OK, I have come up with an idea for my creative project that appeals to my productive side as well. I have decided to make a grant-writing challenge to all the teachers at my school. I have applied for Junior League mini-grants before and had alot of success. As I read the requirements I noticed that one teacher can be the secondary applicant for an unlimited number of grant applications. It also stated that no two identical applications would be funded.
So I sent the school the following proposal via e-mail:
"Hi there. I have to do a "new creative endeavor" for my grad school class and blog about it a few times a week. Since we don't have time to waste on hobbies :-) that are not productive, I decided to try and see how many junior league grants we could get in one year. The guidelines state that "A teacher may submit as many applications as they want as secondary applicants." This is my offer to you. I am willing to write up a grant for anyone if you tell me what you want and point me in the direction of a GPS you think it would address. I will write a grant for every teacher in the school if asked. You will be the primary and I will just be listedc as secondary applicant if anyone has questions. I will not make any guarantees, but it will really cool to see how far we go. I did not see any limit listed on the application information. If you know otherwise, fill me in!"
Since you cannot have duplicate requests and they fund based on creativity and innovation of projects, it will stretch my creative strength. I already have had 3 takers. One for a listening library in first grade, one to create a period specific art artifact for each grade level depicting the period of time they study in social studies, and one "yes!!! but I'm not sure yet. Now that one project is for a listening library, that item will be considered "taken" and other requests will need to be something different. I think it will be great. I am familiar with some GPS of different grade levels but this will help me with some vertical curriculum alignment as well. I will keep you posted on the progress.
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What a great idea! I wish I could send you some ideas for grant proposals. Also, after reading your list of ideas for developing your creativity, I want to know--where do you get your energy. You sound like a fabulous person!!
How is the grant writing going? We sure could use your help in the Torrance Center if no one else takes you up on it. Are you working on any now? What is the status of this project?
Beth,
What is going on? You haven't posted in a while.
BC
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