The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History
Project Title
As a one-time grant for the Teaching America250 Awards
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
15 months
Description
Through fellowships, innovative learning tools, and an annual national summit, the Jack Miller Center (JMC) fosters a deeper understanding of the essential texts and ideas of the American political tradition among a network of over 4,000 K-12 educators and professors in forty-ninestates. The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 presents an opportune moment to celebrate the teachers who are equipping their students with a strong understanding of America’s founding principles. With support from Carnegie, JMC will launch the Teaching America250 Awards—a one-time national awards program recognizing one outstanding teacher in each state—in the fall of 2025. The Awards will empower exceptional educators to develop projects that celebrate America’s founding principles and bring its history to life: a powerful catalyst for renewed enthusiasm and meaningful action in American civic education. Applicants will design projects that teach the Declaration’s founding principles and foster civic purpose—via field trips, assemblies, clubs, or community art. Fifty educators will receive a $5,000 award to carry out their project, and a select number will present their projects at JMC’s National Summit on Civic Education.