English and Language Arts
Monetary Awards for Teachers
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English and Language Arts Awards
ALSC/Candlewick Press “Light the Way: Outreach to the Underserved” Grants
Light the Way: Outreach to the Underserved” Grants wants to award a $3,000 grant to assist a library in reaching underserved populations (age 14 and under) through a new and innovative program or an expansion of work already being done. Preference is given to programs serving children with learning or physical differences, ESL speakers, children from nontraditional school environments or in foster care, children in the juvenile justice system, or those who need accommodation services.
Broadcast Adviser of the Year
This award is designed to honor outstanding high school advisers and their exemplary work from the previous year, as well as throughout their careers. Applicants must be a member of the Journalism Education Association to be eligible or this award.
The College Board: Costas Awards
The Bob Costas Awards for the Teaching of Creative Writing support exceptional teachers who through their innovative teaching methods motivate their students to write. Winning teachers are awarded grants to enhance successful projects currently underway. Projects can be carried out in school (public or nonpublic), through an after-school writing workshop, or during a summer program. Maximum award: $3,000. Eligibility: teachers from all academic disciplines grades 6-12.
Tina B. Carver Fund
Established in memory of longtime English as a Second Language (ESL) educator, the Tina B. Carver Fund provides grants to teachers for funding student classroom learning materials and teacher materials (e.g., ancillary materials that can be used in conjunction with textbooks or other instructional materials) to support adult ESL education programs in the United States. Awarded grants will primarily serve the hardest-to-reach students with limited resources (e.g. beginning literacy to intermediate-low ESL students).
Corwin Literacy Leader Award
This award is presented to a district or school administrative literacy leader who has recognized the importance of building a culture of literacy within a school or district by offering literacy professional development, instructional resource support, and/or developing specific literacy programs to build capacity and increase student literacy achievement. Grant Cycle opens August 1.
Gallo Grants
To encourage educators in their early years of teaching to attend the ALAN Workshop for the first time. The grants provide funding—up to $750 each—for two classroom teachers in middle school or high school each year to attend the ALAN Workshop. In addition to the $750 grant, the registration fee for the workshop will also be covered. The ALAN Workshop is held at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Dow Jones News Fund: High School Journalism Teacher of the Year
The DJNF High School Journalism Teacher of the Year program identifies outstanding high school journalism teachers. The winning teacher addresses the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, American Society of News Editors, and college journalism educators. Maximum award: a laptop computer; travel and lodging expenses and a per diem for substitute teacher fees for address and seminar; a quarterly column for the fund’s newspaper, Adviser Update; and attendance at a seminar at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. A senior student at the winning teacher’s school will receive a $1,000 college scholarship to major in news-editorial journalism based on his or her performance in a writing contest held at the school. Eligibility: high school journalism teachers with at least three years’ experience who have done exemplary work .
ESU: Fellowships for American high school teachers
English-Speaking Union of the United States British Universities Summer School fellows have the opportunity to perform on the stage of the Globe Theatre during Teaching Shakespeare in Performance at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, England. The University of Oxford offers a variety of English Literature courses, as well as courses in Creative Writing and History, Politics and Society. Scottish Universities International Summer School (SUISS) program, based in Edinburgh, offers Literature in Twentieth-Century Britain and Creative Writing. Maximum award: full or partial scholarship to study in Britain, which includes tuition, most meals, and dorm room with shared bath. Eligibility: high school teachers with five to fifteen years of experience who will teach the following year.
I Love My Librarian Award
Librarians touch the lives of the people they serve every day. The I Love My Librarian Award encourages library users like you to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, school, college, community college, or university librarians. Each year 10 librarians are selected. Each librarian receives a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and a travel stipend to attend the awards ceremony and reception in New York City, hosted by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation
The Foundation is committed to promoting literacy through the use of the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.). The need for literacy – the ability to read and write – is essential to fully developing a sense of wellbeing and citizenship. Children who are solid readers perform better in school, have a healthy self-image, and become lifelong learners, adding to their viability in a competitive world. When making grants, the Foundation looks for effective organizations that can help advance the work of the Foundation, as well as for evidence that the people and organizations are likely to succeed with their grant.
Innovation Grants
The National Literacy Directory wants to recognize and reward innovative literacy and education programs that are finding solutions to persistent challenges. We are issuing a call for applications for our $1,000 Innovation Grant to support your efforts. This grant is available to programs listed on the National Literacy Directory.
IRA: Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant
The International Reading Association Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Award honors an outstanding elementary teacher of reading and language arts dedicated to improving teaching and learning through reflective writing about his or her teaching and learning process. Maximum award: $2,500. Eligibility: regular classroom elementary teachers of reading and language arts grades K-6 in a school in which at least 60 percent of the school’s students are eligible for free or reduced lunch; must be IRA members.
