Don Quixote Award - Incite at Columbia University

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Don Quixote Award

When teachers are inspired, students benefit. Created by the Academy for Teachers and supported by Incite Institute, Don Quixote Fellowships support idealistic, romantic, creative, impractical, adventurous projects born of teachers’ passions.

Projects can, but need not, be related to classroom practice: a science teacher might study Inuit poetry in Alaska or a pre-K teacher might carve a fifteen-foot marble sculpture. We are looking for applicants who use ingenuity in planning an original experience.

Applications with budgets between $1,000 and $5,000 will be considered.

The Don Quixote Fellowship is open to Fellows of The Academy for Teachers who have completed at least five years of teaching in a pre-K–12 classroom setting and who intend to remain in education for the foreseeable future.

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