{"id":477243,"date":"2025-12-29T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/477243\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:03:10","slug":"northwest-isd-education-foundation-awards-more-than-90k-in-teaching-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/477243\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest ISD Education Foundation awards more than $90K in teaching grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nef.nisdtx.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northwest ISD\u2019s Education Foundation<\/a>, or NEF, awarded grants to several teachers across the district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEF awarded 33 teaching grants totaling $90,918, according to a district <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nisdtx.org\/news-events\/newsroom\/details\/~board\/homepage-news\/post\/northwest-isd-education-foundation-awards-grants-to-educators-across-the-district-1765997606555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>. The funds for the grants will go toward a number of projects, including in literacy, STEM and special education, according to the district.<\/p>\n<p>Some projects to be funded include titles such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Algae Beads: Testing Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Life Skills Reading Center: Building Literacy Through Accessible and Engaging Resources&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;From Pencils to Published: 3rd grade authors in action&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If You Give a Student a Decodable&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Literacy for All&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Learning to Use an Air Fryer: A Hands-On Cooking Project&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t fund projects like this ourselves, so I figured it couldn\u2019t hurt to apply,\u201d special education teacher Jennifer O\u2019 Donnell, a grant recipient, said in the news release.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell will use the awarded grant to do a gardening project with students to develop fine motor skills, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEF has awarded more than $1.9 million in grants to teachers to date, according to the release. Grants in previous years have gone toward projects such as a <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth\/education\/2023\/12\/22\/northwest-isd-education-foundation-awards-more-than-68k-in-teaching-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar eclipse party<\/a> and learning about <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth\/education\/2024\/09\/05\/northwest-isd-education-foundation-increases-funding-for-teacher-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coding or storytelling<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northwest ISD\u2019s Education Foundation, or NEF, awarded grants to several teachers across the district. The details NEF awarded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":477244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,35965,216126,7287,216125,216129,14243,216127,216124,26365,216128,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-477243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-literacy","12":"tag-nef","13":"tag-nisd","14":"tag-nisd-projects","15":"tag-nisd-teaching-grants","16":"tag-northwest-isd","17":"tag-northwest-isd-education-foundation","18":"tag-sped","19":"tag-stem","20":"tag-teaching-grants","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-tx","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115802053263552615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}