The Hemera Foundation provides full fellowships for educators to attend the foundation’s workshops focused on mindfulness. The concept of this training is to help educators to be centered and well balanced, and in turn guide their students with special needs to be focused, engaged learners.
One of the most important factors in ensuring student success is quality instruction by teachers. However, quality instruction can be a difficult goal if teachers do not have the resources to improve their skills and if rising levels of teacher stress go unchecked.
WaysToHelp.org offers grants of up to $500 to K–12 students with ideas for community service initiatives in the areas of the environment, democracy and equality, health, and community issues.
STEM Sports develops and provides turnkey curricula for students in grades 3–8 using a sport as the strategic vehicle to drive STEM-based learning in classrooms, afterschool programs, and camp settings. Through each STEM Sports curriculum (BMX, basketball, football, multisport, soccer, and volleyball), youth develop critical thinking, collaboration, and creative problem-solving skills that can be applied throughout their education and future careers.
Each month we publish blogs and several newsletters full of digital learning, funding, professional growth, social media, and STEM resources. Below are items from our blogs and newsletters that educators turned to the most in November.