Each month during the school year, the Idaho Education Association awards classroom grants of $50 each to eight IEA members who've been teaching for five years or less. (Learn more here.)

Here are the Cold Hard Cash winners for January 2011:

Amber Steele    Wallace Education Association

Lisa Hall    Pocatello Education Association

Jody Fegert    Bear Lake Education Association

Dinah Gaddie    Lake Pend Oreille Education Association

Kate Parnes    Blaine County Education Association

Angie Rodgers    North Star Education Association

Amanda Short    Meridian Education Association

Jessica Lamb    Post Falls Education Association