It’s a pleasure to be able to contribute to
Shannon Holden’s creative and innovative website. I was impressed from the first time I saw the
site. I contacted Shannon. We spoke on
the phone and he has graciously agreed to host my grant writing and classroom
management content. I have published in
the areas of classroom management and technology integration for twenty years.
I teach both classroom management and grant writing at Miami University. We are going to start with the grant writing.
I will be introducing you to a creative and efficient method for writing
successful grant applications that I call GrantSuccess. I wrote many successful grant applications in
the 1990’s. Then, I decided that the
system I was using could be shared with others.
I started presenting at Ohio educational technology conferences and the
rooms filled up. The bigger the rooms,
the bigger the crowds.
The need I was meeting was a simple one. Rarely does an undergraduate or graduate
student take a class or workshop on grant writing. Classroom teachers wanted to know how to get
grant funding to buy the technology displayed by vendors. The vendors wanted the classroom teachers to
have funding to buy their products.
State and foundation grant opportunities regularly presented themselves,
but it seemed like the rich got richer.
Bigger districts, with the money to hire consultants, were getting the
grant awards. Smaller districts were
left wanting and frustrated.
So, thanks to Shannon Holden, www.newteacherhelp.com
is going to host the columns that will explain GrantSuccess. The columns will be sequenced so you and your
colleagues can follow them and develop your skills. I will post examples and
informative PowerPoints. You will have
access to my e-mail address to ask questions. And, I will answer your questions
in my columns. The first column is
called RFP Hell. Anyone who has ever
tried to read a state or federal Request for Funding Proposal (RFP) knows what
I am talking about.
Dr. Douglas Brooks is a full professor in the Department of Teacher Education in the School of Education, Health and Society at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His e-mail address is brooksdm@muohio.edu
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