GRANTS AWARDED 2002-2003
ALL SYSTEM
Summer 2002 Enrichment – Academic Success Coaching |
| Grant Amount |
$2,000 |
| Project Leader |
Court Booth, Director of Community Education
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| This is a follow-up grant to continue development of a comprehensive summer program to serve 200-300 K-12 students. Courses will offer both enrichment and extra support services in a broad range of subject areas. The focus of this program is to offer productive instruction and help ensure academic success. |
Enhancing Communication between Community and Schools through Technology |
| Grant Amount |
$2,000 |
| Project Leader |
Terry Duggan, K-12 Technology Coordinator
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| This is a follow-up grant to continue work on the school system’s web page (www.colonial.net), which serves as one avenue for communication between schools and our community. The newly redesigned district home web page provides a wealth of general information about both CPS and CCRSD. This grant will support further enhancements and completion of the site. |
Save a Heart: CPR/AED Initiative |
| Grant Amount |
$3,150 |
| Project Leader |
Court Booth, Director of Community Education
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| This pilot project will introduce Automatic External Defibrillation (AED) devices into our public schools and subsequently train health care professionals, faculty, staff and students in their use to perform CPR. Working with public safety and rescue personnel, this new level of health care technology will provide us with direct emergency response capability in life threatening emergencies. |
CPS: K-8
Digital Imaging and Website Creation at Concord Middle School |
| Grant Amount |
$6,885 |
| Project Leader |
Cheryl Shea, Concord MS Art Department
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| This after-school pilot program will develop a proposed curriculum unit for students in grades 6-8 to learn to use equipment, software and technology to create their own websites. Students will be introduced to current web-authoring technology and principals of user interface. The instructor will use the results of the after-school program to refine curriculum-based instruction for inclusion in the Middle School art curriculum. |
Satellite Imagery of Earth |
| Grant Amount |
$1,300 |
| Project Leader |
Pam Howell, Technology Integration Specialist |
| Proponents: |
Christine Lekorenos, Social Studies Curriculum Specialist
Bob Fardy, Science Curriculum Specialist
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| This grant will enhance science and social studies curriculum, focusing on but not limited to all CPS fourth graders, by providing satellite imagery of the Earth to help study weather, geography and cartography. These engaging images provide tools for countless creative lessons and cross-curricula discussion, lending easily to differentiated instruction. |
Differentiated Instruction to Extend Learning Outcomes - Grades K-5 |
| Grant Amount |
$8,700 |
| Project Leader: |
Kathy Bowen – K-12 Health Education Coordinator |
| Proponents: |
Susan Chafe, Bob Fardy, Christine Francis, Bev Gauthier, Christine Lekorenos, Helene Levine
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| The Superintendent’s Advisory Group on Elementary Education gave recommendation to make differentiated instruction a system-wide priority to help meet the needs of all abilities in all grades. This grant will partially fund the activities of a research and development team of elementary school specialists and teachers. The team’s goal is to frame a philosophy and develop a protocol for identifying and working with students in grades K-5 who would benefit from further advanced instruction so they may reach their full potential. |
Development of a Social Competency Program at Thoreau School |
| Grant Amount |
$6,000 |
| Project Leader: |
Ellen Waters, Thoreau School Social Worker |
| Proponents: |
Brad Bennett, Laurel Jackson, Mary Schaefer PhD, and Alex Popp
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| To benefit all Thoreau students, this grant will train six staff to integrate a focused program in social competency skills and strategies throughout the school. The training will be provided by the Stone Center at Wellesley College through their Open Circle Program, a curriculum in social and emotional learning for children in grades K-5. The program strengthens the students and enables them to improve social relationships, self-esteem, and ultimately benefit their overall educational experience and success. |
Poet in Residence at Thoreau School |
| Grant Amount |
$4,200 |
| Project Leader: |
Brad Bennett, Thoreau Third Grade Teacher
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| This program would provide third grade Thoreau students the opportunity to spend an extended period of time with a professional poet/poetry teacher. The quality of the contact will greatly enhance this curriculum, allowing for further depth and creativity in writing and understanding poetry. |
Early Prevention of Reading Difficulties |
| Grant Amount |
$1,969 |
| Project Leader: |
Anne Mullen, Language Arts Specialist at Thoreau
