Edmnfoundation.org Website Review

the education minnesota foundation for excellence in teaching and learning offers grants to active, dues-paying education minnesota. members, which includes clas*room teachers, post-secondary faculty, and education support professionals. the foundation offers grants for. members to team up with a nonprofit organization that shares our goals to create systemic change. we also offer scholarships for licensed. teachers obtaining national board certification. the collaboration lab supports staff and administration in working together toward common. check out this education minnesota foundation-funded grant project! throughout the 2017-18 school year, students in the rochester public schools district who attend the rochester alternative learning center, a full-service community school, took part in an experiential learning experience that was funded by the education minnesota foundation. the project was built on a teacher-led program within the district called the green thumb initiative, which aims to educate students about healthy eating. part of the program’s tactics include hands-on experiences that parallel concepts learned in the clas*room. a result of the green thumb initiative has been an urban fa*m two-years in the making which is cultivated and managed by students in what was once a the unique learning opportunity made possible by the education minnesota foundation grant consisted of having students work with a musician to compose an original rap song about healthy food, record their song in a professional studio, and write a screenplay to produce a music video. students then acted out the screenplay and had their performance recorded, which resulted in the incredible music video