Champion grants provide teachers with funding to access the professional development and instructional resources needed to prepare students to be college and career-ready in math and/or science.
Donor Name: Alabama Power Foundation
State: Alabama
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/05/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
- Up to $5,000 per teacher team.
- Professional development, instructional resources, and classroom technology.
Uses of Funds
- Participate in Effective PD
- Effective PD: Is focused on content and pedagogy, models best practices, coaches and collaborates, and facilitates ongoing learning and implementation.
- Ongoing PD: Is preferred and could include attending multiple PD sessions throughout the year that continue to build instructional practices.
- PD Examples: Classes, workshops, conferences, instructional coaching, peer review/feedback, professional learning teams.
- Select Instructional Resources and/or Classroom Technology that Empower Learning
- Resources and Tech: Should increase engagement, help scaffold instruction, and improve learning.
- Instructional Resource Examples: Manipulatives, measurement tools, standards-based STEM thematic unit kits, assessment tools (e.g., white boards, clicker apps), and teacher best practices guides.
- Classroom Technology Examples: iPads, tablets, laptops, projectors, SMART Boards, document cameras, graphing calculators, digital microscopes, applications, software, and online resources.
Eligibility Criteria
Champion Grants must meet the following criteria:
- Public school teachers in grades nine to eleven apply as a grade level and/or subject area team.
- Demonstrate a Financial Need: Priority will be given to a public school if 50% or more of its full-time students receive free or reduced lunches, or if the school is a Title I school.
- Grade Level/Subject Area Collaboration: Intent is for teachers to commit to collaboration, professional growth and peer support to prepare students to be college and career ready in an agreed-upon subject – math and/or science. High school teacher teams are encouraged to collaborate across grade levels, but a single student grade level will need to be identified and targeted as the primary focus of the grant proposal.
- Teacher-Selected Professional Development (PD): All teachers who participate in the grant will select PD to complete that aligns with raising student achievement in math and/or science. Funds can be used on other resources if PD is free, but PD must be included in the proposal to nurture professional growth.
- Measure Student Achievement: Describe how the grant aims to improve student achievement and how success will be measured.
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