Grants are approved by committee, which is convened twice yearly.
About the Grant Allocation Process
Every other year, a visiting author is hosted at Blake. Grants are offered to teachers who incorporate the author's work into their curriculum. View PDF versions of the Grant Criteria here.
Teachers may apply for a grant by completing an online application. Applications will be accepted online only. To assist in completing the online form, applicants may view PDF version of the Grant Application here. Applicants are urged not to print the form to avoid excess use of paper.
The application deadlines for the 2007-2008 academic year are December 21, 2007 (Fall Winter) and March 21, 2008 (Spring/Summer). Please note that our 2008 speaker Dan O'Brien our will be coming in April so March is NOT too late to apply.
Sample grant-funded activities include:
- New curriculum: Upper School electives in science, foreign languages, social studies, language arts, and creative arts; support of individual Senior Programs; Middle School language arts and social studies; pre-kindergarten nature study
- New facilities and equipment: purchase of reuseable cameras and developing for student photography activities; butterfly garden and saltwater aquarium installation at Lower Schools; camping equipment for Middle School physical education program
- Student field trips: Upper School photography class field trip to Woodlake Nature Center; winter camping and dog sledding; sea kayaking on Lake Superior; annual 8th grade trip to the International Wolf Center in Ely, MN
- Senior Projects and Student Projects: video project on safe recycling of computers
- Faculty professional and curriculum development: travel to New Zealand, Japan, France, and Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
For more information about grant allocations, please contact Dan Trockman at 952-988-3796 or dtrockman@blakeschool.org.
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