Educators
Closing the Achievement Gaps
The NEA Foundation created the Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative to accelerate the achievement rate for under-achieving low income and minority student groups, thereby closing the gap between these students and their higher achieving, more affluent peers. The Foundation's researched-based strategy shows that developing and strengthening partnerships among local education associations, school districts, and community organizations, is a powerful force for improving student performance and a vehicle for systemic reform.
The NEA Foundation has undertaken a five-year, research-based effort in three districts with a high number of under-achieving low income and minority students in Hamilton County (Chattanooga), Tenn; Milwaukee, Wis; and Seattle, Wash. to close the achievement gaps.
Grants to Educators
The NEA Foundation supports a variety of efforts by teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff by awarding grants to improve student learning in the nation's public schools, colleges, and universities. We are accepting applications for Learning & Leadership and Student Achievement grants for $2,000 and $5,000. Apply online now!
The Institute for Local Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Launched with more than $1.3 million in support of from the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation and the GE Foundation, the NEA Foundation’s Institute for Local Innovation in
Teaching and Learning engages local union and district leaders in a multi-year,
capacity-building process that will lead to significant, measurable changes in
collective bargaining agreements and in teaching and learning, including new
approaches to the management of human capital and new ways of measuring student
learning. By modeling successful new practices with their school districts,
these local union leaders also will become catalysts for cultural and
organizational change.
Awards
The NEA Foundation's awards programs recognize, reward, and promote excellence in teaching and advocacy for the profession.
Our Awards for Teaching Excellence are jointly presented by the National Education Association with support from NEA Member Benefits, the Horace Mann Companies, and the Pearson Foundation to recognize our nation's top public school educators.
The NEA Foundation has created the Green Prize in Public Education to recognize and showcase an outstanding public school educator or program that best advances social and environmental responsibility.
Knowledge & Resources
This section of our website features references and referrals to a variety of publications and educational organizations. Publications include those supported and/or produced by the NEA Foundation as well as critical pieces reflecting current thought leadership and research on key issues and challenges facing public schools and educators.
Salute to Excellence in Education Gala
Known as the Academy Awards of public education, the NEA Foundation's Salute to Excellence in Education Gala is a national celebration of the men and women who work in America's public schools. Every year the Foundation presents more than 50 awards to the nation's top public school educators, most notably, the $25,000 NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence.
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