Our Mission
Fund for Teachers strengthens instruction by investing in outstanding teachers' self-determined professional growth and development in order to support student success, enrich their own practice, and strengthen their schools and communities.
The Charter
I believe in the power of education.
I believe in the power of my commitment.
I believe in the potential of my students and the future they must build.
I believe that we all seek the same horizon, where dreams drift just beyond our line of sight-knowable only to the small voice inside us that says "What if?"
I help my students still themselves to hear that voice.
I teach them to read their surroundings, home their distant shore.
I guide them through challenging circumstance and see each sunrise as a new opportunity. And through all this, I do not lose sight of my own horizon.
I continue to seek that which builds my own experience and equips me better to move through the world as a constant force for equity, achievement and change for the better.
I am a life-long seeker and purveyor of knowledge.
I am a Fund for Teachers Fellow.
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- $36 Million in Grants
- Nearly 10,000 of America's top Educators
- 170 countries traveled, on all seven continents
Calendar of Events
- May: Fellowship Orientations
- May 2-22: New Mexico Application Open
- June-August: Fellowships Underway
- September 12: Fellowship Grant Reports Due
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