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Franklin Regional partners with IUP on $250,000 research grant for digital storytelling in 11th-grade English

Franklin Regional School Board of Directors · February 25, 2026
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania will co-lead a two-year Digital Storytelling Project with Franklin Regional’s 11th-grade English program, backed by a $250,000 grant that will fund evaluation (anonymized, IRB-reviewed) of integrated decision-education and digital-story units.

Franklin Regional School District presented a two-year research partnership with Indiana University of Pennsylvania to embed digital storytelling and decision-education into 11th-grade English, supported by a $250,000 grant to measure outcomes.

Dr. Mike Sell, a professor at IUP and co-director of the Digital Storytelling Project, described a pilot and measurement…

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