The St. Croix Foundation has opened the\u00a02014 Fall grant cycle for its Teacher Grant Award Program. Grants in the amount of $500 will be awarded to successful applicants and are geared toward “enhancing the educational experience of public elementary school teachers and their students,” according to the program’s description.<\/p>\n
Elementary school teachers from all public schools on St. Croix are encouraged to\u00a0apply. Applications will be reviewed by the St. Croix Foundation Education Committee and must be received no later than Oct. 1. Awards will be announced by Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
Grant applications will be judged on “the project\u2019s ability to enliven students\u2019 creativity and provide students with a broad, interactive learning experience of the world around them.”<\/p>\n
Since the Fund’s inception in 2001, the St. Croix Foundation has awarded grants to every elementary school on St. Croix for a variety of projects, including creating personalized family trees, reading books and meeting the authors, teaching students the art of creating mosaics using ceramic tiles, and others.<\/p>\n
Applications may be obtained\u00a0from the Foundation’s\u00a0website at\u00a0www.stxfoundation.org<\/a>\u00a0or by sending email inquiries to staff@stxfoundation.org<\/a>.\u00a0Applicants are encouraged to email their submissions to\u00a0staff@stxfoundation.org<\/a>, but may also submit them by hand delivery or postal mail.<\/p>\n For more information, contact the St. Croix Foundation at 340-773-9898.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The St. Croix Foundation has opened the\u00a02014 Fall grant cycle for its Teacher Grant Award Program. Grants in the amount of $500 will be awarded to successful applicants and are geared toward “enhancing the educational experience of public elementary school teachers and their students,” according to the program’s description. Elementary school teachers from all public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,147],"tags":[606],"yoast_head":"\n