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.

System-wide

6-8,10

Kathleen M. Vandiver

$16,323

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

Multicultural Curriculum Development

Enables up to 20 teachers and administrators to attend a graduate credit course in anti-racist/anti-bias training

System-wide

K-12

Jennifer Wolfrum

$3,924

Supporting Welcoming Schools

Offers a series of anti-bias, multi-cultural workshops for parents.

System-wide

K-8

Meg Soens

$4,081

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.

System-wide

K-12

Shelley Chamberlain

$7,650

Art Gallery

Provides for an enclosed permanent walk-in art gallery at the entrance to the high school.

High School

9-12

Gloria Fox, Annie Zeybekoglu

$14,520

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

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

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

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.

Middle Schools

6-8

Sue Collins

$10,468

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