Notice2022-10834
Peer Review Opportunities With the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE), and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
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May 20, 2022
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The U.S. Department of Education (Department) announces opportunities for individuals to participate in its peer review process for competitive grant funding under the programs administered by OESE, OPE, and OSERS.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 98 (Friday, May 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30928-30930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10834]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Peer Review Opportunities With the U.S. Department of Education's
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), Office of
Postsecondary Education (OPE), and Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of
Postsecondary Education, and Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Education (Department) announces
opportunities for individuals to participate in its peer review process
for competitive grant funding under the programs administered by OESE,
OPE, and OSERS.
DATES: Requests to serve as a peer reviewer for fiscal year 2022 will
be
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accepted on an ongoing basis, aligned with this year's grant
competition schedule. Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be
submitted at least four weeks prior to the program's application
deadline noted on the Department's website under ``Forecast of Funding
Opportunities'' at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html">www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html</a>.
This notice highlights the specific needs of OESE, OPE, and OSERS.
ADDRESSES: An individual interested in serving as a peer reviewer must
register and upload his or her resume in the Department's grants
management system known as ``G5'' at <a href="http://www.g5.gov">www.g5.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
OESE: Richard Wilson, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Room 3W101, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453-6709.
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9deff4fef5fceff9b3eaf4f1eef2f3ddf8f9b3faf2eb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d4a6bdb7bcb5a6b0faa3bdb8a7bbba94b1b0fab3bba2">[email protected]</span></a>.
OPE: Tonya Hardin, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Room 2C205, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453-7694.
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4d392223342c63252c3f2924230d2829632a223b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f98d96978098d791988b9d9097b99c9dd79e968f">[email protected]</span></a>.
OSERS: Kate Friday, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Room 5081B, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202-5076.
Telephone: (202) 245-7605. Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cda6acb9a8e3abbfa4a9acb48da8a9e3aaa2bb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ed868c9988c38b9f84898c94ad8889c38a829b">[email protected]</span></a>.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the Department is to promote
student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by
fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. The
Department pursues its mission by funding programs that will improve
access to high-quality educational opportunities and programs that
pursue innovations in teaching and learning with a focus on underserved
students. The Department also funds programs in other areas as
authorized by statute. Grant funds are awarded to State educational
agencies; local educational agencies (i.e., school districts); State,
local, or Tribal governments; nonprofit organizations; institutions of
higher education (IHEs), including IHEs that have experience in the
operation of American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Service
programs; and other entities through a competitive process referred to
as a grant competition.
Each year the Department convenes panels of external education
professionals and practitioners to serve as peer reviewers.\1\ Peer
reviewers evaluate and score submitted applications against
competition-specific criteria and announced priorities. Application
scores are then used to inform the Secretary's funding decisions.
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\1\ Please note that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
uses different peer review processes and procedures than those
described in this notice. More information on the IES peer review
process can be found at: <a href="https://ies.ed.gov/director/sro/application_review.asp">https://ies.ed.gov/director/sro/application_review.asp</a>. IES also administers its research grant
competitions on a different timeline from other offices in the
Department.
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Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, directs Federal
agencies to ``assess whether underserved communities and their members
face systemic barriers in accessing benefits and opportunities
available pursuant to those policies and programs.'' The Department is
committed to increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of peer
reviewers--an important element of the Department's efforts to
implement this Executive order. Moreover, the Department is
particularly interested in peer reviewers who represent diverse
experiences and perspectives, including experiences working with
diverse and underserved communities, and whose expertise pertains to
OESE, OPE, and OSERS grant competitions.
This year, OESE is managing more than 20 grant competitions to fund
a range of projects that support, among others, education innovation
and research; educator growth and diversity; magnet schools; charter
schools; gifted and talented programs; arts education; family
engagement; equity technical assistance centers; Indian education; and
assessments.
Similarly, OPE is conducting nearly 30 grant competitions to fund a
wide range of projects, including projects to support improvements in
educational quality, management, and financial stability at colleges
and universities that enroll high numbers of underserved students;
projects to provide high-quality support services to improve retention
and completion rates of students who are low income or first-generation
college students or individuals with disabilities; projects designed to
strengthen foreign language instruction, area and international
studies, teaching and research, professional preparation and
development for educators, and curriculum development at the K-12,
graduate, and postsecondary levels; and other innovative projects
designed to improve postsecondary education.
OSERS is managing nearly 20 grant competitions. The competitions in
OSERS' Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) include those under
the following programs: State Personnel Development Grants; Personnel
Development; Technical Assistance and Dissemination; Educational
Technology, Media, and Materials; and Parent Training and Information.
