Kids In Need Foundation rewards innovative teachers

Creative teachers are rewarded each year by the Kids In Need Foundation with grants to fund exceptional classroom projects. The Teacher Grants program, open to all kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers in the United States, has awarded $1 million in grants since the program began in 1997.

Dan Legg, chair of the Teacher Grants Committee, said the committee “looks for high quality projects that convey information to students in new and interesting ways. We evaluate the grant requests according to certain criteria, but the proposals that make us want to be in the classrooms participating in those projects are the ones that are invariably funded.”

This year, more than $100,000 is available to award. Grant amounts are between $100 and $500. Applications for the 2008 Kids In Need Teacher Grants will be available after July 15 and can be submitted online between July 15 and September 30 on the Kids in Need website.