2004-2005 Foundation Grant Recipients

Grant Recipient: Melody Goldmeyer
Program Title: InterWrite School Pad
Subject: Math
Grade Level: 6
School: Davis Intermediate School
Amount: $ 3,000.00
Wireless, interactive InterWrite school pad is used by the teacher and the students in the classroom. From anywhere in the classroom, the teacher or student can project comments, notes, answers, etc. to a projected image.

Tibbals Family Endowment Grant
Grant Recipient: Traci Leonhart
Program Title: Speed Stacks
Subject: Physical Education
Grade Level: K-4
School: Cox Elementary School
Amount: $ 989.00
Cup stacking is an exciting individual and team sport where participants stack and un-stack 12 specially designed plastic cups, called Speed Stacks, in predetermined sequences.

Carlisle Coatings & Waterproofing, Inc. Junior High Science Grant
Grant Recipient: Connie Hartley
Program Title: Math and Science Computations (MASC)
Subject: Math and Science
Grade Level: 8
School: Burnett Junior High School
Amount: $ 2,960.95
This project integrates math and science by using technology. By using calculator based lab technology and a team teaching approach, the goal is to improve math and science instruction, and increase math and science TAKS scores.

Grant Recipient: Charlotte Pickett
Program Title: Crayons and Computers
Subject: Art
Grade Level: 5-6
School: Harrison Intermediate School
Amount: $ 3,000.00
Annual planning revealed a need to allow art students to create electronic-generated art. This “Crayons and Computers” center will meet this need for more than 400 students, and will suffice the TEKS, which requires that students are able to produce art from various mediums, including electronic media-generated art.

Grant Recipient: Ginger Gonzalez
Program Title: Every Child is an Artist
Subject: Art
Grade Level: Preschool
School: Cox Elementary School
Amount: $ 2,474.66
This project will provide appropriate art materials and lessons for students in Art and the Preschool Program for Students with Disabilities.

Grant Recipient: Barbara Gilmore
Program Title: iQuest for Quantam Leaps
Subject: Reading, Math, Science
Grade Level: Pre-K - 4
School: Cox Elementary School
Amount: $ 2,507.36
This program will provide students with a home-based technology program that includes engaging activities, games, stories, and facts that make learning fun, effective, motivating, and challenging, in reading, math, science, grammar, and writing.

Grant Recipient: Jeff Kirsch
Program Title: ESP in ART – Extended Student Participation in Art
Subject: Art
Grade Level: 1 - 4
School: Cox Elementary School – District Grant
Amount: $ 4,756.12
This is an eight-day summer school Art Camp, primarily directed to “at-risk” and “latch-key” students. This camp will include take home supplies to encourage further student exploration.

Grant Recipient: Doug Fortenberry
Program Title: Comprehensive College and Career Planning and Preparation Program
Subject: Individual Planning
Grade Level: 9 -12
School: Wylie High School
Amount: $ 2,122.00
Students in Humanities, Pre-AP, and AP classes will be targeted to create ECOS accounts on Princeton Review’s website. These accounts will allow them to take Holland’s Self-Directed Search and determine their personality match with a career choice.

Grant Recipient: Christy Sanchez
Program Title: Leap Into Language Arts
Subject: ESL and Special Education
Grade Level: PK - 4
School: Birmingham Elementary School
Amount: $ 3,000.00
The “Language First” program is a multisensory program for English Language Development. This program uses interactive LeapPad personal learning tools and 36 theme-based “talking” books to develop English oral language and essential vocabulary skills for English Language Learners and struggling Special Education students.

Grant Recipient: Christy Sanchez
Program Title: Parents as Partners
Subject: Parent Involvement
Grade Level: Kindergarten and ESL PK-4
School: Birmingham Elementary School
Amount: $ 2,900.00
This project utilizes Frog Family Fun-Packs to promote family interactions, effective home-school communication, and a systematic way for parents to help students do well in school. Research has proven that students benefit from a strong home-school connection. Our proposed project starts building this connection in Kindergarten, starting a routine of nightly parent-child interaction that will hopefully continue in future school years.

Grant Recipient: Beverly Frederick
Program Title: TIVY
Subject: Math
Grade Level: 8
School: McMillan Junior High School
Amount: $ 536.90
TIVY is a board game invented by a retired math teacher in which participants use logic and game play skills to place their numbered dice into score goals on the board in a race with their opponent. The program will initially be implemented in classrooms of identified at-risk students, those who have not passed the previous year’s TAKS test.

Grant Recipient: Beverly Frederick
Program Title: My Web Tutor
Subject: Math
Grade Level: 7-8
School: McMillan Junior High School
Amount: $ 2,604.84
My Web Tutor will be a series of videos available to all students through the student access on the district web site. The series will correlate to district scope and sequence for 7th and 8th grades, and thus to the TEKS.

Grant Recipient: Susan Larsen
Program Title: Write On!
Subject: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: 3
School: Dodd Elementary School
Amount: $ 2,620.00
This wireless device engages students in learning while enabling the teacher or student to interact with a projected image from anywhere in the classroom. This immediate feedback is needed for students to maintain continual progress.

Grant Recipient: Kim Meeks
Program Title: CSI: Challenging Scientific Investigations
Subject: Science
Grade Level: 2
School: Dodd Elementary School
Amount: $ 2,987.65
While meeting TEKS standards, this project will provide students with the active learning necessary to stimulate reasoning and promote a deeper understanding of the major scientific principles. This project will provide a solid foundation of science concepts for our students on which they can build from year-to-year.

Grant Recipient: Mindy Allen
Program Title: Ready “Action”
Subject: Special Education
Grade Level: 9-12
School: Wylie High School
Amount: $ 1,424.81
The concept of this project is to provide multiple students within the High School Special Education department additional mediums to assist with communication skills while in the process of helping others. Through the use of a web cam, the students will strengthen their reading skills, and document their portfolios.

Grant Recipient: Jan Sellars
Program Title: VIP Program: Visuals Improving Performance
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 9-12
School: Wylie High School
Amount: $ 2,875.00
Document cameras will be used by the campus language arts teachers to facilitate their work in teaching students how to write and read more effectively. Teachers from other departments who share language arts classrooms may also take advantage of the document cameras.