Blog A - Grants for Teachers

Looking for a project to do with your students, or for a unique learning opportunity for yourself? Check out these teaching-related grants:

Is your school district struggling to make ends meet? Is your town sick of pushing for overrides to avoid cutting the budget? Here's a potential way to make up the deficit and benefit both your students and your community at the same time. The Richard Riley Award provides up to $10,000 as an award for schools that demonstrate they are community learning centers where there is a rich array of social, civic and recreational activities. http://www.richardrileyaward.org/en/Index.asp

Foreign travel, living and learning at its best! Participate in a Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad and learn first hand what other countries are doing at all levels (elementary and up) to enhance their curricula. At the same time experience world culture and bring these experiences back into your classroom. How refreshing! Seminars are short (4-6 weeks), fully funded and take place during the summer. Follow the e-grants link to find Fulbright-Hays Seminars: http://e-grants.ed.gov/egHome.asp?APP=

Have an interest in local history? Want to team up with a local history site to do a project, expand your curriculum or enhance a field trip? Here's a chance to turn your students in to 'real-life' historians. Each year, The History Channel awards grants of up to $10,000 to organizations across the country that partner with schools or youth groups on community preservation projects that engage students in learning about, documenting and preserving the history of their communities. How easy is that? http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=51650&display_order=3&sub_display_order=5&mini_id=51103

Got a green thumb? How about an Orange Thumb grant? Fiskars Garden & Outdoor Living offers up to $1500 for gardens and/or gardening projects geared toward community involvement, neighborhood beautification, sustainable agriculture and/or horticultural education are eligible. This is the type of project that gets your students involved in the community, or it could coincide with a community service requirement for graduation or independent study project for those 'hard to reach' students who just need to be outdoors! http://www.fiskars.com/content/garden_en_us/Garden/Community/project+orange+thumb/2008application

Learn, grow, teach....Enjoy!
Kat