By Carol Bousquet/Community Contributor
April 17, 2009
Kennebunk Post
They took out loans, scratched their heads, and changed their business strategy all in a few short hours. It wasn’t corporate America but Middle School of the Kennebunks sixth graders who got a chance to run a mini-city for… Read the rest
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Iris Sherman
Amount: $250.00
Assisted with travel expenses for Odyssey of the Mind team to attend World Finals competition at Iowa State University. Odyssey of the Mind is a nationwide competition in which teams generate and perform creative solutions to complex problems.
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Beth Carlson
Amount: $650.00
Assisted in travel expenses for KHS teacher Beth Carlson to participate in National Conference that she was asked to speak at. (Read More)
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Cynthia Hayes, Joycelyn Roux, Sara Zito
Amount: $4,913.00
Five staff members attended a week-long summer training on student-centered innovations such as academic choice, collaborative problem solving, and classroom organization.
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Superintendents Office
Amount: $6,300.00
A district-wide program to foster continuity in ongoing professional development through a mentor induction team, which will partner with all new teachers to the school system.
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Stacey Schatzabel
Amount: $2,250.00
Based on research indicating that active sitting contributes to active learning, this grant provided stability balls for experimental use in multiple classrooms to replace traditional chairs.
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Kevin Crowley, Sara Zito
Amount: $4,800.00
A collaboration with the Kennebunk Land Trust and the Kennebunk Free Library to enable students to experience the natural environment and introduce them to the beauty, history, and ecology that surrounds us.
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: L KES AR Committee
Amount: $1,800.00
Comprehensive, standards-based, online mathematics games and activities that support differentiation and 21st-century skills.
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Go Green Committee
Amount: $10,000.00
A comprehensive plan involving the entire student body to “green up” the school in practice and throughout the curriculum. Themes include reduce, reuse, and recycle; alternative energy sources; and vermiculture and composting. The project also constructed a greenhouse, an… Read the rest
Date: Spring 2009
Amount: $10,000.00
A comprehensive plan involving the entire student body to “green up” the school in practice and throughout the curriculum. Themes include reduce, reuse, and recycle; alternative energy sources; and vermiculture and composting. The project also constructed a greenhouse, an outdoor classroom, and solar panels… Read the rest
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Kevin Crowley, Sara Zito
Amount: $4,800.00
A collaboration with the Kennebunk Land Trust and the Kennebunk Free Library to enable students to experience the natural environment and introduce them to the beauty, history, and ecology that surrounds us.
Date: Spring 2009
Amount: $10,000.00
A variety of specially-designed 2-day workshops taught by regular Heartwood faculty. Classes provided hands-on experiences, exposure to new art media, and tangible creations for students to bring home. (Read article)
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