
2016/2017 Grant Recipients5th grade elementary ukulele
program Established
a new strings-based music program in which 5th grade students at all
elementary schools learn to play the ukulele. Allison Fuller, Jamie Barrett, Brian
Gustafson, and Mary MacMurray, District-wide Student self-regulation
strategies/tools Provide
self-regulation strategies/tools to each classroom that will allow students to
stay in class and maintain a readiness level for learning. Michelle Brent,
Jennifer Curry, and Amy Westerman, Jefferson Elementary School Mobile, augmented reality
sandbox/learning center Provides
students a hands‐on opportunity to engage with social studies and science
concepts around topography, erosion, physical features, settlement, and
volcanic activity. Jim d'Entremont, Horace Mann Middle School Hands-on, inquiry-based solar
energy research project Allows 7th
grade students to directly investigate solar energy and properly explore
learning through the inquiry process. Students design, build, and test solar
panel structures. James Schliefke, Horace Mann Middle School Book club with author visits by Skype. Increased students' independent
reading and dialogue regarding literature as well as fostered a school culture that elevates literacy and literacy initiatives by providing opportunities for book authors to
“meet” students via Skype. Tulani Husband-Verbeek, Remington
Middle School Program to
update and reorganize the middle school book room. Provided
funds to update and reorganize the middle school book room to reflect the more rigorous
and complex frameworks recently implemented in Massachusetts. Ingrid Ahlberg and Suzanne Roma, Remington Middle
School Enhance
the physical education, health, and wellness curriculum via a
snowshoe/orienteering program Enhance the physical education,
health, and wellness program by purchasing 30 snowshoes and related equipment
to add a fun, engaging, and rigorous lifelong learning unit to the curriculum. Amanda Christopoulos and Kyle Duguay, Remington
Middle School Interdisciplinary
program to create a mosaic art installation Funded an interdisciplinary
project in which students created Byzantine Period mosaics while integrating
art, math and social studies concepts. Jane
Pichette and Jeff Chaffee, Remington Middle School
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