Grants

Educator Grants

Through a competitive grants process, we award funding to educators who have creative ideas that will capture the attention and imagination of their students. Project must fall within at least one of the following six areas of learning—academics, arts, character education, life skills, physical education & wellness, and technology—but outside the regular district budget.

We offer two grant cycles per academic year in which we award funds to educators in the school district for special projects that otherwise would not be possible.

2009/2010 Educator Grants

Grant Cycle 1
Application Due Date: Monday, September 14, 2009
Announcements made on or about Monday, September 21, 2009

Grant Cycle 2
Application Due Date: Monday, January 11, 2010
Announcements made on or about Monday, January 25, 2010

Download the 2009/2010 Educator Grant Application.

To date we have funded 50 creative projects in grades kindergarten through 12 throughout the Auburn public schools. See below for descriptions of all the projects we have supported that have enabled students to learn in unique and innovative ways.

Click here to view our past grants.

Signature Grants

Signature grants are larger in scale and scope than Educator Grants. Any educator may approach our Board with project ideas that will benefit a large portion of our student body. As our resources grow, we hope to take on more and more signature projects.

Our First Signature Project is now complete!

Auburn High School Mobile iTouch Lab – LOTE (Languages Other Than English) Department Project
Students learn a foreign language best through practice hearing and speaking. A “language lab” uses hand held computers, (iPods), to allow students to record their conversations, either with each other or in response to computer-generated questions. Recordings are sent to the teacher’s computer in-box where s/he may listen to the recordings and offer feedback to individual students.

Foreign language labs enhance learning, engage and motivate students. With iPod technology, teachers have access to online podcasts, can generate their own materials or have students create content. Content may include conversations, stories, poems, songs and/or vocabulary instruction in the target language. Teachers have found iPod’s to be versatile (audio, video, text and/or pictures) and easy to use with ample storage. They may be used to administer quizzes and receive oral feedback. Two mobile cart units will provide an easy and reliable means of managing multiple iPod players at once and of bringing several units into language classrooms.

Mobile iTouch Lab will be available for use in other subject classrooms when not in use by the LOTE Department.