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Fellow Friday | A Buzzy Fellowship

To introduce you to our newest grant recipients, we’ve started Fellow Friday. Last week, we highlighted fellowships focused on Astronomy. Today, we focus on one particular fellowship with implications on food and food security, sustainable agriculture, climate change mitigation, poverty reduction and rural job creation. That’s a lot of pressure on the back of an…

Fund for Teachers’ North Star

This month we shipped our 2022 cohort of Fellows branded T-shirts, lanyards, and lapel pins in recognition of their accomplishment and in anticipation of seeing these items again on social media posts throughout the summer. The stylized “A” is the most prominent aspect of our logo, but the image means much more than the first…

Fellow Friday | The Sky’s Not the Limit

To introduce you to our newest grant recipients, we’ve started Fellow Friday. Last week, we highlighted fellowships focused on Holocaust studies. Seeing the first picture of our Milky Way’s black hole this week made us think of the following Fellows who are looking up this summer with their Fund for Teachers grants… Click here for…

FFT Fellow To Research History of Native American Boarding Schools

Today, millions of people received a “Breaking News” alert from The New York Times with the heading: “Over 500 Native American children died at U.S. schools where they were forced to live between 1819 and 1969, an initial federal inquiry found.” This is old news to FFT Fellow John Goodwin, who teaches U.S. History, Native…

Fellow Friday | Never Forget

To introduce you to our newest grant recipients, we’ve started Fellow Friday. Last week, we highlighted fellowships focused on math-related learning. In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, today we share the plans of teachers who will pursue learning about the Holocaust this summer with their Fund for Teachers grants… Click here for a complete…

600+ Teachers Set to Embark on Self-Designed Summer Fellowships

Just in time for Teacher Appreciation Week, Fund for Teachers announced the names of 600+ public, private and charter school teachers awarded millions in grants for self-designed summer fellowships. By pushing beyond their classrooms to pursue new knowledge and insights, these teacher leaders return to impact classrooms, colleagues, and school communities. Founded in 2001, our…

Fellow Friday | Making Math Count

To introduce you to our newest grant recipients, we’ve started Fellow Friday. Last week, we highlighted fellowships focused on conservation and sustainability of our planet. Today, we’re elevating the itineraries of those counting on math-related learning this summer with their Fund for Teachers grants… Click here for a complete list of grant recipients. [minti_divider style=”3″…

Fund for Teachers’ Newest Grant Recipients

Last week, Fund for Teachers announced the names of 296 public, private and charter school teachers chosen to receive $1.19 million in grants for self-designed summer fellowships and experiential learning this summer. Click here for a complete list of grant recipients. Fund for Teachers is the only grant in the country that trusts teachers to…

Autism Acceptance Month

Last year The Autism Society of America changed April’s designation of Autism Awareness Month to Autism Acceptance Month. “Awareness is knowing that somebody has autism. Acceptance is when you include (a person with autism) in your activities,” said the organization’s president and CEO Christopher Banks. That’s precisely the premise behind the fellowship of three Connecticut…

Fellow Friday – World Cultures Edition

To introduce you to our newest grant recipients, we’ve started Fellow Friday. Last week, we highlighted fellowships focused on health and well-being. Because April is Arab American Heritage Month, we thought we’d share the plans of teachers who will explore various world cultures this summer with their Fund for Teachers grants… Click here for a…

The Power of Mentoring

One of the most unique aspects of Fund for Teachers is how our Fellows (9,000+ to date) support each other. From providing feedback on potential Fellows’ applications to collaborating in Innovation Grant Circles, Fund for Teachers is an organization of teachers, for teachers. Perhaps the best example of this reciprocal relationship is our mentor program,…

Renewing Faith In Oneself

We’re in the middle of Arab American History Month, but Karina Escajeda‘s impact on education is just getting started. We asked her to share how her fellowship completing Arabic language & cultural immersion in Egypt informed her career trajectory that led to her work with the Curacao Ministry of Education through the US State Department……

Fund for Teachers’ Newest Grant Recipients

Last week, Fund for Teachers announced the names of 296 public, private and charter school teachers chosen to receive $1.19 million in grants for self-designed summer fellowships and experiential learning this summer. Click here for a complete list of grant recipients. Fund for Teachers is the only grant in the country that trusts teachers to…

Have the Difficult Conversation

As an FFT Fellow, I reached out to ask if I could share a post with all of you. The first generation of my Ukrainian family born in the United States, my heart aches as Russia’s invasion unfolds. Mine is an activist family – we fought for human rights in Ukraine, raised funds for humanitarian…

Student Equity & Self-Efficacy

Over the course of my career, I have observed the wide variety of background experiences that students bring to school and how those experiences impact learning. The more confident and savvy learners tend to get the lions’ share of the time, resources, and attention; these same students tend to be from stable homes rarely impacted…

Who Deserves to be in a Museum?

I teach three levels of English Learners: those emerging from the Newcomer program those who have been in the country 4-7 years, and those who have not reached English fluency after more than seven years of American schooling. Students in that last group — known as Long Term English Learners (LTELs) — may have been…

Making the Grade — Differently

“Will this be on the test?” “Can I get extra credit?” “Are you going to grade this?” Teachers can attest that these questions come up all the time as we introduce assignments, discuss grades, and present new material. We might get frustrated with students, feeling like they are only focused on what will be quantified,…

Letter to a Future Leader

Last week, we announced our second year of Innovation Circle Grants — an opportunity specifically for Fund for Teachers Fellows to pursue and create solutions, first independently and then collaboratively, to challenges they see in the classroom using a $1,000 grant. A defining aspect of these Circles is the fact that they are LED by FFT…