SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH
I am grateful to the organizations listed below for their support for my program of research:
Longitudinal Impacts of the Boston Prekindergarten Program through Early Adulthood. 2022-2025. $1.5 million. Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. PI Christina Weiland; co-PIs Rebecca Unterman and Anna Shapiro.
Developing an Early Childhood Research Agenda for the Archdiocese of Boston: A Partnership between the Archdiocese of Boston, the Lynch Foundation, the University of Michigan Education Policy Initiative and Equity in Early Learning Lab, and MDRC. 2022. $184K. Lynch Foundation. PI: Christina Weiland; co-PI: Meghan McCormick.
A Lottery-Based Efficacy Study of the District of Columbia Public Prekindergarten Program. 2021-2026. $3.8 million. Institute of Education Sciences. PI: Erica Greenberg; co-PIs: Laura Hawkinson, Sherylls Kahn, Tomas Monarrez, and Christina Weiland.
How to Make the Most Out of Early Childhood Education: Lessons from Michigan’s Transitional Kindergarten Program. 2021-2023. $268K. Smith-Richardonson Foundation. PI: Christina Weiland; co-PIs Brian Jacob, Anna Shapiro, and Tareena Musaddiq.
Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Early Educators and Young Children: Understanding the Issues and Identifying Evidence-based Recovery Responses. 2021. $200K. Heising-Simons Foundation. PI: Christina Weiland; co-PI Erica Greenberg.
Lottery-Based Evaluations of Early Education Programs: Identifying Opportunities and Solving Challenges. 2021. $50K. Spencer Foundation Conference Grant Submission. PI: Christina Weiland; co-PIs Susan Dynarski and Rebecca Unterman.
University of Michigan Pre-Doctoral Training Grant. 2020-2025. $4.6 million. Institute of Education Sciences. Core faculty: Susan Dynarski (PI and Co-Director), Christina Weiland (co-PI and Co-Director), John Bound, Steve DesJardins, Brian Jacob, Fabian Pfeffer, Matt Ronfeldt, and Kevin Stange.
High-quality Math Instruction across Prekindergarten Auspice. 2019-2021. $625K. Heising-Simons Foundation. PI Christina Weiland, co-PIs Catherine Snow and Jason Sachs.
High-quality Instruction across Prekindergarten Auspice: An Implementation Study. 2019-2022. $500K. Foundation for Child Development. PI Catherine Snow, co-PIs Christina Weiland and Jason Sachs.
UM's Postdoctoral Training Program in Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Methods for Education Research. 2017-2022. $700,000. Institute for Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. PI Brian Jacob, co-PIs Susan Dynarski and Christina Weiland.
Strengthening School Readiness Through Pre-k for All: A University-District Partnership. $4.5 miliion. Institute for Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. PI Pamela Morris, co-PI Jennifer Hill, co-Is Rebecca Unterman and Christina Weiland.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Food For Thought Program. 2018-2021. $315,768. Brady Foundation. PI Diana Leyva, co-PI Christina Weiland.
Text-based mentoring to support maternal wellbeing and child development: Assessing the impact and efficacy of NurturePA. 2017-2019. $17,500. PIs Christina Weiland and Lindsay Page. Office of Research and School of Education, University of Michigan.
Virtual mentorship to support maternal and infant health and wellbeing: An Efficacy Trial. (2016-2019) $250K. Smith-Richardson Foundation. PIs Lindsay Page and Christina Weiland.
Supporting Early Learning from Preschool through the Elementary School Grades: Research Network Proposal. 2016-2021. $4.5 million. Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. PI and co-director JoAnn Hseuh, co-PI and co-director Christina Weiland, co-PIs Deborah Ball, Nonie Lesaux, Jason Sachs, and Catherine Snow.
Contexts Inside and Outside of School Walls as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Preschool Professional Development. 2016-2019. $700,000. Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. PIs Terri Sabol and Dana Charles McCoy, Co-PIs Jason Downer and Christina Weiland.
Virtual mentorship to support maternal wellbeing and promote positive child development. 2016. $8,000. Principal investigator. Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant Program: University of Michigan.
Innovation in Undergraduate Education. 2016. $6,000. School of Education, University of Michigan. Support for developing a new course for undergraduate course (“Home, School, and Community: Realities and Policies for Young Children in Poverty”).
University of Michigan Pre-Doctoral Training Grant. 2015-2019. $4 million. Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Core faculty: Susan Dynarski (lead), John Bound, Stephen DesJardins, Brian Jacob, Mathew Ronfeldt, Jeffrey Smith, Christina Weiland.
Sustaining the Boost: Longitudinal Impacts of the Boston Prekindergarten Program and Variation in Impacts. 2014-2017. $1.4 million. Institute for Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. PI Christina Weiland, co-PI’s Rebecca Unterman and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Technical Advisor Howard Bloom.
Early Childhood Strategic Vision. 2014. $53,293. Division of Children and Youth Policy, Office of Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC., Co-PI Christina Weiland (IPA Agreement).
Relationships between Children’s Outcomes and Fidelity of Implementation in the Un Buen Comienzo Preschool Program. 2011-2013. $43,000. Ministry of Education, Chile. PI Susana Mendive, Co-PI Christina Weiland.
Preparing to Succeed: An Efficacy Trial of Two Early Childhood Curricula. 2009-2011. $1,127,000. Institute for Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. PI Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Co-PI’s Christina Weiland, Nonie Lesaux, Richard Murnane, John Willett.