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We’ve Got No Strings To Hold Us Down 4th Grade Can We Take a Clicker Quiz Today? 4th Grade Castleman Creek Elementary Castleman Creek Elementary

Students are entering a world full of occupations that don’t currently exist. This is a way to immediately get a valid assessment of students’ Our students will be equipped with 21st Century Skills including the ability understanding of any concept in any subject. It will improve student learning to research. Netbooks are mini laptops that will set our fourth graders free to through interactive and visual activities. The anonymity of the system explore and research their world with no strings (or wires) attached! It will ensures that all students can answer every question without fear of allow them to research in-the-moment when it is most relevant. embarrassment.

Students Impacted: 70+ Students Impacted: 18 Amount Funded: $ 5,000 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 1,500 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 71.43 Expenditure per Student: $ 83.33 The Allergan Foundation Midway ISD Education Foundation

Primary Grant Writer: Kim Hardin Primary Grant Writer: Jessica Fasani

Fold Me Up, Scotty! 4th Grade Crawling the Web for Critters K-2 Grades Castleman Creek Elementary Castleman Creek Elementary

Differentiated Instruction and Interactive Notebooks are the future of the This will be a one year subscription to PebbleGo, a research database for classrooms. Teachers are able to meet the individual needs of their students students K-2. The database will help students conduct research and learn in a through the use of multiple modalities and the synthesis of information. multimodal way, increasing their levels of interest, comprehension, and Foldables can be effective in the implementation of both strategies in the information literacy. It also allows students to listen, read with assistance, or classroom. independently read text.

Students Impacted: 20+ Students Impacted: 271 Amount Funded: $ 985 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 400 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 49.25 Expenditure per Student: $ 1.48 Midway ISD Education Foundation Midway ISD Education Foundation

Primary Grant Writer: Kim Hardin Primary Grant Writer: Julie Overpeck

Do you Hear What I Hear? K-4 Grades Castleman Creek Elementary Teaching and Learning with the Stars! 1st Grade Hewitt Elementary The use of Payaway Digital Audiobooks for direct instruction and recreational reading is one way to increase student achievement and produce Through STARS (Science, Tubs, Actively, Reinforcing, Standard Based lifelong learners. It allows struggling readers and those with significant Labs) students will become actively engaged in their own learning and disabilities or low comprehension skills to participate in grade level allowed to explore Science concepts in an exciting, invocative, hands on classroom book lessons. manner! It will enhance the students’ creativity in Science core concepts as well as in other curriculum subject areas! Students Impacted: 443 Amount Funded: $ 2,500 Named Grant Sponsor: Students Impacted: 96 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 5.64 Amount Funded: $ 4,255 1st University Credit Union Expenditure per Student: $ 44.32 Educators Credit Union

Primary Grant Writers: Julie Overpeck, Lory Bernard, Debbie Dibrell, Primary Grant Writers: Elizabeth Carroll, Heather Kizer, Susan Posey, Katie Elliott Wendy Cromie, Susan Whitley, Holly Parker Summary of Grant Awards to All Campuses Round Seventeen (Fall 2009)

All For One And One For All! 9-12th Grades Exploring the World with MOBI 9-12th Grades Midway High School Midway High School

Using 21st Century tools we will put learning in the hands of our students to This will enable teachers to use the latest mobile instructional facilitate greater student-teacher interaction in a dynamic and interactive technology to engage all students in higher levels of instruction. The learning environment! By using these tools, they will have an excellent wireless tablets will be used to facilitate group activities and student engagement tool, but also will be an integral method to address our assessments, higher level questioning, and engaging authentic campus goals. instruction. Students will incorporate problem solving strategies in each content area increasing their critical thinking skills as they Students Impacted: 1900+ interact in all areas of social studies. Amount Funded: $ 4,990 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 2.63 Students Impacted: 1200 In Memory of Lucy Harrison, Amount Funded: $ 4,140 Named Grant Sponsor: longtime MHS employee Expenditure per Student: $ 3.45 Insurors of Texas

Primary Grant Writers: Cathleen Petroff, Donna Shillinglaw Primary Grant Writers: Michael Howard, Cheryl Baker Stepping Up in Time! 10th Grade Virtual Science 10-12th Grades Midway High School Midway High School

History Alive encourages students to take charge of their learning through The document camera will integrate technology and the science classroom to this interactive curriculum. Students will be able to experience themes and visually aid students to understand abstract concepts. These visual tools will topics that are emphasized and then understand the concepts required benefit general and special education, ELL, and pre-AP students. Students through notebooks, cds, transparencies and placards that contain interactive will be able to record their observation through a series of demonstrations activities cover different time periods. and activities being performed.

Students Impacted: 599 Named Grant Sponsor: Students Impacted: 400 Amount Funded: $ 2,210 Amount Funded: $ 1,960 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 3.69 Midway ISD Education Expenditure per Student: $ 4.90 Foundation The Allergan Foundation Primary Grant Writer: Kevon Shuler Primary Grant Writers: Cheryl Baker, Melissa Harrell

Wii EXCEL in Physical Education 9-12 Grades Engaging Pupils of Every Discipline 5-6 Grades Midway High School Midway Intermediate (Success Lab) Students from diverse backgrounds and abilities will be actively engaged in The Wii Fit will provide flexibility for physical education activity. The hands-on approaches to learning. It will improve and encourage student physical activity will no longer be limited by the weather, lack of equipment, learning through visual and interactive classroom activities. Students will or facility space. It will be an effective tool for motivating high school create their own understanding of curriculum through media, producing students in their participating of physical activities. original work, and collaborating on ideas.

