The Education Fund, in conjunction with Miami-Dade Public Schools, will host an open house and teacher grant award reception on February 11 at 6713 Main Street in Miami Lakes.
The open house is scheduled from 5 to 6:15 p.m., followed by the teacher grant and award reception from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.
Continuing with “For Excellence in Miami-Dade Public Schools,” teachers will be awarded cash grants to help them develop and implement instructional projects that motivate and challenge students to learn.
Proposals should be unique classroom projects that enliven and enrich the curriculum. Many past grants have included interdisciplinary, active-learning lessons. Others have reinforced learning through simulations or applied school work to real-life situations.
Teacher Mini-Grants range from $300 to $1,000. In the past 23 years, more than 1,150 projects have been funded.
Since 1985, The Education Fund has worked side-by-side with the private sector to direct resources where they are needed most in Miami-Dade schools. its mission is to design and implement initiatives to improve schools and bring excellence to public education in Miami-Dade.
The Education Fund's first program awarded mini-grants to classroom teachers. Today, the organization operates up to a dozen initiatives at any given time, ranging from small grants programs to large-scale school improvement initiatives, all aimed at increasing student achievement.
Together, the programs benefit all of the 390 schools, about 22,000 teachers and 340,000 students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
For more information, call 305-558-4544, or RSVP to execasst@educationfund.org.