Bread Loaf School of English Scholarship 2025GrantIn-Person

The Academy for Teachers is modeled on The Bread Loaf School of English, at Middlebury College, where passionate students, most of them teachers, take inspiring classes in a beautiful mountain setting.

Scholarships of $5,000, offered jointly by The Academy and Bread Loaf, will be awarded to Fellows of The Academy for Teachers who show a passion for literature, a love of creativity, and a devotion to teaching. We hope that six weeks among kindred spirits—reading, discussing, writing, playing—will send them into the next school year rejuvenated.

Once granted the partial scholarship, additional financial aid may be available for up to the full ~$10,000 tuition. Applicants must be Academy for Teachers Fellows and full-time teachers, of any subject, in a New York City metro-area school. Applicants need not pursue a degree at Bread Loaf.

Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously attended the Bread Loaf School of English.

• Application deadline: December 1, 2024
• Recommendation letter deadline: December 8, 2024
• Scholarships offered: January 2025
• Bread Loaf session begins: June 28, 2025
• Bread Loaf session ends: August 9, 2025

The following materials are required:

• A résumé.
• A writing sample of no more than 750 words (any sort of writing is acceptable—academic, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism, etc.)
• In one sentence, tell us why you want to spend the summer at Bread Loaf. Then, expand on your reasons using 750 words or less.

Please arrange for a letter of recommendation to be emailed as an attachment from the recommender directly to info@academyforteachers.org.

Note: Selected scholars will need to provide official college transcripts to the Bread Loaf School of English; application materials for selected scholars will also be shared with the School.