Dartmouth Education Foundation (DEF)

03/29/2022

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. The Wanabees are back in first place. 🏆🐝

03/29/2022

More photos from a great night. 🎉🐝

03/29/2022

We couldn’t BEE more grateful! 🐝
Thanks to all for participating— our teams, volunteers, donors, sponsors and friends. The Dartmouth Education Foundation appreciates you.

03/24/2022

Tonight‘s the night! The 10th annual DEF Spelling Bee. Join us at 7 PM at Dartmouth High School to see 22 teams compete for the coveted trophy. Bee there or Bee square. 🐝🏆🎉 All proceeds support teaching and learning in the Dartmouth Public Schools.

01/25/2022

Calling all spelling bee contestants! First in, first flight! The 10th Annual DEF Spelling Bee will be hosted on Thursday, March 24 at 7 PM at DHS. Arrival at 6 PM. Costumes encouraged. Masks a must.

11/04/2021

Congratulations to the 2021 grant recipients from the Dartmouth Public Schools pictured here with DEF Board Members and DPS Administration. We look forward to a spring 2022 Spelling Bee on March 24!

03/12/2021

The portal for teacher grants for the 2021-2022 academic year is now open. We are accepting applications through April 30th to support teaching and learning in the Dartmouth Public Schools!
Visit our website to apply: http://dartmoutheducationfoundation.org/grant.html

04/29/2020

The portal for teacher grants is open until 11:59 PM on Thursday, April 30. DPS teachers... we want to support you. www.defma.org

03/05/2020

The 2020 Grant cycle is now open for teachers in the Dartmouth Public Schools! Please spread the word. Applications are due by April 30! We look forward to reviewing your requests. Visit

02/18/2020

The Grant portal for 2020-2021 funding opens on March 1. http://dartmoutheducationfoundation.org/grant.html

Written by DEF member Mary Waite:
Each year the Dartmouth Education Foundation funds grants submitted by teachers hoping to bring thoughtful, engaging programming, curriculum and technology to their students. On Friday, February 14th, Ms. Gardner used that grant to bring Author Padma Venkatraman to Dartmouth Middle School to talk about her novel, The Bridge Home, and her other work. I was humbled to be able to attend Ms. Venkatraman’s presentation alongside the entire 6th grade, and some 5th, 7th and 8th graders. Ms. Venkatraman spoke about her writing process, her life in science, the difficulty of being the sole minority woman in a post doc program, and the challenge our generation is leaving to all of our kids- the kids sitting in that auditorium- to face our climate crisis head on. She was amazing. Thank you Ms. Gardner for bringing this author to Dartmouth Middle School and for being an inspiring educator.

The 2020 Teacher Grant Award Program is not yet open for submissions. We will open the portal for submissions in February 2020.

11/28/2019

Another great funded project at Dartmouth Middle School!

Tomatoes, lettuce, swiss chard, and basil are among the plants grown by a group of intrepid middle schoolers for their cafeteria — inside their cafeteria . Instead of traditional gardening, the students are using a hydroponic system with...