Food for Thought - Grants for Educators with and Appetite for Learning
Guidelines for Submitting Grants
ONE GRANT PROPOSAL per educator may be submitted.
- ALL full-time Wake County Public School System teachers and support personnel are eligible to apply for a Teacher Leadership grant. This includes teachers, teacher assistants, school psychologists or counselors, social workers, IRTs and media specialists, but does not include principals or assistant principals.
In order to be eligible for approval, each grant proposal must show evidence of the following:
- COLLABORATION is essential to every proposed project. This implies partnerships primarily among teachers, but may also involve businesses, community groups, and/or higher education. Educators within a grade level, as well as educators across grade levels, are encouraged to collaborate. Proposal must show how each collaborator will contribute to the project.
* If you are applying for a school-wide PLC grant, please indicate the total number of participants.
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT is essential to every proposed project. All proposals must show evidence of teacher growth and development as a professional educator. The teacher must emerge from the grant process having gained and developed professionally in order to further the achievement of his/her students.
- STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT is essential to every proposed project. Proposals must show evidence of how students will benefit from the grant proposal and how student achievement will be measured to indicate what students have learned and are able to do upon completion of the grant’s implementation.
OTHER INFORMATION
- GRANT PROPOSALS are anonymously reviewed and awarded by a selection committee of volunteers representing donors to Wake Education Partnership, teachers, parents, community and business leaders, and university professors. Anonymity ensures a fair selection process. For this reason, we ask that you not include any reference that may identify you or your school.
- ALL APPLICANTS are asked to Save the Date of May 6, 2008 from 4:30 – 6:00 pm for a reception at the Governor’s Mansion. If your grant is selected as a recipient, you will be invited to and honored at this reception. You will be notified by the end of April 2008 of the status of your grant.
- GRANT RECIPIENTS for 2008 will be expected to present their winning proposal and share best practices they develop from carrying out their proposals with peers at their own school and beyond, including at a presentation in the Spring 2009.