Date: Fall 2012
Amount: $4,000.00
All RSU 21 5th graders will attend Julia Robinson Math Festival at University of New England with help from Mathematical Sciences Research Institute professionals. The festival is a non-competitive event featuring math challenges and puzzles that require creativity and persistence to solve. 5th grade teachers, math teachers from MSK and KHS and KHS student mentors will participate as well.
Schools: All elementary schools in RSU21
Date: Fall 2011
Amount: $15,825.00
Twenty-five classrooms in the elementary schools in RSU21 are getting stability balls, which are proven to improve posture and focus of children in the classroom.
Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Kennebunk Elementary School, Mildred L. Day School, Sea Road School
Date: Spring 2011
Total: $3,200
Mobile carts outfitted with supplies allow students to cook in their classrooms. Students grow produce in school gardens and can enjoy healthy foods while learning math, reading, geography and life skills. This program aligns with district wellness initiatives.
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: $952.50
Two classrooms at Consolidated School get stability balls. Stability balls have been a great success at Kennebunk Elementary School.
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: Spring 2010
Amount: $2,097
K through 5 students will learn Spanish phrases through signs in classrooms paired with recorded messages that provide correct pronunciation.
Date: Spring 2010
Amount: $1200
Elementary students who excel in math will have an accelerated on-line math program to challenge them in mathematical concepts, abstract reasoning and computations.
Date: Winter 2010
Amount: $11,900.00
Fifth graders from RSU #21 went to Heartwood College of Art to receive training in varied art media ranging from photography and pastels to jewelry and paper making.
Date: Winter 2010
Amount: $900.00
Fourth– and fifth-grade instructors received the digital component of the “Science Companion” curriculum kits, allowing them to integrate six units of study with existing interactive whiteboards.
Date: Winter 2010
Amount: $1,260.00
K–5 Macintosh computer labs received software that helps children learn keyboarding in a fun way; the software allows the tracking of student progress as well.
Date: Winter 2010
Amount: $6,075.00
Third-grade students identified as being at risk of not meeting New England Comprehensive Assessment Program standards attended school for ten half-days in August to work on math and literacy.
Date: Winter 2010
Sponsor: Tracy Mason
Amount: $5,613.20
The EFKA supported this program last year for K – 1 classes. In this second phase, the program is expanded to include second grade teachers, RTI tutors, Title 1 and special education staff. As part of this project, a Handwriting Without Tears representative would come to our district to present to our teaching staff (approx. 96) about the HWT program and how they could best implement their strategies into the classroom to ensure successful handwriting instruction and remediation. The grant also requests to purchase classroom tools and materials for each teacher.
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 outdoor classroom, and solar panels to produce electricty for the school.
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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 to produce electricty for the school.
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.
Date: Spring 2008
Amount: $1,200.00
Purchased literature and supplies to supplement and enhance the science curriculum for kindergarten classes.
Date: Spring 2008
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.
Date: Winter 2008
Sponsor: Janet Wendle
Amount: $1,175.00
Provides a durable tool that students and teachers throughout the district can use to transfer their artwork onto fabric and create a variety of finished products. Contributes to instructional units in elements of design and in art careers.
Date: Spring 2007
Amount: $2,375.00
Foreign language curriculum development will involve foreign language staff and K-1 teachers. This project will impact our K-1 classroom teachers, and K-1 elementary students.
Date: Fall 2006
Amount: $6,000.00
Provided supplemental materials and manipulatives for K-5 pilot math program to support alternative learning styles and to enhance hands-on learning and 21st-century skills.
