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: 03/13/2026
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
Champion Grant for up to $5,000.
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), teacher best practices guides.
- Classroom Technology Examples: iPads, tablets, laptops, projectors, SMART Boards, document cameras, graphing calculators, digital microscopes, applications, software, online resources.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public school teachers in grades nine to eleven apply as a grade level and/or subject area team for professional development, instructional resources and classroom technology.
- Demonstrate a Financial Need: Priority will be given to Title I schools, or schools with50% or more of itsfull-time students receiving free or reduced meals. Preference is given to schools serving students in Alabama Power’s service territory.
- Teacher Collaboration: Teachers are committed to collaboration, professional growth, and peer support to prepare students to be college and career ready in math and/or science. High school teacher teams are encouraged to collaborate across grade levels, but a single student grade level should be identified as the primary focus of the grant proposal.
- Teacher-Selected Professional Development (PD): All teachers who participate in the grant will select PD with a focus on raising student achievement in math and/or science. Funds can be used on other resources ifthe cost of PD is free, but PD must be included in the proposal to nurture professional growth.
- Instructional Resources and/or Classroom Technology: Resources and tech should increase student engagement, help scaffold instruction,and improve learning in math and/or science concepts.
- Resources can also include ACT preparation materials and access to courses focused on preparing students for the math and/or science portions of the ACT.
- Measure Student Achievement: Must describe how the PD, instructional resources and/or classroom technology will work together to improve student achievement and how success will be measured.
For more information, visit Alabama Power Foundation.
