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OFE News Release

Fund for Teachers to Host Grant Information Session Jan. 9

January 4, 2006
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Fund for Teachers and the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence will hold an information session from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. next Monday, Jan. 9, to provide information about the newly expanded Fund for Teachers-Oklahoma program and its summer 2006 professional development grants.

The session will be held in the auditorium of Central Middle School, 4020 N. Grove, in Oklahoma City. The school is accessible from N.W. 40th Street between Ann Arbor Avenue and Macarthur Boulevard.

The information session and Fund for Teachers grants are open to all pre-K through 12th-grade public and private school teachers who have three years teaching experience, are full-time employees and spend at least 50 percent of their time in a classroom setting. In addition, applicants must have the intention of returning to their school and/or district following their summer professional development. Applications are available online at www.fundforteachers.org and must be postmarked by Jan. 20.

Tonya McKinny, program officer from the Fund for Teachers’ national headquarters in Houston, will be the featured speaker at the session. She will introduce the Fund for Teachers program and walk participants through the application process.

Fund for Teachers is a unique public foundation whose mission is to enrich the lives of schoolteachers and students by providing outstanding teachers with recognition and opportunities for renewal. In partnership with its administrative partners, the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence and Tulsa Community Foundation, the Fund for Teachers provides grants to teachers to support summer professional development opportunities of their own design. For local program information, contact Dayna Rowe at (405) 236-0006 or e-mail drowe@ofe.org.

Founded in 1985 by then-U.S. Sen. David L. Boren, the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence is a nonprofit organization dedicated to recognizing and encouraging academic excellence in Oklahoma’s public schools. Its programs include a televised academic awards program to recognize outstanding students and educators, a training and outreach service to public school foundations, a partnership with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to provide teacher training and electronic field trips to Oklahoma schools, a teacher scholarships program for professional development, and a new mentoring initiative to promote the establishment and growth of school-based mentoring programs throughout the state.

Tulsa Community Foundation is a public charity that was organized in 1998 by an esteemed group of business and civic leaders to receive, protect and distribute gifts from individuals and organizations.