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  • Home
  • Membership
    • Producer Membership
    • Associate Membership
    • Clean Fill (CCDD) Membership
    • Student Membership
    • Committee Membership
  • Learn More
    • About the IAAP >
      • Board of Directors, Staff and Committee Organization
      • History
    • What Aggregates & Industrial Minerals Do For You
    • For educators >
      • Rocks, Minerals & Mining workshop for Illinois teachers
      • Resources for teachers
      • Teaching Enhancement Grant
    • For students >
      • Education Foundation Scholarship
    • Working in the industry
    • Advocacy and industry topics >
      • Permission to Mine
      • Safety and Health
      • Environmental
      • Sustainability
      • Economic Benefits
      • Trucks & Traffic
      • Noise
      • Clean Construction & Demolition Debris Disposal
    • Community resources >
      • For Members
      • For general public
  • Find products
    • Stone, sand, gravel or industrial minerals
    • Goods and Services for Industry
    • Agricultural Lime
    • Safety Slogan T-shirts order
  • News and events
    • What's happening
    • Register for upcoming events
    • Update Newsletter
    • Convention & Safety Conference
    • Golf Outing
    • Rocks Minerals Mining workshop for Illinois teachers
  • Member Resources
    • Emerging Leaders Program
    • Committees >
      • Safety Committee
      • Environmental Committee
      • PIE Committee
      • Sustainability Committee
      • Specifications / Technical Committee
      • Legislative Committee
      • Board of Directors
    • Awards and Certificates >
      • Rock Solid Safety
      • Innovative Safety
      • Community Relations
      • Environmental Excellence
      • Sustainability Award
      • Industry Leadership
      • Mining New Members
      • Safety Slogan Contest
    • Sales Tax Exemption for Mining Equipment
    • Permitting and Certification Program Guidance
    • Resource Bank
    • Webinars and videos
    • Insurance Safety Group
    • Student Members Seeking Career or Internship Opportunities
  • Contact Us & password help

Russ Brielman Teaching Enhancement Grant

​The Russ Brielman Teaching Enhancement Grant has been established in honor of Russ Brielman’s long record of encouragement and support of classroom teachers through his numerous outreach activities as a founding member of the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers – Public Information and Education Committee and the Teachers Workshop. The Russ Brielman Teaching Enhancement Grant shall enhance student (K-12) learning about earth science, the aggregate mining industry, mined land reclamation, resource sustainability, or resource stewardship by providing a grant to a school on behalf of a classroom teacher to support a class activity or enhanced teaching supplies that is an outgrowth of the teacher’s experience at the annual IAAP Teachers Workshop. The maximum grant is $500.  
​Read examples of awarded grants below.
Eligibility

​Any classroom teacher that has attended an Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers’ Rocks, Minerals & Mining Teachers Workshop and has not previously received this grant may apply. Only one application per school will be considered annually; two or more teachers may submit a single application.

Application Process

The completed application shall be submitted electronically to the IAAP. Application Deadline:  June 15th.

    Apply Here   Deadline: June 15th

    You may estimate the year if you don't remember

    Utilization of workshop knowledge ​

    Proposal to enhance teaching using grant money

    ​Budget

    If your proposed budget exceeds $500, explain how you will raise the additional funds to achieve what you have proposed doing.
    Max file size: 20MB
Submit
​Merit Review Process

Proposals will be reviewed with consideration to:
1) How will this activity enhance student learning?
2) How will this activity promote earth science, the aggregate mining industry, mined land reclamation, resource sustainability, or resource stewardship?
3) How realistic is the budget?
4) How achievable is the activity?
​5) How likely is it that the activity or teaching supplies will be utilized year after year?
Grant recipient(s) will be notified by the end of July.

Grantee Deliverables

​The grantee shall submit a report on the supported activity by June 30th of the following year. The report should include pictures, description and outcomes of the activity and a PowerPoint presentation that could be shown at the following Teachers Workshop.
Examples of awarded grants
Microscope & rock tumbler
Mining in a nutshell
Sedimentator kits and metamorphic sandwich
Laboratory and activity kits
Activity kits
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