Colleagues, please the notice below from IES and my invitation to start a discussion with you if you plan to submit an IES grant this summer. Michael SBIR Update: The 2020 Phase I Program is NOW OPEN, submissions due by March 3, 2020 The Department of Education and Institute of Education Sciences’ Small Business Innovation Research program (ED/IES SBIR<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2...;) has just released its Fiscal Year 2020 Phase I solicitation.ED/IES SBIR is accepting Phase I proposals for awards of up to $200,000 and 8 months for the development of prototypes of education technology products to improve relevant student, teacher, or administrator outcomes in education and special education settings. Apply today<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%...;: The deadline is March 3, 2020, at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. ED/IES SBIR provides funding to small businesses and their partners for the research, development, and evaluation of commercially viable education technology products. You may want to look at the annual funding opportunities for IES (noted below) that are typically due in August/September, and which can take several months to plan and develop. The application materials are often not available until late spring or early summer (and, oddly, the same day as the letters of intent are due—see example from last year below). For these, you want to be thinking and planning months in advance, well before the annual announcement is publicized. Like now. Starting conversations with collaborators now is wise. If you are interested in developing a proposal for one of these IES grants, contact me so I can help you start to pull together the people, forms, and resources you may need to get the ball rolling. Michael 2019 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES<https://ies.ed.gov/funding/> IES Research and Research Training Grant Programs: Important Dates and Deadlines Competitions with an August 29, 2019 deadline · Education Research Grants (84.305A) · Special Education Research Grants (84.324A) · Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences (84.305B) · Research Training Programs in Special Education (84.324B) · Statistical and Research Methodology in Education (84.305D) · Research Grants Focused on Systematic Replication (84.305R) · Research Grants Focused on Systematic Replication (84.324R) Milestone Date Website Letter of Intent Due July 11, 2019 https://iesreview.ed.gov/ Application Package Available July 11, 2019 https://www.grants.gov/<https://ies.ed.gov/transfer.asp?sec=true&l... Application Due No later than 11:59:59 pm Eastern Time on August 29, 2019 https://www.grants.gov/<https://ies.ed.gov/transfer.asp?sec=true&l... Applicants Notified By July 1, 2020 https://iesreview.ed.gov/ Possible Start Dates July 1, 2020 to September 1, 2020 Competitions with a September 26, 2019 deadline · Education Research and Development Centers (84.305C) Milestone Date Website Letter of Intent Due July 11, 2019 https://iesreview.ed.gov/ Application Package Available July 11, 2019 https://www.grants.gov/<https://ies.ed.gov/transfer.asp?sec=true&l... Application Due No later than 11:59:59 pm Eastern Time on September 26, 2019 https://www.grants.gov/<https://ies.ed.gov/transfer.asp?sec=true&l... Applicants Notified By July 1, 2020 https://iesreview.ed.gov/ Possible Start Dates July 1, 2020 to September 1, 2020 Michael J. Karcher, Ed.D., Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research Professor of Educational Psychology College of Education and Human Development, University of Texas at San Antonio 501 Cesar Chavez Blvd., Suite DB 4.337 (DT); MB 3.476 (Main Campus) San Antonio, TX 78207 (210) 458-2032; 458-2650 (department) michael.karcher(a)utsa.edu