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Fund for Teachers - The PodcastMaking the Path by WalkingThe Way of St. James, perhaps more commonly known as the Camino de Santiago, has been since the 9th century an ambulatory avenue for reflection. The ancient path that stretches from the French Pyrenees to Spain’s Santiago de Compestela, was first traversed by Roman tradesmen, then Christians seeking “indulgences” from the Medieval Church. Today, various paths associated with the Camino are walked by more than 200,000 people a year as a form of spiritual, emotional and/or physical exercise.The Camino de Santiago has been a topic in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” James Michen...2025-07-2829 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastThe Magna Carta and Fund for TeachersWinston Churchill said, “We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeus Corpus, Trial by Jury and the English Common Law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.”Agreed to by King John on June 15, 1215, the Magna Carta attests that the king is subject to the rule of law and documents the liberties held by “free men.” Eight hundred and ten years later – to the day – Fund for Teachers Fellow John Fehr was in the U...2025-06-2023 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastTackling Hard History with Eighth GradersWe’re publishing this podcast on the final day of Black History Month. The 2025 theme was "African Americans and Labor," focusing on the significant role Black people have played in the workforce – of their own accord or at the mercy and for the benefit of others. The economic aspect of Black history also inspired a Fund for Teachers experience of today’s guest and now informs the perspectives and research projects of Chicago seventh graders. Today we’re learning from Fund for Teachers Fellow Sandra Burgess. After conducting training sessions in Corporate America, then teaching at the collegia...2025-02-2827 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastMaking a Difference For & With TeachersInternationally renowned environmentalist Jane Goodall said, "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."In 2015, Barbara Dalio decided she wanted to make a difference for teachers. Connecticut teachers, specifically. Based on the formative role teachers played in the lives of her three sons, Barbara chose to invest in her home state’s educators as a means of also impacting its students. The vehicle she chose to make this happen was Fund for Teachers.Six years later, more than 1,125 preK-12 teachers have leveraged $4.7 mil...2024-10-3136 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastLive from Two Fellowships: It's Season 5Welcome to our fifth season of Fund for Teachers: The Podcast. We launched this platform (after buying and annotating the book “Podcasts for Dummies”) when Covid shut down schools (and everything else) because we wanted to stay in touch with our grant recipients and support the stalwart work they were undertaking as our students first responders. Forty-seven episodes later, we continue to welcome Fellows as our special guests to learn about their fellowships and how they are leveraging these grants into growth for themselves, their students and school communities.Today’s episode kicks of our...2024-10-1634 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastFollowing a Daughter's Example/FellowshipTeaching is a family business for this mother and daughter. When Daneé Pinckney was a student, her mom, Gail Bowers-Craig, enrolled in night school to earn a degree in education. In fact, Daneé says much of what she learned about teaching was from watching and listening to her mother in those years of study. It was Daneé, however, who blazed the Fund for Teachers trail. Last summer, Daneé used her $5,000 grant to research the ancestry of Black America through Benin, Ghana, and the Togolese Republic to produce an expansion of the depth of knowledge of Western Africa that...2024-05-0825 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastSpies Like UsVirigina Hall studied at Radcliffe College and Barnard College (the women’s colleges of Harvard and Columbia) and spoke three languages. She served as a consular clerk in Poland and Turkey, where a hunting accident required an amputation below the knee.Noor Inayat Kahn studied child psychology at the Sorbonne and music at the Paris Conservatory. The daughter of Sufi Muslims, she was described as quiet, shy, sensitive, and dreamy.Josephine Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress and the first Black woman to star in a ma...2024-03-0731 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastExperiencing WWII Death Camps to Empower StudentsA 2022 piece by National Public Radio cited Anne Frank as “the most famous young author of all time,” as her diary, translated into more than 65 languages, is one of the most widely read books in the world. One such reader was Nikia Garland. Now a 24-year veteran teacher at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, she was once a sixth grader at nearby Farrington Elementary Shool where she picked up the autobiography – never thinking that Anne wouldn’t survive. That surprising conclusion would inform Nikia’s future – rooted in education and social justice.Today we’re learning from Nikia Gar...2024-01-2625 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastCompleting Your 2024 Grant Application with Clarity and ConfidenceSpotify annually sends out its wrap up of your listening habits for the year and Fund for Teachers received a similar one for our podcast. The most downloaded podcast of our year was with today's guest. Stephanie Ascherl is our chief of staff and has been a program officer, as well. Because that episode was SO popular, we're bringing Stephanie back for another edition of "Tips you need to know when completing your grant application." We wanted to produce this podcast at this time as teachers are winding up their chaotic end-of-semester programs and concerts...2023-12-2029 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastLessons from Frogger & a Fellowship in VietnamLhisa Almashy has amassed many accomplishments in her 28-year career teaching English as a Second Language (or ESOL): a master’s degree in education from the University of San Francisco; a doctorate in Leadership and Learning In Organizations from Vanderbilt; award member from and board member of Learning for Justice, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education for the State of Florida and Hispanic Teacher of the Year Award for Palm Beach County among them. But an accomplishment one won’t find on Lhisa’s LinkedIn is the fact that she’s the reason...2023-11-3032 min

