Teacher Mini-Grants: Designed to provide funding for projects which directly enrich students’ language and cultural learning experiences and improve English Learners' academic achievement and language development based on WIDA standards.
Conference Grants: Designed to provide financial support for teachers, paraprofessionals, parent liaisons, and/or graduate students currently involved in TESOL, TEFL, Bilingual Education, Applied Linguistics, or a related field.
Applications open: July 10, 2023
Deadline: September 21, 2023
Notifications: October 10, 2023
Read more SSTESOL Mini-Grant Awards Purpose: To provide financial support for teachers, paraprofessionals, or graduate students seeking funds for innovative language development learning projects.
Who’s Eligible: Any of the above pre-service or in-service professionals
who have not been awarded a SSTESOL mini-grant in the past two years.
who work in the state of Florida.
Award: $250
Guidelines & Criteria: You must be a member of Sunshine State TESOL. (If you are not a current member, sign up here.) Only complete applications submitted by deadline above will be considered.
Recipients must participate in at least four sessions in the virtual conference.
Recipients must provide a post-conference write-up of 200-300 words regarding their conference experience no later than two weeks post-conference. This document should include summaries of sessions attended, new ideas learned from the conference, and/or personal reflections of ways awardee applied these new ideas to practice in order to improve academic achievement and language development proficiency.
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Read more SSTESOL Conference Grants Purpose: To provide financial support for teachers, paraprofessionals, parent liaison and/or graduate students currently involved in TESOL, TEFL, Bilingual Education, Applied Linguistics or a related field.
Who’s Eligible: Any of the above pre-service or in-service professionals
who have not been awarded a SSTESOL conference grant in the past two years,
who study or work in the state of Florida, and
who will not be receiving support from their own institution to attend the Sunshine State TESOL Conference.
Award: Complimentary registration to SSTESOL conference.
Guidelines & Criteria:
You must be a member of Sunshine State TESOL. (If you are not a current member, you can get your membership here
Only complete applications submitted by deadline above will be considered. Complete applications consist of the application form and required essay that can be found below.
Recipients must participate in the sessions each day.
Recipients must provide a post-conference write-up of about 150 – 200 words regarding their conference experience and how concepts and ideas learned from the conference can enhance his/her practice and improve ELs’ academic achievement and language proficiency of majority of his/her students. This document must be provided no later than two weeks post-conference and should include summaries of sessions attended, new ideas learned from the conference, and/or personal reflections on the SSTESOL conference experience. Email to sstesol@gmail.com.
SUNSHINE STATE TESOL OF FLORIDA
