Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $5,249
Software packages for Math IXL and Accelerated Reader are purchased for Kennebunkport Consolidated School. Current users and teachers at Kennebunk Elementary School and Sea Road School highly recommend Math IXL and Accelerated Reader.
Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $3,600
KES will get a mobile playground structure that allows for creative collaborative play that correlates with school-wide wellness initiatives. RSU#21 also secured a grant for this purchase.
Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $4,000
KHS Art Department will get a Smart Board to pilot use of technology in that department.
Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $899
Two classrooms at Sea Road School get stability balls. Stability balls have been a great success at Kennebunk Elementary School.
Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $952.50
Two classrooms at Consolidated School get stability balls. Stability balls have been a great success at Kennebunk Elementary School.
Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $960
Nine students and one teacher attended MIT Model UN conference in New York in February. Student delegation split up into committees to discuss real issues that UN members might address.
Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $650
International artist-in-residence Marlon Moreno from Leon, Nicaragua worked with students to create a mural at MSK with International Baccalaureate Themes.
Date: Winter 2011
Amount: $1,690
Two science teachers from MSK attended The National Conference on Science Education in San Francisco. The teachers learned about embracing technology in the classroom; accessing language through science and
mathematics; exploring earth, wind and fire; and building scientific minds.
Date: Fall 2010
Amount: $400
Sixth grade language students competed in first annual Rams Cup soccer tournament. Students studied the importance of soccer to French and Spanish speaking cultures. The event supported the French/Spanish Geography Unit and included Physical Education and Arts as well.
Date: Fall 2010
Amount: $1,700
Students in the Young Diplomats Club at the Middle School of the Kennebunks visited the Japanese Consulate in Boston, and the club hosted speakers to bring awareness of global issues to students. MSK is an International Baccalaureate Learner Profile School; the club provides an outlet for students to… Read the rest
Date: Fall 2010
Amount: $4,000
The library at the Arundel elementary school will receive new books and professional oversight to support and enhance the RSU#21 curriculum for K-5 students.
Date: Fall 2010
Amount: $$6,197.31
A Pilot Program will be developed to teach Metacognitive Higher Order Thinking Skills in third grade. Today’s students must be able to read and process large amounts of material; the program will put together a curriculum that will teach critical thinking skills at an earlier age.
Date: Fall 2010
Amount: $1,250
A three-season classroom will be constructed at Mildred L. Day school in Arundel to provide students and teachers with an opportunity to use the environment to support educational activities, including those in allied arts.
Date: Fall 2010
Amount: $5,800
Kennebunk High School will establish a Digital Network radio station in 2011 to broadcast student related programming, including news, sports, music and
talk shows. The station will be an extracurricular activity for students interested in journalism and broadcasting.
Date: Fall 2010
Amount: $3,000
Five RSU#21 staff members attended the semi-annual Learning and the Brain Conference in Boston. The theme of this session was “No Brain Left Behind: Improving Teaching, Testing and Treatment.” The neuroscience of learning was explored along with strategies to improve teaching, learning and memory.… Read the rest
On a rainy May morning, three kindergarten girls are on stage at Kennebunk Elementary School, singing a pop song together into their microphones. While the singing is very sincere, the props are a bit unusual — the stage and microphones have been constructed out of large blue foam pieces that,… Read the rest
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