Deadline: 29 September 2023
Scholar Grants provide teachers with funding to access the professional development and instructional tools they need to raise student achievement in math and/or English language arts (ELA) to grade level proficiency and beyond.
Grant Amount
- Up to $7,500 per grade level team.
How They’d Like to See Scholar Grants Used
- Participate in Effective PD
- Effective PD: Is focused on content and pedagogy, models best practices, coaches and collaborates, and facilitates ongoing learning and implementation.
- Ongoing PD: Is preferred and could include attending multiple PD sessions throughout the year that continue to build instructional practices.
- PD Examples: Classes, workshops, conferences, instructional coaching, peer review/feedback, professional learning teams.
- Select Instructional Resources and/or Classroom Technology that Empower Learning
- Resources and Tech: Should increase engagement, help scaffold instruction and improve learning.
- Instructional Resource Examples: Manipulatives, math measurement tools, culturally inclusive high-interest reading materials, student journals, reading recovery materials, formative assessment tools (e.g., white boards, clicker apps), teacher best practices guides.
- Classroom Technology Examples: iPads, tablets, laptops, projectors, SMART boards, document cameras, graphing calculators, applications, software, online instructional resources.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants: Public school teachers in grades two to eight apply as a grade level team.
- Funding: Professional development, instructional resources and classroom technology.
- Scholar Grants Must Meet the Following Criteria:
- Demonstrate a Financial Need: Priority will be given to a public school if 50% or more of its full-time students receive free or reduced lunches, or if the school is a Title I school.
- Grade Level/Subject Area Collaboration: Intent is for an entire grade level team of teachers to commit to collaboration, professional growth and peer support to raise student achievement in math and/or ELA. Middle school teacher teams may include multiple grade levels if needed to collaborate.
- Teacher-Selected Professional Development (PD): All teachers who apply for the grant will select PD with a focus on math and/or ELA concepts. Funds can be used on other resources if PD is free, but PD must be included in the proposal to nurture professional growth.
- Measure Student Achievement: Describe how the grant aims to improve student achievement and how success will be measured.
Ineligible
- Primary and secondary private schools.
- Any non-school organization.
- Grant proposals that do not support raising student achievement in either math or English language arts.
For more information, visit Alabama Power Foundation.
