The National Signature Project Award is awarded annually to an outstanding and innovative classroom project that exemplifies the very best in rural, place-based education. It is open to any rural classroom teacher in the United States, and it is jointly funded by the Rural Schools Collaborative (RSC) and the National Rural Education Association (NREA).

One rural teacher will receive $2,500, and two runner-up teachers will receive $1,500, toward their individual place-based education projects. In addition to the maximum award of $2,500, awardees' travel and registration fees will be covered for attendance to The 2023 National Forum to Advance Rural Education. Applications are due April 30, 2023. You can learn more about the award, view previous winners’ projects, and apply now by visiting our website!

Help renew civic learning and civic engagement! Education in civics and history equips members of a democratic society to understand, appreciate, nurture, and, where necessary, improve their political system and civil society. As a nation, our bonds are strained, civility has worn thin, and our sense of common purpose has weakened, just as the need for cooperation on large challenges grows urgent. The time has come to recommit to the civic and history education of our young people as a key mechanism for repairing the foundations of our constitutional democracy. Support for and learning among civics teachers is crucial for success. 

To continue to address this urgent need, the Democratic Knowledge Project, a civic education initiative at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, will host a group of 12 eighth grade and high school teachers at a one-week, expenses-paid Civic Summer Learning Institute for Learning and Teaching at the Schoodic Institute campus in Acadia, Maine: Sunday, July 30 – Saturday August 5, 2023.

Learn more here and apply here 

Please direct questions to DemocraticKnowledgeProject@fas.harvard.edu