Dodge Grant- CALL FOR PROPOSALS!

We are delighted to inform you that the Montclair State University Network for Educational Renewal will continue, for the 13th year, the Team Approach to Professional Development with funding support from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

The 2009-2010 Dodge Project will involve teams of six people (five teachers and one administrator or supervisor) from up to four MSUNER member schools in a year long intensive action research/self-study professional development experience that involves researching and transforming teaching practice. The team members can be from different or same grade levels or departments. The major criteria for forming a team should be willingness and capacity to work together on investigating and improving teaching and learning.

Each team will decide what the focus of its inquiry will be. Their inquiry should revolve around an authentic burning question that engages the team members. Their investigation should result in a long-term change or transformation of practice. Some possible topics could be authentic assessment, teaching for critical thinking, interdisciplinary work, inclusion, infusing technology into the curriculum, developing an innovative curricular model or instructional strategy for a particular subject area, project-based learning, or any of a myriad of possibilities that relate to the Agenda for Education in a Democracy.

Please contact Koree Knight for full details and the application for the Dodge Grant Project.

Applications are due May 15, 2009!