School

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Pond Cove School

The DRA 2 Online Management System
Becky Swift, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant funds the purchase a system for compiling and evaluating reading assessment data. The system will also provide specific focus of instruction reports for individual students, allowing development of instructional groups and tracking of student progress. The system will reduce the time it takes for teachers to manually compile data and will provide ready access to information as students progress through the education system.

$3,680.00

Pond Cove School

Therapeutic Horseback Riding
Morrigan Burns, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant will fund horseback riding lessons at Riding to the Top in Windham for six students in the Life Skills program. The goal of the project is to challenge students with special needs in a supportive environment while reinforcing and extending skills that the students learn at school. Students gain skills in communication, motor and sensory development, independence, and self-esteem. Funds requested will cover bus rides and lessons.

$1,600.00

Pond Cove School

Sensory Integration in the Classroom
Sara Carroll, 2nd Grade
This grant will equip several general education classrooms with items to support students with sensory integration needs. The grant will be used to purchase items such as wiggle seats, yoga balls, lap pads, sound filtering devices and squeeze balls.

$1,000.00

Pond Cove School

Total Pond Cove School

$6,280.00

School

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Middle School

Tech Module Lab Additions
Christopher Turner, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant funds the purchase of computers and materials to expand current teaching units and introduce flight technology and simulation to the aerodynamics unit. Funds will be used to purchase five Dell PCﾒs and five flight simulator kits.

$6,416.00

Middle School

Egg Tempera Workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marguerite Lawler-Rohner, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant funds tuition, travel and accommodations to attend a workshop in New York. Students will then be introduced to the process used extensively in the Renaissance as a means of connecting art processes with art history in a meaningful way. A long term goal is to use egg tempera in permanent fresco mural projects in the hallways of the school.

$800.00

Middle School

Total Middle School

$7,216.00

School

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High School

World Affairs Council
Gretchen McNulty, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant covers expenses anticipated with a new activity at CEHS. Students meet weekly with a structured agenda to plan and discuss issues of global importance. Currently, 57 students have attended at least 3 meetings. Plans are to enhance the program with speakers, discussions, films and related events. Plans also include a community event titled The People Speak. Students will be researching and writing position papers for Model UN Conferences.

$4,000.00

High School

Improvisation Jazz Lab
Tom Lizotte, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant will add a jazz lab to supplement the existing jazz curriculum in the CEHS band program. Funds will be used to purchase a computer and software called Band in a Box, which will enable students and teachers to learn the art of improvisation. The software allows song features such as tempo or key to be changed and isolated, allowing a new appreciation of musical structure. The lab can be used with the existing sound system for amplification.

$1,703.00

High School

Total High School

$5,703.00

School

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All Schools

Total All Schools

$0.00