The Pinellas Education Foundation is dedicated to enhancing academic achievement and providing multiple pathways for students to succeed in life. Occasionally, our efforts fall outside those focus areas—but we believe these enhancements are critical to creating a supportive culture for our teachers and developing important skills for students.
A supportive culture helps us attract and retain the most effective teachers. In addition to providing training and grant opportunities, the Pinellas Education Foundation has partnered with Pinellas County Schools to recognize excellence in the classroom. For three decades, we’ve honored our community’s most inspiring teachers with a formal ceremony naming the Pinellas County Teacher of the Year. The winner moves on to represent Pinellas County for the title of Florida Teacher of the Year.
Classroom Grants support principals’ and teachers’ innovative ideas and projects to better engage students learning. The funding provides unique opportunities to enhance or expand learning through curriculum or school enrichment activities in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), Literacy, Social Studies and more.
Pinellas Education Foundation wants to ensure that teachers have the resources they need and all students graduate from high school with a plan for success. These projects help excite young minds beyond what some school budgets may allow.
Your support makes a difference. Help us provide teachers with funding for engaging educational opportunities that promote better academic results for students.
“Every day, I see students who are trying so hard to get an education despite their socioeconomic situation at home. Their families often have to choose between school supplies or food. I try to level the playing field, but it becomes increasingly difficult as my number of students increase. Your donations have made it possible for these wonderful students to start off like everyone else… you have given them an open door to success!”
Established more than 30 years ago, Enterprise Village is a signature program of the Pinellas Education Foundation. The educational experience helps students link classroom lessons with real-world knowledge application using the stage of working for a business as the hook to support student engagement. Mandated for all fifth-grade public school students of Pinellas County, Enterprise Village hosts memory-making experiences for up to 13,000 students each year.
Finance Park was established nearly twenty years ago as a response to parent, student and teacher demand for an interactive and real-world solution for eighth-grade learning. Today, our mandated financial literacy program serves up to 10,000 students annually with an emphasis on applying math skills in the context of managing a household budget. Students are randomly assigned life profiles including marital status, children/dependents, and household income, which create the framework for powerful lessons in financial literacy.
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Our annual school supply donation drive ensures that students with the greatest need have the tools to succeed in the new school year.
