2017 Grand Island Schools Flips for Reading
Thousand Island Public Schools Foundation awards classroom mini-grants
Grand Island Public Schools Foundation Board members surprised teachers and students in the M Island Public Schools when they arrived at schools Tuesday and Midweek to honor 17 classroom mini-grants.
The Yard Island Public Schools Foundation awards mini-grants in two rounds on an annual basis. Mini-grants are designed to fund educational opportunities for students that are not available through the school district's full general budget.
This is the fourteenth almanac mini-grant cycle for the Yard Isle Public Schools Foundation. Since the program's inception, the Grand Island Public Schools Foundation has funded 245 mini-grants totaling $205,174. Grants have been awarded to every school in the district benefiting approximately 49,534 students.
The 2017-2018 mini-grant fund was established via the "Add it Up to Opportunity!" Staff and Board fund drive and the "Tradition of Excellence" Community Entrada held during the by 12 months.
For the 2017-2018 school year, 17 grants totaling $xviii,268 were awarded through the mini-grant procedure. Grants range from $275 to $2,000.
vi,214 students will do good from a classroom mini-grant this school year.
Round One grant winners, grant amounts, and project titles were:
Stacy Booker and Valerie Chmelka, Contrivance Elementary, $670, "Coding at Dodge". This project will purchase 8 coding robots. The robots are designed to inspire curiosity, creativity, and invention through continued play and coding. It will also help include students with disabilities to manipulate and problem solve through coding. The grant will do good 470 students, grades K-5.
Reneé Ekhoff, 1000 Isle Senior Loftier, $1,300, "Outdoor Classroom and Field Trips". This grant will be used to enhance the learning of students in the GISH Environmental Science form and the Roots North Shoots program. The grant volition be used to update the outdoor classroom with self-sufficient, minimal maintenance watering systems (using rain barrel recycled water), native species identification plates, and introducing native species of flora into the area. Students who are involved in these ii programs volition also accept the opportunity to nourish conservation and wild fauna, ecology and environmental studies field trips at Native Prairies with Prairie Plains Resource Institute. The field trips volition include Crane Trust Nature and Company Centre, Gerloff Prairie and Sherman Ranch with guest speakers and hands on experiences. This grant will benefit 60 students in grades nine-12.
Lisa Geist, Walnut Middle Schoolhouse, $ane,470, "DNA Is Not Your Destiny! IQ Is Not Fixed! The Power of Working Memory". Ane of the biggest deficiencies kids in poverty have is lack of working memory, notwithstanding, strengthening working retentiveness is one best ways to increase academic success. You can strengthen working memory by training it for v-15 minutes a day for 8-12 weeks. This grant will purchase supplies for like shooting fish in a barrel-to-implement activities focused on strengthening memory. This grant benefits 800 students in grades 6-8.
Roger Holsinger, Thou Island Senior Loftier, $1,200, "Senior High Photography Order". The Photography Club at Grand Island Senior High School is in need of digital cameras. Currently, students in the guild must accept their own SLR in order to participate. This grant will be used to buy two (2) Canon digital cameras to be used by students in the gild. This grant will benefit 20 students in grades 9-12.
Holly Love, Walnut Middle School, $275, "Legit Legos...Allow go of my Legos...What?". 'Play with legos,' she said, 'It will exist fun,' she said....it was! Utilizing Legos, a babyhood toy enhances math lessons, creates easily on experiences, and makes students want to larn. In my classes nosotros will use Legos to enhance lessons for surface area, perimeter, book, fractions, squares, ratios and then much more. Let the fun begin! This grant volition benefit 125 students.
Chandra Myers, Gates Elementary, $465, "Practice Makes Permanent". This grant volition fund a variety of literacy games for students to do needed skills. The games range from matching games to puzzles. These games volition be at differentiated levels to ensure that all students are getting what they need to close learning gaps. The games will be aligned to literacy standards and help reinforce what we are working on in whole group reading. The funding from this grant will benefit 60 students.
Maureen Oman, Lincoln Simple, $1,250, "GIPS Summer Schoolhouse collaborates with United Way and Little Free Libraries". GIPS Summer Schoolhouse students volition receive a Little Free Library donated by the Heartland United Mode. As part of the Library kick-off and celebration, and to promote summer reading, this grant volition gift all summer school children with a book to take dwelling. This grant will benefit 500 students in grades K-5 at Jefferson Elementary, Dodge Elementary, Wasmer Unproblematic, Knickrehm Elementary, Howard Elementary, Starr Elementary and West Lawn Elementary.
