Certified, California Secretary of State, March 11, 2015

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.

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.

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

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/

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)

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.)

Postsecondary Success Strategy (PS), Scaled Models for Certificate Delivery (business planning grant)

• • • 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

Website: www.SkillsMarket.net

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.

• • • 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

Contract, K12 District (LCAP) Data Almanacs for 24 districts and 8 charter schools in Monterey County.

Contract, K12 District (LCAP) Data Almanacs for 20 district schools in Santa Cruz County.

NLET Contracted to create data integration, alignment and matching of career content resumes and jobs.

www.skillscommons.org