Who Can Apply?
All certified personnel in the RBUSD can apply for an Innovative Teacher Mini-Grant. Proposals can be submitted by individual teachers, teams of teachers or certificated district personnel serving K through 12 students in RBUSD.
Click below to download the Mini Grant Application
RBEF Mini Grant Application (181 KB)
What is Considered Innovative?
Innovation is everywhere, especially within teachers and in classrooms. Perhaps you are thinking about a new and creative approach or program to engage your students. If your idea has a meaningful and measureable outcome, enhances core curriculum, and benefits a large number of students (grade or subject level grants encouraged), your ideas would probably qualify. Send in an application and let us help you maximize your potential.
Who Decides?
To make sure that the teacher mini grants are distributed fairly, a Grant Review Committee (made up of four or more educators, volunteers, and RBEF Board Members) will independently evaluate each application. Grant content will be measured against 100 criteria points and averaged across all reviewers. Equity of distribution across schools will be a consideration. Mini grants go to the most compelling and clearly defined projects.
The application itself is simple and straightforward, but completeness and clarity is a must. Applications missing information will not be considered, so please make sure to submit all required content and signatures.
What are the Timelines for the Application?
October 7, 2011
Deadline for grant applications, send applications to: teachergrants@rbef.org
October 31, 2011
Grant recipients to be notified of selection
November 3, 2011;
Checks for 80% of the grant to be distributed to recipients.
June 1, 2012
Deadline for final report and documentation. Grant recipients must submit their one-page impact report and required documentation, described under responsibilities on page 1, to receive an amount equal to expenses less the 80% already paid. Send to: teachergrants@rbef.org
Click below to download the grant reviewer score sheet.
RBEF Grant Reviewer Score Sheet (716 KB)
Redondo Beach Education Foundation Board Members,
Thank you for approving the teacher mini-grant application which allowed us to purchase four Zillio Mega Mountains. One special education student who comes everyday for math instruction is particularly interested in the Mountain. He will do other math work in order to earn time placing tokens on the staircases; he doesn't know that he is learning about multiples. And, that is really the beauty of the Zillio Mega Mountain. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to share this math manipulative with our students.
- Nadine Broekman & Cynthia Burgess
Redondo Beach Education Foundation Board Members,
Thank you for the very generous grant you awarded to our school. This
technology will give students the confidence to participate in class
like never before. They will be able to answer every question and not be
intimidated by their peers. Students who need addition time to process
information will be given the "think time" they need to answer
questions. They will finally feel like they are part of the discussion
and not left behind by peers who respond instantly to questioning by the
teacher.
Robin Rau
3rd Grade Teacher
Birney School
Redondo Beach Education Foundation Board Members,
I cannot begin to express in an email how much the mini-grant funded by Northrop Grumman impacted my fifth grade students at Beryl Heights Elementary School. The seven Boreal Microscopes with built in light sources provided approximately 60 fifth graders to see things literally on a whole new level. These instruments provided a vehicle for undeniable enthusiasm and excitement in our science classroom. Over and over students would exclaim, "WOW", "I can't believe this", "This is so cool", "This is what tissues in our bodies look like?". They would literally scream, "Look at this, look at this!".
Abby Fox
Fifth Grade Teacher,
Beryl Heights Elementary School
