Fall Innovative Instructional Grant
DEADLINE: October 11, 2024, by 5:00pm.
Applicants can apply for up to $1000 for innovative projects in their classroom.
Applications are now closed for the 2024-2025 School Year
Check out this year's winners below!
Fall Innovative Grant Information
Purpose: Fall Innovative Instructional Grants are a means for providing small grants to teachers and other school level professional staff members to encourage innovative, creative approaches that enhance student learning in classroom instruction.
Eligibility: The grants are awarded on a competitive basis and any YCSD teacher or group may apply.
Eligible Proposals: Grants proposals should be creative, Innovative and should support the YCSD strategic plan. Please ensure that:
- No school name, acronym or teacher names are on the application.
- you have provided an itemized budget that includes the vendor and prices.
- Does not ask the foundation to fund the following: food, bus transportation, salaries for speakers or substitute teachers, alternative seating or clothing items.
Funds: Teachers may apply for up to $1,000. The number of awards will depend on funds available from The York Foundation for Public Education, Inc.
Grant Application Questions
2024-25 Fall Innovative Grant Winners
We gave out $5,365.00 in grant money!!
Congratulations to our 2024-2025 Winners
Bruton High School-$989.00
Heather Stark (YHS), Caitlin Davis (YHS), Blanqui Valledor (BHS), Lynn Shematek (THS), and Wallace Green (GMS) received the YFPE Fall Innovative Grant for their project titled, "Increasing Critical Thinking and Teamwork within the A.P. Seminar Classroom."
Queens Lake Middle School-$949.00
Tori Otstot and Michelle Moses received the YFPE Fall Innovative Grant for their project titled, "Empowering Student Voices Through Podcasting."
Yorktown Elementary School-$980.00
Dr. Katherine Higgins and Julie Miller received the Sylvan Learning Center Innovative Grant for their project titled, "Three Piggies for Precision, Two Piggies for Power."
Briana Dixon and Julie Miller received the YC Waterway Alliance Innovative Grant for the Chesapeake Bay and YC Tributaries for their project titled, "Insects and Worms and Frogs, Oh My!"
Coventry Elementary School-$639.00
Helen Holm, Sherri Rodriguez, Patricia Burger, and Lisa Finley received the Chad Green Reading for Merit Innovative Grant in Honor of Katherin Snead and the YFPE Innovative Grant for their project titled, "Soaring in Science of Reading: Enrichment Research Based Literacy Centers."
Tabb Middle School-$1,808.00
Nanci Diggs and Suzanne McGinn received the Star of Excellence for Special Education Learning and the YFPE Innovative Grant for their project titled, "Cereal-iciously Good Reads: Playaway Audiobooks to Future Ready Graduate Readers."
Kathleen Hartless received the ITA International Innovative Grant of Multiple Disciplinary Instruction for her project titled, "The Art of Cross-Curricular Instruction."