Grants to Educators
At the NEA Foundation, we support new ideas and practices to strengthen teaching and learning. Our goal is to fund and share successful strategies to educate and prepare children for bright and rewarding futures.
We have learned that the best teaching methods come from our greatest assets, educators. That is why, since 1999, we have awarded more than 2,000 individual grants totaling over $6 million to help public school teachers and other educational professionals improve student achievement.
To build our knowledge base and to uncover new, great practices in public education we invite all eligible educational professionals to apply for these grants. We hope this site provides useful information to encourage educators to realize their own potential and to ensure excellent teaching and learning in public schools.
Apply Online for Our Grants
All Learning & Leadership and Student Achievement grant applicants must complete proposals through the Foundation's online grant system. This application process gives applicants the ability to create a personal account that allows users to save versions of their application as it is being completed.
Grantee Success Stories
Great ideas run the gamut as do the educators and the students they teach. We believe our grantees have one thing in common: ideas that deserve support and recognition. Through our grants, we are rewarding innovation that creates better teachers, more dynamic classrooms, and engaged students.
FROM THE EARTH TO THE SKY: USING REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES TO TEACH MATH AND SCIENCE
Walker Valley High School, Cleveland, TN
Math and Science Cross-Curriculum
Using a $5,000 Student Achievement Grant received from the NEA Foundation, Luajean Bryan, working with her Walker Valley High School colleagues Eric Swafford and Jenny Borden, created a cross curricular lesson titled "From the Earth to the Sky." The lesson was conceived as a means to increase student interest in math and science courses.
The funds received from the NEA Foundation allowed "From the Earth to the Sky" to come to life, as students conducted research in real world settings that allowed them to apply knowledge from lessons learned in the classroom. Through the program, students flew in un-tethered hot air balloons and took an underground expedition to the Cumberland Caverns.
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