for History
- Bryan Henderson: Braincandy: Providing Students Authentic, Engaging, and SAFE Spaces to Articulate and Refine their Thinking with Others
- Yi-Chun Hong, Ming-Hung Kao (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences): Advancing the Understanding of Online Collaborative Learning Experience in Statistical Learning
- Wendy Oakes, Kathleen Farrand: Induction Experiences for Early Childhood Special Educators: Using Dramatic Inquiry to Increase Student Engagement and Positive Social Interactions (DIPSI)
- Hyejin Park: The Impact of Shared Reading on Parents’ and Their Children’s Attitudes Toward People with Disabilities
- Jeanne Powers, Margarita Pivovarova*: Immigrants, Achievement, and Third-Generation Isolation: Insights from PISA 2003-2012
- Hans Van der mars, Pamela Kulinna: Public High School Physical Activity Facility Use During Non-school Hours
* non-funded Co-PI
2016 Research Grant Recipients
- Audrey Beardsley, Kevin Close (PhD Student), Clarin Collins*: Teacher Evaluation Systems as Based upon Growth and Value-Added Models (VAMs) after the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): A National Overview Revisited
- Melanie Bertrand, Sybil Durand and Saskias Casanova (both from College of Liberal Arts & Sciences): Harnessing Interdisciplinary Research to Examine the Relationship between Student Voice and School Change toward Equity
- Ying-Chih Chen, Jaclyn Hernandez: Supporting Preservice Teachers to Implement Argumentation in Science Classrooms
- Danah Henriksen, Michelle Jordan, Mathew Evans (PhD Student): Building Learning Experiences with Design Thinking, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship: A Study of 3 Day Startup
- Mi Yeon Lee: Improving Preservice Teachers’ Noticing Expertise and Beliefs Through Methods Courses Incorporated Technology
- Margarita Pivovarova, Jorge Sefair (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering): Long-Term Teacher-School Matching Algorithm
- Yi Zheng: Advancing Computerized Adaptive Testing through Participant-Based Research and Open Source Platform Tools
* non-funded Co-PI
Research support mini-grants
Recurring monthly opportunity for all full-time MLFTC faculty to apply for funds to cover small costs that may arise during ongoing research projects. Faculty can apply for these funds to be used for purchasing items such as software, renewing site licenses, acquiring audio or video recorders, transcription service, etc., for use in existing research projects. See a list of past recipients and their projects.
Fellowships
Fellowships are collaborative funding partnerships between Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and other colleges and centers at ASU to support faculty research and the interdisciplinary research mission of both the college and university.
Learning communities
Learning Communities are modest funding opportunities to support informal groups of faculty, staff and graduate students to convene around a topic of shared interest with an overarching goal to foster engagement and conversation around important topics through the school year.
2020 Learning Communities
- Education Design Scholars: Kevin Close
- Engaging Black Women’s Literature and Epistemologies: Mildred Boveda
- Garden Based Education: Andrea Weinberg
- InSciEdOut – Science Education: Bryan Henderson
- Applied Behavior Analysis: Juliet Hart Barnett, Sam DiGangi, Stan Zucker, Sarup Mathur, Erin Rotheram-Fuller, Kathleen Puckett
- InSciEdOut – Science Education: Bryan Henderson
- InSciEdOut – Science Education: Bryan Henderson
- Technology Infusion: Teresa Foulger, Ray Buss, Keith Wetzel, Jodie Donner
- Higher Education Internationalization: Aryn Baxter, Yeukai Mlambo (Postdoctoral Scholar), Molly Ott, Jeongeun Kim
- Using Design Thinking to Link In-Service Teaching with University Faculty: William Butler, Jessica Debiase, Kathleen Puckett
- Serving Youth in Juvenile Justice: Sarup Mathur, Heather Griller Clark
- InSciEd Out – science education: Bryan Henderson
- Environmental and Sustainability Education: Eileen Merritt, Molina Walters, Leanna Archambault, Dianne McKee, Karen Schedler, Annie Hale
MLFTC resources
- RODA Funding Calendar – This calendar provides summaries of past and future funding opportunities that can be searched by date and keyword.
- Education-related funding sources – View an illustrative list of prominent funders of education-related research.
- Early career research funding and award opportunities – View funding and award opportunities for early career faculty.
ASU Knowledge Enterprise resources
funding.asu.edu is ASU’s entry point for research advancement activities. Features include:
A wide range of information and descriptions for funding and resources
User-defined funding alerts based on research interests via ASU’s funding database
Access to research news, blogs, forums and training opportunities
The site also explains ASU’s process for determining eligibility for limited submission opportunities.
ASU Foundation resources
ASU’s Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations, a service of the ASU Foundation, provides resources to help you advance your work and establish relationships with corporate and foundation benefactors of the university.
Non-ASU resources
Foundation Directory Online is considered the leading source of information about philanthropy and maintains a comprehensive database on U.S. and international global grantmakers and their opportunities. It is an excellent resource for opportunities and to research what foundations have funded in the past and where their interests lie.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) is an extensive database, created and maintained by UCLA, to help graduate students search for funding opportunities (scholarships, fellowships, research opportunities) from institutions all around the world.
Grants.gov provides a central portal where organizations and individuals can find and apply for grants from the federal government. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 1,000 grant programs offered by the 26 federal agencies that offer grants.
Pivot provides the capability to bring together research opportunities, funding and people quickly and easily. It is an excellent source to search for solicitations and provides a great way to look for collaborators from other institutions.