Ideas with IMPACT

Overview

STUDENTS SUCCEED WHEN TEACHERS HAVE THE RESOURCES, SUPPORT, AND APPRECIATION THEY DESERVE!

Ideas with IMPACT is an initiative aimed at recognizing and rewarding innovative teachers by providing funds to package and export successful teaching methods. It supports teacher leaders, fosters sharing of best practices, and offers opportunities for professional growth. This network enhances student instruction and achievement, benefiting students with proven learning-promoting classroom experiences.

The Ideas with IMPACT program has a several components to support teachers, including the following:

Innovator Grants provide funds to teachers to develop and implement new, instructional projects that motivate and challenge students to learn. Submitted proposals should be innovative, unique classroom projects that enliven and enrich the curriculum. Many past grants have included interdisciplinary, active-learning, hands-on lessons. Others have reinforced learning through simulations or applied school work to real-life situations. Grants range from $300 - $1,000.  Application and reporting process are streamlined, and guidance is provided. Apply Here

Deadline to Apply for 2025-26 School Year:  June 30, 2025

Adapter Grants provide funds to teachers who attend the Idea EXPO to replicate projects and strategies from EXPO workshops in their classrooms. Teachers can choose from any one of the projects from the Ideas with IMPACT catalogs and creatively modifies it to their own classroom. Adapter Grants range from $150 to $400. 

Deadline to Apply for 2025-26 School Year TBA following the 2025 Idea EXPO.

The Idea EXPO Teacher Conference 
One of the largest "by-teacher, for-teacher" conferences in South Florida, the Idea EXPO brings more than 500 educators together once a year to network and share teaching strategies. The Idea EXPO features 60+ workshops led by teachers, a keynote address, free curriculum packets, breakfast, lunch, prize giveaways and much more. 

Teachers can apply to lead a workshop and earn $750 if selected.  For more information, CLICK HERE

Ideas with IMPACT Catalog   
An essential component to the Ideas with IMPACT program is the Ideas with IMPACT catalog, which is published and distributed annually to every teacher in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. This catalog is a resource of teachers' proven ideas, with each page containing a different teaching strategy, information on the students for whom it is appropriate, standards met when implementing the lessons, and contact information for each Disseminator teacher. The teaching ideas in the Ideas with IMPACT catalog, created by teachers for teachers, can be used exactly as they are or modified to meet a classroom's special needs. Subject areas covered include STEM/STEAM,  language arts, math/science, social studies, health, technology, varying exceptionalities, and interdisciplinary. Teachers are encouraged to use the catalog as an idea file and keep it handy for reference throughout the year. Ideas with IMPACT catalogs are available to view for every year since 1990. Download the Latest Catalog

Curriculum "Idea" Packets
An Idea Packet containing course outlines, lesson plans, resource lists, bibliographies, student worksheets, student samples, and other tools is available for every workshop offered at current and past Idea EXPOS. View Curriculum Packets Here

For more information, please call:
305.558.4544, ext.113
or email Ideas with IMPACT Program Director 

 

 

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