The Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment has announced the recipients of its 2019 Teacher Creativity Fellowships. 

Now in its thirty-second year, the program will provide a hundred K-12 teachers, principals, guidance counselors, and school librarians in Indiana with $12,000 each to pursue an imaginative project designed to infuse their busy lives with personal renewal and intellectual revitalization. Since 1987, more than twenty-nine hundred Indiana educators have received awards through the program.

Many of the educators will travel internationally to explore art, filmmaking, language immersion, environmental conservation, or outdoor endeavors such as mountain climbing and open-water swimming. Others plan to explore national parks in the U.S.; bicycle through Canada; immerse themselves in diverse cultures across Asia and Latin America; or research their family trees.

"These dedicated teachers, principals, counselors, and media specialists have designed inspirational projects that promise to strengthen them personally and professionally," said Lilly Endowment vice president for education Sara B. Cobb. "For more than thirty years now we at the endowment have learned how important it is for educators to have the time to create and explore. They have shared with us that they return to their schools with a greater commitment to their students and to the vocation of education."

For a complete list of this year's fellowship recipients, see the Lilly Endowment website.