For Educators

The Education Fund has been working for more than 20 years to support and connect innovative teachers through grants and networking opportunities in the areas of curriculum, leadership, policy and technology. The Education Fund's mission is to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their classrooms and schools, thereby improving student learning and achievement.

Success Fund awards mini-grants for teaching projects that encourage at-risk students to stay in school.

Team Mentor Grants provide an incentive for collaboration between veteran teachers and beginning teachers with less than three-years of experience. The goal is to encourage peer-to-peer learning opportunities and ongoing dialogue between teachers working together on classroom-based student projects.

The Education Fund's Teach-A-Thon is an exciting campaign whose goal is to educate the business community about the effect that teaching quality has on student achievement. The program uses a walk-a-thon strategy with a twist. Instead of walking, running or climbing stairs, volunteers train for a "teaching day."

IMPACT II helps teachers make the most of innovative and creative ideas by awarding them grants to package and disseminate their ideas to other interested teachers, providing teachers with a "best practices" catalog, curriculum packets, one of the largest teacher conferences and grants to adapt and tailor the featured projects to their own classrooms.

The IMPACT II Idea EXPO is a "by-teachers-for-teachers" conference that offers educators a chance to connect with more than 75 experienced Disseminator teachers during the project-display exhibition and workshop sessions. Apply online.

Ocean Bank Center for Educational Materials collects surplus inventory and supplies from the business community and makes them available for free to public school teachers throughout Miami-Dade County.

Superintendent's Urban Principal Initiative (SUPI) is one of the nation's most comprehensive leadership development programs for secondary school administrators. Through online assessment models, collaboration with national experts in education, Action Research training, coaching by retired administrators, participation in the Harvard Institute, a nine-week internship and additional instruction, SUPI prepares school leaders to meet the challenges of the district's highest-need students.

Teachers Network Leadership Institute (TNLI) was established to improve student achievement by giving teachers an active voice in education policymaking. Teachers research key issues and develop recommendations based on their findings. These findings are then published and disseminated nationwide.

Teacher Mini-Grants award small cash grants to teachers who want to try something new in the classroom to stimulate learning and need a few hundred dollars to make their idea a reality. In 21 years, more than 1,000 projects have been funded.