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PROGRAMS & GRANTS
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The Broward Education Foundation’s Grant Fund
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| The Broward Education Foundation’s Grant funds are used to support the District’s goals and objectives and are focused each year on the most needed programs to be highlighted.
This year Oakridge Elementary was the recipient of a new pilot program that was implemented on a school wide basis. The project originated from an IMPACT II grant Measurement Olympics created by Pauline Watson. Over 40 teachers used this program to help 850 Oakridge elementary students with their measurement skills through hands-on activities and technology. This school wide grant should engage many students and most classrooms in the school and be implemented throughout the year.
For more information please contact Coco Burns at Colette.Burns@browardschools.com.
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| The BRACE Scholarship Fund is an established program of the Foundation which awards last dollar scholarships to qualifying students who have exhausted all avenues for financial aid and still fall short of their monetary need to pursue a post secondary education. Long term education may include community college, university or vocational school.
In response to the need to provide scholarship dollars to graduating seniors with financial need, the Broward Education Foundation established the BRACE Scholarship Fund, named in honor of the Broward Advisors for Continuing Education (BRACE). Since 1985, the BRACE Advisors have provided resource information and technical advice/assistance on continuing education for Broward County public high schools, technical centers, and adult community schools. Throughout the year, they encourage our students to apply for scholarships and they are the group who conduct the review and selection of the awardees as a service to the Foundation.
The Broward Education Foundation Scholarship Celebration raises dollars for scholarships for deserving students who have exhausted other avenues of support and might not be able to pursue secondary education without the Foundation’s assistance. Higher education provides a young person the opportunity to live, learn, and grow in a positive environment and to fulfill his/her dreams for a better life. The Foundation helps to make those dreams become a reality.
Student selection is based on un-met financial need. BRACE Advisors meet early in the summer and complete a complex screening process to determine this need based on factors such as awarded federal financial assistance, other scholarships, annual household income and more, to ensure these scholarships are awarded to the students who need it the most.
Since the creation of the BRACE Scholarship Fund, the Broward Education Foundation has provided over 3,150 scholarships to graduating high school seniors, totaling over $5.9 Million.
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The Broward Education Foundation’s
New Teacher Resource Program
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| Collaborating with the Districts New Teacher Academy (NTA) the Foundation’s New Teacher Resource Program is to retrain qualified teachers and assist them in developing effective teaching behaviors. The Citi Foundation New Teacher Resource Program provides high quality teaching materials and online courses aimed at preparing and retaining 333 New Teacher Academy participants.
New Teacher Resource Program teaching materials provide a successful and proven curriculum for new teachers participating in the New Teacher Academy to use that are aligned with the State of Florida teaching standards and directly address many of the concerns expressed by the new teachers.
Citi Foundation, Teacher’s Network and State of Florida Matching Grant Program fund New Teacher Resource Program.
For more information please contact Mari-Lee Baxter at
Mari-Lee.Baxter@browardschools.com.
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| The Citi Success Fund is an outstanding program that gives teachers and other educators the opportunity to carry out innovative programs to increase the chances of success of at-risk students. Students of all ages in Broward County Public Schools have benefited from the stimulating learning experiences that have been funded through Citi Success Fund grants. These experiences have helped to increase student enthusiasm for learning, improve the level of their achievement, and increase their likelihood of staying in school.
For the past nineteen years, the Citi Foundation has supported the Broward Education Foundation through the Citi Success Fund, during the 2007-2008 school year, the Foundation awarded 44 grants, totaling over $33,500, which will reach more than 8,845 students in the Broward County School District. Since it’s inception, the program has awarded more than 645 grants totaling more than $555,500 to Broward County teachers.
For more information please contact Coco Burns at Colette.Burns@browardschools.com.
