Organizations












NLET’s Chronology
2009
NLET Inspiration / Theory of Change
2011
NLET Articles of Incorporation
Certified, California Secretary of State, March 11, 2015
Memorandum of Understanding
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and NLET agree to explore Science-Based Education Research Collaboration (SERC) including grant applications, regional education innovations and utilization of LANL’s analytic capacity.
Memorandum of Understanding
University of Texas Austin and NLET agree to explore Science-Based Education Research Collaboration (SERC), including grant applications, university research collaborations and the utilization of UT Austin’s Big Data and Visualization capabilities.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Program
Discovery Research K-12, Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) NSF
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1119332
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1119312
- Funded Proposal: “Collaborative Research: An Agent-Based Simulation Environment for Predictive Longitudinal Modeling of High School Math Performance”
- PI/Partners: NLET conceived and organized. Michael Strong (UCSC, Principal Investigator), Paul Resta (UT Austin, Co-Principal Investigator), Joanne Wendelberger (Los Alamos, Co-Principal Investigator), Gordon Freedman, Marcy Lauck (NLET Consultants)
- Website: educationmodeling.com
2012
White House / National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Sub-Award
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) http://www.nist.gov/nstic/resilient.html
- Funded Proposal: “Zero-Knowledge Identity and Privacy Protection Service (ZIPPS) for Education and Children”
- Prime Contractor/Partners: Resilient Networks System, Inc. Sub-Award for Education Pilots, NLET
- K-12 Beta Partners (California): Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Riverside Unified School District
Website: http://www.resilient-networks.com/solutions/education/
2013
National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Program
Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1119332
- Funded Proposal: “A Comprehensive Regional Approach to Data Set Integration to Support Data-Intensive Research in Education and Human Resource Development In Silicon Valley”
- PI/Partners: NLET conceived, organized and provided supervisory services. Rodney Ogawa (UCSC, Principal Investigator), Douglas Bonett, Scott Brandt, Ronald Glass, Carlos Malzahn (UCSC Co-Principal Investigators), Marcy Lauck, Bill Erlendson, Gordon Freedman (NLET consultants)
Website: www.SVRDT.org (Derivative site and organization)
Memorandum of Understanding
University of California Santa Cruz Center for Educational Research in the Interest of Underserved Students (CERIUS) and NLET to explore research-intensive, innovative practices. (MOU terminated with end of CERIUS, 2015.)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Postsecondary Success Strategy (PS), Scaled Models for Certificate Delivery (business planning grant)
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- Funded Proposal: “College Sky: A Certificates and Certification Marketplace”
- PI/Partners: NLET Awardee, Gordon Freedman, Project Manager
- Principal Partners: Pima Community College, National Coalition for Certification Centers (NC3.net), Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, ECPS at Lonestar Community College, Eduworks, Inc., Geographic Solutions, Broward Community College, Cabrillo Community College, Capella University, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids Community College, Harper College, Kentucky Community Technical College System, Northern Illinois University, St. Petersburg College, Worksource Oregon
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Website: www.SkillsMarket.net
2014
Thomas R. Brown Foundations (Tucson, AZ)
NLET organized and designed regional foundation R & D grant to create the “JobSignals” software specification to link Pima Community College, regional employers, labor agencies and job seekers/students.
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- Funded Proposal: Awardee Pima Community College and NLET, Lee Lambert and Gordon Freedman project managers
- Partners: Pima Community College, NLET, Eduwork, Spirewirk
- Status: Awaiting software development funds pilot in Southern Arizona
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2015
Monterey County Office of Education (CA)
Contract, K12 District (LCAP) Data Almanacs for 24 districts and 8 charter schools in Monterey County.
2016
Santa Cruz County Office of Education (CA)
Contract, K12 District (LCAP) Data Almanacs for 20 district schools in Santa Cruz County.
2017- 2018
U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Sub-award / www.SkillsCommons.org
NLET Contracted to create data integration, alignment and matching of career content resumes and jobs.
2019
Zuckerberg Initiative (sub-award from UCLA)
Grant to promote the adoption of CourseKata, www.coursekata.org, an online book for teaching statistics and data science, into high schools and community colleges using the programming language “R.”
2020
National University Precision Institute
Grant to conduct research and development on the use of the competency-based Precision Math platform in high schools, community college and four-year institutions for college ready math study.
Community Foundation of Monterey County
Grant to operate an Online Algebra Boot Camp with rising 9th and 10th graders to catch up on their Algebra or to accelerate as a result of the Covid pandemic suspension of normal courses.