The remaining competition in OSERS' Rehabilitation Services
Administration (RSA) is the Disability Innovation Fund.
The Department seeks to expand its pool of peer reviewers to ensure
that applications are evaluated by individuals with up-to-date and
relevant knowledge of educational interventions and practices across
the learning continuum, from early education to college and career, in
a variety of learning settings. Department peer reviewers are education
professionals and practitioners who have gained subject matter
expertise through their education and work as teachers, professors,
principals, administrators, school counselors, researchers, evaluators,
content developers, or vocational rehabilitation professionals or
interpreters. Peer reviewers can be active education professionals in
any educational level or sector, or those who are retired but stay
informed of current educational content and issues. No prior experience
as a peer reviewer is required.
Peer reviewers for each competition will be selected based on
several factors, including each reviewer's program-specific expertise,
the number of applications to be reviewed, and the diversity and
availability of prospective reviewers. Individuals selected to serve as
peer reviewers are expected to participate in training; independently
read, score, and provide written evaluative comments on assigned
applications; and participate in facilitated panel discussions with
other peer reviewers. Panel discussions are held via conference calls
or in-person, as identified for the specific competition. The time
commitment for peer reviewers is usually several hours a day over a
period of two to four weeks. Peer reviewers receive an honorarium
payment as monetary compensation for successfully reviewing
applications.
If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer for the
Department, you should first review the program web pages of the grant
programs that match your area of expertise. You can access information
on each grant program from the link provided on the Department's grants
forecast page at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html">www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html</a>. If
you have documented experience that
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you believe qualifies you to serve as a peer reviewer for one or more
specific grant programs, please register in G5, at <a href="http://www.g5.gov">www.g5.gov</a>, which
allows the Department to manage and assign potential peer reviewers to
competitions that may draw upon their professional backgrounds and
expertise. A toolkit that includes helpful information on how to be
considered as a peer reviewer for programs administered by the
Department can be found at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/documents/peer-review/peer-reviewer-toolkit.pptx">www2.ed.gov/documents/peer-review/peer-reviewer-toolkit.pptx</a>. Neither the submission of a resume nor
registration in G5 guarantees you will be selected to be a peer
reviewer.
In addition to registering in G5, some OPE and OSERS/RSA peer
reviews may require being registered in the System for Award Management
(SAM). Since registration for this process can take longer than a week,
interested individuals are encouraged to register in advance of being
contacted by the Department. In addition to registering in G5, some
OSERS/OSEP peer reviews require being approved to serve on the Office
of Special Education's Standing Panel. Individuals should express their
interest to serve as a peer reviewer for OSEP competitions directly to
the competition manager listed in the Notice Inviting Applications at
least four weeks prior to the application closing date.
If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for OESE
competitions (Chart 2 of the Forecast of Funding Opportunities), you
must also send your resume to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cb848e988e9baeaeb999aebda2aebc99aea8b9bea2bfa6aea5bf8baeafe5aca4bd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aee1ebfdebfecbcbdcfccbd8c7cbd9fccbcddcdbc7dac3cbc0daeecbca80c9c1d8">[email protected]</span></a>.
If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for RSA
competitions (Chart 4B) also send your resume to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2f7d7c6e7f4a4a5d7d4a59464a586f4a4b01484059"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ccecfddccf9f9eecef9eaf5f9ebdcf9f8b2fbf3ea">[email protected]</span></a>
and <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a8c7dbcddadbd8dadbe8cdcc86cfc7de"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="432c302631303331300326276d242c35">[email protected]</span></a>. The subject line of the email should read
``Prospective 2022 Peer Reviewer.'' In the body of the email, list all
programs for which you would like to be considered to serve as a peer
reviewer.
Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be submitted at least
four weeks prior to the program's application deadline, noted on the
forecast page, to provide program offices with sufficient time to
review resumes and determine an individual's suitability to serve as a
peer reviewer for a specific competition. If you are selected to serve
as a peer reviewer, the program office will contact you.
Accessible Format: On request to the person(s) listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities can obtain
this document and a copy of the application package in an accessible
format. The Department will provide the requestor with an accessible
format that may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a
thumb drive, an MP3 file, braille, large print, audiotape, or compact
disc, or other accessible format.
Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this
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Program Authority: Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
as amended (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.), and the Rehabilitation Act of
1973, as amended by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29
U.S.C. 701 et seq.).
Roberto J. Rodriguez,
Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2022-10834 Filed 5-19-22; 8:45 am]
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