Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Supplement Opportunity | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Supplement Opportunity (NSF Publication/Funding Opportunity Number 05-524) is a National Science Foundation grant supplement program run through the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). It is designed to place K-12 science educators into active NSF-funded biology research projects so they can gain firsthand experience with cutting-edge scientific work and then translate that experience into stronger classroom teaching. The central purpose is professional development through authentic research at the emerging frontiers of science, with an explicit expectation that the new knowledge, methods, and perspective teachers gain will make its way back into K-12 instruction.

Rather than funding entirely new stand-alone projects, this opportunity is structured as a supplement to existing BIO awards. BIO encourages its current grantees to make a deliberate effort to identify talented K-12 teachers and bring them into their research environments, strengthening the integration of research and education. In practical terms, the supplement supports teacher participation in ongoing lab, field, or computational research activities connected to an already-funded NSF BIO project, creating a direct bridge between federally funded biological research and K-12 classrooms.

The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding and uses a grant instrument. It falls under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category and is associated with CFDA number 47.074 (Biological Sciences). The program anticipated around 100 awards, with estimated total funding listed at $150,000. Individual supplement amounts are relatively modest, with an award floor of $3,000 and an award ceiling of $10,000. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which means applicants are not required to provide a non-federal funding match as a condition of receiving the supplement.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to applicant types, subject to any specific clarifications in the full text of the announcement. Because it is a supplement opportunity tied to BIO-funded projects, the practical pathway typically involves NSF BIO principal investigators adding a teacher research experience component to their active awards, consistent with NSF supplement policies and the guidance provided in the solicitation.

A key administrative feature of this opportunity is that it accepted proposals at any time during the year, with no fixed due dates. The posting date was February 4, 2005, and the opportunity was later archived (archive date February 9, 2009). The listing notes that the current closing date is archived, indicating it is no longer active in the form described in the archived announcement, though similar RET mechanisms may exist under updated NSF solicitations or program pages.

For additional details, the announcement points to an additional information link labeled NSF Publication 05-524. For technical issues accessing or linking to the announcement, the contact guidance directs users to the NSF Webmaster.

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