The day after Labor Day is synonymous with the official return to the classroom and the age-old prompt: "What did you do this summer?" FFT Fellow Kelsi Horner is hoping... read more →
Fund for Teachers' fellowships are based on the belief that teachers know best what they AND their students need to succeed. We also believe that teachers know best what our... read more →
Established in 1854, Norwich Free Academy includes in its mission: “[to] study all that is beautiful in nature and art, and [be] prepared for the highest usefulness and the purest... read more →
In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, we want to share our own appreciation for this thank you note from 2023 FFT Fellow David Cruickshank. With his grant, David plans to... read more →
This month, social media feeds will be flooded with memes for teacher appreciation and posts about how vital teachers are to our society. At the same time, Fund for Teachers... read more →
Fund for Teachers announced today the names of 396 teachers to receive $1.7 million in grants to experience learning they proposed as vital to their particular students’ success. Because the... read more →
The conservation of France's Camargue wetlands represents the opposite of rags to riches: It's millionaire to marshlands... read more →
"To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." — Elie Wiesel, Night "It has been almost 80... read more →
“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and... read more →
For the past eight years, I have been a middle school social studies teacher in an American Indian pre-kindergarten through eighth grade magnet school. Our school was created by community... read more →