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| Citi Team Mentor Grants are designed to provide an incentive for collaborations between new and veteran teachers. These collaborations are centered around “classroom-based, student learning projects,” which will provide common ground for veteran teachers and rookies to work together. Veteran teachers will have the opportunity to be a mentor to new teachers. New teachers will share their enthusiasm and motivation with veteran teachers. The aim is to encourage dialogue and collaboration among teachers and reduce their feelings of isolation and peer disassociation.
During the 2007-2008 school year, the Foundation awarded 20 Citi Team Mentor grants for approximately $6000.
For more information please contact Coco Burns at Colette.Burns@browardschools.com.
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| CBroward Education Foundation’s IMPACT II recognizes and rewards outstanding teachers through grants, workshops, schoolsite visits, publications and dissemination of program information. Teachers who have developed successful programs within their classrooms are called “disseminators” and are awarded funding to help package and promote their programs. Teachers use grant money to publicize their ideas and to interact with other interested colleagues, called “adapters,” who then receive funding to customize the original concept to fit their individual classroom needs. Disseminators want to help others improve their work; adapters search for ways to make their own classrooms better.
Disseminator Grants allow teachers to further develop and disseminate exemplary programs that they have developed within their classrooms. Disseminators receive $1,000 grant awards: $500 to improve their projects and $500 to package and market them. Disseminators showcase their projects and present workshops to interested colleagues from Broward County at the annual IMPACT II Idea Expo held in February. Successful programs are outlined in the IMPACT II Idea Catalog on a DVD-ROM. Adapter Grants are awarded to teachers who wish to incorporate disseminator programs into their own educational curriculum. Adapters receive up to $600 to purchase the necessary supplies to facilitate these programs. Adapters learn about successful programs either through review of the IMPACT II Idea Catalog or attendance at the annual IMPACT II Idea Expo. Once a program is selected, the Disseminator furnishes the Adapter with an Idea packet that outlines the program in detail, including lesson plans, budgets, and step-by-step guides to successfully implement all components.
IMPACT II is an ongoing program of the Broward Education Foundation. The IMPACT II program reaches out to teachers who have developed successful classroom teaching methods. These “disseminators” are given grants to package and market their proven projects through the Ideas with IMPACT catalog, the Idea Expo and Idea Packets that contain curriculum materials such as lesson plans, worksheets and resource lists. “Adapter” grants are available to help teachers incorporate IMPACT II ideas into their classroom.
For more information please contact Coco Burns at Colette.Burns@browardschools.com.
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The Florida Prepaid College Tuition Program
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| The Foundation continues to invest in the future with it’s partnership with the Florida Prepaid College Tuition Foundation. The Broward Education Foundation, with a match from the Prepaid Foundation, is able to purchase prepaid contracts through the State of Florida. It provides a defined benefit college tuition contract for State universities, community colleges, and vocational/technical centers. Administered by the State of Florida, The Broward Education Foundation invests in this program for many reasons: it provides a defined benefit, its value is guaranteed, as a long term investment it acts as a hedge against inflation, but most importantly the contracts are matched 1:1 by the Florida Prepaid College Tuition Foundation.
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Education First - Payroll Deduction Program
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| The Foundation administers a successful Payroll Deduction Program in the Broward County School District. All proceeds from this program are allocated to the BRACE Scholarship Program, Teacher Grants, The Teacher Fellowship Scholarship Program and Project Opportunity Scholarship Fund for District Personnel.
For more information please contact Coco Burns at Colette.Burns@browardschools.com.
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Kids in Need Resource Center
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| The Broward Education Foundation opened the Kids In Need Resource Center, part of a national program sponsored by the School, Home, and Office Products (SHOPA) Foundation for Educational Excellence. The program provides free school supplies and funding to aid students and teachers in low-income, under-funded schools.
Since it’s opening in January 2001, over 6,100 teachers have accessed the center that includes notebook paper, pens, pencils, computer software, teacher supplies and over $1,800,000 worth of other much needed school supplies.
For more information please contact Mari-Lee Baxter at
Mari-Lee.Baxter@browardschools.com.
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