About Teacher Grants
The B.C.C.U. #2 Academic Foundation seeks to enhance ALL students’ educational experience within the B.C.C.U. #2 School District through annual funding of Teacher Grants. This means every student and center --- Greenville, Pocahontas, and Sorento; KRP through 12th grade --- benefits from these grants.
Teacher Grants help teachers to obtain the classroom tools they need to further their students’ learning. As District funds become tighter, these grants become more of a necessity to continue with a high quality educational program.
All teacher requests for funds are approved by their principal prior to the Foundation’s Teacher Grant Committee’s review and selection of Grant recipients.
Grant requests range from baby dolls for KRP to dissecting pans for high school science classes; iPads for 2nd grade classrooms to an air compressor for ag/industrial art students. The requests can vary greatly, but each request has this single purpose: enhancing ALL students’ educational experience within the B.C.C.U. #2 School District!
The Foundation has awarded over $350,000 in Teacher Grants since its beginning in 1990. Although the Foundation attempts to award as many grants as possible each year, often it is not financially possible, leaving classroom needs unfulfilled. To help bridge this gap, we encourage Academic Foundation members to consider donating to a specific grant request. A listing of grant requests is sent annually to all Foundation members. This is a great way to know the direct impact you are having within our schools!
Grants Awarded
The Bond County Unit 2 Academic Foundation awarded 13 teacher grants, totaling over $10,800, in October 2021, during a Board of Education meeting. Giving the grant program an additional boost was the ability of the Unit 2 School District’s Title 1 funding to fund 8 additional projects. The Academic Foundation may fund additional grants later in the current school year. Individual grants awarded will be used to fund classroom projects ranging from robots, a bandsaw, hydrogen cars, and Scholar Bowl buzzer, to books, a grow light, and STEM kits.
The Bond County Unit 2 Academic Foundation awarded various teacher grants, totaling over $7,500, in October 2022, during a Board of Education meeting. The Academic Foundation may fund additional grants later in the current school year. Individual grants awarded will be used to fund classroom projects ranging from a laser printer, fossil sorting kit, drones, STEM kits, Grizzly 3 horse power shaper for wood working, wireless document camera, Google TV, and digital camcorders.
The Bond County Unit 2 Academic Foundation awarded 20 teacher grants, totaling over $19,000, on Friday, November 8, 2019, during a district staff assembly. Giving the grant program an additional boost was the ability of the Unit 2 School District to fund 6 projects, totaling nearly $1,900, for a combined 26 classroom projects, exceeding $21,000. The Academic Foundation may fund additional grants later in the current school year. Individual grants awarded ranged from $50 to over $9,000 and will be used to fund classroom projects ranging from writing boards, specialized chair sets, and virtual reality kits to books, literacy kits, and math and STEM resources. Grants were awarded to teachers in all Unit 2 schools in Greenville, Pocahontas, and Sorento. Learn more about the individual grants awarded this year.
In 2018, the Bond County Unit 2 Academic Foundation awarded 28 teacher grants, totaling over $19,000, to fund classroom projects. Individual grants awarded ranged from $75 to $3,300 and will be used to fund classroom projects ranging from maps and books to computer equipment and a machine that reconstitutes clay for use by art students. In the spring, the Academic Foundation committed $10,000 to be used for a STEM lab at Bond County Unit 2 High School. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. $6,000 of the grant money distributed recently will go toward that project. Another new grant distributed in 2018 is the first Lester Harnetiaux Memorial Grant. The project selected to receive the inaugural grant is a Little Free Library Box, organized by a first grade class at Greenville Elementary School. The box will be displayed in the community and individuals will be welcome to borrow and leave books. Grants were awarded to teachers in all Unit 2 schools in Greenville, Pocahontas, and Sorento.
The Bond County Unit 2 Academic Foundation awarded 26 teacher grants, totaling over $12,000, on Friday, November 10, 2017, during a district staff assembly. Giving the grant program an additional boost was the ability of the Unit 2 School District to fund 14 projects, totaling nearly $10,000, for a combined 40 classroom projects, exceeding $22,000. The Academic Foundation may fund additional grants later in the current school year. Individual grants awarded ranged from $52 to over $1,100 and will be used to fund classroom projects ranging from world history activity sets, books, and art supplies to fitness sets, CSI kits, and infant care baby simulators. 2017 photo courtesy WGEL 101.7FM Daily News.
In 2016, the Bond County Unit 2 Academic Foundation awarded 51 teacher grants, totaling nearly $20,000. Individual grant amounts ranged from $26 to $1,660 and will be used to fund classroom projects from books, games, and tape measures to solar eclipse glasses, computer equipment, and buzzers for the Greenville Junior High Scholar Bowl team. Grants were awarded to teachers in all Unit 2 schools in Greenville, Pocahontas, and Sorento. 2016 photo courtesy WGEL 101.7FM Daily News.
In 2015, the Academic Foundation awarded 24 grants to Unit #2 teachers, totaling over $12,000. Amounts ranged from $119 to $1,144. The funds will be used by teachers in Greenville, Pocahontas, and Sorento to purchase items such as books, iPads, audio equipment, flash cards, projectors, printers, and rocket kits. 2015 photo courtesy The Greenville Advocate.
In 2014, the Academic Foundation awarded nearly $8,000 in grants to teachers in the district. Grants ranged from $94 to $1,000 and funded classroom projects including new books, literacy kits for parents, materials for science fairs, puzzles and blocks, an electric keyboard, an air compressor, and an Egyptian mummy excavation kit, among several others. 2014 photo courtesy WGEL 101.7FM Daily News.