Innovative Teaching Grants
Providing direct support to teachers who create innovative teaching opportunities in their schools and classrooms
Innovative Teaching Grants
2025 UPDATE: We’re back! Thank you to Stacey Ghoddusi for supporting this program as Chair of our 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.
The immediate goal of Innovative Teaching Grants is student engagement during the current school year. Long-term, these programs have long-term benefits in math, literacy, technological growth, and relationship building. Items utilized by students and teachers can be reused and shared throughout the school and/or the district when possible.
Teachers! Interested in applying for the 2025-2026 school year? We will send an announcement to all TTSD staff when the application is open. Keep an eye on your inboxes!
Would you like to support this program? If you would like your donation to be directed to the ITG fund, please select “Innovative Teaching Grants” in the dropdown.
prior grant recipients
- (Program paused from 2020 – 2025)
- 2019 – 2020
- 2017 – 2018
- 2016 – 2017
- 2015 – 2016
- 2009 – 2015
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors
With the support of these sponsors, we were able to direct more funds where they are needed most – in our classrooms!
Official sponsor of OIT Next Level Stop Motion and Digital Design at Twality Middle School
Barnes & Noble in Bridgeport supported the Page Turners program at Art Rutkin Elementary, led by Janell Cooke
ITG Funds at Work in Our Schools
ITG 2025 Janell Cooke 3
ITG 2025 Janell Cooke 2
ITG 2025 Janell Cooke 1
Thank you Janell Cooke at Art Rutkin for these photos of students utilizing the reading intervention program.
Do you have photos from an ITG-funded program or materials at your school? Please send them to sghoddusi@the-ftts.org.
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