Grant Title: Organic School Garden Awards Organization: The Rodale Institute’s Kidsregen.org Eligibility: K-12 schools nationwide Value: Three awards of $250-$1,000 Deadline: October 31, 2006
School students nationwide, grades K-12, are invited to enter this Organic School Garden Awards competition. If you’re a kid who believes that you can improve your health and the health of the earth by gardening, this contest is for you!
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Free-Instructional Materials
Fourteen Teacher-to-Teacher workshops were conducted by the U.S. Department of Education in cities across the country this past summer. The PowerPoints and handouts from the 107 sessions are now available online. Materials cover subjects such as reading, math, history, art and foreign language as well as topics like differentiating instruction, using data to drive instructional practices, and teaching students with limited English proficiency or special education needs. These free materials are within the public domain and may be shared.
The Payless ShoeSource Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the communities where its associates and customers live. Through the Foundation, programs that achieve measurable results in these communities are supported.
Organizations with IRS tax-exempt status are eligible to apply for funding.
Requests for grants of under $5,000 are reviewed monthly. Requests for grants of over $5,000 are reviewed quarterly.
Congratulations to Brown Middle School for being awarded $5,000 from the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries Grant.
A congratulations goes out to Lydia Soto, Librarian at Zavala Elementary for being awarded a grant through the Texas Librarians Association to attend a fair that covers an array of library resources from around the world.
The Raul Tijerina Foundation has awarded various library resources in the amount of $20,000 to McAllen ISD. In addition, Ron Yoder with Lamar Academy has received $1,000 from this foundation as well.
Congratulations to Leslie Tanner and Ed Arguelles from DeLeon Middle School. They both received a grant for $500 from Walmart.
MATH AND SCIENCE
Time to get ready for Toyota TAPESTRY Award competition!!!!
Once again, Toyota and the National Science Teachers Association ( NSTA) are partnering to offer grants to K-12 science teachers for exciting new classroom projects. The yearly grant opportunity offers 50 large grants of up to $10,000, and 20 to 25 mini-grants of up to $2,500 each. This is the 17 th year of this program.
Toyota TAPESTRY grants are available for K-12 teachers of science in the United States. Middle and high school teachers must be teaching at least two science classes daily; and elementary teachers who teach some classroom science or are teaching specialists may apply. Teachers must have at least three years of K-12 teaching experience to qualify for the award. The current school year may not be included in the three-year eligibility requirement.
Eligibility: U.S. K-12 science teachers who have been teaching full time for at least three years.
Deadline: Jan. 18, 2007
Funds: 50 grants of up to $10,000; 20-25 mini-grants of up to $2,500.
Contact: Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teaches at tapestry@nsta.org
The teacher who will serve as project director should submit a proposal online. The project director must expect to be employed at the same school full time for the 2007-2008 school year. The project director’s principal must submit a signed support letter in addition to the proposal. The project director may have a team of up to five people involved in the project: These may be educators from any discipline, administrators, parents, students, or others who will be involved with the project directly. The deadline for proposals is Jan. 18, 2007. TAPESTRY projects should focus on one of three specific categories:
Environmental science education – These projects will target efficient ways to use natural resources and protect the environment.
Physical science application - Projects in this category will integrate the laws of physics and chemistry with actual events and phenomena in the students’ lives.
Literacy and science education - These projects can be in any area of science, and emphasize inquiry-based initiatives that use teaching to develop language arts and reading literacy.
The goals of the Toyota TAPESTRY program are to recognize excellent science teachers and give students the opportunity for hands-on projects and exposure to science at a young age. The TAPESTRY program expects that these projects will plant a seed in young people who will consider a future career in science or science teaching.
This year’s winners:
One mini-grant this year was a project initiated by a teacher at S.A.V.E. High School in Anchorage, Alaska. The project will use an arctic survival theme to make science interesting and relevant to the students. The project will range from teaching students about the molecular structure of high tech protective clothing to an actual test of survival skills (with four staff members and a physician along) by spending a night at a national park wilderness area in winter. This project also involves cross-curricular participation, with English and history classes embracing the arctic survival theme.
A large grant was awarded this year to a project initiated at Cheshire High School in Cheshire, Conn. Students in the Science and Applied Technologies department will design and build a moveable shed that runs on solar electricity. The shed will prove useful for the school as a ticket sales booth or information center for various sporting events or community functions held at the school.
