Grants

The Foundation funds schools, teachers and the arts.

Innovative Teaching Grants

These grants are applied for by teachers in the district who want to create exciting new ways to teach that will engage students and increase learning. Ways that are imaginative, innovative, outside the box, and that foster new ideas and support diverse learning styles within the classroom. Ideas surrounding art, music, science, language arts, math, technology, learning support, etc., are all areas in which requests come in from teachers.

Interested in helping this rewarding program? ITG has been placed on hold while we search for a Chair to lead the fundraising and making the exciting announcements to the grant winners. Join us and help decide which innovative ideas to support. 

 

Funding for these grants would not be possible without generous donations!

A special thank you to our 2017-2018 Gold Donors for sponsoring/supporting exciting innovative teaching in our schools:

 

  • Wytek Controls, Inc. (Sponsoring Project Purple)

  • Ron Spires & Kim DeMarchi (Sponsoring Project Purple)

  • Michael & Stacie Schoonmaker (Sponsoring Virtual Reality Lab)

  • Julie & Matt Popma (Sponsoring 21st Century Music Room)

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Matthew Meyer, Deer Creek kinder, marvels at his coconut experiment made possible through an Innovative Grant to Kinder Teacher Diane Bonica, who used funds to conduct hands-on science projects.