Real life experiences.
That’s what the Public Education Foundation, or PEF, aims to provide teachers through its Fund for Teachers grants so they can better educate their students.
Last year, 18 Hamilton County educators were awarded grants of either $5,000 or $10,000 for educational trips around the globe so they could share the experiences they had and the things they learned with their students. And while they weren’t vacations, they truly were adventures, whether that meant exploring where fairy tales were birthed or bridging the gap with language acquisition strategies.
Scaling a glacier in Iceland, howling with red wolves in North Carolina and paddling through mangrove forests in Costa Rica were some of the more adventurous journeys various grantees got to experience so they could tell their tales in the classroom.
We thought their adventures were worth sharing outside of the classroom, too.