Savor An Vivid Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.The News Quiz 2010: Series 70, 71 and 72 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show by TbdPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650772to listen full audiobooks. Title: The News Quiz 2010: Series 70, 71 and 72 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show Series: Part of The News Quiz Author: Tbd Narrator: Fred Macaulay, Bridget Christie, Sandi Toksvig, Gyles Brandreth, Micky Flanagan, Milton Jones, Armando Iannucci, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Sandi Toksvig hosts these three sensational series of 'the finest topical panel game known to radio' For over 40 years, The News Quiz has been scrutinising the headlines to give us its unique, sardonic take on the stories t...2023-08-1011h 38

Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Comedy, Satire & ParodyThe News Quiz 2010: Series 70, 71 and 72 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show by TbdPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650772to listen full audiobooks. Title: The News Quiz 2010: Series 70, 71 and 72 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show Series: Part of The News Quiz Author: Tbd Narrator: Fred Macaulay, Bridget Christie, Sandi Toksvig, Gyles Brandreth, Micky Flanagan, Milton Jones, Armando Iannucci, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Sandi Toksvig hosts these three sensational series of 'the finest topical panel game known to radio' For over 40 years, The News Quiz has been scrutinising the headlines to give us its unique, sardonic take on the stories t...2023-08-1011h 38

Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Comedy, Satire & ParodyThe News Quiz 2009: Series 67, 68 and 69 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show by TbdPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650771to listen full audiobooks. Title: The News Quiz 2009: Series 67, 68 and 69 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show Series: Part of The News Quiz Author: Tbd Narrator: Rory Bremner, Carrie Quinlan, Sue Perkins, Sandi Toksvig, Mark Steel, David Mitchell, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Three series of the satirical radio panel show chaired by Sandi Toksvig Ever since 1977, The News Quiz has been finding the hilarity in the headlines and providing witty commentary on stories big and small. In t...2023-08-1011h 37

