Teacher Scholarships and Classroom Mini-Grants
Awards worth $300 to $500 each!
Teacher Scholarships
- ASTA focuses on professionalism and options for teachers. You can choose best how to use this scholarship money to advance your own professional career.
- Teacher scholarships may be used to help cover a wide
variety of expenses:
tuition, books, classroom materials, conferences, workshops, registration fees, or travel expenses to professional development activities taking place over the next year. - A simple, straightforward application process: Each candidate submits a résumé and a short application explaining how these scholarship funds will help advance his or her own professional career. In keeping with ASTA's focus on “professionalism and children-first,” each applicant will also be asked to describe how this award will benefit the children in his or her classroom.
Classroom Mini-Grants
- ASTA wants to help you in your classroom…Classroom Mini-Grants can help pay for that class project that you’ve always wanted to try!
- ASTA Mini-Grants can be used to pay for a wide variety of
projects and materials:
supplies and materials, books, software, equipment, audio-visual, technology items, etc. You tell us what you need! - A simple and brief application process: Each teacher submits a short application describing the proposed class project, an itemized budget, and the academic benefit for students. Because of ASTA's commitment to professionalism and to “teachers helping teachers,” each grant winner is also asked to share this classroom experience with other teachers after the project is completed.
Call toll-free 1-877-742-ASTA today to request an application! You can also send an email request to asta@astapro.org.
Awards are competitive. Two application reviews are held each year. The deadline for the fall review is October 31st, and the spring deadline is March 30th. ASTA members are given first preference, but grants and scholarships are not exclusively limited to members only.