IRA Award for Technology and Reading
The International Reading Association (IRA) Award for Technology and Reading honors educators in grades kindergarten through grade 12 who are making an outstanding and innovative contribution to the use of technology in reading education. Eligible nominees must be members of the IRA; work in public, parochial, or private elementary or secondary schools; and work directly with ages 5 to 18 students for all or part of the working day.
IRA/Weekly Reader: Eleanor M. Johnson Award
The International Reading Association/Weekly Reader Eleanor M. Johnson Award recognizes an outstanding elementary classroom teacher of reading/language arts. The award honors Eleanor M. Johnson, founder and editor-in-chief of Weekly Reader, who died in 1987. Maximum award: $1,000. Eligibility: classroom or reading teachers working directly with students on a consistent basis in an elementary classroom setting who have taught for five full years and are nominated by at least four persons; applicants/nominees must be Association members.
Journalism Education Association
The JEA offers a list of awards for JEA members and non-members who have made contributions to journalism education.
Maryann Manning Special Service Award
The International Literacy Association (ILA) Maryann Manning Special Service Award is a non-monetary award given annually to an individual who has demonstrated a lifelong commitment of exceptional and distinguished service to the field of literacy. Grant cycle opens August 1.
ELATE James Moffett Award
NCTE’s English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE), in conjunction with the National Writing Project, offers this grant to support teacher research projects that further the spirit and scholarship of James Moffett. Moffett, a great champion of the voices of K-12 teachers, focused on such ideas as the necessity of student-centered curricula, writing across the curriculum, alternatives to standardized testing, and spiritual growth in education and life.
ELATE Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant
To increase participation in ELATE on the part of teachers and teacher educators (including graduate students and student teachers) from historically underrepresented groups whose presence and whose contributions are central to the full realization of our professional goals. This grant offers up to two $500 awards for first-time NCTE Convention presenters who are members of groups historically underrepresented in NCTE and ELATE. Eligibility: Any teacher, teacher educator, or prospective teacher (graduate students and student teachers) in the English language arts, who is an NCTE member and represents an historically underrepresented ethnic group in NCTE and who has not previously appeared as a presenter at an NCTE Annual Convention.
Lina S. Putney Teacher Inspiration Award
This award recognizes a teacher who, through the teaching and/or advising of journalism, inspired others to pursue journalism teaching as a career and who has made a positive difference in the teaching community
National Center for Family Literacy Accepting Nominations for Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year Award
The award will recognize an outstanding teacher who demonstrates exemplary educational practices in family learning and parent engagement with a $20,000 grant for his or her program….
National High School Journalism Teacher Awards Program
The award for the teacher of the year includes a newsroom laptop computer, The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition and a column in Advisor Update.
The TESOL Teacher of the Year Award
Each year, TESOL and National Geographic Learning honor an English language teacher with its Teacher of the Year award. Candidates are educators who have shown dedicated to teaching English, inspired students from all backgrounds to learn, and have used innovative methods to reach students. To apply, educators must submit a brief essay, a professional development overview, and a sample lesson plan, among other supporting materials. The Teacher of the Year receives a $1,000 prize, as well as other benefits.
Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year
The National Center for Family Literacy is now accepting nominations for the Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year Award. This award recognizes outstanding teachers demonstrating exemplary educational practices in family learning and parent engagement. One U.S.-based teacher will win a $20,000 grant for his/her program, a scholarship to the National Conference on Family Literacy and publicity for his/her effective approach through the 2013 program year. In addition, one national runner-up will receive a $2,500 grant for his/her program and a scholarship to the conference.Do you know a teacher who is working in innovative ways to help families learn– both inside and outside of the classroom? Teachers helping families in family literacy programs, Title I schools, preschool programs, libraries or community-based organizations are eligible for this award.
The International Literacy Association (ILA) Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant
ILA gives a $2,500 annual grant that honors an outstanding mainstream, elementary classroom teacher dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of reading and writing across the curriculum in real world contexts in grades K–6 (ages 5–12). All applicants must be ILA members, and at least 60% of the school’s students must be eligible for free or reduced lunch. The grant may not be used for purchase of commercial programs. Grant Cycle Opens on August 1.
ILA Erwin Zolt Digital Literacy Game Changer Award
The International Literacy Association (ILA) presents this $5,000 award annually to honor literacy game changers in online collaboration who are making an outstanding and innovative contribution to the use of technology in literacy education. This award was established in memory of Erwin Zolt, who inspired in others a “zest for knowledge.” Grant cycle opens August 1.