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The BEF welcomes applications for Teacher and Collaborative Grants until 5 pm Monday, March 6th, 2023. Information and application materials can be found on our website here (for Teacher Grants) or here (for Collaborative Grants). BEF staff and board members, along with representatives from the Office of Teaching and Learning, will be on hand at two upcoming Grant Information Sessions - on Wednesday, January 11th at the Lawrence School and Thursday, January 19th at the Heath School, both from 3:15-4:15pm. If you're an educator in the Public Schools of Brookline with an idea for a grant, please reach out to us [...]

Training has begun for the running of the 2023 Boston Marathon, and this year the BEF is grateful for the support of five members of Team Brookline who will be raising funds with their race to support us! Four of these runners are educators at Brookline Schools, and the fifth one is returning to support us again after running with Team Brookline for the BEF last year! Please visit our Team Brookline page to learn more about each of these fantastic runners, and to support them as they train!

The Brookline Education Foundation's annual 5th Grade Spelling Bee was a huge and exciting success resulting in one shocked and exuberant winner and three students tied as first runners-up. 50 fifth graders from throughout the Public Schools of Brookline district gathered in the Brookline High School auditorium on Sunday, November 13th for the traditional spelling bee. Georgiana Green of the Runkle school won by being the only student out of the final round of four to correctly spell her word which was "capricious." The three runners-up were Eliza Mnookin of Ridley, Evelyn Kmeic of Heath and Milonee Mukesh of Lincoln. The [...]

We were so moved and proud to hear the 2022 Metzger Fellows read their essays on October 14th at the Lincoln School. This event is always profound and inspiring and this year was no different. Visit our YouTube Channel to watch the event! And click here to learn more about this year's Fellows and Margaret Metzger.

The BEF was so excited to welcome the latest in the Todd Saker Fund series of author visits: Newbery Award-winning author Jerry Craft to Brookline! Jerry visited the Heath School and the Pierce School, where he spoke to hundreds of students and signed books. His visit was wonderful, inspiring, and energizing. Click here to learn more about the BEF's Saker Fund. Thank you!

Now is the time to apply for an Idea Lab grant, if you are an educator currently employed by the Public Schools of Brookline! If you have a new idea that will bring hands-on, experiential learning to your students, we would like to grant you up to $1,000 to make your idea a reality! Simply fill out the online application, and come to pitch your idea to our committee. Grant applications will be accepted up until November 4, 2022. Last year's innovative Idea Lab grant recipients included a BEEP teacher who introduced fabric arts into her pre-K classroom, a 5th grade [...]

This week, the 2022 class of Margaret Metzger Fellows are working together to write their personal essays about the craft of teaching. They represent different schools, subject areas, and grade levels from all across the Public Schools of Brookline, and their combined energies and experiences are sure to contribute to a wonderful, inspirational, and enlightening selection of essays! The BEF is so proud to host these creative and thoughtful educators this week, and we look forward to hosting the public Metzger event on Friday, October 14th, when we will all be invited to learn more about the Fellows and hear them [...]