Grants

Global Literacy Communities: Gateways to Innovation

DUE: August 15, 2012

Grant Description:

Worlds of Words is excited to announce the availability of $1000 grants for literacy communities to explore the use of global literature to build international understanding. Global literature provides an opportunity for teachers and students to explore understandings about global cultures that go beyond surface information to explore the values and ways of living within those cultures. The current public interest in global education creates a potential space for innovation within K-12 classrooms. Engaging in that innovation within a professional community provides support and challenge through dialogue and shared explorations. The funding for these grants was made possible by the Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs and International Understanding

Grant period: September 2012-May/June 2013

  • 10-12 literacy communities will be funded from September 2012-May/June 2013. These communities can be elementary educators or middle and/or high school educators. The community can involve university educators as well but must be focused on innovations in K-12 classrooms in the United States.
  • Any literacy community of 5-10 educators can apply. The group of educators can be school-based, district-based, or community-based.
  • The literacy community commits to meeting on a regular basis as a study group from September 2012 to May/June 2013
  • The literacy community commits to engaging in innovation using global literature with students in K-12 classrooms from September 2012 to May/June 2013.
  • Each community will post regular entries on a members-only forum established for the communities to exchange ideas and share experiences. In addition, an online coordinator from Worlds of Words will offer support, resources, and suggestions and send regular digests about the work of the communities and resources from other communities.
  • Each community will complete a short final report that is due on June 30, 2013.
  • Each community will create several classroom vignettes about their experiences for a special issue of WOW Stories as a way to share their experiences with other educators. The vignettes are due on July 30, 2013 and can be created in a range of forms, such as a written story with student artifacts, a podcast, or a video.
  • The money from the grant can be used for global literature, supplies for classroom work or study group meetings, technology support, or stipends for summer work on vignettes.

Proposals must be submitted by August 15, 2012 by email to Kathy Short, Director of Worlds of Words, and Susan Corapi, Global Literacy Communities Coordinator.

Send your proposals to shortk@email.arizona.edu and scorapi@email.arizona.edu

Download the MS Word grant application.

 Grant Application Requirements:

Global Literacy Communities: Gateways to Innovation.

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Nature of the group

Describe your group. Indicate whether your group is school-based, district-based, or community-based and whether the group has a past history together and previous relationships or is newly formed. Also indicate whether members of the group have previously worked with global literature in their classrooms.

Names of participants in the group

Provide the names, positions, and emails of the group participants and indicate the age levels and student populations in the classrooms of group members. If possible, provide a brief description of the demographics of the school communities.

Proposed Goals and Activities

Indicate what the group proposes to do, why and how as well as when and where the group will meet. The goals and activities should address both study group meetings and activities within classrooms.

Many school communities are deeply involved in the implementation of the Common Core Standards and so these standards will influence your work. Indicate which of your goals connect to or address the standards in some way.

Time Line of the Group

Provide a time line for the group’s activities and meetings, including the vignettes for WOW Stories.

Proposed Budget

Provide a proposal for budget expenditures (global literature, supplies for classroom work or study group meetings, technology support, summer stipends for vignettes).

Send your proposals to shortk@email.arizona.edu and scorapi@email.arizona.edu

Download the MS Word grant application.