D250 Teacher Appreciation Grants

The Board of School Trustees (the “Board”) will distribute its Teacher Appreciation Grant monies received from the Indiana Department of Education to the teachers who meet the following criteria:

1. Employed in the classroom or directly provided education in a virtual classroom setting;
2. Received a Highly Effective or an Effective rating on their most recently completed performance evaluation; and
3. Employed on December 1st of the year the Corporation receives the Teacher Appreciation Grant monies.

The Board will distribute its Teacher Appreciation Grant monies to all teachers rated Effective and Highly Effective with those rated Highly Effective receiving a stipend at least 25% more than the stipend given to Effective teachers.

The School Corporation will distribute the stipends within 20 business days of the distribution date by the Indiana Department of Education of the Teacher Appreciation Grant monies to the School Corporation.

• I.C. 20-43-10-3.5

• Adopted: August 19, 2019