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastExploring EthiopiaWhen preparing to interview Fellows for this podcast, I’ll do a little research to provide listeners with some context. Usually, that Google search yields LinkedIn accounts, local media coverage, and sometimes statistics from high school glory days. With today’s guest, I ended up on IMDB -- an online database of information related to films, television series, and streaming content online.My curiosity was piqued.Today we’re learning from Gabe Staino – who has taught for 12 years, both internationally and in the States. But before that, he was childhood friends with Chris Raab, a...2023-08-0826 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastTwo FFT Fellows Walk Into Iceland...Iceland is known as the Land of Fire and Ice, the most peaceful country in the world 15 years running, and – unfortunately for Big Mac fans – has zero McDonald’s. And, this year, it’s the fellowship destination for seven Fund for Teachers Fellows. Ranging in topic from sustainability and geothermal energy to yoga and elves, grant recipients from Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, and Virginia will learn within the Arctic Circle this summer. Before Fellows begin embarking on their experiential learning, we connect them with other grant recipients who plan to be in the same region or conferenc...2023-07-0738 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastPreparing Special Education Students for the WorkforceAccording to a report published by Special Olympics and titled “National Snapshot of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in the Labor Force,” only 44% of adults with ID aged 21-64 are in the labor force. This is compared to 83% of working-age adults without disabilities who are in the labor force. Furthermore, only 34% of adults with intellectual disabilities aged 21-64 are employed, and an approximately equal number work in a sheltered setting. Those are the statistics for the United States, anyway. The Japan Times reported that Japanese companies are required by law to hire people with disabilities. Fines are imposed if compa...2023-06-0225 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastLearning Independently & Collaboratively with an Innovation Circle GrantWhile Fund for Teachers has invested $30 million in teacher grants for summer fellowships since 2001, this marks only the second year that we’ve awarded Innovation Circle Grants. To extend the value of our traditional summer fellowships, we created this space for FFT Fellows to connect and collaborate around key priorities in education. Fellows propose innovative inquiries into a predetermined set of topics and, through a selective process, receive up to $1,500 to individually pursue summer learning experiences and then convene virtually with other Fellows to reflect and implement their learning in the classroom. Today’s podcast is specifically about...2023-03-1624 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastTeaching Black HistoryWe’re winding down the month of February -- designated as Black History Month, first celebrated as Negro History Week in 1926 and expanded to a month in 1986 by the United States Congress. According to the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, the designation began in 1915 when University of Chicago alumnae Carter G. Woodson traveled from Washington, D.C. to Chicago to participate in a national celebration of the 50th anniversary of emancipation. And according to FFT Fellow Pratia Jordan, students need to remember that Black history didn’t start or end...2023-02-2428 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastReframing the Long Civil Rights MovementSince 1983, the third Monday of January is recognized as a federal holiday to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. In the state of Alabama, that same day is also recognized as Robert E. Lee Day. Grappling with this simultaneous celebration, and the state’s complex civil rights history, is Blake Busbin – director of social studies education for the Alabama State Department of Education. Blake grew up in Atlanta and, as a child, would visit the plantation owned and operated by his ancestors during the Civil War. He earned his undergraduate, master’s, Ph.D. AND a ce...2023-02-1629 min

Explore New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Comedy, Satire & ParodyThe Now Show: Series 44 – 46: The BBC Radio 4 topical comedy by Hugh Dennis, Steve PuntPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622276to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Now Show: Series 44 – 46: The BBC Radio 4 topical comedy Series: Part of The Now Show Author: Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt Narrator: Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Three series of the Sony Award-winning BBC Radio comedy show A fast-paced mix of stand-up, songs and sketches, The Now Show takes an off-the-wall look at world events, blending satire and silliness to poke fun at politics and lampoon the news. In these 18 episodes from 2014 and 2015, Steve Punt co-presents wit...2023-01-268h 19

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastSuccessfully Submitting a Promising 2023 Grant ProposalHey, you over there…yeah you…the teacher sitting in front of the computer staring at your 2023 Fund for Teachers grant application – the one you’ve labored over for months – the one containing the aspirations you have for yourself, your students, your school and your community. I’ve got some valuable insider information that can help you more confidently push “SUBMIT” by January 19th. You’re going to want to hear this.Fund for Teachers’ Chief of Staff Stephanie Ascherl wants to share some insight gleaned from her 18 years with the organization – observations, suggestions, and advice that can strengt...2023-01-1127 min

Fund for Teachers - The PodcastWeaving Together a Community & an FFT FellowshipHere at Fund for Teachers, we’ve spent the summer following our 2022 Fellows, as well as those from 2020 and 2021 whose fellowships were deferred, as they pursued learning around the country and five continents. It’s now September and most of our grant recipients are back in the classroom, so we’re bringing back Fund for Teachers – The Podcast for our fourth season. We are already in contact with Fellows who experienced lifechanging fellowships this summer – they are eager to share their learning on future episodes. However, since they are in the midst of processing their learning and welcoming...2022-09-0127 min