Applications for the 25/26 Teacher Fellowship Open January 31

Calling all teachers! Applications for the 2025/26 National Book Foundation Teacher Fellowship are now open via Submittable. The application portal will close Friday, February 28, 2025, 11:59pm EST.

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 2024/25 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.

The full 2025/26 application opened on Friday, January 31, 2025. Applications will be accepted through Submittable until the deadline of Friday, February 28, 2025.

Questions? Please email Education Programs Manager Julianna Lee Marino: jleemarino@nationalbook.org.