FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): Click this link for information on scholarships to support your attendance at the NCTE Convention. 

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE (ALAN): Click this link for information on grants to attend the ALAN Workshop or conduct research on YAL.

Kansas Association of Teachers of English (KATE): Click this link for information on scholarships to support your attendance at the KATE Conference.

FREE and inexpensive books

GLSEN Rainbow Library: GLSEN’s Rainbow Library is a program that sends LGBTQ+ affirming K-12 text sets to schools across select states — for free!

Hope in a Box:  Hope In A Box works with educators and administrators to make LGBT-inclusion a reality. In collaboration with 40 professors from 15 universities, this nonprofit designed the definitive primer in LGBT literature for young adults; they donate this set of 50 books to middle and high schools free of charge. They provide curriculum guides for selected texts, and for teachers looking to include an LGBT book in a lesson plan, they help purchase copies for the full classroom. 

Books for your classroom 

Townsend Press has created compelling $3 paperbacks suited to adult students as well as English language learners. The Townsend Library includes 100+ high-interest fiction classics, history and biographies, remarkable personal stories, adventure and sports stories, science fiction, and contemporary nonfiction. 

Inexpensive High-Interest Books - The Bluford Series

The Bluford Series is a collection of high-interest novels that have captivated teens throughout the US. Set in fictional Bluford High, a tough but nurturing inner-city high school, the novels speak to the interests, struggles, and concerns of today's 6th-10th graders. A popular choice for school- and city-wide reading initiatives, the series has been widely reviewed in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL) and praised in School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews. In addition, numerous Bluford novels have been selected as Quick Picks and Popular Paperbacks by the American Library Association (ALA). As of early 2017, nearly 11 million Bluford novels were in print.

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