Students Impacted: 40+ Students Impacted: 1034 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 1,600 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 3,725 Expenditure per Student: $ 40.00 Expenditure per Student: $ 3.60 Coldwell Bankers The Meyer Family Primary Grant Writer: Stephen Walker Primary Grant Writers: Barbara Cross, Angela Wilson, Lisa Monthie Summary of Grant Awards to All Campuses Round Seventeen (Fall 2009)

I Flip for Learning 5-6 Grades That’s How We Roll K-4 Grades Midway Intermediate South Bosque Elementary

This will enable students to take control of their learning and ownership of Students will enjoy the challenge of crawling through steam rollers and being their achievement. Through utilizing the hand-held Flip video cameras, flattened, providing deep pressure that is calming for students with sensory mastery of a skill or a concept will best be demonstrated through innovative integration deficits. Some students will hang out for a while as the rollers videos. The students will have a great time learning and creating. provide the sensory input they need to calm their bodies.

Students Impacted: 1034 Students Impacted: 20 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 2,280 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 1,340 Expenditure per Student: $ 2.21 Expenditure per Student: $ 67.00 The Gary & Diane Heavin Midway ISD Education Foundation Community Fund

Primary Grant Writer: Diane Williams, Lisa Monthie Primary Grant Writers: Ashley Salome Podcasting Goes ELLementary! K-4 Grades Kindle Kid’s Desire for Reading K-4 Grades South Bosque Elementary Speegleville Elementary

This will help students who face the challenge of learning in English while Students will have access to state of the art tools that put knowledge at their still acquiring English as they allow them to confidently attempt academic fingertips using Kindles, iPod Touch, and reading pens. They will help tasks in the familiar, non-threatening environment. The students will be able students with meaning, definition and pronunciation and help students with to develop and improve reading , writing and oral language skills. reading impairments understand a science or math textbook.

Students Impacted: 230 Students Impacted: 15 Amount Funded: $ 2,000 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 950 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 8.70 Expenditure per Student: $ 63.33 Midway ISD Education Foundation The Gary & Diane Heavin Community Fund Primary Grant Writers: Christe Hancock, Dawn Murray, Angela Scarborough, Debbie Robinson, Pam Hermansen

Primary Grant Writer: Tanya Clark, Mary Adamcik Collaborative Classroom Suite-SWEET! 3rd Grade Rollin’ with my Piggies Pre K-4 Grades Speegleville Elementary Spring Valley Elementary

With MOBIS, students will participate in an interactive education With these colorful metal recyclers rolling around, students will experience environment that is fun, exciting and fits into their technologically growing the scientific beauty of decomposition first-hand. Every class will feed world. CPS technology will provide each student with small “clickers” RolyPigs organic waste then roll them to actively learn the process of allowing them to answer teacher presented questions without fear of recycling kitchen garbage into rich, wonderful soil for our gardens. embarrassment from peers. Examview will help teachers with assessment data. Students Impacted: 510 Amount Funded: $ 1,180 Named Grant Sponsor: Students Impacted: 60 Expenditure per Student: $ 2.31 Amount Funded: $ 5,000 Named Grant Sponsor: Midway ISD Education Foundation Expenditure per Student: $ 83.33 Lehigh White Cement Primary Grant Writers: Lennie Diaz-Granados, Beth Hair Company

Primary Grant Writers: Vicki Thomas, Ashley Williamson, Peggy Kilgo Summary of Grant Awards to All Campuses Round Seventeen (Fall 2009) iTouch the Future 2 2nd Grade iTouch, iSpeak Early Education – 4 Grades Spring Valley Elementary Spring Valley Elementary

The emphasis for this grant is to make available another route for student The iTunes Applications available to download will engage students in engagement through an emphasis on literacy, differentiation, and mobile therapy sessions and make them excited about each session. It will assist in learning. Students will have access to an elaborate, mobile device that can addressing IEP goals and objectives in speech-language therapy for students provide opportunities to grow in critical thinking, problem solving, in special education. information/technology application, teamwork, collaboration, creativity, and innovation! Students Impacted: 37 Students Impacted: 108 Amount Funded: $ 1,000 Named Grant Sponsor: Amount Funded: $ 5,000 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 27.03 Expenditure per Student: $ 46.30 Midway ISD Education Foundation Midway ISD Education Foundation Primary Grant Writer: Chelsi Hansen Primary Grant Writer: Peggy Pritchett, Judy Pryor, Sherrie Lightsey, Thelma Collinsworth, Becky Fortenberry Blasting into the 21st Century with Technology K-4 Grades Rockin’ and Rolling in First Grade Science 1st Grade Woodway Elementary Woodway Elementary

A document camera will be an essential tool to project, zoom in, and model This will enable students to have hands-on experience in science. They will step-by-step teaching to effectively engage and teach the struggling learners. be able to fully investigate rocks and minerals. They will be able to see The students will be able to view lessons in multiple ways and formats. greater detail in the rocks with magnifiers and actively work with the rocks following the scientific process.

Students Impacted: 200 Named Grant Sponsor: Students Impacted: 120 Amount Funded: $ 4,210 Amount Funded: $ 485 Named Grant Sponsor: Expenditure per Student: $ 21.05 Midway ISD Education Foundation Expenditure per Student: $ 4.04 The Earl B. Patrick Primary Grant Writers: Jan Beeson, Jennifer Kolinek Family Charitable Fund

Primary Grant Writer: Cindy Keltner