GRANTS AWARDED 2009-2010
Across Districts: K-12
21st Century/Building Learning Communities Conference 
Grant Amount: $5,360
Sending a team of
administrators and and specialists to
the Building Learning Communities
conference who then will collaborate on implementation ideas
across K-12 to benefit students and
staff districtwide.
Feedback:
CPS: K-8
Writing Skill Readiness
Grant Amount: $950
School: All Elementary Schools – Grades K-2
Producing a
classroom friendly instructional DVD to
teach and improve K-2 student’s
writing readiness awareness and skills.
Integrating Digital Photography and Art
Grant Amount: $2,202
School: Alcott
Expanding the 2008 CEF Grant “Photo Essays” to purchase equipment
for full class use in Integrated Arts,
Technology and Language Arts projects.
Walk a Mile in Your Shoes
Grant Amount: $10,000
School: Thoreau
Funding a joint effort between Elementary teachers and High School students to research global cultures
represented by Thoreau families in and producing curriculum, including multi-media
presentations, for delivery to Thoreau
students at multiple levels.
Classroom Math Enrichment Centers
Grant Amount: $2,368
School: Willard
Creating math enrichment centers to
provide quality differentiated
instruction and to ensure math
opportunities and challenges for
students who need it.
Intergenerational Literary Lunch
Grant Amount: $1,500
School: CMS
Purchasing books for a parent-student Literary Lunch
Book Group at CMS.
Ecuador Touchstone
Grant Amount: $5,110
School: CMS
Sending an Art teacher to
Ecuador to study historical sites,
experience Ecuador’s geography, art and
architecture and to teach Ecuadorian
elementary and middle school children.
The insights from the trip
will be incorporated into 6th grade World
Language and Social Studies curriculum.
Moodle Software for Website Developement
Grant Amount: $11,750
School: CMS
Training a team of teachers in the Moodle Course Management System, who will then develop a
template for teachers to use in
developing interactive, online learning
environments.
Poetry of Sculpture
Grant Amount: $1,800
School: CMS
Funding development of an interdisciplinary
poetry and sculture unit for
7th grade students.
CCHS: 9-12
Focus on Your Footprint
Grant Amount: $7,075
School: CCHS
Purchasing curricular materials and measurement equipment for Earth Science students to perform a home energy analysis as a
quarterly project.
Sophomore Writing Enrichment
Grant Amount: $29,831
School: CCHS
Installing a permanent
technology cart in a classroom
designated to the writing intensive
Sophomore year to ensure that
students advance through high
school with a command of the writing
skills necessary to succeed in the 21st
century.
Global Literacy Program
Grant Amount: $2,500
School: CCHS
Funding a consultant to facilitate the
development of a Global Literacy
Program at CCHS.
Document Cameras for Activboards
Grant Amount: $3,392
School: CCHS
Purchasing two document cameras to connect to the ActivBoards in
math and foreign language classrooms.
Advanced Multimedia Production
Grant Amount: $26,000
School: CCHS
Purchasing video, digital and
audio production equipment to support
student learning in media production in
curricular and co-curricular activities.
Students will produce television-ready
broadcasts for curriculum related
projects and/or classroom use.
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