You can help The Teacher Salary Project win $50,000. The project has been selected to be part of round one of the Pepsi Refresh Project, which is giving away $1,000,000 a month and allowing the public to decide on what gets funded by voting online for the ideas they like best. There are several categories, including Pepsi Refresh: Education.
Every day in February we can go to The PepsiRefresh page and vote for The Teacher Salary Project. All teachers (and students) will benefit from our combined efforts. Even if the project doesn't finish in the Top 10, the exposure will move the thought process forward.
Here's a 2-minute film entitled, "Before 9am":
In case the project is new to you, or you want to help us get more votes by passing this along via email, blog, or PLN, here's what we're about:
The purpose of The Teacher Salary Project is simple: to honor our most effective teachers and to demonstrate that they are critical to the viability of our democracy. With our ongoing digital archive of teaching stories and feature documentary film to premiere in May 2011 as the centerpiece of a national town hall event, we will change how our society values the people who have the greatest impact on student success – our nation's teachers.
Here's that Pepsi link again: www.refresheverything.com/
