Congratulations to FFT Fellow Thi Bui, newly published author of The Best We Could Do, which chronicles her family’s escape from Vietnam and resettlement in America during the 1970s. A... read more →
I teach high school Spanish, serve as chairman of the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) and am an FFT Fellow. All three of these roles converged... read more →
Amy McDonald (Shades Valley High School - Birmingham, AL) recently sat beside Max Steinmetz at Temple Emanu-El, signing books and greeting visitors at an event hosted by Birmingham’s Holocaust Education... read more →
Today mark’s the third annual Mindfulness Day, but an increasing number of FFT Fellows use their grants to incorporate mindfulness into EVERY school day. Deborah Howard and Judith Fitzgerald (Naubuc... read more →
Leslie Knope would say “yep” to Cassie Pierce (Prairie Vale Elementary - Deer Creek Public Schools, Edmond, OK). Played by Amy Poehler in the television comedy Parks & Recreation, Leslie... read more →
In June 2014, Washington DC Fellow Ariel Laguilles began his Fund for Teachers fellowship – a 200 mile section of the historic Camino de Santiago pilgrimage from France to Spain.... read more →
“It didn’t have to be this way - I didn’t have to get caught. Why didn’t I travel the Railroad from the start? Perhaps our grief numbed our minds and... read more →
I am a Spanish-bilingual second grade teacher in an urban, high needs, public school. Yet, I find that 42% of the school’s student population is not Latino, they are either... read more →
by, Natalie Biden & Emilie Jones-McAdams - Bronx, NY “I looked across the border - that invisible line which separated my family’s old life from our new one - and... read more →
by, Britnie Girigorie & Simone English - Brooklyn, New York When Europeans first began to colonize Australia in the 18th century, the traditionally nomadic culture of the Aborigine people changed... read more →