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Educator Effectiveness Funds (EEF)
A California Department of Education (CDE) grant designed for county offices of education, school districts, charter schools, and state special schools for professional learning for teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals that work with pupils, and classified staff that interact with pupils.
The Golden State Teacher Grant Program (GSTG) awards up to $20,000 for students who are currently enrolled in an approved teacher preparation program. Students commit to teach in a “high-need” field at a “priority school” in California for four years and have five years, upon completion of the recipient’s preparation program, to meet that obligation.
To be eligible for the Golden State Teacher Grant, a student must meet the following eligibility criteria:
Be currently enrolled in a teacher preparation program (including internship and teacher residency programs) approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC). For a list of eligible schools please visit the CTC website.
Must maintain good academic standing.
Commit to teach in California for four years, within five years after completing a teacher preparation program
Must teach in a high needs school and content area:
Bilingual Education
Science
Technology
Engineering
Mathematics
Career Technical Education in STEM areas
Special Education
Multiple Subject Instruction
Transitional Kindergarten
Teacher Residency Grant (TRG)
Teacher Residency Capacity Grant awards of up to a maximum of $250,000 per applicant are available to support a collaborative partnership between an eligible Local Education Agency (LEA) or a consortium of LEAs partnering with one or more Commission-approved teacher preparation programs offered by a regionally accredited institution of higher education (IHE) to expand, strengthen, improve access to, or create teacher residency programs. The funding may be used to establish new teacher residency programs that support either of the following: (a) designated shortage fields including special education, bilingual education, computer science, science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), transitional kindergarten (TK), or kindergarten and/or (b) local efforts to recruit, develop support systems for, provide outreach and communication strategies to, and retain a diverse teacher workforce that reflects a local education agency community’s diversity. Applicants should note that this funding is intended to supplement and not supplant any existing LEA and IHE teacher residency programs and efforts. A total of $25 million is available for Capacity Grants.
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