U.S. Dept. of Education: I Am What I Learn Contest
The Department of Education is asking students to respond to President Obama's challenge to take responsibility for their own learning by creating videos, up to two minutes in length, describing steps they will make to improve their education and the role of education in fulfilling their dreams. Submissions can be video blogs, public service announcements, music videos, or documentaries, and will be voted on by the public.
Maximum Award: $1,000.
Eligibility: students age 13 and older.
Deadline: Students must upload their videos to YouTube by October 8, 2009.
http://www.ed.gov/iamwhatilearn

Under the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) the U.S. Department of State and IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board) announce a competition for middle and high school teachers from the United States to participate in a two-week professional exchange program.
Award: The program is fully funded and provides: visa support, round-trip domestic airfare, lodging and meals to attend the TEA U.S. Conference, round-trip airfare from the U.S. to the assigned country, emergency medical evacuation plan, and lodging and a daily stipend in the host country.
Eligibility: Secondary-level (middle or high school) teaching professionals with five or more years of classroom experience;teachers who spend 75% of their work week in a direct classroom instruction role in one of the following disciplines: English as a Second Language, English Language or Literature, social studies, math, or science; U.S. citizens; and teachers able to travel in spring or summer 2011 to one of the aforementioned countries.
Deadline: October 30, 2009 for travel in spring or summer of 2011. Selection will be made before January, 2010 and grantees will be expected to meet with their TEA International counterparts at a conference in the US in February or September, 2010.
http://www.irex.org/programs/tea/tea_us.asp

C-SPAN Archives Grants give teachers videotapes from the extensive collection in the C-SPAN Archives for creative proposals that use the network's programming in the classroom or in research projects.
Eligibility: middle and high school teachers and college/university professors.
Maximum award: use of archive tapes.
Deadline: N/A.
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/grants.asp

The Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center offers grants to K-12 classroom teachers for implementing tolerance and youth activism projects in their schools and communities. Proposals from other educators such as community organizations and churches will be considered on the basis of direct student impact.
Proposal deadline: ongoing.
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/grants/guide.jsp