The Tennessee Arts Commission is thrilled to announce the 2026 Arts Education Teacher Training Grant.
Donor Name: Tennessee Arts Commission
State: Tennessee
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Funding Information
Applicants may request up to $18,000 for:
- curriculum-based arts education or arts integration professional development with a minimum of two consecutive days of intensive professional development workshops or institutes to deepen participant learning. Additionally, participants must attend both days.
- curriculum-based arts education or arts integration professional development workshop series. Training sessions do not need to be consecutive but must extend over a minimum of 4 days.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025-June 15, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organizations
- Arts councils
- Public or private (with 501(c)3 status) schools or school districts
- Institutions of higher learning.
Program Requirements
In order to be eligible for funding under the Teacher Training category, projects must meet the following requirements:
- Professional development trainees may include classroom teachers, arts specialists, curriculum coordinators, teaching artists, principals, and/or administrators.
- Training must be participatory and hands-on but not limited to “make it and take it” workshops.
- Projects must have a strong instructional component that includes collaborative planning and lesson plan development and implementation in curriculum-based arts education or arts integration instruction. The instructional component should detail the content of the project: how subject matter will be taught and reinforced, the goals of the project, collaborative lesson planning, hands-on activities, etc. When linking content to state and/or national standards, do not simply list the standards. Explain how the standards will be incorporated as part of the instruction and how they relate to the project outcomes being evaluated.
- Clinicians must be highly trained and recognized professionals in the field of arts education and/or arts integration. Applicants may be asked to provide resumes of clinicians.
- Include a method of evaluation that effectively measures the professional development activity. Applicant organizations seeking to train teachers are expected to demonstrate a thorough and effective evaluation plan for the proposed project. Evaluations should effectively measure the goals and objectives of professional development activity. Recently funded continuing projects must demonstrate to what extent outcomes were met.
For more information, visit Tennessee Arts Commission.
