Adirondack Foreign Language Enhancement Fund Grant

The Adirondack Foreign Language Enhancement Fund Grant aims to inspire and elevate the status of French and Spanish teachers in K-12 schools within the Adirondack Park, New York. It provides competitive grants to enhance foreign language instruction through innovative projects, cultural immersion trips, and collaboration among educators. Priority is given to initiatives that exceed school budgets and focus on advancing teaching technologies and career development for language teachers.

Innovation, elevation and excellence name the aims of the Adirondack Foreign Language Enhancement Fund. Created to inspire French and Spanish teachers within Adirondack Elementary, Middle and High Schools (K-12) to reach for the stars, the Fund will also elevate the status of language teachers in the teaching community.
The Adirondack Foreign Language Enhancement Fund will make grants to schools within or serving students living within, the Adirondack Park in New York State (Elementary, Middle and High Schools only) for initiatives that enrich and increase capacity for foreign language instruction.

Eligibility

All Adirondack Elementary, Middle School and High School foreign language teachers are eligible to apply for competitive Innovation grants.Applications for language/cultural immersion field trips for both students and teachers will be considered if students and teachers take responsibility for much of the fundraising.Grant applications will be accepted from schools located in or serving people of the Adirondack region, defined for this purpose by Adirondack Foundation as all of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton counties as well as the parts of Herkimer, St. Lawrence, Warren, and Washington counties within the Adirondack Park boundary. School districts within or serving a majority of students from any town in the aforementioned counties are eligible to apply.

Ineligibility

The fund will not support College level instructors of foreign language.