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The BEF supports innovation and excellence in pre-K through grade 12 classrooms by raising funds that are critical to keeping our schools at the leading edge of public education.
How do BEF grants impact Brookline educators? Watch these videos to hear it directly from them!
Our 2025 video, featuring amazing grants from Lawrence, BHS, and Hayes.
Our 2024 video, featuring recent grant recipients from Pierce, Hayes, Driscoll, and BHS
Our 2023 video, highlighting amazing grant recipients from BHS, BEEP, and Lincoln
January 2023: Featured Grant
Alison Hansel, Pierce School Math Specialist, traveled to Seoul to study Korean! Earlier this month BEF board members were treated to a presentation by Alison Hansel about her experience of traveling to Seoul, Korea to [...]
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The BEF in the Age of COVID-19
During this time of challenges, the work here at the Brookline Education Foundation (BEF) continues — albeit remotely. In mid-April, our Board committees awarded 32 grants, totaling more than $200,000, to Brookline teachers. We have also responded directly to the COVID-19 crisis by funding a special Districtwide Grant to immediately train teachers in remote learning and online [...]
BEF Awards 19 New Idea Lab Grants Throughout the District
The BEF Idea Lab grants committee awarded 19 new Idea Lab grants last week. After hearing teachers give their pitches for their hands-on ideas to be carried out in the classroom this year, the committee awarded 19 grants to teachers from many schools in the District, ranging in grades [...]
Margaret Metzger Fellowship Event
On Friday, October 4th, over 200 people joined us for the 2019 Margaret Metzger Fellowship Event where our 6 Fellows read their essays to a packed house! While the essays were varied reflections on teaching and working [...]
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