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2011 Grant Awards
Ann Zuehlke-Denoyer $257.00
This grant will provide Ginger Software to improve writing skills for high school learning disabled students. The students will be able to use the software to edit their own written work.
Rachel Ventress
Katie Vasel $2460.28
The funding from this grant will be used to complete the funding for the replacement of the damaged stage curtains. This project also includes $1700 from the fund a project portion of the Education Foundation Auction. This project will enhance stage productions at the school.
Janis Bredehoft $2,380.00
This grant will provide 17 iPod touches for daily uses in her elementary classroom. The devices will allow for differentiation of instruction and elimination of downtime for elementary students.
Jessica Miles $1434.00
This grant will fund the purchase of an Activote Response System. Activote is a learner response system that encourages classroom participation when used with a Promethian board.
Kim Kramer $224.75
This grant will allow for the purchase of 5 educational games that will help students improve their vocabulary, language, grammar and critical thinking skills.
Nicole Schleicher $3169.00
This grant will fund the purchase of a Promethian Interactive Board to help teach and reinforce learning objectives in a Kindergarten/first grade classroom.
Trudy Jones
Carolyn Ward $3800.00
This grant will provide for the purchase of two Smart Boards to enhance mathematics instruction in the Junior High and High school.
Karen Park $698.00
This grant will fund the purchase of equipment that will provide an avenue of communication for nonverbal students.
Rachael McCrae $322.41
This grant will purchase a document camera that will enhance the reading program at the Tri-City Elementary School.
Lori Gremer $598.36
This grant will be used to purchase Math Manipulatives for the Middle Elementary R.T.I. Mathematics Program.
Nadine Kraft to be determined
This grant will purchase a document camera that will enhance the reading program at the Tri-City Elementary School.
2010 Grant Awards
Rachael McRae $324.00
This grant provides for funding flip video literature circles. Third grade students will use Flip video camcorders to record video logs while reading a novel in small groups.
Danielle Heck $605.00
Funding from this grant will be used to pay for a PreK field trip to see a performance of a popular children’s book at Sangamon Auditorium and a family night at school. Funds will only be provided if a pending grant is not approved.
Gail White $345.24
This grant provides a wireless headphone listening system for a literature listening center in the Kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms.
Alison Whitworth $345.24
This grant provides a wireless headphone listening system for a literature listening center in the Kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms.
Karen Park $599.00
This project will allow for the purchase of an iPad to enable disabled learners to access technology based learning.
Caley Fields $136.38
Funding from this grant will purchase a Learning A-Z multi-component program that is research based and allows for individualized learning and growth in the core areas of reading and language.
Nicole Schleicher $292.18
This grant will purchase Reading Rods Hands-On Literacy Kits to promote and improve reading through the use of manipulatives in her first grade classroom.
Wendy Dilley $224.85
This grant provides resources to purchase online reading and science resources to differentiate curriculum by utilizing Promethian Boards.
Kara Cummins $2500.00
This grant will allow for the purchase of a Promethian Board/Activ Slate device for the 4th grade classroom.
Nadine Kraft $1428
This grant will purchase VersaTiles Manipulatives for the third grade curriculum which will allow students to practice skills at their own level and at their own pace.
Kathy Booker $606.10
This grant will allow for the purchase of materials for fourth grade cross-curricular thematic units.
Janis Bredehoft $658.00
This grant provides funding for the purchase of a Take Aim! At Vocabulary reading intervention program for junior high school students.
Kara Cummins $288.90
This grant will provide funding for a Versa Tiles Rising Readers Lab for the elementary Curriculum Library.
Kim Kramer $331.69
This grant will purchase computer software for vocabulary, language and reading software for use in speech/language therapy.
Ann Zuehlke-Denoyer $627.00
This grant will allow for the purchase of the Just Words Teacher’s Kit and Assessment Tool for high school students.
Steve Dilley $211.46
This grant will purchase literacy manipulatives to offer students hands-on activities to introduce and reinforce language building and early literacy skills for young learners.
2009 Grants Award
Debra Crowe $292.00
This grant will provide funding for the Spanish II class field trip to Chicago to visit the Mexican Fine Arts Museum and attend a three-part Spanish Music and Heritage Presentation.
Dave Bruno $2266.00
Funding for this project will be used to convert the school computer lab into a video conferencing room for all grade levels. In addition technology will be added to create an individual learning environment for college classes and interactive lessons.
Kara Cummins
Duane Schupp $1525.00
This grant will allow Preschool thru seventh grade students to experience museum quality 3-D programs in grade level groups. The programming will serve to reinforce what students are currently studying and is presented in a large dome structure.
Katie Vasel $323.00
This grant will purchase hand drums and wood blocks for the elementary general music program. This purchase will allow the school to meet Illinois Learning Standards for Fine Arts.
Kara Cummins $968.80
This project will allow the elementary school to start building a curriculum library of hands-on manipulatives for teachers to check out during the school year.
Donna Kirby $480.13
This grant will provide funding to purchase software needed to produce the school yearbook.