Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) Grant Program

Supports both competitive and formula-funded “entitlement” projects. Funds are distributed to eligible school districts on an annual basis.

The three primary goals of this federally funded grant program are:

1. to improve student academic achievement through the use of technology in elementary and secondary schools;
2. to assist every student in crossing the digital divide by ensuring that every student is technologically literate by the time the student finishes the 8th grade, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability; and
3. to encourage the effective integration of technology resources and systems with teacher training and curriculum development to establish research-based instructional methods that can be widely implemented as best practices by state educational agencies and local educational agencies.

Numerous innovative projects are supported through the EETT Grant Program. Examples of statewide initiatives associated with the EETT program are provided below in addition to a general program resources link.   

• Florida Digital Educator Program
• Leveraging Laptops Initiative
• Florida Innovates

Funded under the Title II-D component of the No Child Left Behind Act, the EETT program is an initiative of the Department of Education’s Bureau of Instruction and Innovation/Office of Instructional Technology. The amount of grant funding available each year through the program depends on the Congressional appropriations process

The Governor’s Summer Program

The purpose of the Governor’s Summer Program is to provide an opportunity for outstanding gifted and high-achieving students to participate in and use the resources of the universities and colleges in the State of Florida.

Institutions of higher education, public or private, annually submit proposals to provide day or residential, summer programs for gifted and high-achieving students entering grades 8-12.  The goal is to use the academic strengths and unique instructional resources of the sponsoring institution to provide participating students with learning experiences not available in their secondary education programs.

Collaborative Curriculum Challenge Grants

The Challenge Grant: Collaborative Curriculum Projects are intended to enhance the academic achievement of students who are gifted through the innovative redesign of instruction and meaningful collaboration between gifted students and teachers, other students, colleagues, mentors, or agencies.  It is expected that this collaboration will enhance instruction and thus the academic performance of the students by introducing new information, skills, talents, and perspectives to the instruction.  Collaboration may be coordinated with general education classrooms, classrooms for students with disabilities, other schools or school districts, professionals in a particular field who are willing to become mentors and share expertise, colleges or universities, museums, and laboratories.

Grants are awarded for 8-10 projects annually. Participation in this project is open to all school districts in the State of Florida.  Funding is competitive and based on the recommendations of a review team.  Consideration is given to geographical distribution throughout the state, with 20% of the funds allocated to school districts served by the Institute for Small and Rural Districts (ISRD) Project.

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