Blog - Fund for Teachers - Page 20

Blogs

Continuing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy Through Religion & Art

For an update on Starr’s student impact, click here. In Limestone County, AL, 82% of the citizens are white. That percentage jumps to 96% when looking at the student body of Ardmore High School where Starr Weems teaches. Fearing her students’ first encounter with racial, cultural and religious diversity would be on the job, in…

Casting a Vote for Relevant Statistics

Hispanics account for more than half of the U.S. population growth between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census. Yet, Ellie Terry’s Hispanic students at the High School of Telecommunication Arts & Technology in Brooklyn showed no interest in the upcoming presidential election. She designed a Fund for Teachers fellowship to engage them and…

Vampires Help Slay Reading Apathy

Fans of the movie Twilight fall into one of two categories: Team Edward or Team Jacob. Students at Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School in Birmingham, AL, support a third option: Team TSV (Teachers Seeking Vampires). This team, comprised of a science, a history and an English teacher, will research vampire legends across the British Isles’…