Innovation Awards
For over a decade, the QTEA Innovation Awards has provided funding for SFUSD schools to bring new practices, ideas and solution that meet the most pressing educational challenges. The iLab has been the vehicle for facilitating this change by building human capacity and providing a toolkit of resources.
Click on the link below to learn more about how the 2023-24 Innovation Awards are supporting our district's adopted goals, values and guardrails.

Innovation Awards
Learn more about the past Innovation Awards and review application information for the coming year.
Impact Awards
The QTEA Impact Awards are designed to support schools who have already developed a project for which they seek funding.
Schools submit ideas, budgets and project plans to demonstrate how they would use funding to support a project or effort at their site and can secure up to $25,000 for this concept. Prior winning projects have included sending teachers to Japan to learn Lesson Study to building leveled libraries within a school site.
The 23-24 Impact Awards application are now available at this link! If you have a promising idea, please complete the application by Monday, October 2nd.
Congratulations to the 2021-22 Impact Award winners!
This year's Impact Award recipients have been selected. Congratulations to our five winning applicants:
- John Muir - Vibrant assessment for Learning
- June Jordan - Restorative Practices
- Bessie Carmichael - Cognitive Behavioral Intervention or Trauma in Schools (CBITS)
- Presidio - Complex Instruction
- Sheridan - Therapy for students with accompanying PD
This page was last updated on September 8, 2023