Grow Your Own Teacher Scholarship

The Grow Your Own Teacher Scholarship Program is designed to help school districts across Ohio recruit their own students and staff to become teachers within the district. Recipients of the Grow Your Own Scholarship agree to teach for a minimum of four years at their home school district in exchange for a scholarship of up to $7,500/year for four years.

Application periods will be set by the Ohio Department of Higher Education as funding is available. Leadership staff at qualifying schools are expected to pro-actively recruit their own students and employees to participate in this program. Each school district interested in participating in the Ohio GYO Teacher Scholarship Program must attest that it has difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified classroom teachers.

The scholarship application will be open to the following:

• Individuals employed at a qualifying school who hold an educational aide permit, educational paraprofessional license, or substitute license (this includes educational service center employees who are assigned to the qualifying school).
• Low-income high school seniors attending a qualifying school.

As part of the application, the district in which GYO Scholarship applicants are employed or enrolled must attest to an intent to hire the GYO Scholarship recipient as a teacher after his or her graduation and licensure.

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