Denise Pedersen, Kelley Ward and Nate Helzer, Barr Middle School, $2,000, "Barr Live Streaming". Barr Center School students learn about video production and will live stream concerts, projects for digital media, HAL projects, and other school events. This grant will requite students skills in presenting their work through digital media, requite them a voice in the community, and expand their skills. This grant will do good 200 students in grades 6-8.
Lynn Plucknett and Jeff Chmelka, Barr Middle School, $1,000, "Transportation for the production of 'A Christmas Carol'". The grant is to fund the transportation expense for seventh graders at Barr Middle School to attend the live production of 'A Christmas Carol' at Grand Isle Senior Loftier. Students volition be given the opportunity to see how stage productions and dialogue in a play come to live on the stage. Students will clarify and evaluate the impact of print, video, and live production of a piece of literature. This grant will benefit 230 seventh form students.
Cheryl Russell, Shoemaker Elementary, $660, "Everybody'south Drumming!!!" Rap-a-tap-tap, boom, nail, boom! Using drums in the elementary classroom is motivating and exciting! Students reap the benefits of loftier engagement while gaining cognition in the musical elements of rhythm, tempo, dynamics, and improvisation. The joy of playing music is something that should be experienced by everyone, regardless of age, talent-level or experience. This grant will do good 365 students in grades K-v.
Jason Weseman, Howard Elementary, $750, "Howard Simple Digital Display Television". This grant will buy a apartment-screen TV to be mounted in the entryway of Howard Unproblematic School to increase family and student date in school and classroom events. This grant will benefit 350 K-v students and their families.
Round Ii grant winners, grant amounts, and project titles were:
Bailey Aupperlee and Melissa McDonald, Shoemaker Elementary, $2,000, "#ShoeMakerSpace". The purpose of ShoeMakerSpace is to provide an expanse for students to design, create, imagine and explore through science, technology, engineering, fine art, and mathematics. All activities will be aligned to literature to enhance connections made through reading. Teachers, administrators, and specialists volition exist empowered to utilise this space in order to meet the needs of their students. This grant will benefit 300 students in grades K-5.
Cindy Beaman and Amanda Rood, Barr Middle Schoolhouse, $674. "Transforming Our Geometry Learning With Absurd Tools". Past using MIRAs (a transparent geometric tool) and angle-rulers eighth grade students volition find it piece of cake to bisect, measure out, and describe angles, and explore transformational geometry. Students will quickly see concepts of symmetry and congruence as well equally reflections, rotations, slides, and flips. This grant volition benefit 694 students in grades 6-viii.
Chandra Kosmicki, Jefferson Unproblematic, $1,995, "Robotic Coding with Ozobots, Dot, and Nuance". Ozobots and Dot-Dash are robots that teach students computer programming, problem-solving, and collaboration. This project will provide students opportunities within the media skills classroom, as well as in before-school and luncheon bunch clubs, to engage in coding and STEM activities. This grant benefited 600 students in grades K-5.
Chelsey Liess, Walnut Middle School, $1,360, "Monitoring and Goal Setting in PE". Students in PE will go a chance to rails and monitor their ain endeavour and exertion with the aid of uploadable pedometers. Pedometers will not simply record steps taken, simply will likewise rails activity fourth dimension during a lesson and engagement in moderate to vigorous physical activity. Students volition exist able to gear up goals based on their pedometer readings. This grant volition benefit 750 students in grades half dozen-8.
Abra Misselt and Jen Leitschuck, Starr Elementary, $500, "Starr Uncomplicated School Sensory Room". This project will provide a variety of equipment and supplies to create a sensory room at Starr Elementary. A sensory room is a safety identify where students can get to calm down, release free energy, and come across their sensory needs and so that they can return to the classroom focused and ready to learn. This grant volition do good 20 students in grades K-5.
Laurie Peterson, Walnut Center Schoolhouse, $699, "Wildcat Custom Designs". This grant will fund the buy of an embroidery machine for utilise at a earlier school club that focuses on customized embroidery designs and monogramming. Students in the club will learn how to set up a unique custom embroidery design to be stitched onto clothing and other fabric products. The society can then offer this service to staff and students at Walnut. The Embroidery Machine will as well exist used by Family unit and Consumer Sciences Students throughout the school year. This grant will benefit 600 students in grades 6-8.
Source: https://www.gips.org/gips-news/2017/12/06/grand-island-public-schools-foundation-awards-classroom-mini-grants/
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