This issue of The Current includes:

1. Leading the Learning
2. Awards of Honor
3. A Trunk-ated Conclusion

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This issue of The Current includes:

1. 331 Fellows: 1 Powerful Summer
2. Listen: Our Power, Our Planet
3. Science Super Stars

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This special edition of The Current features the full list of 2026 Fellows. Join us in celebrating their achievement by exploring their inspiring projects at the link below.

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This issue of The Current includes:

1. Ramadan Mubarak!
2. History in Color
3. Celebrating Our Fellows

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New Year, New FFT Fellows! (At least there will be on March 31.) The first step to naming our 26th cohort of grant recipients happened on January 22 when this year’s applicants hit “Submit” on their applications. This year, we received 931 applications from 49 states and the District of Columbia (where are you, Montana?) Now the rigorous, rubric driven selection process begins. Each application is reviewed, and scored at least 3 times by a cohort of hundreds of volunteers working diligently to help determine which of the applications will be funded. Good job and good luck to all who applied.

In our first issue of 2026:

1. Listen Now: Remembering the Holocaust
2. So That Others May Learn: Martin Luther King Day
3. Fellows in the News

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Ending the Year with Appreciation

Together, we turn the final page of the 2025 calendar, reflecting on a year that shaped our classrooms, organizations, and communities. We celebrate what we’ve learned and look ahead to the opportunities the new year will bring. At this time of year, we’re grateful for educators who continue to inspire curiosity, growth, and possibility. Wishing you a season of renewal and a strong start to the year ahead. In this final issue of the year: 

1. Listen Now: Performing with Play
2. Reaching Out to Rural Teachers
3. Reminder: 2026 Application Deadline

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This Thanksgiving issue of The Current includes:

1. Commonalities Among Indigenous Cultures
2. Listen Now: Tilling the Soil
3. Watch: 2026 Information Session Recording

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This issue of The Current includes:

1. 2026 Application Resources
2. Fellow in the News: Celebrating Dia de los Muertos
3. Listen Now: Fund for Teachers the Podcast

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This issue of The Current includes:

1. Fellow in the News: Natalie Yasmin Soto (’25)
2. FFT Welcomes New Board Member
3. 2026 Fellowship Grant Application

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This issue of The Current includes:

1. Postcard from Japan
2. Path is Made by Walking
3. Fellows in the News

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This issue of The Current includes 2025 Fellow highlights to inspire your summer:

1. Finding Your Path in History
2. Looking Back to Move Forward
3. A “Sign” It’s Fellow Season

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Lancaster elementary school teachers fish for knowledge in Japan this summer

Meryl Li
July 22, 2025

In a small fishing village situated along the eastern coast of Japan, a couple from Lancaster city, two elementary school teachers, wake up at 4:30 a.m. to get to the pier. There, they climb aboard the boat of a local fisherman who doesn’t speak any English. Breathing in the sea air and floating on the Pacific Ocean, they fish.

The pair, Kelsey and Taylor Pfaff, have traveled over 6,000 miles to learn about trout, sustainable fishing and other marine life—and they’re doing it all for their students.

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This issue of The Current includes 2025 Fellow highlights to inspire your summer:

1. Embracing, Not Erasing, Vietnamese Heritage
2. FFT Fellow in the News: Patty Taylor
3. Get to Know Our Fellows

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Love of Nature Leads Rock Hill Teacher on Utah Trip to Research World’s Largest Living Organism

Ian Davis-Leonard
May 12, 2025

ROCK HILL — Stepping inside Patty Taylor’s second grade classroom feels a bit like walking outdoors.

Paper pine trees line the room opposite a forest green wall. Students in plastic park ranger hats diligently scribble assignments about national parks.

For the past few weeks, a single tree more than 2,000 miles away has captivated the attention of this Mount Gallant Elementary School class in Rock Hill.

Its name is Pando. Covering 106 acres of Utah’s Fishlake National Forest with branches that look like the trunks of 40,000 individual aspen trees, it is the world’s largest living organism. Continue reading, here.

This issue of The Current celebrates the announcement of our 2025 Fellows:

1. 25th Anniversary Year
2. The FFT Community Factor
3. Fellow Feature: Life in Action

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This issue of The Current is focused on Women’s History Month:

1. Making History More HERstory
2. Leading While Learning
3. Our Vote for National Teacher of the Year

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In celebration of Black History Month, this issue of the The Current highlights some the unique ways Fellows used Fund for Teachers grants to pursue aspects of Black history in nuanced ways.

1. The Nexus of Cultures and Communities
2. Music (& History) to Students’ Ears
3. Experiencing History to Expand Knowledge

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In this issue:

1. What makes a good citizen?
2. Cheetah-ing in Class
3. Fellows Helping Fellows

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