Professional Development Grant
The 2025 Grant Cycle is Closed.
Please visit back next year when Lean into Learning will open June 1, 2026.
What is the Lean into Learning Grant?
Be inspired by a PD of your choosing – get creative about a new skill, a new approach or deepening your current knowledge.
This annual grant opportunity is for K-12 educators who want to level up their teaching and student learning by participating in an in-person or virtual Professional Development.
Applicants can use our grant for the following:
- Attend a conference in person or virtually
- Bring a subject matter expert to your school or district
- Collaborate in a work session with other educators
- Visit a school locally or out of state
Eligibility
Eligible schools are those with a qualifying zip code in our service area.
St. Louis Public School (SLPS) educators, we invite you to explore grant opportunities through our friends at the St. Louis Education Fund. While ITEF cannot currently make direct grants to SLPS institutions, we look forward to supporting your work in other ways.
Lean into Learning Awarded Grants
The next grant cycle opens June 1, 2024.
ITEF Awards $200,000 to St. Louis Area Schools for Innovative Teacher Development
St. Louis, MO. – The Innovative Technology Education Fund (ITEF) awarded $200,000 to 17 area schools and districts through...
Lean into Learning 2024
St. Louis, MO. – The Innovative Technology Education Fund (ITEF) awarded $124,791 to 18 area schools and districts, through...
Lean into Learning 2023
2023 Lean into Learning Professional Development Grants St. Louis, MO. – The Innovative Technology Education Fund (ITEF) awarded $144,886 to sixteen...
Lean into Learning 2021
ITEF awarded sixteen grants worth $48,148 to Lean into Learning educators who chose inspiring and innovation-related activities to deepen their...
Lean into Learning 2020
ITEF awarded twenty-eight grants worth $77,487.55 to Lean into Learning educators who chose inspiring and innovation-related activities to deepen...
Lean into Learning 2019
ITEF awarded twenty-eight grants worth $100,674 to Lean into Learning educators who chose inspiring projects, conferences, and innovation-related...
Lean into Learning 2018
Our 2018 “Lean Into Learning” professional development grant initiative was a huge success. We awarded $127,937 to educators from 17 districts...
Lean into Learning 2017
The second year of our “Lean Into Learning” professional development grant initiative was a huge success. Educators took on a variety of learning...
Lean Into Learning 2016
Because the Innovative Technology Education Fund values continuous learning and the opportunity for area educators to choose their own desired...