Twenty-five Sarasota County Schools educators have been selected by Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation for the Foundation’s 2025 TIME Fellowship. The TIME Fellowship provides public-school educators with the resources to experience meaningful professional renewal and personal rejuvenation. TIME Fellows each receive up to $12,000 from Barancik Foundation to complete a personal project they design to revitalize their passion for teaching and commitment to their students. Proposals selected by the Foundation for 2025 fellowships range from immersive foreign-language learning in Spain that will increase fluency and cultural competency to firsthand explorations of scientific innovation and macroeconomics in Japan that will enable teachers to put academic concepts into dynamic, real-world contexts for students. Themes that thread through many of the successful applications include a desire to continue lifelong learning and a clear plan to turn Fellowship experiences into practical, engaging lessons for the classroom. The new class of TIME Fellows will complete their fellowship experiences by the end of 2025.  This is the fourth group of TIME Fellows selected by Barancik Foundation since 2022. Through the TIME Fellowship program, Barancik Foundation annually invites teachers, principals, and assistant principals at traditional public schools within the Sarasota County School District to submit proposals for a project or experience that will renew their commitment to teaching.  Fellowships are meant to be intellectually stimulating and personally refreshing while creatively expanding the educator’s experience.  The projects ultimately benefit students, as TIME Fellows bring back new ideas, approaches, and energy to their schools and classrooms. TIME stands for “Time to Inspire Margie’s Educators.”  The fellowship program was created in honor of Barancik Foundation cofounder Margie Barancik, who was a teacher herself.  A full list of the 2025 TIME Fellows with summaries of their fellowship projects can be found on the Barancik Foundation website at BarancikFoundation.org.

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