may '06 resources

Deadline Approaching for The NEA Foundation's June Grant Review

APPLICATIONS ARE owed BY JUNE 1, 2006, FOR the two INNOVATION AND LEARNING & LEADERSHIP GRANTS.

Recipients will be notified by dint of November 15, 2006. Grants capital activities for 12 months from the award date.

Innovation Grants and Learning & Leadership Grants are available for all controls including the arts, literacy, mathematics, science, and technology. Grant amounts are $5000 for Innovation Grants and either 52000 (individual) or 55000 (group) for Learning & Leadership Grants.

Through the years, The NEA Foundation has stocked over 1,500 grants nationwide to NEA members. Read about new projects at the Foundation's Web site, and submit your have a title to idea! Practicing K-12 public institute teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff are all encouraged to apply. Applying for a grant is easy-why wait?

Visit www.neafoundation.org today for more information, including guidelines and an application. Or call 202-822-7840

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER

The National Weather Association presents Sol Hirsch Education Fund grants of S500 each to teachers in grades K-12 to improve the education of their pupils in meteorology. Selected teachers may use the stocks to take an accredited course in atmospheric sciences, attend a relevant workshop or talk or purchase scientific materials or equipment for the classroom.

Applications are to be paid by August 1 each year and consist of a NWA overspread form and a two-page proposal. For more information and application materials, move to ww.www.nwas.org/solhirsch.html, call 434-296-9966, or propel an e-mail to NatWeaAsoc@aol.com.

MAKING MATH sport ACTUALLY

Believing that interaction with real-world mentors can boost scholar interest and achievement in math, the Actuarial Foundation awards its "Advancing pupil Achievement" (ASA) grants to academys and groups with underserved populations in grades 4-12 that are willing to unravel mentoring programs bringing together actuaries, educators, and scholars

The Foundation can provide a local network of actuaries who are ready to participate, as well as suggestions upon how to integrate math conceptions from the workplace into the classroom.

Applicants will be given wide latitude in designing programs that enhance learning and create a have affection for of math in each scholar

Preference is given to innovative programs that satisfy the unique opportunities and necessitys present in a local community and do not replicate existing grant programs. Funding is for sum of two units years with evaluations conducted yearly.

There is no deadline for application, on the contrary you should complete an application at least individual or two months prior to the anticipated start date. For more information, advance to www.actuarialfoundation.org/grant/.

Take Note

Indoor Air Quality Classroom Activity Helps Kids Learn About Their place of educations

The indoor or "built" environment is each bit as fascinating and composite as the outdoor environment, and since we expend 90 percent of our day indoors, the quality of the air is crucial to our health, well-being, and productivity.

The NEA Health Information Network is offering an illustrated guide upon indoor air quality (IAQ) in place of educations Designed to be used through K-12 students and teachers, the guide addition s the Environmental Protection Agency's MQ Tools for place of educations program.

Using this guide, pupils and teachers can explore their academys and recognize architectural and mechanical features, as well as maintenance operations that can contribute to useful or poor IAQ.

They will learn by what mode occupant behavior and people's typical activities can dramatically affect the quality of air inside buildings. With their OUTI art and photography, learners can create an "owners manual" for their indoor environment by dint of customizing the guide to include their seminary building's features and typical activities.

To download the guide, visit www.neahealthinfo.org/programs/enviromental/. For more information about EPA's MQ Tools for seminarys program, visit www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/toolkit.html.

The Heartbreak of Hair Los

Children, Adults, and Alopecia Areata

NEA member Denise Armstrong of Nevada knows what it's like to sustain stares and whispers. She meet withs from alopecia areata-an unpredictable autoimmune skin disease resulting in the los of hair upon the scalp and elsewhere upon the body.

In alopecia areata (al-oh-PEE-shah air-ee-AH-tah), the affected hair follicles are mistakenly attacked by the agency of a person's own immune a whole The condition usually starts with individual or more small, round bald patches upon the scalp and can progres to total scalp hair los (alopecia totalis) or thorough body hair loss (alopecia universalis). Alopecia can also be caused through fungal infections, trauma, or as a side result of some medical conditions (like hypothyroidism) or their treatments (such as chemotherapy for childhood cancers).

The disease affects approximately 17 percent of the overall population, including more than 5 million tribe in the United States. It be met withs in males and females of all ages, on the other hand onset usually happens during childhood, making life at gymnasium psychologically traumatic for those who undergo from it.