The Teacher's Guide to Winning Grants

by David G. Bauer

Smart teachers know that increased school budgets and taxes do notalways lead to better educational programs and services. Classroomsare often the last to receive any additional funding. As classroomleaders and innovators, teachers are increasingly seeking grants tohelp finance classroom improvements or school reform mandates. Theprocess of winning grants, however, is a time-consuming andcompetitive venture. The challenge is even greater when teachers donot have their own grantseeking processes in place. This step-by-step primer takes the guesswork out of grantseeking.It shows teachers how to select the right funding sources, organizeproposal ideas, write a convincing and well-prepared proposal, identify who will evaluate the proposal and the scoring system theywill use, and efficiently implement the proposal when the grantfunds are won. Based on time-proven techniques and usefulstrategies, The Teacher's Guide to Winning Grants reveals howteachers can obtain the inside information they need to increasetheir chances of grant success. With this knowledge, teachers candevelop effective grantseeking methods that will enable them tosecure funds and move their schools in the direction they want.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787944939
• ISBN13: 9780787944933
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

A fine, but not great book.

Overall, this is a fine book. Not great, but fine. I've used it in online grant writing course for teachers in part because it is the best teacher-specific book available (in my opinion, of course) and most of my students seem to want something teacher-specific. Given my choice, Mim Carlson's book "Winning Grants Step by Step" is a better book for someone interested in learning how to write a proposal. I do, though, really like Chapters Two and Three "Getting Ready to Seek Grants Support" and "Forming a Grants Advisory Group" and his chapter on federal applications is exemplary.