Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Alabama Power Foundation is accepting applications for Scholar Grants that provide teachers with funding to access the professional development and instructional tools they need to raise student achievement in math and/or English language arts (ELA) to grade level proficiency and beyond.
Funding Information
- Up to $7,500 per grade level team.
Criteria
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Scholar Grants Must Meet the Following Criteria:
- Demonstrate a Financial Need: A public school is eligible if 50 percent or more of its full-time students receive free or reduced-price lunches.
- Grade Level/Subject Area Collaboration: Intent is for an entire grade level team of teachers to commit to collaboration, professional growth and peer support to raise student achievement in an agreed upon subject – math and/or ELA. Middle school teacher teams may include multiple grade levels if needed to collaborate.
- Teacher-Selected Professional Development (PD): All teachers who apply for the grant will select PD to complete with a focus on math and/or ELA concepts. Funds can be used on other resources if PD is free, but PD must be included in the proposal to nurture professional growth.
- Measure Student Achievement: Describe how the grant aims to improve student achievement and how success will be measured.
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How They Like to See Scholar Grants Used:
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Participate in Effective PD
- Effective PD: Is focused on content and pedagogy, models best practices, coaches and collaborates, and facilitates ongoing learning and implementation.
- Ongoing PD: Is preferred and could include attending multiple PD sessions throughout the year that continue to build instructional practices.
- PD Examples: Classes, workshops, conferences, instructional coaching, peer review/feedback, professional learning teams.
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Select Instructional Resources and/or Classroom Technology that Empower Learning
- Resources and Tech: Should increase engagement, help scaffold instruction and improve learning.
- Instructional Resource Examples: Manipulatives, math measurement tools, culturally inclusive high interest reading materials, student journals, reading recovery materials, formative assessment tools (e.g., white boards, clicker apps), teacher best practices guides.
- Classroom Technology Examples: iPads, tablets, laptops, projectors, SMART boards, document cameras, graphing calculators, applications, software, online instructional resources.
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Participate in Effective PD
Ineligible
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Scholar Grants Will Not be Used to Support the Following:
- Primary and secondary private schools.
- Any non-school organization.
- Grant proposals that do not support raising student achievement in either math or English language arts.
For more information, visit Scholar Grants.
For more information, visit https://powerofgood.com/grant/scholar-grants/