Press Release
Association of American Educators Foundation Announces National Teacher Scholarship and Classroom Grant Recipients
Alexandria, VA – The Association of American Educators Foundation (AAEF) a 501(c)(3) organization supporting the mission of the Association of American Educators (AAE), a national professional association serving educators in all fifty states, is pleased to announce that twenty-three exceptional educators have been selected to receive scholarship or grant awards of up to $500 to help them realize their professional training goals and develop student-focused projects, content, and activities. The AAE Foundation National Teacher Scholarship and Classroom Grant program encourages innovative practices and professional excellence for all educators and has awarded hundreds of thousands dollars to classrooms across the country through a competitive biannual selection process.
“In this challenging school year when educators face numerous obstacles to the access and delivery of equitable education for learners of all abilities, we found the determination and creativity of our national applicants to be exceptional,” said the executive director of the Association of American Educators and Association of American Educators Foundation, Colin Sharkey. “It is these educators’ unwavering dedication to their students and their reimagining of what school can and must be, that we salute and support through this generous funding program.”
The October 2020 recipients are:
Classroom Grant: Taryn Bell, Atlanta, Georgia Special COVID-19 Relief Grant: Susan DeLoach, Pacoima, California Teacher Scholarship: Cindy Alvear, Chicago, Illinois
AAE senior professional programs manager Melissa Pratt noted, “There has never been a more important time to be responsive to educators’ needs and concerns for their students. As most educators have now taken on the additional role of “problem solver,” increasingly, recent applications address unique solutions to provide instruction to meet their students’ needs, rather than enhancements to existing materials or programs.”
The AAE Foundation National Teacher Scholarship and Classroom Grant Program is open to all full-time educators. Applications are considered twice-a-year and evaluated by a volunteer review committee of educators throughout the nation.
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