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From Free to Funded—Supplementing Your Classroom Resources
Leadership, Equity | K-12
You want to give your students the best, but maintaining a classroom and providing creative learning experiences can be expensive. Schools have a finite set of resources, and while educators can often stretch limited resources to do amazing things, that doesn’t mean they don’t want more for their students!
In this course, we will discuss all things funding. You’ll begin by exploring a variety of grants available across grade levels and subject areas (spoiler alert: there are tons!), and we will break down specifically how to write effective grant applications. Then you’ll take a look at other government and community resources, as well as common school funding pathways. In addition, you’ll learn about modern digital funding options, including how to successfully use crowdfunding sites and other fundraising events and activities. Finally, you’ll take a deep dive into the vast array of free tools available and how you can leverage them meaningfully in the classroom.
Using the strategies from this course, you will be able to maximize your efforts to create priceless learning experiences even when faced with limited time and resources.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Strategies for evaluating grants opportunities
- Best practices for writing grants and crowdfunding applications
- Techniques for identifying community and government resources to support school and student needs
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Develop an understanding of grant and other key writing skills.
- Create a portfolio of grant and other free educator resources.
- Outline how public-school funding works in order to most effectively plan for resource use.
- Establish community partnerships to help with resource acquisition.
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Request a Free ConsultationWhy Partner With Us
- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
Interested in School/District PD?
Request a Free ConsultationCourse Design
We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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