GRANTS AWARDED 1998-1999
In May 1998, the Concord Educational Fund awarded ten grants for a total of $35,021. During this school year, these grant projects will reach children in all three Concord elementary schools and at Concord Carlisle High School. The grants, summarized below, were made to Concord teachers, school staff and parents.
CONCORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Integrating Technology into Elementary Music |
| Grant Amount |
$5,913 |
| Pilot with fourth and fifth graders at Alcott School. This grant will offer students a "hands-on" approach to using technology in the music room to learn about composers, world music and creating their own compositions. |
eMates and eProbes: Inquiry Science and Technology in the Classroom |
| Grant Amount |
$4,958 |
| Pilot with fourth and fifth graders at Alcott School. This project will enhance science education by introducing the technologies of eMate and eProbe software and engaging students in testing and finding solutions to real-world problems. The program will expand to Willard and Thoreau Schools next year. |
Lending Library at Thoreau Lending Library at Willard: The Home/School Connection |
| Grant Amount |
$2,650 per school |
| First graders at both schools. These two grants will establish a lending library (based on the model program at Alcott School) of I SO paperback books in the first grade classrooms of both Willard and Thoreau. The project will involve the children and their parents in reading and literacy skills development at home. |
Using the Portable Computer to Enhance the Writing Process |
| Grant Amount |
$8,400 |
| Fifth graders at Willard School. The goal of this project is to improve the writing, revising and editing skills of fifth graders through increased accessibility to word processing tools (using 12 new Apple 3Mate 300 computers.) |
The Colonial Garden |
| Grant Amount |
$450 |
| Alcott third graders, into the fall of their fourth grade year. This second‑year grant provides follow‑up funding to continue the children's organic garden in the Hugh Cargill Town Gardens. |
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The Virtual High School at Concord-Carlisle High School |
| Grant Amount |
$8,000 |
| Twenty students to start. The Virtual High School (VHS) is a cooperative project funded by a $7.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to Hudson Public Schools in collaboration with the Concord Consortium. Concord-Carlisle High School will join the cooperative of 35 high schools in 12 states offering Internet-based courses. A CCHS teacher will spend the first year in professional development, studying how to design network-based courses. In exchange for the course that this teacher contributes to the VHS curriculum, 20 CCHS students will be able to enroll in Internet-delivered courses. |
The Onset of the Civil War |
| Grant Amount |
$2,000 |
| CCHS students enrolled in this course. This grant allows for the development of two units (the Compromise of 1850 and the outbreak of war over Fort Sumter) of a new elective in the social studies curriculum at Concord-Carlisle High School. Using the Choices model, a curriculum project from Brown University, the course features educational materials to show students the options that confronted policy makers at different points in history. The students will analyze the available information and role play the possible choices. |
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