WV Humanities Teachers Institutes Grant

WV Humanities Teachers Institutes Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: West Virginia Humanities Council
Amount: Up to US $20,000
Last Updated: July 18, 2025

Summary

The WV Humanities Teachers Institutes Grant, offered by the West Virginia Humanities Council, supports the development of summer seminars in humanities for K-12 teachers. Aimed at enhancing professional development, the grant requires programs to provide graduate-level hours and accommodate at least 20 participants. Recent institutes have explored diverse topics, including writing and global music cultures, fostering a rich educational experience that connects teachers with humanities disciplines essential for understanding contemporary society.

Overview

West Virginia Humanities Council The West Virginia Humanities Council offers a variety of matching grants to nonprofit organizations that provide public humanities programming for West Virginia audiences. What are the Humanities? The humanities represent a group of academic disciplines that have traditionally been concerned with values, ideas and choices. The humanities provide a framework for analyzing the human condition – for making sense of our roles in contemporary society. The term humanities includes the following: Language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, theory and criticism of the arts; those aspects of social sciences that have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to our diverse heritage, traditions and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current condition of national life. Teacher Institute Purpose Teacher Institute grants are available to colleges, universities and the West Virginia Department of Education to develop summer seminars on humanities topics for secondary and elementary teachers for secondary and elementary teachers. Applicants should allow twelve weeks between the deadline and the start of the project. Recently funded teacher institutes focused on writing and an exploration of music and cultures from around the world. Other teacher institutes have taken teachers to Japan, India, and England.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The seminar must offer at least three graduate-level staff development or professional development hours that are eligible to be used toward renewal of a teaching certificate and advance salary classification. The tuition or fees for degree-credit or continuing education hours offered must be waived or offered at a reduced rate from the standard fees.Seminars must register a minimum of 20 teacher participants.  The West Virginia Humanities Council reserves the right to cancel an Institute that fails to meet this requirement.