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AEA Advocate x Summer 2014 37 RESOURCES Free & Inexpensive kids VoTing: emPowering YouTh To Become AcTiVe ciTizens – free TrAining for elemenTArY/middle/ high school TeAchers It's never too late or too early to instill a passion for voting with your students. GET THEM INVOLVED!!! Prepare your students to be knowledgeable, active citizens and guide them through the voting process. Register today for this FREE training from the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education. You will receive lesson plans and materials that will enable students to have a real life voting experience that mirrors the adult process. Experienced Kids Voting teachers will demonstrate how to successfully implement lesson plans that not only encourage youth to vote but also align to the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards. This training is on April 29, 2014, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and will provide participants with: • Materials and Lesson plans • Breakfast & Lunch • Professional Development Hours • Expertise from experienced Kids Voting Teachers For full descriptions of any academy, please refer to our website. For more information or to register, please visit our website at www.azflse. org/academy and click on the event. Questions? Contact Jennifer.Castro@azflse.org. These resources are not endorsed by the Arizona Education Association and may reflect the biases of the provider. teachers and students affected, distribution of costs, urban-rural isolation, and multiethnic student body. Only schools with a current (on or before April 25, 2014) NCTM PreK–8 school membership are eligible to apply for this grant. No school may receive more than one award administered by the Mathematics Education Trust in the same academic year. Past recipients of this grant are not eligible to reapply. Activities are to be completed between September 1, 2014, and August 31, 2015. Apply online at www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=206. dollAr generAl YouTh liTerAcY grAnTs These youth literacy grants of up to $4,000 provide funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading. Grant funding is provided to assist in the following areas: • Implementing new or expanding existing literacy programs • Purchasing new technology or equipment to support literacy initiatives • Purchasing books, materials or software for literacy programs Your organization provides literacy programs that target K-12th grade students who are: • below grade level readers; • readers with learning disabilities; • English Language Learners; or • students with Individualized Education Plans (IEP) Apply online at www2.dollargeneral.com/ dgliteracy/Pages/grant_programs.aspx#flg by May 22, 2014. ing rfsB school AwArds ProgrAm ING, in partnership with the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), seeks to increase physical activity in students and help fight childhood obesity nationwide through the creation of school-based running programs. Research shows that physical activity improves self-esteem, school performance and overall well-being. Apply online at www.aahperd.org/ naspe/grants/grants/ING/index.cfm by May 15, 2014. 2014 elmer's TeAcher Tool kiT APPlicATion These grants of $100 – 500 are to provide teachers with the means to replicate projects found in the Elmer's Teacher Tool Kit catalog in their own classrooms. These projects, previously funded by the Kids In Need Foundation, make creative use of common teaching aids, approach curriculum from an imaginative angle, or tie nontraditional concepts together for the purpose of illustrating commonalities. Apply online at kinf.org/elmers/2014_application.php by April 30, 2014. Summer.14advo.indd 37 3/14/14 2:58 PM