2018 Educational Leadership Grants
Deerfield Academy
Deerfield, MA
The purpose of this grant is to support Athena. An online platform for teachers to share practices, lesson plans, questions, activities, assignments, and multimedia. A tool for professional development, it connects teachers across and within schools, building teacher networks and advancing a professional knowledge base for the field of education.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1
John Burroughs School
Saint Louis, MO
The purpose of this grant is to expand and enhance the work of The Equity Exchange, a week-long summer training for diversity practitioners, experienced teachers and administrators from independent, private and public schools by: supporting need-based registration fees, faculty curriculum planning, web portal development, and intra-institute programming.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1
The Roeper School
Bloomfield Hills, MI
The purpose of this grant is to seed funding for a public-private partnership among The Roeper School, The Roeper Institute, Detroit Public Schools and higher-ed to serve low-income and culturally diverse gifted and high-ability students through evidence-based professional development for a cohort of Roeper and Detroit teachers and other initiatives designed to promote equity in education.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1
Wildwood School
Los Angeles, CA
The purpose of this grant is to support the Institute Model, a new way of cultivating essential 21st-century skills, students staff and lead institutes organized around BIG ideas, and take collaborative action in partnership with universities, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits. With guidance from faculty mentors, students devise the pathways to acquiring necessary knowledge and do original, real-world work.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1