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SPECIAL PROJECTS  GRANT RECIPIENTS

GRANTS OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
2008-2009 RECIPIENTS

District Wide Grants

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.

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.

 
Elementary School Grants

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 
Middle School Grants

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.

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.

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.

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.

 
High School Grants

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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