Posted by: Francis Koster Published: August 29, 2024

Grants Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) (Exp. March 18, 2025)

Purpose

The Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) program, authorized under section 2242 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA) (20 U.S.C. 6672), provides funding for evidence-based practices that prepare or enhance the skills of educators.  SEED grants enable eligible entities to devise and evaluate ways to help educators develop across the continuum of their careers (e.g., in preparation, recruitment, professional learning, and leadership).  As host for the program, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends for these strategies and interventions to serve as models that can be sustained and disseminated.*

*Within ED, SEED is administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE).

Eligible Entities

The following types of organizations are eligible to apply for a SEED grant:

  • Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Private, public and State-controlled institutions of higher education (IHE)
  • For-profit organizations other than small businesses
  • Partnerships in which an IHE or national nonprofit joins with a for=profit organization
  • The Bureau of Indian Education

In addition, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) favors the following types of entities:

  • IHEs that provides course materials or resources that are evidence-based in increasing academic achievement, graduation rates, or rates of postsecondary education matriculation; and
  • National nonprofits with a record of raising student academic achievement and graduation rates or of effectiveness in providing preparation and professional development programs for teachers, principals, or other school leaders.

Eligible Activities

OESE considers only applications that propose to engage in evidence-based activities described under one of two Absolute Priorities:

1. Absolute Priority 1—Supporting Effective Teachers (Moderate Evidence*)

  • Providing teachers from nontraditional preparation and certification pathways to employment in traditionally underserved local educational agencies (LEAs);
  • Providing evidence-based professional development activities that address literacy, numeracy, remedial, or other needs of LEAs and the students the agencies serve; or
  • Providing teachers with professional enhancement activities, which may include activities that lead to an advanced credential.

2. Absolute Priority 2— Supporting Effective Principals or Other School Leaders (Promising Evidence*)

  • Providing principals or other school leaders from nontraditional preparation and certification pathways to employment in traditionally underserved LEAs;
  • Providing principals or other school leaders with evidence-based professional development activities that address literacy, numeracy, remedial, or other needs of LEAs and the students the agencies serve; or
  • Providing principals or other school leaders with evidence-based professional enhancement activities, which may include activities that lead to an advanced credential.

*An applicant must identify at least one, but no more than two, citations for the purposes of meeting the evidence requirements under either Absolute Priority 1 or Absolute Priority 2.  For more information about the definitions of "moderate" and "promising," please refer to the Full Announcement in the Federal Register.

Award

Anticipated Total Funding: $75,000,000

Anticipated Number of Awards:  20

Important Dates

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply (Optional): February 18, 2025.

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 18, 2025.

Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: May 19, 2025.

Next Steps

Read the Full Announcement in the Federal Register.

For more information, please contact:

Julius C Cotton, ED Grants.gov FIND Systems Admin., at julius.cotton@ed.gov; or

Orman Feres, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20222-5960 at Orman.Feres@ed.gov or Program Mailbox.

Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.423A.

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