CHARM Project
$3,240
CHARM provides tailor-made equipment to assist special needs children to function within their classrooms and help them accomplish their academic goals. |
Peace In Action
$3,000 in partnership with Sam's Club
This program is an interdisciplinary all-school service learning event that will encourage BV Academy students to connect with one another and with the community at large via a student planned workshop with Rudy Belles and participation in the International Peace Jam Event.
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Vocational Skills Center
$3,515
This program will help the special education population students gain knowledge and application skills necessary to be successful in the community. The major focus of vocational training programs to teach skills necessary to accomplish job tasks.
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Above and Beyond
Blue River Elementary School
$1,195
This program will provide manipulatives and support materials for math differentiation to pursue in-depth concept studies and move horizontally with the math program.
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Book Club for Parents & Success for Children
Heartland Elementary School
$747
This program will form a book club/study group designed to help parents learn strategies to assist their children in reading.
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Braille for Blue River
Blue River Elementary School
$300
This project will create a Braille lending library for the Blue Valley community. This will create a Braille area in the library for visually impaired students so they will always know the location of the Braille books.
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Circle of Friends
Valley Park Elementary School
$915
The
materials for this project will start a Circle of Friends program for students with autism. This will provide increased positive social interactions for students and improve specific social skills. Training will be provided to positive peer models so that they can work with autistic students and generalize their social skills outside of the special education classroom.
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Computer-Based Education
Liberty View Elementary School
$4,153
This
project is for a two-year license for the instructional site Study Island. This site addresses skills in reading and math that are aligned with Kansas standards. Students work at their own rate and work on only areas of need.
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Cooking Up Curriculum
Sunrise Point Elementary School
$898
This
project will provide hands-on experiences for cross-curricular activities involving household cooking items. This will assist in curricular study and science experiments, instruction on volume, life-skills training, nutrition, health, safety, motor skills practice, reading for a purpose and following directions.
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Fluency: Fast and Fun!
Liberty View Elementary School
$1,654
This
reading fluency program helps with the ability to read text accurately and quickly. This also helps with comprehension via expression or “prosody” aids.
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Increasing Social Interactions Between FOCUS Students and Their General Eduation Peers
Valley Park Elementary School
$1,254
Switch adapted games and activities will be used by students in the FOCUS classroom and social times will be set up for FOCUS students to meet with general education peers to independently participate in meaningful, age-appropriate activities.
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iRead - Taking the Teacher Home
$1,540
Heartland Elementary School
This program will record student voices reading familiar text and homework passages at the desired fluency speed for second grade readers on iPods. Students will take the iPods home and read with the recording to increase their reading accuracy and fluency.
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Look, Listen, and Read!
Mission Trail Elementary School
$1,000 in partnership with Walmart
This
program will provide classroom read-along sets that will be used in a small group setting and classroom listening centers.
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Measure Up
Sunset Ridge Elementary School
$2,598
The Measure Works Program meets the needs of students by giving them hands-on, standards-based measurement lessons and tools. This will improve the students understanding of measurement and estimation with focus in time, length, weight, area, perimeter, volume, capacity and temperature.
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Parent Resource Library
Stilwell Elementary School
$504
This
program will give parents and teachers a central location for tools and education about unique learning and relating styles of the students. This resource library will house targeted books to parents or teachers to check out.
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Phonetically Fit Cheetahs
Cedar Hills Elementary School
$2,391
This project will provide sets of phonetic reading books to enhance the kindergarten researched-based guided reading program. Guided reading gives individual readers the opportunity to develop reading strategies so that they can read increasingly difficult text independently.
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Science Backpacks
Sunrise Point Elementary School
$625 in partnership with the McPhail Family
This project will provide science backpacks to increase student knowledge in the area of science while building the home – school connection and integrate curriculum. The Science Literacy Backpacks will reinforce numerous communications arts, science and math concepts while students have fun investigating at home with their families.
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CSI: Real Life
Lakewood Middle School
$2,350
Crime Scenes Investigation is an interesting way to incorporate and apply the scientific method and it challenges the students to conduct lab tests, document results and try to meet the standard of proof needed to solve crimes.
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Differentiated Focused Practice for Brass Musicians
Overland Trail Middle School
$3,000
This
project will maximize the instruction time with all band students; give differentiated and focused attention to as many students as possible with new technology of a Silent Brass Performance Studio in the classroom. This will allow students to practice essential learning, assignments and performance without distracting the entire class.
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Harmony with Voice II: Our Poems are Seen and Heard
Harmony Middle School
$2,000 in partnership with Walmart
This
is a communication arts/art project that involves a poet residency as well as students use of blogs to communicate their poetry to 7th grade art students at OTMS and LKMS. The art students create a piece of art to represent the Harmony student’s poem.
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NXT Mindstorms Robotics Kits
Lakewood Middle School
$1,420
The project is to incorporate robotics into the activities with students to develop problem solving skills with hands-on activities. Students work on team-building computer programming and hands-on trial and error to participate in various challenges with the robots.
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Blue Valley High Robotics
Blue Valley High School
$2,350 in partnership with Linda Turpen, Walmart and the Baumgartner Charitable Giving Fund
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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BVNW Store
Blue Valley Northwest High School in partnership with CommunityAmerica
$2,500
This project is to create and maintain a school store at BVNW. This will give students an opportunity to put to use the skills they are learning within a real-world lab of an actual school store.
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"Clicking" CPS to BVNW's Foreign Language Department
Blue Valley Northwest High School
$2,150
This
project will utilize the CPS equipment in the Foreign Language Department to provide students with immediate and individual feedback on their learning.
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Language Proficiency is a Click Away with CPS
Blue Valley Northwest High School
$1,300
This
program will provide a classroom response system that will enable students to answer questions presented by the teacher and there is immediate feedback to see whether the material covered is understood.
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Podcasting in the Classroom - BVH
Blue Valley High School
$2,078 in partnership with APAC-Kansas
This program will increase student learning and enhance collaboration and increase use of current technology by teachers. Students will create podcasts, use the podcast to teacher each other, teachers will collaborate to design lessons utilizing podcasts.
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Powers of Publishing Part II
Blue Valley West High School
$2,000
This grant will provide students the ability to apply higher-level critical thinking skills, provider greater access and incorporate 21st Century learning skills into content areas while utilizing technology to target specific reading and problem solving indicator. Students will create podcasts, vodcasts, voicethreads and other media productions.
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Science Tools
Blue Valley Northwest High School
$4,978 in partnership with Capitol Federal Savings
Vernier Lab Quest equipment will provide students an opportunity to participate in scientific investigations and enable teachers do to more inquiry in the classroom and make science more meaningful to students by developing problem solving skills
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Soaring to New Heights with AirLiner
Blue Valley Northwest High School
$836
The AirLiner is an interactive wireless slate that allows the user to write and project words or images onto a SMART board. This will provide innovative teaching and learning in the classroom so that teachers can circulate the room checking for student comprehension, mastering essential skills and objectives.
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