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Teaching Tolerance Grants

For Teachers and Classrooms
Since 1997, we have awarded more than $1 million in funding to support classroom teachers' efforts to reduce prejudice, improve intergroup relations or support professional development in these areas. Learn more

For Schools and Districts
Launched in 2008, this new pool of grant funding is available to schools and districts that are undertaking projects to equalize students' experiences in schools and promote social justice. Letters of inquiry are due May, 15, 2008. Learn more

Recently Funded Grants

These grant summaries describe some of the most recent projects we've funded. Our magazine's Grant Spotlight offers a deeper look at a successful grant-funded project.

February 2008

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Teaching Tolerance awarded a $10,000 grant to Teaching for Change to support an innovative program in McComb, Miss. public schools. McComb is one of the first districts in the country to make a district wide commitment to rethink its teaching about the local Civil Rights Movement and labor history. The initiative includes the infusion of age-appropriate civil rights, labor, and social justice lessons in grades K- 7, an 8th grade required (and revamped) US history course, and a new Local Culture Through Oral History elective course offered to 11th and 12th grade students. Teachers will be engaged in a formative evaluation process which allows the lessons to be modified and tailored to be effective in McComb and to build on the experience of many people in McComb who participated directly in voter registration campaigns, or worked behind the scenes providing food and housing to those on the front lines. The initiative will document the impact of the curriculum on student knowledge and document any transformations in students’ academic abilities in reading, writing, critical thinking, and problem solving. In addition, the participants will observe and document the extent to which the curriculum materials help students develop: (1) greater interest in their local history and the topic of history overall, (2) respect for cultural and racial differences, and (3) students’ character and civic responsibility. Additionally, project leaders will strive to discern how much of the student outcomes can be attributed to curricular innovations and how much to coaching teachers to adopt new pedagogies.

Picture This… Random Acts of Kindness
Donna Kata Fias of Washington Local Schools received a $500 Teaching Tolerance grant to use photographic arts, cooperative learning groups and reflective writing to create Books of Kindness. The project was a result of student ideas and commitment to improving the climate of their school, homes, and community.

Celebrations
Kay Phelps of Mesa Elementary in Cortez, Colo., received a $1,757 Teaching Tolerance grant that will build understanding through infusing instructional practice with culturally relevant curricula to connect the Navajo and Ute Mountain Ute student population with non-native students and educators. The project will use family interactive math and literacy evenings as well as artistic projects to empower students through relationship building and culturally responsive education. Family histories and celebrations will be shared through a student created "Celebrations" mosaic.

Pass It On and Make a Difference
Christa Warner from Wohlwend Elementary School in St. Louis, Mo., received a $1,200 Teaching Tolerance grant, which will be used to support a school-wide initiative building understanding and promoting a school community that exhibits good character and acceptance of diversity. Students will be united through service learning projects and intentional acts of kindness.



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