Students Take Educated Tastes to the Web – February 14, 2008
Lexington Minuteman
For those who cannot make it to the Lexington Education Foundation’s (LEF) 19th annual Educated Tastes event ...
Science Museum Makes House Call at Bowman – December 13, 2007
By Elisabeth Donahue/Special to the Minuteman
Why travel all the way to the museum when it can come to you? ...
Teacher travels to Ghana and back - September 6, 2007
Lexington Minuteman
Annie Zeybekoglu, an art teacher at Lexington High School, was already deeply interested in Africa before setting foot in Ghana this summer. She was ...
Crack a book, break a barrier - February 18, 2007
By Lara Farrar, Globe Correspondent
Ashley Jones and Mayra Bertrand are best friends. They have been for about five years, since second grade when Jones's cousin introduced them on the playground of the Joseph Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington. ...
Lexington Symphony workshop held - February 09, 2007
By Sarah Gurley/Special to the Minuteman
Something very special occurred in Lexington last week, something of which Lexington should be proud and which says a great deal about the town. We are so fortunate ...
Teacher-at-Sea - January 4, 2007
By Anne Leary/Special to the Minuteman
This January 10th, Clarke Middle School Life Science teacher Carolyn Sheild will join a consortium of scientists ...
Triwizard
Tournament - November 23, 2005
By Sean Sullivan/ Staff Writer/Lexington Minuteman
Intellects buzzed last Thursday evening at Lexington's Trivia Bee.
The annual event pits teams of three against each other in a battle
of wits – essentially a spelling bee but with facts instead
of letters.
LEF GRANT –
Channeling energy into drumming - September 15, 2005
By Helene Newberg/Correspondent/Lexington Minuteman
Endless tapping. Fidgeting. Hands and pencils drumming desks. More
a teacher’s nightmare than a practice to encourage, though
a Lexington Education Foundation grant awarded for the coming school
year may change at least some of that perception.
Or channel it.
A dream come true
- Teacher applies for, receives grant - September 15,
2005
By Elizabeth Sembower/Staff writer/Lexington Minuteman
Printmaking 2005 is up and running at Lexington’s Bridge Elementary
School – thanks to the ageless appeal of an ancient art form,
the forward-looking generosity of an educations foundation, and
the vision and hard work of one very determined teacher.
LEF
helped fund study materials - February 14, 2005
Cindy Lewis /Lexington Minuteman
Whether it’s the war in Iraq, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict,
or the hunt for Al Qaeda, Middle East news appears every day on
the front pages of our newspapers - something inconceivable just
five years ago.
Hands-on
experience - May 13, 2004
By Brooke Leister, Staff Writer
/ Lexington Minuteman
Kids participate in Big Backyard program: Shaded by the forest's
canopy, fifth-grader Troy Moran peered through a magnifying glass
at the grayish-purplish lichen creeping up the side of a tree.
LEF sees losses from school budget cuts – May 13, 2004
By Leslie Nicholson /
Lexington Minuteman
Over the past 13 years, more than $1.5 million in private donations,
along with equal contributions of volunteer time and effort, have
allowed the Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) to contribute
energetically to the quality of our public schools.
Literacy
through pictures – March 11, 2004
By Brian Kelly, Staff Writer
/ Lexington
Minuteman
Picture it: First-grade
students using pictures to improve their reading and writing skills.
Palatable pleasures aplenty at Educated Tastes –
March 4, 2004
By Brooke Leister, Staff Writer / Lexington Minuteman
The
Lexington community raised an estimated $80,000 for Lexington Public
Schools while enjoying an evening of fine dining during the annual
Educated Tastes gala, held Sunday at Waltham's Westin Hotel.
League, LEF team up
for budget forum -
January 29, 2004
By Jane Whitehead, Correspondent
/ Lexington Minuteman
More than 100 people braved freezing winds and the creeping chill
of the Clarke auditorium to grapple with "The Dynamics of Public
School Funding," at an open forum organized jointly by the Lexington
Education Foundation (LEF) and the League of Women Voters (LWV), last
Thursday.
Learn about school
budget; League, LEF team up for event
- January 15, 2004
By Brian
Kelly, Staff Writer / Lexington Minuteman
Why
does it cost Lexington Public Schools more and more each year just to
keep the programs and staff it already has, and how are items on the
school budget prioritized when cuts are necessary?
Namaste: Public-school children learn all about Diwali - December
2, 2003
By Christine Walsh, Staff writer / India New England
The first-grade students at Hastings Elementary School have
settled into their classroom after lunch when Vanita Shastri and
Kavitia Katti bustle in wearing saris and carrying bags.
A bee-lightful evening had by all at the
LEF Trivia Bee - November 13, 2003
By Brian Kelly, Staff Writer / Lexington Minuteman
Before a packed house at the Clarke Middle School Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 6, the
E.G. & Heads showed why they are the masters of useless information in Lexington by taking the top spot in
the Lexington Education Foundation's Trivia Bee for the second consecutive year.
If you build it they will learn
- October 23, 2003
By Brian Kelly, Staff Writer / Lexington Minuteman
In Kid City, all types of people are welcome, and that's just how the students at Hastings Elementary School like it.
Editorial: Kids not boxed in -
October 23, 2003
Editorial - Lexington Minuteman
Thanks to groups such as the Lexington Education Foundation, there are some funds available to continue to keep Lexington a notch above other towns…
After enacting Collins
Writing plan, students score better - October 2, 2003
By Susan Bushey, Staff Writer
/ Lexington Minuteman
Thanks to Joni Jay's grant from the Lexington Education Foundation,
Estabrook students have become more fluent in writing and, ...
Summer Learning Reinvigorates LEF Fellows -
September/October 2003
By Laurie Atwater, Features Editor / Lexington’s Colonial Times
The students aren’t the only learners in school. This summer thanks to Summer Fellowships from the Lexington Education Foundation…
LEF Fellows Learn Lessons to Teach -
September 2003
By Kate Antognini / Special to the Minuteman
As part of the Lexington Education Foundation’s new Summer Fellowship program, two LHS
teachers, Ann Northup and Brian O’Connell, traveled overseas this summer ...
LEF Grant Keeps Library Web Site Up and Running - September 2003
By Brian Kelly, Staff Writer / Lexington Minuteman
In this age of technology, more and more students are looking
at the Internet as a source to help with schoolwork ...
The Shifting Sands of Education Funding - August 2003
By Laurie Atwater, Features Editor / Lexington's Colonial Times
It’s happening all over the country. Competing interests, misinformation,
misunderstandings and plain disagreement ...
Making the Grade –
August 2003
By Nicole Lewis, Assistant Editor / The Chronicle of Philanthropy
In Los Gatos, Calif., a wealthy town near San Jose, residents banded together to quickly raise $1-million through an aggressive "Save Our Schools" campaign…
LHS LABBB
Adaptive Art Initiative - June 2003
By Laurie Atwater, Features Editor / Lexington's Colonial Times
Everyone was a little nervous. The materials were ready, the visual
instructions had been meticulously prepared ... |
