• Teacher-initiated studies
• Collaborative inquiry projects
• School and university partnerships
• Classroom-based or out-of-school studies

Among the funded projects are those awarded in August 2007.  It should be noted that this most recent competition combined the following three Research Foundation grant programs under the same funding umbrella:  Teacher Researcher Award, Grant-in-Aid Award, and Creating Communities of Inquiry Award.

2007 Research Foundation Grant Recipients

Teddi Beam-Conroy, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Deconstructing the Framework”

Wanda Brooks, Temple University, “Investigating Teenage Girls’ Reading Pastimes and Literary Perspectives:  Canonized:  African American Young Adult Fiction and a Rival Out of School Genre”

Amy Suzanne Johnson, University of South Carolina, “Literacy-in-Persons:  Practicing Literacy in an African-American Community in the Rural South”

Rebecca Rogers, University of Missouri at St. Louis, “Literate Lives and Life Pathways:  The Treader Family Six Years Later”

Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector and Hannah Gerber, University of Alabama, “We the Children:  A Symphony of Lives”

Amanda Thein, Megan Guise, DeAnn Long Sloan, University of Pittsburgh, “Examining Social Class Specific Interpretive Practices in Students’ Responses to Literature Across Texts and Contexts”

Maria E. Torres-Guzman, Teachers College, Columbia University, “In Search of Metaphors for Enrichment & Diversity Strategies in Read Alouds”

Deborah Wells Rowe, Carin Neitzel, Vanderbilt University, “The Write Start! Project:  An Investigation of 2- to 5- Year-olds’ Participation in Writing in Preschool Classrooms”

Kelly Wissman, University at Albany, “Exploring Adolescents’ Multimodal Literacies in an Inquiry Community:  Reconstructing Understandings and Curriculum”

Past Awards