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School-Wide Grants Building Futures Grants School-Wide Grants and Building Futures Grants 2009-2010 The Virginia Beach Education Foundation is awarding $100,000 in Building Futures and School Wide Grants to support the teachers and students in Virginia Beach City Public Schools. A total of 100 projects received funding for the 2009-10 school year. The Foundation selected recipients from 249 applications. This funding support is the result of community collaboration with the . The mission of the Virginia Beach Public Schools Education Foundation is to raise private sector support to fund innovative and creative learning programs for the students of Virginia Beach City Public Schools and to reward educational excellence. 2009-20102009-2010 Building School-Wide Futures Grants Grants Bayside High School John B. Dey Elementary School Lab Pros Create Science Pros Beyond the Classroom Walls: An Expert Experience Co-Directors: Christopher Henry and Clara Heyder Co-Directors: Jody Carroll and Leslie Law Team: Christopher Smead, Jessica Sallee Team: Jean Koch, Maury Joy Amount: $4,978.42 Amount: $2,000.00 Underwriter: McKenzie Construction Corp. Description: Instead of traveling, students will explore Description: High school students will use state-of-the-art through communication. Each grade level, Kindergarten handheld computers to conduct science experiments on the through fifth, will participate in a videoconference tailored for school campus and in the Chesapeake Bay and Elizabeth River their age level and focusing on a particular area of study such as watersheds with the help of science professionals and parents. math, science, literature or history. Birdneck Elementary School Being A Writer: Standing On the Shoulders of Authors Malibu Elementary School Director: Mandy Yates Bountiful Botany: Growing Gardens, Growing Minds Team: Catherine DiGioia, Betsy Dixon, Nicole Co-Directors: Amy Furlich and Kelley Kasmark Rodriguez Team: Eileen Treon, Cecile Green, Gabrielle Hurst Amount: $3,815.00 Amount: $5,000.00 Description: The entire student population and teachers Underwriter: HBA Architecture & Interior Design will engage in this program to teach students "how" to be a Description: All students will learn more about science, writer by "reading like a writer." Students will choose their own math, reading, economics and writing in their hands-on work to topics after reading genres including poetry, narrative, fiction build an outdoor learning laboratory for life science studies. and nonfiction. Creeds Elementary School Woodstock Elementary School Outdoor Education Project All Aboard for Reading Success! Director: Vivian Barber Co-Directors: Emily Rudiger and Anne Martin Team: Tammy Humphreys, Diane Marx, Sarah Team: Kathy Verrey, Regina Erwin, Susan Dalton, Cicatko Cherie Brogan Amount: $3,500.00 Amount: $3,611.27 Underwriter: Betty Murden Michelson Description: In an effort to improve literacy/reading skills Description: A "dry pond" was constructed to prevent of Kindergarten - through 2nd-grade students, parents will be flooding in the school parking lot. Now the pond will become a given tools to provide reinforcement and support for their outdoor classroom for students with help from staff, parents, child's reading. Reading strategies will be available in monthly volunteers and partners to construct and maintain a new garden practice sessions, podcasts and a blog. and pond. Green Run High School '13 in 4 Round UP Co-Directors: Fran Matthews and Chris Jones Team: George Parker, Heidi Mealy Amount: $2,000.00 Underwriter: Josten's Description: Rising 9th graders will participate in team-building activities and leadership training with help from former students. Students repeating 9th grade will be paired with adult mentors, and in turn, the students will mentor elementary-age students. 1 2009-2010 Building Futures Grants Arrowhead Elementary School College Park Elementary School "Prop" Twice for a Virginia Choice Reader Book The Cougar Crew: Going Green Director: Jennifer Mitchell Director: Susan Jusell Amount: $219.68 Team: Denise Ollison, Debbie Rubin, Debbie Description: Guest readers will wear/use props that Ashby accompany stories they'll read to students in Kindergarten Amount: $891.00 through 4th grade. Stories will connect with math, science and Description: Students will become globally aware of the social studies to get students interested in these study areas. Earth's resources by joining national recycling campaigns, reading about the Earth and conducting experiments. They will Bayside Elementary School promote to other students, parents and partners how everyone Community Assembly Projects can reduce, reuse and recycle. Director: Tania Hill Cooke Elementary School Team: Melina Corbin Growing Green Group Amount: $535.00 Co-Directors: Janina Peters and Julie Laidlaw Description: Special