Ellington High School Teacher Selected As Grant Recipient

ELLINGTON, CT — Fund for Teachers, one of the nation's leading organizations supporting preK-12 educators, has announced its 2025 grant recipients, including an Ellington High School teacher.

Kim Reilly is one of 65 Connecticut teachers who will leverage about $250,000 into learning for themselves, their students and school communities.

Reilly will attend the premier AI in Education Conference in Palermo, Italy, then attend related workshops at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to learn strategies for streamlining the process of personalizing instruction and meet students' diverse needs more efficiently and meet these diverse needs more efficiently and meaningfully.

Fund for Teachers annually invites teachers’ proposals that address learning gaps for themselves and their students. Since 2015, Barbara Dalio and Dalio Education have partnered with Fund for Teachers to invest $4.9 million in grants for 1,135 Connecticut teachers.

"Teachers are at the heart of shaping not only students' academic trajectories, but often their social and emotional well-being, as well," Executive Director Karen Eckhoff said. "Fund for Teachers believes this high calling merits validation and support, which we provide by funding fellowships that ultimately inspire teachers’ enthusiasm for student engagement and extend their longevity in the profession."

Dalio said, "It never ceases to amaze me the learning opportunities teachers seek to bring to their students."

This group of educators join Fund for Teachers’ 25th cohort of FFT Fellows. Since 2001, Fund for Teachers has invested $39 million in 10,225 teachers from across the United States. This year, Fund for Teachers awarded a total of $1.625 million in grants to empower 357 teachers’ self-designed fellowships in 79 countries on six continents.