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Cultural Trunks
$7,110 in partnership with Ricoh Business Systems and Major Saver Fundraising, Inc.
In order to share our community's rich culture and provide partnering opportunities between patrons and educators, the diversity team will create traveling culture trunks that contain artifacts from various cultures represented in our curriculum. |
Early Intervention Scholarships for Summer Programs
$5,600
This program is for Blue Valley students entering 2nd-8th grade who need extra support in math and reading. The scholarships will serve 200 students who are registered in the district's Free and Reduced Lunch program.
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BVSD Parents and Children's Diabetic Support Group
$200
This program is to promote communication through awareness and networking resulting in a safer environment for students with diabetes and their families in the district.
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HopSports Training Systems
$18,000
HOPSports is a multi-media instructional tool for physical education teachers delivered through DVR technology. The multi-screen format provides fitness lesson plans that meet state and national standards while integrating nutrition, fun facts, anatomy instruction, career counseling and educational messaging in a fun and exciting environment engaging all students K-12.
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Learning with a Beat
$3,992
This program provides musical equipment, materials and training to select elementary, middle and high school FOCUS and LIFT programs.
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Star Lab
$15,550
Using Star Lab meets science standards and many benchmark indicators such as observing the stars in a night sky, rotation and revolution and day and night. Students learn inside the dome (like a planetarium) with a projector that has many cylinders that show the night sky.
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PE4Life
$7,500
The physical education K-12 curriculum teaches kids about concepts of fitness, what is necessary to achieve fitness and how to maintain fitness. Becoming a PE4Life Academy will further demonstrate the commitment Blue Valley has for the educating the whole child.
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Blue Valley Graduate Survey
$1,000
Blue Valley Will conduct a study on students who have graduated from Blue Valley in order to ascertain the levels of perceived preparedness for success after graduation.
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Clay Animation
Cedar Hills Elementary School
$3,854
This program will allow fifth grade students around the district to create clay animation films illustrating the Blue Valley Virtues. Written and produced by students, these films will be viewed at a film festival and by younger students as illustrations of the Virtues.
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Kindergarten Take Home Readers
Stilwell Elementary School
$4,990
This program is designed to have a set of Houghton Mifflin readers for each of the kindergarten classrooms. The readers would be checked out by students to take home involving parents in the reinforcement of reading instruction.
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World Drumming Music
Sunset Ridge Elementary School
$4,818
This program is to enhance routine instruction by offering an innovative, hands-on musical experience through world music drumming. The infusion of these authentic percussions instruments into the curriculum increases the value and technique of teamwork. The study includes world cultures, instrumental techniques, musical literacy and independence and creativity.
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You've Got It: Sensory Strategies
Morse Elementary School
$4,500
The program provides a FOCUS classroom with a variety of sensory tools to help these students gain a level of control over their environment and provide opportunities for positive sensory input to help regulate their inefficient sensory and nervous systems.
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Ballroom Dance: A Cross-Curricular Experience through Movement
Valley Park Elementary School
$2050
This program represents a collaborative effort between music and physical education to engage students in a unique acitivty that will satisfy several state and federal curriculum standards. Fifth grade students will work with a professional ballroom instructor for eight weeks. It will integrate social studies and language arts into its instructional components.
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CPE Broadcast Studio
Cottonwood Point Elementary School
$5,000 in partnership with Credit Union of Johnson County
This program will provide students the opportunity to practice writing, viewing, speaking and listening skills as well as develop technological skills. It will integrate the curricular skills and concepts into student broadcasts of morning announcements and special presentations.
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Kansas Trunks
Stanley Elementary School
$4,800 in partnership with Kansas Gas Service
This program will develop a resource trunk filled with historical artifacts about the state of Kansas. This will enhance new social studies curriculum standards that were implemented involving the teaching of Kansas history in grades K-5.
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Morse Earth Club Landscape Project
Morse Elementary School
$797 in partnership with the McPhail Family
Earth Club students will remove weeds and pebbles from the fenced-in former preschool playground to learn more about our environment, to appreciate the outdoors and learn how to leave a smaller footprint on the earth. Students will improve soil by adding compost and topsoil; plant a tree, shrubs and perennials in the site. Special needs students will water the site during the school year and Earth Club students will water during the summer.
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MotivAider
$1,540
Harmony Elementary School
The use of the MotivAider will create positive stimulation and increased motivation in students helping them to develop good habits in the classroom environment. Changing behaviors (internal and external) that hinder even one student's abilities to learn has a positive and profound effect on the entire classroom.
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OTE Future Authors
Overland Trail Elementary School
$1,300 in partnership with CommunityAmerica Credit Union and Harvey Bodker Family
This is a writing project that includes an author in residence at the school for one week. Local author Susan Clymer will read and respond to student’s writing, teach writing seminars to classes in the 3rd and 5th grades and work with individual students. The program will focus on creative expression incorporating the 6 Trait Writing model and narrative writing.
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Resource Chat N Chew
Harmony Elementary School
$1,000
This project is designed to increase student’s reading activity at home. This grant will purchase chapter books that focus on high interest, low reader ability to improve students overall reading ability. After a month, students would discuss the book with their resource peers in a chat n chew type setting.