needs elementary students will help Team: Carol Ann Guido homeless people by assembling hygiene kits needed in shelters. Amount: $1,000.00 The project will help these students build self-confidence as Underwriter: Jake's Bar-B-Que they progress independently to complete the tasks involved. Description: Green is the color for Cooke students who'll plan gardens to grow and harvest, create a miniature garden to Bayside Elementary School showcase and participate in a national tulip project. Master Learning on the Lawn gardeners, organic farmers, bee-keepers and TCE students will Co-Directors: Catherine Malley and Patty Waller help. Amount: $960.41 Description: In this "change of pace and place," Corporate Landing Elementary School elementary students will actively learn about their environment Change is Good after reading about what lies outside classroom walls. They'll Co-Directors: Joan Harwin and Joe Andreana conduct science experiments and write about the natural setting Team: Virginia Wilson, Lynda Gillikin, Anne they'll experience. James, Amy Fitzgerald Amount: $952.00 Bayside High School Underwriter: Electronic Systems, Inc. Physiology Exploration through Technology (PET) Description: Student teams will observe butterfly and Director: Clara Heyder ladybug metamorphosis from larval stage to adulthood, Amount: $998.00 photograph stages, create a PowerPoint to document what they Description: Three hundred juniors and seniors in learned and save onto a CD to refer to later. Insects will be Pathophysiology classes will team-up to use technology for released with a school celebration. EKG, heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, muscle fatigue Corporate Landing Elementary School and respiratory investigations. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Habitats Without Really Trying College Park Elementary School Co-Directors: Joan Harwin and Amy Fitzgerald CARE Take Home Reading Program Team: Lynda Gillikin, Sonyonna Brown, John Co-Directors: Robin Chintawongvanich and Jennifer Pohle, Anne James Zoberman Amount: $665.72 Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Third, fourth and fifth graders will work with Underwriter: GEICO Animal Jungle employees to set up 50, 5-gallon aquariums in Description: In order to increase text comprehension and the school science lab, with a variety of fish to observe and st nd develop reading fluency, Kindergarten, 1 and 2 grade collect data to maintain balance and create an optimum students will take home leveled books to read to their family, environment. then read again aloud to another adult volunteer at school. Corporate Landing Elementary School College Park Elementary School Meeting Goals through Assistive Technology The Cougar Café Co-Directors: Jessica Meekins Winbauer and Stacey Director: Susan Jusell and Debbie Ashby Pittman Amount: $870.00 Team: Rhonda Jenkins Description: This after-school enrichment will be Amount: $696.75 available to all students to play word or math games with Description: Preschool special education students friends, try online learning games and choose books to read. (hearing-impaired and/or non-verbal) will use assistive Select 5th graders, Tallwood High Teachers for Tomorrow technology devices and partner with normally-developing students, teachers and parents will assist. preschoolers to develop literacy, cognitive, language, motor, adaptive and social skills. 2 2009-2010 Building Futures Grants Corporate Landing Middle School Cox High School Circle of Friends Global Concerns: From China to Crime to Crisis and Collapse Director: Jessica Prebor Director: Ginny James Team: Vinnie Garufi Amount: $559.30 Amount: $846.85 Description: Students will immerse themselves in Foreign Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Charities Policy and Global issues such as US-China security relations, Description: Functioning autistic middle school students peace-building and conflict resolution by participating in Great will develop social skills using "Circles" pertaining to Decisions programs, then presenting, discussing and debating appropriate behavior for different interactions. Circles include topics with classmates. role-playing, parent participation, movies, and group discussion after school. Cox High School Water Conservation / H2O Pollution Solution Corporate Landing Middle School Director: Ginny O'Malley Meeting Oysters and the Watershed They Live In Amount: $635.00 Director: Sherry Kelly Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Charities Team: Thomas Frohlich, Stephanie Riddell Description: Ninth- and tenth-grade students will research Amount: $900.00 water conservation and pollution issues in their environment, as Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding well as throughout Virginia. They will then design a rain garden Description: Seventh-grade "scientists"
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