Combining Fun with Fundamentals: Innovative Education Programs in the 21st Century
We recently talked to Joe Pizzo, an English educator at Black River Middle School in Chester, New Jersey. His NEA…
Apply to the 2018 NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellowship
Are you ready to make the world your classroom and teach your students to think globally?The NEA Foundation's Global…
Closing a chapter, not the book: CEO to depart in 2019
“Be gentle, kind and caring with your students. But be fierce about their education.”I shared these words of wisdom…
COVID-19 Response Fund to Support School Communities
Update 3.20.20The House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 363–40, the NEA-supported Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R.…
Foundation Update – December 2020
From a new strategic initiative in the South to honoring top educators nationwide, the education world is buzzing. Read…
The Lessons of 2021: Creating a More Perfect Union Together
When I was looking for my first teaching job over 20 years ago, administrators repeatedly told me that as…
South African students sharing powerful stories through video
For the last two years, we have supported a digital arts literacy program in South Africa with our friends…
Grantee Story: All the Healthy News That’s Fit to Print
With the help of a grant from the NEA Foundation, Lorette Vacchiano and elementary students from the Norristown Area…
NEA Member Funding Opportunity with DonorsChoose
Testing the waters...We splash in it, swim in it, fish from it, but are our waterways really safe? With…
BOO! What keeps us up at night?
(Photo courtesy of Flickr user lobo235) One scary thought is the fact that many students don’t have access to…
Giving Thanks on DonorsChoose.org
Mrs. Johnson’s thankful 3rd-5th graders“The technology tool that you have funded will enable students to choose a just right…
New Online Games Let Students Tryout STEM Careers
According to a recent national study, across the fields of Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Math, job postings outnumbered…
Back-To-School Tips: A Funding Opportunity and 2 Special Ed Projects
Need funding for materials to transform your great ideas into classroom learning projects? Beginning Sept. 3, the NEA Foundation…
Your Support Can Help Stop Classroom Bullying
Bullying is an issue almost all educators have to face with their students—and for many who are already strapped…
Featured Grantee: Students Pick Their Own Passion Projects in Unlikely Pairing of Service Learning and Language Arts
When budget cuts moved Katrina Macht out of a role coordinating service learning and back into the classroom at…
Five educators selected from 36 national awardees to receive top awards at Gala
Five educators will take the stage with an audience of 800 leaders of education, business, and their peers to…
This is what STEM education in public schools can look like
By Harriet SanfordPresident & CEOWhat is aquaponics? Watch Milwaukee students explore the fields of aquaculture and hydroponics, as they…
Lessons Learned: Grantee Mary Ann Giasson hooks students with SciFi
Tell us about your plans for your NEA Foundation grant project.The NEA Foundation grant has been used to fund…
Global Learning Fellow talks China and vocational education
By Erlynn S. Kirsch2014 Global Learning Fellow and social studies educator at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in Falls…
Huffington Post Blog: To Help Our Most Challenged Students, Listen to Them- And Embrace Who They Are
By Harriet Sanford President & CEOThe NEA FoundationLexi is a bright, confident young woman at one of Washington, D.C.'s…