Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Alabama Power Foundation has launched the applications for Champion Grants that provide teachers with funding to access the professional development and instructional resources needed to prepare students to be college and career ready in math and/or science.
Funding Information
- Up to $7,500 per teacher team.
Criteria
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Champion Grants must meet the following criteria:
- Demonstrate a Financial Need: Priority will be given to a public school if 50% or more of its full-time students receive free or reduced lunches.
- Grade Level/Subject Area Collaboration: Intent is for teachers to commit to collaboration, professional growth and peer support to prepare students to be college and career ready in an agreed upon subject – math and/or science. High school teacher teams are encouraged to collaborate across grade levels but a single student grade level will need to be identified and targeted as the primary focus of the grant proposal.
- Teacher-Selected Professional Development (PD): All teachers who participate in the grant will select PD to complete that aligns with raising student achievement in math and/or science. 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 Champion 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, measurement tools, standards-based STEM thematic unit kits, 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, digital microscopes, applications, software, online resources.
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Participate in Effective PD
Ineligible
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Champion Grants Will Not be Used to Support the Following:
- Primary and secondary private schools.
- Non-school organizations.
- Grant proposals that do not support raising student achievement in either math or English language arts.
For more information, visit Champion Grants.
For more information, visit https://powerofgood.com/grant/champion-grants/