Grants & Awards: Tailor Made Development Grant

WAESOL recognizes not everyone can make it to the annual conference. Therefore, we would like to bring the conference to you by offering a Tailor Made Professional Development Grant, which is modeled after a similar grant offered by TESOL.

The TMPD Grant for $150 is designed to meet specific professional development needs within Washington State in places where the need cannot be met locally due to lack of expertise or financial reasons. For example, a school or organization can request funds for an outside speaker to travel to their school. A school could also request funds to implement an inservice workshop on a topic relevant to a local group of teachers.

To apply for a TMPD Grant, answer the following in one to two pages:

1. Explain the specific need for professional development.

2. How would this need be addressed? Be as specific as you can about the type of program (e.g., workshop, speaker, action research project).

3. Where would the program be held?

4. When would the program be held?

5. Describe the participants and how many you expect to attend.

Applications for the TMPD Grant will be taken on a year-round basis and evaluated as they arrive. There is no formal deadline. E-mail Elena Smith at essmith@wsu.edu to apply. The application can be e-mailed in the body of the message. Please do NOT send an attachment.

Alternatively, you may send snail mail to:

Elena Smith

WAESOL Grants Committee

IALC/IP at WSU

McAllister Hall 116, 643251

Pullman, WA 99164-3251

FAX: 509-335-1141

Phone: 509-335-7557