3 Teacher Stories From Educators Changing Lives

Since 1998, our donors and corporate sponsors have teamed up with us to adopt classrooms across the country, helping 6.4 million students learn and succeed in school. Over these past 25 years, we’ve received tens of thousands of remarkable teacher stories that illustrate the great lengths teachers go to support their students. Read these three […]

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Populus Financial Group Helps Teachers Offset Rising Costs of School Supplies

After a summer of rising costs due to inflation, teachers are voicing even greater concern for their students and their families who are unable to afford the school supplies needed for the new school year. Populus Financial Group has stepped up to help students from across the country return to the classroom with some of […]

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Don’t Miss the TODAY Show – August 17, 2022

The TODAY Show segment highlighted the mounting challenges faced by our nation’s K-12 teachers, and how AdoptAClassroom.org helps. Check it out on the TODAY Show’s website here. Want to receive news like this in your inbox? Subscribe to our mailing list below.

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2022 Teacher Survey: Current Challenges in Teaching

Educators across the country continue to face challenges in teaching due to the economic and emotional impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about what teachers and their students are facing during this challenging time in education, AdoptAClassroom.org surveyed educators in May 2022. Our findings show that more than two years after the […]

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Classroom Management: The First Week of Elementary School

The author of this blog post on classroom management, Annie Alcott, was a Bay Area teacher for 30 years. She taught at the K-3 level and as a teacher educator at UC Berkeley. The key to classroom management is (drumroll please): relationships. Your relationship with your class, your relationship with individual students, and students’ relationships […]

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This Teacher Appreciation Week, Give Them What They Really Need

For about five minutes at the beginning of the pandemic, teachers were superheroes. As a veteran teacher of 30 years, who taught K-3 students in the Bay area, as well as the next generation of teachers at UC Berkeley, it was disheartening to watch the appreciation for teachers turn to condemnation. All too quickly, people […]

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State of Teaching Statistics 2022

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, constant changes have impacted the teaching profession. In March 2022, two years into the pandemic, AdoptAClassroom.org surveyed teachers across the country to gather teaching statistics to better understand the current state of teaching. We surveyed 4,665 PreK-12 teachers at public, private, and charter schools nationwide. Eighty-five percent of […]

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State of Teaching Survey: $500 Giveaway

This giveaway has concluded. Visit our Teacher Funding Opportunities page to learn more about current and upcoming educator funding opportunities from AdoptAClassroom.org. The education landscape has rapidly changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years later, the state of education continues to shift. To ensure that we are responding to educators’ most pressing needs in […]

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Giving Tuesday
#SeasonOfGiving Giveaway: Enter For a $50 Classroom Donation

*Note: The #SeasonOfGiving Giveaway has closed. To be notified of our upcoming funding opportunities, register your classroom here or school here. We’re celebrating Giving Tuesday by donating 40 $50 AdoptAClassroom.org school supply donations to PreK-12 teachers. These back-to-school donations for teachers will be awarded to AdoptAClassroom.org registered teachers who update their classroom page by Giving Tuesday on […]

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