WEF AWARDS MORE GRANTS FOR TEACHERS
 

The Worthington Educational Foundation recently awarded grants to the following teachers and staff members for projects designed to enrich learning experiences for the students of Worthington Schools.

In this round of regular grants, $7,526 was awarded.

Debbie Daup, Paula McPheron, and Barb Minor at Granby Elementary School were awarded $500 to purchase classroom collections of Accelerated Reader books and quizzes for instruction and at-home reading.

Thomas L. Beck at Colonial Hills Elementary School received $198 to purchase an initial set of 10 NLVM CD-ROMs that will be reviewed by EPP math teachers to determine the instructional effectiveness and appropriateness for EPP math students. An initial set of materials will be piloted at one building.

Sandrine White at Thomas Worthington High School and Worthington Kilbourne High School was awarded $429 to purchase an iPod and voice recorder attachment that will be used to record songs in French and create CDs for student practice. Also, student French conversations will be recorded for self and teacher evaluation.

Beth McHugh, Ashley Hard, Kathy Schmidt, Leslie Miller, and Brenda Balla at Worthington Park Elementary School were awarded $899 to purchase big books and six packs of little books for reading instruction in the kindergarten and first grade classrooms.

Kathy Davenporte, Susan Flory, and Megan Connell at Worthington Estates Elementary School were awarded $500 to purchase materials to create stages and also purchase materials for making puppets that will be used in a puppet show which will be the culminating project for a folklore unit.

Erin Bradshaw at Worthington Hills Elementary School received $500 to purchase leveled reading books that can be used for independent reading in the classroom and sent home for home reading.

Rebecca Krieg and Leslie Main at Slate Hill Elementary School were awarded $750 to purchase leveled books aligned to the science and social studies graded courses of study that will be used for independent student selection.

Brenda Bell at Worthington Park Elementary School was awarded $250 to purchase materials to create a garden club for at-risk students that will create a sensory garden that will be used by the school for science curriculum activities.

Valerie Haslett, Erik Burgeson, and Barbara Armitage at Kilbourne Middle School were awarded $250 to purchase board games and interactive games to teach, reinforce and challenge students to learn vocabulary.

Chris Hasebrook at Linworth Alternative Program was awarded $850 to purchase a laptop computer for Linworth Speech curriculum, Summer School Speech curriculum, and Linworth community events that will enable students to make presentations in a more diverse way, including PowerPoint.

Michele Spradlin and Pam Reik at Bluffsview Elementary School were awarded $500 to purchase reading books that will provide special education, at-risk, and ESL students additional reading materials at their appropriate levels.

Susan Flory, Kathy Davenporte, and Megan Connell at Worthington Estates Elementary School were awarded $500 to purchase small tape recorders and cassette tapes for students that will enable teachers to provide individualized feedback to students during the writing process and allow students to record their oral presentations.

Leslie Ritter at Granby Elementary School was awarded $400 from the Nichols/Hopper Fund to purchase an Apple iPod Hi-Fi Compact Sound System that will be used in conjunction with a teacher-owned iPod to accompany music department student performances.

Laura Detweiler at Sutter Park Preschool was awarded $500 from the Nichols/Hopper Fund to purchase a variety of materials and equipment to improve gross motor programming for 190 typical and special needs preschool students.

Gale Wolsfeld and Patricia Braasch at Sutter Park Preschool were awarded $500 from the Nichols/Hopper Fund to purchase adaptive equipment to facilitate disabled students' participation in a group activity.

In a round of special project grants, $26,762 was awarded.

Mark Glasbrenner at the Worthington Education Center was awarded $5,000 to provide scholarship funding for disadvantaged children to attend camp.

Cathy Hart, Susie Lowmiller, Lee Ann Parsons, Lori Poleway, and Linda Smith at the Worthington Middle Schools were awarded $2,500 to partially fund a four-day author visit by Sharon Draper to the Worthington Middle Schools and to purchase sets of her books for school use.

Amanda Forgrave at Slate Hill Elementary School was awarded $2,400 to purchase software programs for math fact fluency and solving math word problems.

Cynthia Westover-Lalli and Mary Ann Dunn at the Worthington Education Center were awarded $2,154 to purchase Spanish bilingual dictionaries/translators for student, teacher, and parent use in all schools at all grade levels.

Dan Girard and Kathy Moore at Slate Hill Elementary School were awarded $1,000 to purchase data collecting equipment to make data-driven decisions about at-risk students.

Mary Ann Mowery at Slate Hill Elementary School was awarded $1,670 to purchase materials and books that would enrich and expand science work stations in the kindergarten classroom to more fully meet the State Science Standards and the Worthington Science curriculum objectives.

Bronwynn Hopton, Juli Rowsey, and David Hopton at Thomas Worthington High School were awarded $2,500 to fund a workshop that will provide TWHS students with the real-life experience of being playwrights. This grant was funded by monies donated by the Thomas Worthington High School Class of 2003.

Laura Detweiler at Sutter Park Preschool was awarded $2,000 to establish a parent resource library with materials that support and empower families to be effective intervention agents and teachers of their own children.

Greg Witt, Donna Gehring, and Marcia Buban, Henry Hale, Sharon Sciulli and Cindy Fox at Bluffsview Elementary School were awarded $2,500 to construct an outdoor stage that will be part of an amphitheater and outdoor classroom.

Carol Stamm and Kristy Smith at Worthington Kilbourne High School were awarded $2,058 to purchase a laptop computer for use by the Counseling Department as a flexible work station and for group presentations and demonstrations.

Julianna Rowsey at Thomas Worthington High School was awarded $1,525 to purchase an LCD projector that will be used by students to present authentic multi-media presentations that will be created by each student enrolled in the various Family and Consumer Sciences classes at TWHS.

Vickey Stewart, Barbara Zook and Debby Fuller at Evening Street Elementary School were awarded $1,455 to purchase staff development materials and student literature needed to implement a research-based classroom interview approach encouraging respect for all community members while teaching beginning research strategies.