Classroom Grants
If you're an Education Minnesota member licensed to work with students and want to improve your practice and student achievement, you're eligible to apply for a Classroom Grant. This includes classroom teachers, guidance counselors and others who require a license to work with students.
You may request between $500 and $3,000 to purchase materials and services for use with students if those materials are part of a project you design now and implement in the 2012-13 school year.
The foundation prefers projects that address the needs of diverse or at-risk students, involve partnerships and are replicable.
Timelines
- Deadline: 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, 2011
- Grants awarded by: late February 2012
- Funds to be spent by: end of 2012-13 school year
Contents
Your application must contain these items:
- A signed Data Sheet.
- The Narrative.
- A budget in table or chart format.
You may email your signed and scanned application in .pdf format to dayonna.knutson@edmn.org.
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees, all of whom are active Education Minnesota members, reviews the applications. If you aren't awarded a grant, the Foundation will evaluate your proposal for improvement if you request it.
Questions to ask yourself before beginning the application process:
- Am I an active, dues-paying member of Education Minnesota?
- Do I have a reasonable expectation of being in a position to manage a project during the next school year?
- Do I have information that leads me to believe that the project I am considering will improve student achievement?
- Does my project idea address the needs of diverse or at-risk students?
- Do I have partners with whom I can plan and implement this project?
- Am I willing to share my learnings from this project with other educators?
If you answered "yes" to these questions, you should feel confident that the foundation will give your project serious consideration.
If you answered "no" to some of the questions, visit these pages:
September 12, 2011