Grant Funding to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking skills
GrantID: 75514
Grant Funding Amount Low: Open
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant Amount High: Open
Summary
If you represent a public or charter middle school, high school, or you are a teacher in such a school and care about improving how students learn to think, this grant opportunity offers a way to bring structured critical-thinking instruction into the classroom. The program is available to eligible schools (or individual teachers) in certain regions — specifically targeting public or charter schools of sufficient size.
There are two application paths. One allows a school (district) to apply to designate a part-time “thinking coordinator” — a staff member who helps integrate lessons, coordinate training, curate curriculum, and oversee implementation across classes. The other path is open to individual teachers who want to embed regular critical-thinking lessons into their own teaching schedule.
The funds support staffing time (for the coordinator role), teacher effort, and curriculum implementation. In practical terms: a school grant can cover part of a coordinator’s time (roughly 20% of staff capacity), giving the school freedom to apply those resources as needed — whether curriculum planning, teaching, or administrative coordination. For teacher-level grants, funds allow a teacher to develop and deliver weekly critical-thinking lessons over the academic year.
The objective is to give students repeated, consistent exposure to component skills of critical thinking — such as evaluating evidence vs. opinion, assessing credibility, analyzing arguments, understanding logical fallacies, distinguishing correlation from causation, and more. The goal is that, over time, these skills help students become sharper, more analytical thinkers who can navigate complex information, reason well, and avoid being misled by faulty logic.
Because the grant involves a selection process with limited slots, it should be seen as a selective, competitive funding opportunity rather than an open entitlement. Awarded grants support either a school-wide coordinator or individual teacher-led initiative for the upcoming academic year. This opportunity is ideal for public or charter schools wanting to embed long-term critical thinking education into their curriculum, or for motivated teachers looking to pilot thinking-skills instruction in their classrooms.
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