The Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 LIGHT Awards grants. With these grants, we recognize and honor the importance of educators in our Bay Area communities, as well as their role in inspiring the hearts and minds of students.
We plan to create a school wide community of care with a team focused on implementing trauma informed practices in order to support and retain our staff who have been impacted by working in a crisis environment.
Our team of four interdisciplinary educators (ELA, Math and Art) will build a sustainable system for assessing and addressing foundational literacy gaps among multilingual learners, ensuring targeted data-driven instruction across content areas.
We are a team of math teachers seeking to increase our abilities in building engaging lessons that honor the voice and identity of Multilingual learners.
Our project will help us build out an advisory curriculum for our newcomer program, “The School of Language,” with the goal of promoting a sense of agency, belonging and connection to our community of immigrants and our high school at large.