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Recently Approved Grants
The TJ Partnership Fund is already off to a flying start in the 2024-25 school year, as we’ve been able to authorize grants of $74,572 directly to TJ already this year, with more grant requests to come soon!
Learn more about how your generosity is shaping the present and future of TJ below!
Teaching at TJ is unlike teaching at any other high school in America, from the unique emphasis on research fundamentals to the top-notch student body. That’s why the Partnership Fund supports a grant each year to allow the TJ administration to deliver a purpose-built professional development experience for its world-class faculty.
A delegation from TJ attends the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools (NCSSS) Conference each year. This year’s conference will be in San Antonio, TX from November 6-9. TJ’s Principal, Dr. Ann Bonitatibus, is the immediate past chair of NCSSS and the school has always served as a leader among this prestigious group. Through NCSSS, TJ both acquires and shares new ideas for best practices in STEM-focused education, impacting students within the school and across America.
The Partnership Fund’s annual Professional Development grant supports TJ’s participation in the NCSSS Conference, meals for staff during the annual Professional Development Week prior to the start of school, and other school-identified PD opportunities.
This grant supports the purchase of a ThorLabs Quantum Optics Education Kit, allowing students to explore fundamental properties of single photon interactions and use that knowledge as a basis for independent research.
This enhancement to the “Q-Lab” allows students to move from merely discussing the theory and basic postulates of photon behavior to proving them through hands-on experimentation – a hallmark of TJPF’s impact on the TJ curriculum.
The “Q-Lab” has been unique among high schools in America for its advanced approach to quantum theory. Introducing the means to study the behavior of single photons takes this research space to a new and exciting level.
TJ is at the forefront of re-imagining the possibilities of secondary STEM education through its unique focus on hands-on research and exploration. And the TJ Partnership Fund understands that the hard work that goes into pedagogical innovation deserves to be compensated appropriately.
This grant supports the payment of TJ’s faculty for the time needed over the summer months to develop new courses and refine existing ones, ensuring that TJ remains a leader in this space for years to come.
Courses this year either developed or refined through this grant include:
