This scholarship awards mini-grants to R.J. Reynolds High School professional staff for continuing educational studies including workshops, college courses, professional conferences, and educational travel.
Deadline: March 31
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This scholarship awards mini-grants to at least one public or private school teacher of social studies or history in Forsyth County for continued educational experiences including local, state, or national conferences or workshops or foreign travel. The funded experience must provide intercultural and educational enrichment that has specific educational focus.
Deadline: March 31
This scholarship awards one mini-grant yearly for professional growth opportunities and enrichment for all full-time elementary teachers including guidance counselors, curriculum coordinators and media coordinators who will have earned career status with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system by the end of the current school year.
Deadline: March 31
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This trust was established in 1989 by family members of Sam and Anne Booke to improve the quality of life in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. The Booke family values the role teachers play in the development of young minds. The Winston-Salem Foundation, through the Sam and Anne Booke Family Trust, awards mini-grants for professional development to K-12 teachers in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
Grants are awarded in support of innovative and results-oriented educational experiences for teachers, which enable them to teach better and enhance the subject or content being taught in the classroom. These projects should expand the knowledge and skills of both teachers and students, better preparing them for life in the 21st century.
PROGRAM PRIORITIES: In order for a proposal to receive a favorable review, it must address the following priorities: professional development of applicant; connection of educational experience/project to classroom content; linkage to school's mission; and impact on and dissemination of activities/lessons.
FUNDING: Grants, in amounts up to $1,500, are available for an individual classroom teacher or a team of teachers. A school may submit multiple proposals; however, no teacher will receive more than one grant. Funds cannot be used for salary support of applicant(s). A typical grant award is $500. Previous grant recipients will be eligible to reapply three years after receiving a Sam and Anne Booke grant.
REVIEW PROCESS: A panel of professional educators will review and score each application. Decisions will be made in mid-March and applicants will be notified in April.
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
Friends and family of C.B. Eller established the C. B. Eller Education Fund in 1987. This charitable trust is designed to improve the quality of education in Wilkes County by awarding grants for professional growth for public school teachers. A small advisory committee works with The Winston-Salem Foundation to make grant decisions.
Mr. Eller was superintendent of the Wilkes County Schools for 33 years from 1933 to 1966. Among his greatest accomplishments as superintendent was the consolidation of 99 small schools into 20 schools. In addition to his lifelong commitment to public education, Mr. Eller was extremely active in community, governmental, civic and church affairs both in Wilkes County and Northwest North Carolina.
With funds provided by the C.B. Eller Education Fund, annual awards for professional growth will be awarded to educators chosen through a competitive grantmaking process. Awards of up to $1,500 will be made for educational experiences, training, or projects which will result in teachers' improved classroom effectiveness. Awards may be made for enrichment studies such as university study expeditions, self-designed educational experiences that focus on individual research, and specialized training through participation in seminar or conference programs. Only full or part-time educators employed by the Wilkes County School System who directly interact with students are eligible to apply. Previous winners will be eligible to reapply three years after receiving an Eller Award.
Some examples of awards funded in the past include a Learning Styles Workshop at the NC School of Science & Math; study at Penland School of Crafts; Geography Institute at UNC-Wilmington; Anglo-American Conference for Guidance & Counseling; and Study Spanish in Spain Program at Lenoir-Rhyne College. These programs typify the variety and range of subject matter that the Foundation seeks.
Although graduate study and other special AP teacher training courses have been funded in the past, the committee is seeking a wider variety of proposals and emphasizes the guidelines by which grant winners are selected. Those include:
- the way in which initiative, creativity and imagination are demonstrated in program selection and design
- the proposed program's potential impact on students
- the strategic relationship between the proposed program and individual professional growth.
An appointed panel of reviewers will help judge proposals, and the Fund's Advisory Committee will choose award recipients. In some cases, interviews may be requested of applicants.
DEADLINE: March 4, 2009