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Six Trait Writing
Indian Valley Elementary School
$1,300 in partnership with Credit Union of Johnson County
This project targets the literacy standards. The focus will be on the portion of literacy that encompasses the ability to communicate in writing the essence of an idea, experience or emotion so that a specific person, group of people or multiple audiences can understand the point.
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Harmony with Voice
Harmony Middle School
$2,000
This program is a poetry project that includes a poet in residence at the school. African American poet Bonnie Tolson will share her poetry from “Naturally Nappy” as well as life lessons about self-esteem and personal pride. 7th grade students will write their own poetry using the same themes.
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M.A.G.I.C. - Multimedia Activates Greatness in Children
Prairie Star Middle School
$2,131
This program will allow special education middle school students to become more independent by using iPods that will read tests to the student, so the student will no longer need to leave the classroom. This allows students to work at their own speed right along side their peers.
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Kids Under Construction: Parenting with Love and Logic
Overland Trail Middle School
$2,500 in partnership with Commerce Bank
This program is in collaboration with OTMS, LMS, LES, OTE, MTE and VPE parent group consortium. A seminar will include Jim Faye, author of Love and Logic. This will be open enrollment to all parents and staff to provide them with the tools of the Love and Logic philosophy.
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Learn-to-Earn
Leawood Middle School
$917
This student-based non-profit enterprise will specialize in recycling products and goods that will help the environment. Students will collect, shred and recycle old papers, recycle cans and plastic for the entire school. This will provide valuable and essential pre-vocational training for students with special needs.
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LKMS Music Department Musition Software
Lakewood Middle School
$3,600 in partnership with Ricoh Americas Corporation
This is a music theory program that allows the students to work independently and at their own pace. When students have mastered the topic at each level and are tested, they will be automatically moved up to the next level. This will help prepare the music students for high school level music classes.
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OMS Camcorders and Digital Cameras
Oxford Middle School
$4,000 in partnership with Capitol Federal Savings and Major Saver
Camcorders and digital cameras are used by all staff and students at Oxford Middle for a variety of projects including the Newspaper Club, Communication Arts and the Learning Center. Technology will help students get involved in learning.
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Read to Achieve!
Lakewood Middle School
$4,943
This audio program will give students the opportunity to improve fluency and comprehension skills on an individual level and allow students to remain in the general education setting instead of forming outside reading groups.
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Video Art in the 21st Century
Overland Trail Middle School
$3,000
Students will use digital camcorders in the OTMS art department to create projects and learn software applications like editing, effects and authoring. This will benefit the entire OTMS community for video and web marketing and communications.
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Taking it to the Next Level
Leawood Middle School
$838 in partnership with Credit Union of Johnson County
The program is an alternative way to keep students who have shown mastery of algebra standards during pre-test engaged. This will allow differentiation of lesson plans for mathematically talented students and then those students would teacher what they have learned to the entire class.
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Blue Valley High School Coffee House
Blue Valley High School
$4,500 in partnership with Capitol Federal Savings
The Business, Special Education students and faculty plan to develop and maintain a coffee house that will serve the entire BVHS community. The coffee house will link to curriculum in several business and special education classes and will provide “hands-on” curriculum that will ultimately increase student achievement.
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Community Service Day
Blue Valley High School
$1,220
Over 500 students will visit approximately 20 different locations throughout the greater Kansas City area to perform community service to learn the impact of their involvement and better understand the service these organizations provide to the community.
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BVHS Robotics
Blue Valley High School
$4,034
This grant will purchase robotics kits for the advancement and understanding of students in the programming classroom. This will allow students to compose code that will run and operate the microcontrollers in the robots. Students will aim to compete during the year and analyze strengths and weaknesses of their ideas.
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BVN READefined Summer Reading Program
Blue Valley North High School
$1,500
This program is designed to help develop and foster a community of readers who enjoy reading on many levels. This is to help students work towards daily reading time to improve current reading ability.
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Mammal Skulls
Blue Valley North High School
$1,000 in partnership with Credit Union of Johnson County
Zoology is an elective science course that introduces 10-12 grade students to invertebrate and vertebrate animals. This will build a supplemental collection of mammal specimens in the form of skulls that represent the diversity of mammals in Kansas. This will provide the appropriate stimulus to enhance student motivation and interest in the study unit.
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Metal Mustang FIRST Robotics Team
Blue Valley North High School
$3,100
FIRST Robotics is a student-based program that is built upon the idea that using a different yearly challenge to students along with Faculty Advisors and Mentors from the community problem-solve using science and technology. The robotic challenge also includes competition in team business plans, amimation, web design, team spirit, safety, design and video production.
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The Power of Publishing
Blue Valley West High School
$3,000
This project will engage students in publishing creative, higher-level works that draw upon curricular areas and 21st century learning skills. This is directed at two specific goals as part of the school improvement process; reading and problem solving.
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Real World Science
Blue Valley Northwest High School
$4,940
This program will work in conjunction with the GLOBE project to provide high school students an opportunity to participate in scientific investigations that scientist around the world access and use in their research.
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Using and Creating Podcasts in the Classroom
Blue Valley North High School
$3,288
This project will increase student learning, enhance collaboration and use of current technologies. This will impact students by increasing their motivation and interest with authentic learning opportunities, cross-curricular activities to develop a high level of thinking skills as students create their own content.
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