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Title
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Summary
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School
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Grades
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Coordinator
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Amount
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Lego & trade; Bricks for Life—Life Sciences,
That Is! Part 2 |
Expanding a previously funded grant, supports a
teacher’s ongoing research and development of Lego models for
teaching about molecules and cell structures.
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System-wide
|
6-8,10
|
Kathleen M. Vandiver
|
$16,323
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Lexington Public Schools Mentoring Program
|
Provides to new and beginning teachers orientation,
professional support, professional development, non-evaluative feedback,
and mentoring by a veteran teacher
|
System-wide
|
K-12
|
Kelly McCauseland,
Vito LaMura
|
$32,500
|
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Multicultural Curriculum Development
|
Enables up to 20 teachers and administrators to
attend a graduate credit course in anti-racist/anti-bias training
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System-wide
|
K-12
|
Jennifer Wolfrum
|
$3,924
|
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Supporting Welcoming Schools
|
Offers a series of anti-bias, multi-cultural workshops
for parents.
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System-wide
|
K-8
|
Meg Soens
|
$4,081
|
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Tech Camp 2002 |
Continues and expands a previously funded grant; summer of 2002,
eighty-one teachers received training in using technology to support
curriculum units; units incorporate student technology benchmarks.
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System-wide
|
K-12
|
Shelley Chamberlain
|
$7,650
|
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Art Gallery |
Provides for an enclosed permanent walk-in art gallery at the entrance
to the high school.
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High School
|
9-12
|
Gloria Fox, Annie Zeybekoglu
|
$14,520
|
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The Collage of Voices at LHS |
Uses the community-building vehicle of a permanent, centrally located
case to display collections of student art and writing created in
response to world events.
|
High School
|
9-12
|
Beth Ribeiro, Beth Kress, Karen Watson
|
$5,056
|
|
G.E.O. Rooms—Geometric Exploration Opportunity
Rooms |
Transforms three classrooms into designated geometry
teaching and learning centers, equipping them with manipulatives
and exploratory software; provides teacher training and fosters
professional collaboration. |
High School
|
10
|
Wendy Cordero, Dea Haupt
|
$19,549
|
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LHS/LABB Adaptive Art Initiative |
Brings art studio sessions to students with severe
physical, developmental, and behavioral limitations, and engages
LHS students as studio helpers.
|
High School
|
9-12
|
Annie Zeybekoglu
|
$1,575
|
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Writer in Residence: An Author in the Classroom |
Continues and expands a program in which award-winning
author Donna Conrad mentors teachers and students in the creative
writing process.
|
High School
|
11-12
|
Kathy Coleman, Donna Conrad
|
$14,380
|
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SMART Boards and Middle Schools—In Your
Face and Hands Technology |
Provides equipment and training for seven teachers
to optimize the use of interactive white-boards purchased by the
Lexington Public Schools.
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Middle Schools
|
6-8
|
Sue Collins
|
$10,468
|
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Project Adventure Element Course |
Funds teacher training and the purchase and installation
of a low element course for Project Adventure, a physical education
curriculum that encourages peer learning, problem solving, and conflict
resolution.
|
Clarke Middle School
|
6-8
|
Clarke Physical Education Staff
|
$10,035
|
|
Mathematics Interest Centers |
Extends a previously funded grant to establish in
every elementary classroom specially designated areas stocked with
materials to promote mathematical thinking and problem-solving;
includes teacher training.
|
All Elementary Schools
|
K-5
|
Amy Martin
|
$7,230
|
| Strategies and Materials for Differentiating
Mathematics |
Sponsors a series of after-school workshops to help
twenty-five teachers adapt the elementary mathematics program to
address the needs of students with a wide range of interests and
abilities.
|
All Elementary Schools
|
K-5
|
Amy Martin, Linda Menkis, Karen Tripoli |
$7,940
|
| Each Child a Writer—Differentiated Writing
Instruction |
Extends last year’s Writing Across the Curriculum
grant by including Bowman School, and allowing teachers to sharpen
and further apply previously learned practices.
|
Bowman, Bridge, Estabrook, Fiske, Harrington |
K-5
|
Joni Jay, Barbara Manfredi, David Crump, Malcolm
Astley,
Lisa Williams |
$5,689
|
| A.—P.L.U.S.: Activities Promoting Learning,
Understanding, and Success |
Creates a pilot program of Thursday after-school
exploratory classes to strengthen, support, and enrich the educational
experience of METCO students. |
Bowman and Hastings
|
1-4
|
Malcolm Astley |
$9,812
|
| Diversity Bookbags |
Funds the production of bookbags containing materials
about various cultures, family structures, and individual differences
for every child to take home on a rotating basis. |
Estabrook & Hastings |
K-5
|
Jennifer Hayner, Margarite Bradley, Rachel Quebec,
Heather Keliher, Lisa Berk, Rita Spyropoules |
$4,490
|
| Teaching Social and Emotional Competency |
Supports ongoing work addressing students’
social and emotional skills; fourteen teachers and twenty staff
members will attend Wellesley College’s "Open Circle" program.
|
Fiske
|
K-5
|
Lysa Pirone, Lisa Williams & Fiske School Social
Competency Committee |
$9,000
|
| Journaling for Scientific Inquiry |
With Cambridge consultant, naturalist, and educator
Clare Walker Leslie, introduces children to scientists’ recording
practices.
|
Fiske
|
K-5
|
Janet Rich Edwards
|
$8,453
|
| Harrington Reads |
Supports two parent-run evening book groups for
fourth and fifth graders.
|
Harrington
|
4-5
|
Michelle Abramson, Leslie Fagen |
$2,400
|
| Fitness/Nutrition Program |
Creates a multi-faceted fitness and nutrition program,
including a before-school exercise program for sedentary students
and parent involvement in alternative morning recess activities.
|
Hastings
|
1-5
|
Nancy Salitsky |
$1,163
|
| Inquiry Science-Discovery Boxes |
Funds the research and development of boxes filled
with materials carefully chosen to teach scientific principles and
subject matter through student experimentation and observation.
|
Hastings
|
3-4
|
Nancy Alloway Cindy Zmijewski Demers |
$3,400
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