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Introducing Struggling Students to Service Learning

Measuring the impact of Fund for Teachers fellowships is tricky. How do you graph the increase in student excitement after their teacher returns full of new ideas and experiences? How... read more →
  • September 7, 2017

Living La Vida del Profesor

by, Emily Parkinson | Edison Elementary - Morton Grove, IL For as long as I’ve wanted to be a teacher, I’ve also wanted to teach abroad, immersed in a culture... read more →
  • September 6, 2017

Quantifying Air Quality

In support of the recent International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, we share the learning of Jodie Harnden (Sunridge Middle School - Pendleton, OR) who joined an atmospheric... read more →
  • September 6, 2017

Turning Students into Montessorians

Honoring Maria Montessori’s Birthday by Carrying on Her Vision Happy (belated) birthday to Maria Montessori, born on August 31,1870, and founder of the eponymous learning style characterized by independence and... read more →
  • September 6, 2017

Queen of the Jungle

Yesterday was National Wildlife Day, created in 2005 and carried forward in the memory of animal lover and conservationist Steve Irwin. Irwin sought to educate the public, especially children, about... read more →
  • September 5, 2017

Silencing Students’ Inner Critics

Kate Moore (Citizens of the World Charter Schools - Kansas City. MO) used her Fund for Teachers grant to explore at a Creativity Workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, the concept of... read more →
  • August 21, 2017

If These Walls Could Speak

On the final day of their fellowship, Alice Laramore and Kat Atkins-Pattenson shared with us their reflection on a four-week, 9,000 mile road trip along the United States/Mexico border exploring... read more →
  • August 17, 2017

Learning New Steps

While many schools are forced to eliminate access to the arts,  Franklin Elementary Fine Arts Center in Chicago was established to integrate artistic talent with academic success. Dance teacher M.K.... read more →
  • August 17, 2017

Reader, I Studied Her

  Charlotte Brontë, who sent her Jane Eyre manuscript to a London publisher on this date in 1847, wrote, “Your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made... read more →
  • August 15, 2017

Teachers Looking for Troubles

This weekend marks the 48th anniversary of Ireland’s Battle of the Bogside, a riot between Protestants and Catholics that initiated a three-decade conflict known as “The Troubles.” FFT Fellows Saul Fussiner... read more →
  • August 9, 2017
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