Languages Matter
Monthly Grants & Scholarships
April Classroom Culture Awareness Grant
Bringing speakers or resources into the classroom
Intended to help your learners use their language skills to improve both language and cultural awareness, develop relationships, and promote equity within your school or community. Get support for connecting to organizations, authors, artists, and events related to your language of study by inviting guest speakers to your school or community. Applications should be submitted by a teacher, though we encourage you to include in the project narrative how your learners contributed to the idea.
Open 4/1/2024 - 4/30/2024
Digital Innovation Winners!
February Recipients
Caitlin Hein and Saria Maldonado of Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico will use Kahoot Premium to create engaging and interactive classrooms. Caitlyn and Saria will use Kahoot’s quizzes and challenges to motivate students to actively engage in class activities to foster a positive learning environment and promote academic success. Wayside wishes them hours and hours of Kahoot fun!
Sherry Dickerson of Corvallis School District in Oregon will use her grant to purchase a 360 camera. She and her students will use the camera two ways. One to create virtual field trips for her students of her travels to various Spanish speaking countries. With the 360 camera students will be able to interact and move around within the images which will give students the sense that they are exploring the country. She will also use the camera with her students as they create videos to send to their pen pals in Spain. Wayside is excited to support Sherry as she develops interculturality in her students.