Albemarle High School science teacher and NC STEP program participant Debra Page recently received a $1,650 grant for her project, “A New Kind of Growth in the Classroom.”
The Bright Ideas grant, via Union Power/Pee Dee Electric Cooperative will be used to begin growing vegetables in tower gardens.
Page is a participant in NC STEP, the NC New Schools/Breakthrough Learning alternative licensure program for lateral entry teachers, mid-career professionals and recent college graduates interested in becoming secondary science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) teachers.
Administered by NC New Schools/Breakthrough Learning and approved by the State Board of Education, this cost-free, non-traditional teacher prep program is supported by a federal Transition to Teaching grant.
Bright Ideas grants provide funding for innovative, classroom-based projects that would otherwise not be possible. Since 1994, Bright Ideas grants have touched the lives of more than 1.8 million students who have participated in 9,200 Bright Ideas projects, and given out more than $9.6 million. Each year, close to 600 grants are funded across the state.
