Teacher Mini-Grant Competition
VATE sponsors a teacher mini-grant competition to support innovative classroom practices. Grants will be awarded in amounts of $50 to $500. Projects must be innovative, classroom-based, and must demonstrate potential for improvement in the English curriculum/classroom.
Projects must have a direct impact on students. Grants can be used to buy classroom supplies and/or software, to attend a workshop or take a college/university class, to finance a student field trip, etc.
Applications for mini-grants must include the following information:
- Rationale: Write a description of the proposed project that includes the number of students that will be impacted.
- Procedures: Describe plans for implementation.
- Goals: Describe what the teacher plans to accomplish for students.
- Beginning and completion dates.
- Itemized budget.
- Letter from principal stating support and willingness to accept grant monies on behalf of the grant writer.
Grant Guidelines:
- Applicants must be current VATE members. Winning applicants must share their projects at the VATE Conference or in the VIRGINIA ENGLISH BULLETIN, or THE NEEDLE’S EYE within two years of receiving their grant. A final report summarizing the grant project and receipts for all grant expenditures must be submitted upon completion of the grant project.
- Applicants can only receive one grant per year and a maximum of two grants in a five-year period.
- Grants will not be awarded for projects that are receiving money from other sources, and all grants must be the original work of the applicant.
- The deadline for submitting grants is September 30. Grants will be judged at the annual Fall Conference and awarded at the conference banquet. Grant monies will be mailed to the grant writer's principal.
- Grants must be implemented during the school year that they are awarded, and their results must be shared the following school year.
- All completed grant proposals should be postmarked by September 30 and sent to the past president of VATE.
Janice Suppa-Friedman
117 Farmview Road
Stanardsville, VA 22973