Ideas with IMPACT

Ideas with IMPACT Adapter Grant
Application Status:  Open to 2024 Idea Expo Attendees. Deadline November 12, 2024.

Adapter Grants provide funds to teachers wishing to adapt any of the projects featured in our Ideas with IMPACT catalogs or at the Idea EXPO - The Teacher Conference. Grants range from $150-$400. Easy application steps below:

Register for and attend the Idea EXPO (required, with exceptions made for teachers unable to attend due to religious observations and/or disabilities)

Select an idea from one of the Ideas with IMPACT catalogs, current or past.

Complete and submit an Adapter application. Be sure to include your creative modifications and detailed budget on how you will spend the grant funds. 
Link to Adapter Grant Application

Idea Expo Workshop Disseminator 
Application Status: CLOSED for 2024-25 School Year
Earn $750 to lead a workshop at the 2023 Idea Expo Teacher Conference. Disseminator Stipends offer teachers who have a proven, successful teaching strategy the opportunity to package and market their ideas to other teachers by leading workshops at the annual Idea EXPO Teacher Conference.

Link:  2024 Idea Expo Workshop Disseminator Application

Ideas with IMPACT Innovator Grant
Application Status: CLOSED for 2024-25 school year
Innovator Grants provide funds to teachers to develop and implement new, instructional projects that motivate and challenge students to learn. Submitted proposals should be innovative, unique classroom projects that enliven and enrich the curriculum. Many past grants have included interdisciplinary, active-learning, hands-on lessons. Others have reinforced learning through simulations or applied school work to real-life situations. Grants range from $300 - $1,000.

Link to Innovator Grant Application

The Idea EXPO Teacher Conference 
One of the largest "by-teacher, for-teacher" conferences in South Florida, the Idea EXPO brings more than 500 educators together once a year to network and share teaching strategies. The Idea EXPO features 60+ workshops led by teachers, a keynote address, free curriculum packets, breakfast, lunch, prize giveaways and much more. Click here to find out more now!  

Ideas with IMPACT Catalog   
An essential component to the Ideas with IMPACT program is the Ideas with IMPACT catalog, which is published and distributed annually to every teacher in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. This catalog is a resource of teachers' proven ideas, with each page containing a different teaching strategy, information on the students for whom it is appropriate, standards met when implementing the lessons, and contact information for each Disseminator teacher. The teaching ideas in the Ideas with IMPACT catalog, created by teachers for teachers, can be used exactly as they are or modified to meet a classroom's special needs. Subject areas covered include STEM/STEAM,  language arts, math/science, social studies, health, technology, varying exceptionalities, and interdisciplinary. Teachers are encouraged to use the catalog as an idea file and keep it handy for reference throughout the year. Ideas with IMPACT catalogs are available to view for every year since 1990. Download the Latest Catalog

Curriculum "Idea" Packets
An Idea Packet containing course outlines, lesson plans, resource lists, bibliographies, student worksheets, student samples, and other tools is available for every workshop offered at current and past Idea EXPOS. View Curriculum Packets Here

For more information, please call:
305.558.4544, ext.113
or email Ideas with IMPACT Program Director 

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