Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Tom Taylor, RuthEllen Cialfi
Amount: $5,040.00
As virtual consumers, citizens, and business owners of Exchange City, students gain experience with loans, interest, expenses, debit and credit cards, and campaigning for public office. The culminating activity is a trip to Exchange City in Portsmouth, N.H.,… Read the rest
Date: Winter 2009>
Sponsor: Mary McCarthy
Amount: $2,639.33
Students use podcast technology to create guided tours of the school and the local community.
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Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Luke Howell
Amount: $5,069.90
Purchased curriculum and materials for a comprehensive, laboratory-based unit that develops energy concepts in ways that relate to student’s lives and concerns.
Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Emily Flaherty, Jennifer Niese
Amount: $1,300.00
Students learn about alternative sources and uses of energy through a program at Chewonki Foundation Outdoor Classroom.
Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Susan Cressey
Amount: $10,000.00
Education Foundation volunteers prepared a successful grant request for funds from the Somers Foundation to support IB Training.
Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Superintendents Office
Amount: $7,340.00
Provided funding for five teachers to attend “Learning and the Brain” conference on creativity in the arts.
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Date: Winter 2009
Amount: $41,000.00
Piloting of language arts curriculum centered on discussion and close reading of classic texts. This program expands opportunities for differentiated instruction in reading, literary analysis, and critical thinking.
Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Tracy Mason
Amount: $4,146.00
A developmentally-based curriculum to develop print and cursive writing readiness, which incorporates multi-sensory tools and materials that address visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic learning styles.
Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Tracy Mason
Amount: $4,146.00
A developmentally-based curriculum for writing readiness – printing and cursive – involving multi-sensory tools and materials that address visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic learning styles.
Date: Winter 2009
Amount: $1,223.10
Piloting of language arts curriculum centered on discussion and close reading of classic texts. This program expands opportunities for differentiated instruction in reading, literary analysis, and critical thinking.
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