Deadline
November 3rd, 2017
Contact
katrinag@gravoc.com
Return Applications to:
Best Bet Committee
PO Box 233
Peabody, MA 01960
As the new school year kicks into high gear, the Peabody Education Foundation once again encourages Peabody’s teachers to apply for Best Bet grants, which fund resources, materials, and programs that the school budget cannot accommodate.
Click the button below to fill out and print the Best Bet 2017 application. The deadline for applications is November 3, 2017, and grant recipients will be announced in early December.
Any questions can be directed to Katrina Gravel: katrinag@gravoc.com
We are no longer accepting applications for this year’s Best Bet program.
Best Bet Application Guidelines
- One application per teacher, please.
- Applications must be filled out completely to be considered. Applications that are missing information, including signatures, will not be returned to you for additional information and will not be reviewed by the committee.
- Please provide complete financial information for your projects in your application, including the total cost of your project plus any estimated shipping and handling charges.
- It is very important to provide the vendor taxpayer identification number and address on your application. Please check with your principal if you need assistance.
- Please provide a detailed description of your program so that the committee can easily understand and evaluate your proposal.
- Applications are evaluated on a 5-point scale in three categories: innovation, educational objective, and financial impact.
- Be creative! The committee welcomes new and innovative ideas and proposals.
- If you have applied in the past and have been turned down, don’t give up!
- If you have never applied before, now is your chance! Best Bet grants vary in the amount of the award and the type of project funded. Speak with other teachers who have received Best Bet grants for tips and ideas.
Important information regarding the Best Bet grants:
- The Peabody Education Foundation does not fund equipment or transportation. Please do not include these costs in your application.
- Please note that the Best Bet program is intended to fund programs for the benefit of students, not teachers or parents. Unfortunately, we cannot cover the cost of field trips or performance admission for teachers or parents.
- All Best Bet grants are intended for use during the school year in which they are awarded. Please plan accordingly when applying for a grant.
- Best Bet funding should be applied to the grant for which it was originally intended. Any changes to the original application must be reviewed and approved by the Best Bet Committee. Failure to notify the Committee to any changes may result in loss of funding.
- If a grant is awarded, it is the responsibility of the teacher to work with vendors or performers to obtain all necessary paperwork, such as invoices and receipts, and deliver the paperwork to the Best Bet Committee in a timely fashion so that the funding can be issued. While we are happy to address any questions or concerns from the teacher, the Best Bet Committee and/or Peabody Education Foundation do not work directly with vendors or performers
Check out previously awarded Best Bet Grants
2016 Awarded Best Bet Grants
MICCA Concert Festival
Girl Power
Peabody Essex Museum: American/Salem Collections
New England Aquarium Field Trip
Study Buddies – Fairy Tale Friends
Think Social with Social Thinking and Brain Gym
Fine & Gross Motor Materials
Macaroni Soup! Active Music for Kids
Higgins Helping Hawks Student Mentoring Program
No Bullying: Stand Up, Step In
Transitional Partners Program
Wiggles and Giggles
Social Thinking
Higgins Library Expands Hour of Code Activities with Sphero Spark Robots
Headsprout
Yoko Kawashima Watkins Presentation
Music for the Mind
Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concert Field Trip
Sound Waves by Discovery Museum’s Traveling Field Trips
Downloadable Collection Kick-Off
Schoolyard Science with Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats
Forces in Motion
Drama Festival 2017 Artist-in-Residence
Tide Pool Alive
Lunar Exhibition at Peabody Essex Museum
Paul Revere Midnight Ride
Welch School Birthday Books
2nd and 3rd Grade Milestones Program
Choices for the Choices Program
Schoolyard Science with Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats
LEGO Engineering Concepts
TenMarks
Wolf Hollow
Theaterworks USA Field Trip: Miss Nelson is Missing
Hands-On Math Centers
Uprising on King Street: Boston Massacre
Animal Adventures
Tide Pool Alive
Book Clubs
Let’s Get Moving Numbers Kit
Engineering and Erosion
A Guided Discovery of Electromagnetism
2015 Awarded Best Bet Grants
Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concert Field Trip
Peabody Essex Museum – American/Salem Collections
Unifix Color Coded Sentence Building Kit
Schoolyard Science with Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats
Life at Sea: A Voyage in Song
Nye, oh Nye! That’s some super science
Fractions for 3rd Graders
Tide Pool Alive
Chris Brown Presents: Click, Clack, Moo
Accelerated Reader
Higgins Helping Hawks Student Mentoring Program
Equestrian Connection
Expanding Expression Tool, 2nd Edition (EET)
The Diary of Anne Frank
5th Annual Higgins Spelling Bee and Online Visual Thesaurus Dictionary
Informational Text Research Using Newsela
Touch-Typing Awards
Bamidele Dancers and Drummers
A Guided Discovery of Electromagnetism
Techsploration
Windows on Wildlife
Sensory Diet Materials
Creating a Kinesthetic Classroom
Math Masters
DIG-IT High Touch High Tech
Dig into Dinosaurs
Jeff Danger, Science Ranger’s Physical Science Show
Tidepool Adaptions
Motion Force and Work
Grade 1 Take Home Book Package
High Touch High Tech
2014 Awarded Best Bet Grants
Wonderful World of Raptors
Peabody Essex Museum American/Salem Collections
Social Thinking Curriculum
Class Set of Hands-On Equations for Teacher and Thirty Students
Forensic Science Studies
Creature Features
Read About Math Learning Centers – Complete Set
Hands-On Science
Nudging the Imagination
Windows on Wildlife: Adaptions Program
Fraction Problem Solving
Tide Pool Alive!
Fit Girls
Science from Scientist’s Science Theater

Accelerated Reader

Seussical, Theatreworks USA

Kestrel Educational Adventures
4th Annual Higgins Spelling Bee & Online Visual Thesaurus Dictionary
Award-winning children’s author James M Deem Visits with the Panthers
Higgins Helping Hawks Student-to-Student Mentoring
REACH Program Painting Class
MathsAmazing
Meeting with History – Yoko Kawashima Watkins
The Poetry Company
Higgins Student IT Help Desk
News-2-You (online subscription)
Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat
Curious Creatures Kid Zoo
Electromagnetism
Discovery Museum
Life Cycle of a Raptor
Brazilian Dance & Drum with Gregory Coles
Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concert Field Trip
Special Effects Makeup Hands On Class
Social Studies 4th Grade Curriculum
Social Studies – Travels Across America’s Past
Brain Pop Jr.
Literature Based Learning Centers
Sensory Diet Materials
Literacy Alive! Celebrating Reading with Robert Rivest
Join In – Multi-Cultural Folktales and Legends
Seeds and Plants
Animal Adaptions
Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum Tour
Life in the 17th Century and At Home in Salem 1785-1820
Tidepools Alive
Mad Science: An “Edutaining” Performance
ThinkTank: Numbersense & Problem Solving

Visit from author Maryann Cocca-Leffler