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| This grant will fund training and materials to kindergarten teachers at Thoreau for the assessment of their students’ pre-reading skills. The earlier assessment of sound/symbol awareness, letter/sound associations, reading fluency and sight word acquisition allow for earlier reading support and intervention where necessary. The program will create a strong and necessary foundation for reading instruction in the first grade classrooms. |
Teaching and Learning with Technology in Social Studies (Grades 6-8) |
| Grant Amount |
$11,652 |
| Project Leader: |
Dan Murphy, Grade 8 Social Studies Teacher
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| This grant will provide one media station for use in a social studies classroom at each middle school. Each station will provide students with an opportunity for exposure to a wide-range of concepts in the social studies curriculum through varied media experiences. The educational experience in social studies of all Concord Middle School students will be enriched through this technology. |
Technology Integrated Teaching Projects and Aids |
| Grant Amount |
$2,790 |
| Project Leader: |
Dawn Pasters, Fifth Grade Teacher at Alcott |
| Proponent: |
Earl Corey
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| This grand will provide two LCD Projection devices for shared use in the fifth grade classes at The Alcott School. These projection devices will be used to increase Internet access and usage for unlimited possibility in tools for learning. |
Integrating Inquiry Science and Technology |
| Grant Amount |
$3,521 |
| Project Leader: |
Robert Fardy, K-5 Curriculum Specialist
Genoveva Matheus, Willard Technology Supervisor
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| This grant will purchase four Scalar USB Microscope sets and one Cannon VIZCAM 1000 to expand, enhance and enrich the science curriculum for all fourth and fifth grade students at Willard. The purchase of this equipment would support the ongoing integration of new technology into our schools. The goal is to expand this technology to both Alcott and Thoreau Schools as well. |
CCHS: 9-12
Using Geometry Software to Engage Learners in Inquiry |
| Grant Amount |
$7,800 |
| Project Leaders: |
Sue Ravalese, MS Math Teacher
June Patton, MS math Teacher
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| This grant will enrich the 9th and 10th grade geometry curriculum by purchasing interactive software to extend students’ understanding of key geometric principles. This inquiry-based (learner-centered) enrichment program will challenge students to construct their own understanding of geometric concepts through investigation and discussion. |
Microscale Chemistry Laboratories |
| Grant Amount |
$9,583 |
| Project Leader: |
Gina Bergskaug, CCHS Science Department
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This grant will fund a new microscale chemistry laboratory and related equipment for the science department at CCHS. Chemistry students in grades 10-12 will benefit from this installation in three key ways:
- The smaller scale allows for more frequent experiments, thereby yielding a greater number of samples;
- The equipment offers a safer system of experimentation, thereby following the science department’s renewed commitment to safety in the laboratories;
- Microscale laboratories are more efficient and environmentally friendly.
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Historic and Alternative Photographic Process Initiative |
| Grant Amount |
$5,912 |
| Project Leader |
David Prifti, CCHS Art Department
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| This grant will fund the development and implementation of a unit in the Advanced Photographic curriculum that will teach various 19th century alternative processes, using both old and new technologies. |
Enhancement of Electricity Curriculum for CCHS Physics Courses |
| Grant Amount |
$2,636 |
| Project Leader |
Deborah Berlin, CCHS Physics Dept.
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| Over 90% of CCHS students will take physics as juniors or seniors and participate in the electricity curriculum. This grant will fund and thereby implement the CASTLE (Capacitor-Aided System for Teaching and Learning Electricity) program that is highly regarded for it’s teaching of electricity and magnetism. A most exciting aspect of this program is its emphasis on qualitative, higher order reasoning and scientific process skills. Furthermore, material covered through CASTLE will provide a foundation for other topics covered in CCHS physics. |
Life Skills Based Performing Arts Workshops – CCHS |
| Grant Amount |
$3,750 |
| Project Leader |
Chuck Brown, CCHS Drama and Choral Director
Margaret Coughlin, Parent Representative CCPOPS
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| Designed to interest all students at CCHS, this program may enhance public speaking and presentation ability as well as interviewing techniques by participating in monthly Life Skills Based Performing Arts Workshops. To take place after school hours, the workshops will bring theater arts experts directly into contact with students to offer broad perspective and multiple skill sets from which the students can learn. In addition, this program will allow students to explore their creative, artistic side, regardless of academic or athletic proficiencies. |
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