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SUNSHINE STATE TESOL OF FLORIDA

SSTESOL Annual Awards for Florida Educators

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.

Applications open:  July 10, 2023

Deadline:  September 21, 2023

Notifications: October 10, 2023



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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

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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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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.

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