Grant Applications

Weston Education Foundation mobilizes financial and human resources to support programs, projects, and activities that increase the breadth and effectiveness of educational opportunities.

WEF support three types of grants:

• The Teacher Development and Creativity Grant benefits students and enables teachers to enhance and enrich the educational program. It is intended to encourage superlative instruction and creative, innovative curriculum development. The grant has a maximum of $1,500. Past grants have funded projects as diverse as supplies to create robots, interactive software for Spanish classes, and ethnic drums for an integrated world-drumming program.
• The Expert-in-Residence Grant enables a recognized, outside expert in a specific curriculum area to be hired as a consultant to the schools to provide a comprehensive program on curriculum development and teacher education. The grant has a maximum of $5,000. Experts as varied as a trainer from Project Adventure and a choral composer have worked with Weston students and teachers.
• The Enrichment and Technology Grant funds larger projects that may involve collaboration with institutions of higher learning or tangible items. These grants have no specific maximum and have included an $80,000 media technology lab, a partnership with Fairfield University in American Studies, and the schools’ first data video projector.

In addition to these grants, Weston Education Foundation established the David Triguax Innovaton Award which is given to a Weston teacher who has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Foundation an unusual level of originality and dedication to creative teaching—a teacher who has truly made a difference in our school community.