The Wilson Shared Decision Making Team Grant Committee, a combined effort of the Wilson Teachers’ Association and the Wilson Central School District Board of Education, sponsors this grant program.
Purpose: To provide professional staff members with monetary support to develop innovative projects/strategies that meet District Staff Development goals and improve/refine current programs and instruction in Grades K-12.
Examples Include:
- To help purchase supplies/materials for projects or activities (such as cultural events, science
- experiments, class plays, community projects, after-school enrichment) that benefit your classroom, a specific group of students, or the entire school
- To fund school visitations to observe or study programs/strategies
- To provide technological instructional support, such as web-site access
- To cover the cost of one-day conferences/workshops not otherwise funded by the school district
- To fund in-house release time to meet for planning district level goals
- To support the formation of teacher study groups interested in pursuing staff development related goals
- To help cover the cost of instruction related special programs or speakers
Application: Grant applications will be emailed to you, by request. Fully completed, typed forms should be returned via email to an SDMT Grant Committee member. The process of reviewing, approving, and administering grant funds will be completed by the SDMT Grant Committee, which meets monthly.
*Note: The SDMT Grant Committee will consider only one-time expenses that arise during the school year and were not in the original budget. The SDMT Grant Committee will fund each
idea only once. Repeated expenditures for the same project in future years must be budgeted with your principal. All grant requests must be submitted by May 1st of each school year.
Updated 02/26/2026
