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Bridging
the Gap: 21st Century Technology Helps Special Educators Meet
the Unique Learning Needs of their Students
- February 11, 2010
By Cheryl Meadow/Special to the Minuteman
We
all know that electronic media takes up a huge amount of kids'
leisure time, but new technologies have also led to a sea change
in the way that schools can deliver classroom instruction-to mainstream
students and those with diverse learning needs.
Grants awarded to all Lexington public schools
–
December 19, 2009
Lexington Minuteman
The
Lexington Education Foundation has awarded its 2009-2010 School
Community Grants to all nine Lexington Public Schools.
High school starts concussion screening
program –
November 25, 2009
by
Paula Antonevich/Special to the Lexington Minuteman
Sports-related
concussions have always been part of contact sports - and in turn,
a concern for athletes, coaches, and sports programs...
VIDEO:
Trivia Bee buzzes Cary Hall
–
November 6, 2009
By Emily Costello/Staff Writer/Lexington
Minuteman
What Amherst author wrote: "There
is no frigate like a book?"
If you correctly answered "Emily Dickinson," ...
LEF
Bee has town abuzz –
October 25, 2009
Lexington Minuteman
The
Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) will host its14th annual
Trivia Bee Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at Cary Hall. This
town-wide tradition pits teachers, friends and neighbors against
each other in friendly trivia combat.
Letter
to the Editor/Boston Globe
–
October 23, 2009
By Elisabeth Donahue and Deborah
Rourke
We appreciate Derrick Z. Jackson's calling attention to the fact
that too often student athletes are sent back to the field when
they are not fully healed from head trauma...
Annual
Lexington Education Foundation trivia bee buzzes into Cary Hall
– September 30,
2009
Lexington Minuteman
Lexington
Education Foundation (LEF) will host its annual "bee-loved"
tradition, the Trivia Bee, Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at Cary
Hall. Contestants will tackle trivia in a "final Jeopardy"-style...
Lexington
Education Foundation puts $214K into schools
–
Sep 27, 2009
Lexington
Minuteman
Lexington
Education Foundation (LEF) awarded almost $214,000 in grants and
fellowships to the Lexington Public Schools for the 2009-2010
school year...
Letter
to the Editor/Lexington Minuteman
– September
10, 2009
By
Elisabeth Donahue and Deborah Rourke
LEF left out of fundraiser...
Lexington
Education Foundation hires director
– Sep
10, 2009
Lexington Minuteman
Lexington
Education Foundation (LEF) recently hired Aimee LeBrun as the
organization's first executive director.
Commentary:
Kids reap benefits of social-skills program
–
April
9, 2009
By Elisabeth Donahue/Special
to the Lexington
Minuteman
If you have elementary school children in Lexington, chances are
you have heard of "Open Circle." But do you know what
it is?...
Clicking
with Students
–
April 2, 2009
By Linda K. Wertheimer/ Staff Writer/Boston Globe
Their eyes glued to the screen, the eighth-graders each grasped
a clicker, a 4-ounce device akin to a television remote, and pressed
a letter on the keypad...
LEF
turns 20
–
Feb/March
09
By
Laurie Atwater, Features Editor / Lexington’s Colonial Times
Lexington Education Foundation Celebrates
Partnership with Lexington Public Schools.
Our
Schools: LEF is a strong school foundation – Dec 04,
2008
By Paul B. Ash/Lexington Public Schools
superintendent/Guest Commentator, Lexington Minuteman
The Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) is celebrating 20 years
of partnership with the Lexington Public School System.
As a relative newcomer to the LPS...
Teens’ anti-smoking film now on silver screen
– Jun
19, 2008
By Ian B. Murphy/Staff
Writer of Lexington Minuteman
An anti-smoking short film created by two Lexington students will
be shown...
New media
technology bolsters Diamond classrooms –
May 15,
2008
Lexington Minuteman
For the past two years, students at Diamond Middle School have
enjoyed an enriched science program thanks to two innovative grants
funded by the Lexington Education Foundation...
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
Lexington
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 Lexington
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
Lexington
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 ...
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