Awards & Recognition

Billings teachers have many opportunities to create innovative programs that work outside the standard school curriculum and expand students abilities and opportunities.  This is a partial list of the many  honors, programs and recognition our teachers have received, supporting the wider educational community and benefiting Billings Middle School.

STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) Curriculum Grants & Awards

 

  • NASA (National Aeronautic & Space Administration): Climate curriculum development award &
    fellowship.
  • NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration): Weather & climate curriculum development
    award & fellowship.
  • Math Heroes Award: Applied math curriculum development award & grant.
  • Eureka Lodge: Science curriculum grants (3).
  • Charlotte Martin Foundation: Grant to support Education for a Sustainable Future science curriculum
    projects.
  • American Association of University Women: Community Action Grant to support student-organized
    forums on sustainability issues.
  • Best Buy TEACH Award: Grant to support Education for a Sustainable Future science curriculum
    projects.
  • National Middle School Association (now AMLE): National Teams That Make a Difference Award for
    Education for a Sustainable Future science curriculum projects.
  • Captain Planet Foundation: Grant to support Green Lake water quality monitoring project.
  • King County Small Change for a Big Difference: Grant to support Green Lake water quality monitoring
    project and educational outreach in the community.
  • City of Seattle Neighborhood Matching Grant: For Green Lake Green Day street fair focusing on
    alternative energy sources, organized by Billings Middle School.
  • City of Seattle STEP Grant: Grant to support Green Lake water quality monitoring project and
    educational outreach in the community.
  • Washington Native Plant Society: Grant to support native plant restoration projects at Green Lake and
    Discovery Park.
  • Toshiba America Foundation: Grant to support soil research and remediation projects at Green Lake
    and Discovery Park.
  • ING Unsung Heroes Award: Grant to support development of climate curriculum.
  • Toyota TAPESTRY Award: Grant to support development of atmospheric science curriculum. 

 

HUM  (language arts, world languages, social studies, arts & humanities) Curriculum Grants and Awards

  • American Turkish Society: Grant for curriculum connections to Turkish studies.
  • Turkish Cultural Foundation: Grants (3) for curriculum connections to Turkish studies.
  • International Chain of Awareness UN Millennium Development Goals Conference: Support for taking
    a student team to this conference in Turkey.
  • Children’s World Water Forum: Support for taking a student team to this conference in Turkey.
  • Teaching Tolerance: Grants for curriculum connections to South & East Asian studies.
  • National Consortium for Teaching About Asia: Grant & fellowship for curriculum connections to East
    Asian studies.

International Projects: Fellowships for research, curriculum development, language learning, conference presentations, and/or establishment of partner projects.

  • Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad: Six weeks in Morocco, supporting curriculum projects for two
    years.
  • Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad: Six weeks in India, supporting curriculum projects for ten years.
  • Fulbright Indo-American Environment Leadership Program: Three months in India, supporting
    curriculum projects for eight years.
  • Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program: Three weeks in Japan (4 teachers), supporting curriculum
    projects for nine years.
  • Fulbright Memorial Fund Master Teacher Program: Six weeks in Japan, supporting curriculum projects
    for nine years.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Teacher Institute: Six weeks in China, supporting curriculum
    projects for four years.
  • Turkish Cultural Foundation & World Affairs Council: Three weeks in Turkey, supporting curriculum
    projects for six years.
  • Korean Studies Foundation: Two weeks in Korea, supporting curriculum projects for six years.
  • Global Studies Foundation & UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD): Four weeks in Thailand & two weeks in Germany, to participate in two UNDESD conferences, and support for related curriculum projects.
  • OTHER: Support from various sources for international language learning opportunities, including:
    Spanish (in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Ecuador); Arabic (in Morocco); Turkish (in
    Turkey); Chinese (in China); Hindi (in India); Japanese (in Japan).

Other Professional Development Grants

  • Title IIA Professional Development Funding: On-campus workshops including Reading Across the
    Curriculum and Writing Across the Curriculum. Off-campus participation in conferences offered by the
    National Council for Teachers of Mathematics; American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages;
    Creating Balance: Math Education for Social Justice; Washington Branch, International Dyslexia
    Association; International Society for Technology Education; TechShare; Tufte Workshop on Presenting
    Data; etc.
  • Toyota TAPESTRY Ambassador Program: Funding to support teacher participation in science
    conferences.
  • World Affairs Council (WAC) Teacher Liaison Program: Funding to support teacher participation in
    Global Classroom workshops and other WAC events.