National Geographic Society offering educator grants
The National Geographic Society is offering educators grants to support projects that aim to teach people about the world and how it works, empowering them to make it a better place.
Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics accepting grant applications
The Kentucky Council Teachers of Mathematics is now accepting applications for the 2017 Teacher Support Grant.
Steele-Reese Foundation taking applications for 2017 grants
Grant funding for classrooms and school libraries throughout Appalachian Kentucky is available again this year through The Steele-Reese Foundation.
Arts initiative offers grants to eastern, western Kentucky schools
Schools in eastern and western Kentucky may request funding for arts in education programs through the Delta Dental Making Smiles Happen Arts in Education Initiative. The program, which provided enriching arts experiences for 17,500 students in eastern Kentucky and Jefferson County in its first year, has been expanded to provide arts in education programs for an estimated 10,000 additional students [...]
Grant opportunity for Summer Institute participants
The Albert I. Pierce Foundation is offering a one-time grant for a Kentucky teacher who has participated in the Teacher Renewal Summer Institute.
KDE providing grants for mathematics interventions
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is offering an opportunity for Kentucky public school districts to apply for grants that will fund mathematics intervention services for primary students who are struggling to meet grade level or benchmark expectations for mathematics. KDE expects to fund about 90 schools at an estimated $50,000 per year to support the hiring of one full-time [...]
Grants allow more than 2,000 students to visit state parks
A transportation grant program sponsored by the Kentucky State Park Foundation (KSPF) has served more than 2,000 students with its latest round of grants to seven schools. The KSPF’s Inside Out Education initiative awards grants to schools that allows students to learn about the environment, history or culture at a Kentucky State Park. During the past two years, the program’s [...]
Grants offered to project-based learning classes, groups
The Kentucky Association of School Administrators’ Student Impact Grant Opportunity offers grants of up to $2,500 for schools that use project-based learning in their classrooms and give back to their community or the global community. Students or classes from any grade level in Kentucky schools may apply for the grants, which will be awarded to project-based learning classes or groups [...]
Online campaign supports Every Kid in a Park program
The Outdoor Foundation and the Outdoor Industry Association have launched a campaign to support the White House’s Every Kid in a Park youth initiative, which gives 4th-grade students the chance to visit federally managed lands and waters. The campaign is seeking donations of any amount to help individual 4th-graders, a 4th-grade class or an entire school of 4th-graders visit a [...]
Fayette teachers’ association awards scholarship, classroom grants
The Fayette County Education Association (FCEA) has awarded a $500 American Education Week scholarship to Carlos Bess, a behavioral curriculum specialist at Martin Luther King Jr. Academy for Excellence. The award goes to an FCEA member who is pursuing a Rank 2, Rank 1, doctorate or National Board certification. The FCEA also presented five $250 classroom grants to teachers in [...]