Category: Teachers
Tips for Teachers: How to Make a Video to Apply for Funding or Thank Your Sponsor
In recent years, we’ve asked teachers to create videos to apply for funding or thank sponsors. While we don’t often require videos, we do highly encourage teachers to create them. Videos are a great way to connect us and your supporters directly to you and your classroom. When we hear directly from you, we’re more […]
Holiday Fundraising Ideas for Teachers
AdoptAClassroom.org wants to make sure that teachers have the supplies they need to support their students year-round. No matter how well-stocked classrooms are in September, consumables like pencils, construction paper, and crayons are used so quickly that many classrooms need these supplies restocked by December. Luckily, this timing lines up with the season of giving. […]
Thank Your Corporate Sponsors. Tips and Examples for Teachers.
If you received a donation for your classroom from one of our generous corporate partners, congratulations! Now, it’s time to say thanks. Why is it important to say thank you? Corporate sponsors want to help. Our sponsors donate because they want to help teachers and students in their local communities, and across the nation. […]
Applications Now Open for the 2018 AdoptAClassroom.org Arts Fund
This grant opportunity has closed. Visit our Teacher Funding Opportunities page to learn more about current and upcoming educator funding opportunities from AdoptAClassroom.org. AdoptAClassroom.org is currently looking for teachers across the nation who want to bring the arts to their students—from drama to finger-painting to screen printing. From the generous support of individual donors and Fresh Produce, […]
Enter Our #SpookyClassroom Giveaway on Halloween
Did you decorate your classroom for Halloween? Show us a photo of your Halloween classroom decor on October 31st and you’ll enter to win $25 on AdoptAClassroom.org. How to Enter Teachers can enter our #SpookyClassroom giveaway by visiting AdoptAClassroom.org’s Facebook or Instagram page on October 31st and sharing a photo of your Halloween classroom decorations. To enter on Facebook, comment […]
Backpack Guessing Game: #GuessToWin Funds
Join us on Facebook and Instagram for our Backpack Guessing Game and you could win up to $100 on AdoptAClassroom.org. How to Enter Teachers can enter our Backpack Guessing Game by visiting AdoptAClassroom.org’s Facebook or Instagram page Oct. 14th through Oct. 16th and commenting on our #GuessToWin images (shown below), guessing the number of supplies […]
Alerus Mortgage Donates $10,000 to Help Greater Twin Cities Teachers
Imagine paying out of pocket for the supplies you need to do your job – everything from pens and paper clips, to bigger ticket items like your laptop and desk chair. Whew! Aren’t you glad you don’t have to do that? While this may be a scary alternate reality for many of us, for teachers, […]
Show Us Your #CoffeeMugshot to Win a Coffee Prize Pack
AdoptAClassroom.org is celebrating International Coffee Day with a coffee prize pack giveaway for teachers on our Facebook and Instagram! We’re awarding four teachers with coffee prize packs, donated by the Minneapolis, MN-based coffee roaster Peace Coffee. Each prize includes two bags of coffee and a mug. Show us your #CoffeeMugshot to Win a Prize How […]
New Vendor Alert: Learner’s Edge is Here to Help With Professional Development Courses!
AdoptAClassroom.org is excited to announce that they are partnering with Learner’s Edge to provide Professional Development courses for our teachers. Learners Edge provides more than 120 relevant, applicable, credit-bearing continuing education courses. Over 100,000 teachers from across the United States look to Learners Edge to fulfill their continuing education needs. All Learners Edge courses are […]