National Professional Development Program
Grants fund consortia led by eligible higher education institutions or other qualified entities to implement pre-service and in-service professional development activities with state or local educational agencies.
⚑ Applicant must be an IHE or a public/private entity with relevant experience and capacity, and must apply in consortium with an SEA and/or LEA. · Funds pre-service and in-service professional development; not a research-only program.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 53 partial | outside portfolio topics; signature methods: community engaged, surveys longitudinal; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds training education, not research (capped) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 25 weak | technical depth: minor; funds training education (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
The NPD program provides grants to public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education (IHEs) and public and private entities with relevant experience and capacity, in consortia with State educational agencies (SEAs) and/or local educational agencies (LEAs) to implement pre-service and in-service professional development activities.
Eligibility
To be considered for an award under this competition, an applicant must be an IHE (as defined in this notice), or public or private entity with relevant experience and capacity, in consortia with LEAs or SEAs.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education <cynthia.hunter@ed.gov>
Proposal brief SEE AN EXAMPLE →
A one-page internal memo: fit assessment, submission requirements, document scaffold, and next steps dated back from the deadline — tailored to your project idea if you add one.
Proposal shell · Federal (generic) conventions SEE A FEDERAL EXAMPLE →
Funder-faithful document skeletons — Federal (generic)'s document set with section headings, page limits, reviewer guidance, and writing prompts; add a project idea to get [DRAFT] starter bullets. Download as .md for Word or Overleaf.
Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
25/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is an education professional-development grant, not a research opportunity, and its primary purpose is implementation of pre-service and in-service activities rather than a study of policy, behavior, or social/technical systems. A public university can be eligible as an applicant or consortium partner, but the fit for IPPRA’s research mission and portfolio areas is only tangential.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 25 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is an education professional-development grant, not a research opportunity, and its primary purpose is implementation of pre-service and in-service activities rather than a study of policy, behavior, or social/technical systems. A public university can be eligible as an applicant or consortium partner, but the fit for IPPRA’s research mission and portfolio areas is only tangential. |
| 2026-07-06 | 10 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is an education workforce professional-development grant, not a research opportunity, and it does not center a technical-social-policy domain in IPPRA’s portfolio. A public university can be eligible as an IHE or consortium partner, but the fit is only tangential unless the proposal is specifically about crisis/health communication or behavioral intervention training in schools. |