2008 Grants Awarded: $48,645

$10,000

Madison - Our History

Dept of T/L

This proposal would support the completion of Phase II of this project to write a book, Madison-City of Four Lakes, Our History and Our Home and the accompanying curriculum for third grade history instruction for Madison schools. Phase II includes funding for the graphic artist to complete the layout for the book and printing 2000 copies and the web based construction.

$9,120

AVID Summer Training

East High School

AVID is a program designed to provide underachieving and underserved populations training for skills they will need to be successful in advanced level high school courses and four year college programs. This grant would support summer training for teachers at the AVID institute.

$9,900

Literacy Initiative Grant

East High School

This proposal would fund 5 and 1/2 days of training for 12 East High teachers to learn content area reading strategies across all major content areas. The professional development is part of a sustained coordinated effort to improved literacy at East. Funds would also support some of the materials necessary to implement literacy instruction.

$9,000

Learning to Read by Reading

Dept. of T/L

($1,141 from a Field of Interest Endowment Fund)

Rigby PM software can provide a unique alternative to daily reading practice opportunities for district first graders. The program provides built in degrees of support. The proposal would fund the one time purchase of the software site license that will allow the district to pilot and if successful sustain an intervention for first grade struggling readers.

$2,369

General Music Expansion

Spring Harbor

($2,048 from Music Endowment Fund)

The music teacher proposes to expand student experiences in general music through the purchase of guitars, keyboards, and a digital recorder.

$8,256

Drama Days

John Muir Elementary

John Muir Elementary proposes to purchase equipment and contract with a visiting artist to assist teachers in incorporating the dramatic arts in their teaching practices, help students understand the various elements of drama and experience dramatic performance themselves, and relate dramatic experience to John Muir's Above the Line activities.