Now in our fourth year of funding, Partners In Education (PIE), a program of the Foothills Community Foundation, is honored to announce our 2014-2015 Teacher Vision Grant (TVG) recipients. This year PIE expanded the program to reach not only Cave Creek Unified School District schools but charter and private schools as well. Recipients were chosen in May so the materials could be ready for the start of the new school year. Seventeen creative applications were received, of which seven were funded for a total of $17,200. PIE also collaborated with Kiwanis Club of Carefree in the funding of two of the grants and by providing $1,000 to be used for scholarships for the Cactus Shadows High School Science Club. “Happy Feet” was proposed by Janelle Roberts-Perrin on behalf of the physical education team of the Cave Creek Unified School District. With a grant of $3,659 each school (K-12) in the district received a sound system to support curriculum and instruction through music. PIE members visited Cactus Shadows High School to see the system in action. At Bella Vista College Preparatory School Principal Lisa Artenian requested $725 for “A Season of Shakespeare” for 4th-12th grades. A semester of studying Shakespeare will culminate in a Shakespeare Festival in the spring. Horseshoe Trails Elementary School has two grant recipients, each of whom received 10 iPads. With $4,921 Kimberly Blackert is creating a “Mad Classroom All About Tech” for her second grade. Kathy Mellody’s “The Science of Living Systems: Structures and Functions” supports cross-disciplinary technology integration for grades K-6. PIE funded $2,921 while Kiwanis contributed $2,000. Visiting the classroom made us all want to be students again. At Quality Interactive (QI) Montessori Kari Frentzel was granted $500 for equipment to create an “Elementary Newspaper Layout and Production Center” for 4th-6th grades. In addition, PIE donated lightly used equipment, including a digital camera, laptop computer and a digital monitor. Their first issue included an interview with PIE member Bob Zinser explaining how the Teacher Vision Grant process works. Hilary Sohm, the 1st-3rd grade teacher at QI Montessori, purchased Bee-Bots and Pro-Bots with her $1,650 grant “Terrapin Logo Programmable Robots for Students”. The students demonstrated how they program the robots as the first step in learning computer programming. Foothills Academy College Preparatory’s “School Wide Cross-Curricular STEM Project”, submitted by Jonathan Brechner received $2,887 from PIE and $2,000 from Kiwanis of Carefree. This will provide equipment and supplies for a STEM project across all grade levels at the upper school. To learn more about Partners in Education and the Teacher Vision Grant program visit azfcf.org/education.html. Help PIE with their important mission--donate online to support this valuable, collaborative program.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:30:37 +0000
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