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Lilly Endowment Teacher Fellowship Grants The Lilly Endowment does a lot of great things for education in and beyond Indiana. The PRISM Project and the Homework Hotline are two Lilly funded initiatives hosted at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. One of the lesser known programs sponsored by the Endowment is the long-running Teacher Creativity Project for Indiana teachers. For twenty years, Lilly has selected teachers by a competitive application process for teacher creativity and summer renewal grants. Last year more than 125 Indiana teachers, principals, guidance counselors, librarians and media specialists spent the summer traveling traveling the world, pursuing their personal interests, exploring subjects that intrigued them, and just “getting away” as recipients of 2007 Teacher Creativity Fellowships. (See: Lilly Endowment Offers Creativity Fellowships) This week Lilly Endowment announced its Teacher Creativity Fellowship Program for 2008. From the Endowment Fellowship page: For 2008, the Endowment will again offer up to 120 grants of $8,000 each to Indiana’s public and private school teachers (including guidance counselors and library/media specialists), principals and assistant principals for projects of the individual’s choice. The Endowment also will provide funding for up to 10 creative renewal projects proposed by teachers that will require additional financial support and time away from the classroom or school. At this level, each individual teacher will receive up to $25,000; a separate grant of up to $25,000 will be available to the teacher’s school district to cover the costs of a replacement teacher should the recipient need time away from the school to pursue the project. This is a great program for educators from Indiana. I've known a few recipients and know a lot more of us who applied unsuccessfully more than a few times. The competition for the grants is fierce, but there's nothing like writing a grant proposal for something you're passionate about to clear your head, focus your thoughts, and give you direction and purpose. The MATH DITTOS 2 series of fact controlled math worksheets came in part from the focus I gained in writing several grant apps to the Endowment. As it turned out, I went ahead and did the series on my own and am sorta glad it turned out that way. So, if you're an educator in Indiana, take a good look at this one. The deadline for completed applications is November 9, 2007, so you'll need to get started right away to prepare a good proposal. Something that I think is new this year is the Endowment's Tips for Writing a Successful Proposal (16K PDF document). It's brief, but it does give some solid guidance in writing a proposal for this program. Classroom Software
Each year the PRISM Project, where I now work, holds a two-day meeting with its Board of Advisors. The board is made up of stars in Indiana education who help guide development of the PRISM project with their input. One of the outgrowths of the meeting this year is the addition of a Classroom Software page of open source and freeware software to PRISM. While there are far more complete listings elsewhere on the web, this list reflects the use and preferences of the PRISM team that we feel may be helpful to the teachers and students we serve. I'm no stranger to software pages, as I've helped with several over the years. I still have a couple of pages on mathdittos2.com that really aren't linked on the site's menus, as they are sorely in need of updating, but are listed here as a possible starting point for folks trying to find some old Mac software:
Over the years I've also written numerous columns on various software, frequently focused on freeware for poverty stricken teachers. I'll list some of them here, from the newest on down to the older ones that are probably filled with broken links!
STS-118 Coming Home Early The Space Shuttle Endeavour is cutting its mission short to try to land before Hurricane Dean hits the Gulf Coast. Shuttle Endeavour undocks from station tells that the Shuttle is now scheduled to land on Tuesday, with plans for an emergency mission control at Cape Canaveral if the hurricane has already gotten close to Houston Mission Control. The early landing scrapped plans for several additional linkups from schools to the Shuttle and astronaut-teacher Barbara Morgan. Morgan had already completed one session with students gathered at the Discovery Center of Idaho in Boise, less than 100 miles from the elementary school where Morgan taught before becoming an astronaut, fulfilling the legacy of Christa McAuliffe with joy and also some sadness. "'I've thought about Christa and the Challenger crew just about every day since 20-plus years ago,' Morgan said in a series of interviews right before class got under way. 'I hope that they know that they are here with us in our hearts.'" Space Hotel Fly me to the moon: Space hotel sees 2012 opening appeared on CNN last week. High School Naming Conventions In the scifi thriller Deep Impact Pay the Bills It seems that just about every day now, there's another change in affiliate advertisers for Educators' News and mathdittos2.com. Advertisers come and go from the Commission Junction and LinkShare.com Ah yes, the reason for this blurb! Amazon now offers pop-up Product Reviews along with their links. I've not employed these until today. Since I mentioned Deep Impact above, I really should give equal time to Armageddon Send feedback to
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, one of the characters when facing certain death while in space remarked, "Well, at least we'll all get high schools named after us." From a lighthearted Christian Science Monitor story I'd missed, 
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