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Research

NCTE’s research programs and projects support, publish, and share current scholarship that aims to improve the quality of English language arts instruction at all educational levels.

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Research Awards

 

Congratulations to the 2025 Research Foundation Grant recipients:

  • Lakeya Afolalu, Tima Ali, Sierra Dunaway, and Sciatta Padmore, University of Washington, and Joy Lauterbach, Highline Public Schools, “The Transnational Literacies and Multilingual Practices of African Girls”
  • Breanya Hogue, Purdue University, “Purdue CDF Freedom School at First Church (Community Engaged Scholarship)”
  • Erica Holyoke, University of Colorado Denver, “Ink and Imagination: Building a Creative Community for Young Writers and Artists”
  • Hannah Kim, University of Colorado Boulder, “Decolonizing SEL: Cultivating Afghan Refugee-background Students’ Diasporic Citizenship”
  • Lakisha Odlum, CUNY Queens College, “The Black Girl Summer Teaching”
  • Zhongfeng Tian, Rutgers University–Newark, and Sharon Lai-LaGrotteria, Montclair State University, “READ (Representation, Equity, and Advocacy through Diverse AAPI Literature) in ELA Classrooms”
  • Nance Wilson, SUNY Cortland, Brittany Adams, The University of Alabama, and Karyn Allee, Mercer University, “Climbing the Reading Rope: Collaborative Professional Learning for Reading Instruction”

2027 Research Foundation Grants

(Up to $4,000 grants, for which calls are announced every two years; in “odd” numbered years.)

The call for the 2027 Research Foundation Grants will be available by January 2027. Direct questions or requests for further information to researchfoundation@ncte.org.

Grant Description
The Trustees of the NCTE Research Foundation support projects related to the teaching and learning of language(s), literacy (literacies), and culture(s).

Who Is Eligible?
Proposals are invited from teachers, teacher researchers, and teacher educators. Applicants must be current members of NCTE.

Suggested Research Topics
The Trustees of the Research Foundation seek proposals that reflect the diverse interests among our NCTE membership, including, but not limited to, proposals focusing on underrepresented populations, equity pedagogies, curriculum changes, and the effect these changes have on students, school policies, changes in teaching methods, student interaction and learning, community literacies, home-school literacy relationships, after-school programs, student literacy practices in and out of school, and other relevant topics of study.

Contact
For further information on this grant program, please contact the NCTE Research Foundation at researchfoundation@ncte.org.

Past Research Grant Recipients