Applications for the 2024/25 Teacher Fellowship Are Now Open!

Calling all teachers!  Applications for the 2024/25 National Book Foundation Teacher Fellowship are now open!

The National Book Foundation Teacher Fellowship supports and celebrates 6th-12th grade teachers using innovative methods to make reading for pleasure a part of their students’ school day experience, and aims to:

• Support classroom activities that have a direct impact on the development of students as lifelong readers
• Celebrate and highlight creative and effective models for independent reading instruction
• Connect more young people with great literature through National Book Award-honored titles

As part of the Fellowship, teachers will receive a stipend as well as a book buying budget, develop or continue an initiative that promotes reading for pleasure in their classroom, incorporate National Book Award-honored titles into their curriculum, and collaborate with other Fellows through participation in a professional learning community, including an in-person convening in New York City. To read more about this year’s cohort of Fellows, please visit the 2023/24 NBF Teacher Fellows page.

We hope you will share this opportunity with the teachers in your lives. Interested applicants should be sure to review the full Program Details & Eligibility as well as Application Instructions & Selection Criteria, and submit an online application by the deadline of February 29, 2024.