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National Italian-American Foundation grants: The National Italian-American Foundation seeks applications for its Italian Language Grants and its Culture and Heritage Grant Awards. Funds: Grants range from $1,000 to $10,000.
Learning and Leadership Grants: The National Education Association Learning and Leadership Grants provide opportunities for teachers, paraprofessionals and other education support professionals to engage in high-quality professional development and lead their colleagues in professional growth.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., has received a three-year, $375,000 award from the National Science Foundation to run a summer program that gives middle school teachers the opportunity to participate in biomedical engineering research and create new classroom units for their students.
Summer seminars for teachers: The Cullman Center Institute for Teachers is accepting applications to its three popular weeklong summer seminars at the New York Public Library’s landmark building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
Establish, improve a running program: ING Run For Something Better, in partnership with the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, is providing a minimum of 50 grants up to $2,500 to each school planning to establish a school-based running program or expand an existing one.
Rockefeller University is looking for high school science teachers in the New York City metropolitan area for their summer workshop, “Modeling the Molecular World,” from July 9 to 12. The workshop focuses on connecting the macroscopic world in which students live with the invisible world of molecules.
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Awards Program combines science and technology with community problem-solving. Students work in teams with the help of an adult coach to identify an issue they care about and — using science and technology, work with experts and research — to put their ideas to the test and develop an innovative solution.
The U.S. Department of Environmental Protection seeks to recognize outstanding K-12 teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and who use the environment as a context for learning for their students.
Scholastic/Lexus Environmental Challenge: The Scholastic/Lexus Environmental Challenge program is designed to educate and empower students to take action to improve the environment, encouraging middle and high school students across the United States to develop and implement environmental programs that positively impact their communities.
Columbia University's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers will award up to 10 research fellowships for K-12 science teachers.
Freedoms Foundation Awards: The Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, presented by the Freedoms Foundation, honor outstanding educators who excite a commitment in their students to the free enterprise system and unleash the entrepreneurial skills of their students at the elementary, junior high school, high school or college level.
7Wonders Teacher Tour program: Wonder Bread is accepting nominations for its 7Wonders of the USA Teacher Tour program.
Fulbright Classroom Teacher Exchange Program: The Fulbright Classroom Teacher Exchange Program provides opportunities for teachers to participate in direct exchanges of positions with colleagues from other countries for a semester or academic year.
Minigrants for gardens: Grow to Learn is distributing grants of up to $2,000 for public and charter schools looking to start, maintain or enhance a school garden program.
Free environmental curriculum available: Discovery Education and Dawn launch the Junior Wildlife Champions curriculum. The free curriculum offers lesson plans and tools to help educators explore the issues surrounding oil spills and engage students to get involved in wildlife education in their own ways.
The Teachers for Global Classrooms Program is a professional development opportunity for middle and high school teachers from the United States to participate in a program aimed at globalizing U.S. classrooms.
Free library services: The Office of Library Services within the Division of School Support and Instruction is offering a full-day professional development conference focused on building a 21st-century library program for all teachers and librarians assigned to the library.
Early Childhood Reading Grants: Target Early Childhood Reading Grants promote a love of reading and encourage young children to read together with their families by supporting programs such as after-school reading events and weekend book clubs.
Summer seminar: The Cullman Center Institute for Teachers offers three week-long summer seminars with brilliant writers and academics at the New York Public Library's landmark building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
Costa Rica Study: The Toyota International Teacher Program for Costa Rica Study will send teachers to eastern Costa Rica from Nov. 19 to Dec. 3 to study the country's environmental and cultural preservation efforts.
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