InterPrep’s expertise in program conceptualization, instructional planning, assessment, teacher training and supervision makes it an attractive consultant to many grant-generated foreign language initiatives throughout the nation.  Such consultancies can involve serving as a collaborator in the grant’s conceptualization process, providing teacher training during the course of the grant, serving as manager of the grant itself, or serving as the grant’s external evaluator.

Sample grants in which InterPrep has played a role are listed below.

New Jersey’s Model for High School Reform in World Languages: Building a Linguistically and Culturally Competent Workforce

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the New Jersey Department of Education)

Sustaining, Enhancing and Expanding the Critical Languages in Grades 7-12

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Hurst-Euless-Bedford [TX] Independent School District)

Building LOTE Proficiency

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Arlington [TX] Independent School District)

Elementary Media-Based World Language Curriculum Project

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the West Virginia Department of Education)

Establishing Novice-High Proficiency by 8th Grade

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Portland [OR] Public Schools)

Expanding World Languages in Memphis: Arabic, Chinese and Japanese

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Memphis City [TN] Public Schools)

Expanding Chinese in the Pioneer Valley

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Pioneer Valley [MA] Chinese Immersion Charter School)

Qi for Children

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Fair Lawn [NJ] Public Schools)

The Wyoming Middle School Articulation Project

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Wyoming Department of Education)

Expanding Chinese in the Amherst Schools

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Amherst-Pelham [MA] Regional Schools)

National Online Early Language Learning Assessment

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to six state departments of education: Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wyoming)

Expanding Hindi in U.S. Schools

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Edison Township [NJ] Public Schools)

Chinese for Plano

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Plano [TX] Independent School District)

Russian in Memphis

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Memphis City [TN] Public Schools)

Foreign Language—Moving Forward Using Technology & Data Driven Assessment

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Springfield [MA] Public Schools)

Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment in World Languages

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the New Jersey Department of Education)

New Jersey Consortium for Assessing Performance Standards  

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the school districts of East Brunswick, Edison, West Orange and West Windsor-Plainsboro)

Kids Interacting Through Early Language Learning                         

(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Rock Hill [SC] Public Schools)

The Three R’s of Teaching: Reflecting, Refining, Renewing
(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Putnam City [OK] Public Schools)

Making Connections in Foreign Language Education
(a U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant awarded to The College Board)

Rockefeller Fellowships for Foreign Language Teachers in the High Schools
(a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation awarded to Connecticut College)

The Glastonbury Foreign Language Initiative: A Forty Year Commitment
(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant awarded to the Glastonbury [CT] Public Schools)

Strengthening the Humanities through Foreign Language and Literature Studies
(a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded to the University of Pennsylvania)

Delaware CAPacity Initiatives
(a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program grant)

Articulation and Achievement: The Challenge of the 1990s in Foreign Language Education
(a U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant awarded to The College Board)

Teacher Preparation for Elementary School Foreign Languages
(a U.S. Department of Education Title II grant awarded to the Georgia Department of Education)

Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture for Migrant Social Workers
(a U.S. Department of Education Bilingual Education grant awarded to Georgia Southwestern College)

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