2024/2025 Valley Alliance for Education Creative Classroom Grant
PROGRAM DEADLINE: February 20, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST (Midnight) - CLOSED
Description
The Creative Classroom Grants program was established to promote educational excellence and creative instruction in our region's public schools. Imagine. Innovate. Inspire. This is the focus of the VAE and this should be the focus of your grant application. We are looking to fund new and innovative ideas.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - 11:59 P.M.To download the complete instructions, CLICK HERE.
To download the application in Word, CLICK HERE.
Please note: Applications will only be accepted through SmarterSelect's online platform. However, we encourage you to write out your grant in a word document so you may cut and paste your responses from the word doc into the online form. This way you can SAVE a copy of your grant.
Requirements
APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY:
All teachers and staff who have direct instructional responsibility for students (including librarians and guidance counselors) in grades Pre K‐12 in the public schools in the cities of Staunton and Waynesboro and the County of Augusta are eligible to apply. Teachers' aides, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and administrators are NOT eligible to be grant applicants. Projects must be designed, written and implemented by the designated classroom teacher or other professional instructional individual. Each individual will only be allowed to submit and potentially be awarded two (2) grants for funding consideration in each year.
Grants of up to $1,500 are available for special teaching/enrichment projects designed for:
- Implementation in an individual classroom or with a special student group.
- Implementation in multiple classrooms as a departmental, interdepartmental, or school‐wide project.
- Implementation in a Pre K‐12 educational setting, for an educational purpose, and for the direct benefit of students.
INELIGIBLE FUNDING REQUESTS:
Grant requests for professional development, parent programs, or other services to adults will not be funded. Grant requests for furniture, equipment, or materials that are normally provided by the school division will not be considered for funding. Budget items for "normal" school supplies (paper, pencils, copy paper, Textbooks, etc.), a laptop, or honoraria for any school employee will not be funded. Grant requests greater than $1500 will not be considered for funding.
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