“Once upon a time there were two teachers in search of a way to make fairy tales come alive for their urban students.” This is how preK and kindergarten teachers... read more →
FFT Fellow Ariel Laguilles, chairperson of the Modern and Classical Languages Department at Gonzaga High School in Washington DC, just returned from an extended field trip. Inspired by his fellowship,... read more →
Fund for Teachers fellowships begin with an If/Then equation: "If I could just [do this/learn this/experience this], my students' [interest/engagement/achievement] would soar." Public, private and charter school teachers across the... read more →
by, Cecilia Cornejo, Mary Beth Porter, Deidre Ann Hensley | Port Hueneme, CA It isn’t easy to... read more →
Preschool teachers have to be flexible, but Dianna Langdon (Park Early Childhood Center - Ossining, NY) is taking that necessity to a whole new level. She used her FFT grant... read more →
Wisconsin is home to the third largest population of Hmong immigrants in the country, but students at Pittsville Elementary knew little about their peers from Southeast... read more →
Connecticut is home to the largest population of Albanian immigrants in the United States, and the largest percentage of those immigrants live in Waterbury. While Henry Chase Elementary's library offered... read more →
Last summer, Amanda Kingston studied Carol Gilligan’s stages of moral development outlined in the book In a Different Voice by journeying through the history of women... read more →
Before Mitch McCann and Jazmine Salach's Fund for Teachers fellowship, teachers at KIPP Endeavor in Kansas City felt ill equipped to serve their students identifying as homeless, experiencing abuse and/or... read more →
Based on our Fellows' experiences, the phrase “there’s more than one way to skin a cat” applies to student literacy. We'll refrain from using that idiom today, however, out of... read more →