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Pond Cove School

Technology in the Elementary Classroom
Shari Robinson, Multiple Grade Levels
CEEF believes that technology is a key component to helping prepare our students for the 21st century. This grant aims to help put technology into all elementary classrooms including LCD monitors and Smartboards. This technology enlivens student learning, challenges teacher innovation and connects our educational community with global learners.

$15,000.00

Pond Cove School

Therapeutic Horseback Riding
Dave Croft, Multiple Grade Levels
Acknowledging these hard financial times CEEF could not ignore this truly heartwarming program. CEEF has continued to support this CEEF/PCPA funded program from the last three years which provides 7 life skills students, including three new kindergarten students this year, with therapeutic horseback riding. This initiative provides much excitement and an incredible opportunity for amazing personal growth for these children with special needs.

$400.00

Pond Cove School

English Language Learner Resource Library
Joni Hewitt, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant provides a library of resources books, games, and teacher-plan books to use with the  current curriculum for teachers to incorporate English Language Learners into the classroom setting.

$1,000.00

Pond Cove School

Total Pond Cove School

$16,400.00

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Middle School

7th-Grade Boston Field Trip
Marguerite Lawler-Rohner, 7th Grade
This grant covers a full-day field trip for the entire 7th Grade to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. This trip comes at the end of many weeks of learning in the classroom over various subjects and helps students to see the connections between their curriculum and the real world. This continues to build on the success of the CEEF-funded trip last year. 

$2,414.00

Middle School

Chewonki Outdoor Experience
Charlie Carroll, 6th Grade
Funding off-sets parent-driven fundraising efforts to pay for portion of off-campus learning program previously in budget but recently cut.  The grant will provide $10,000 over three years.  A matching anonymous grant will help the legacy of this much-loved 6th-grade program.

$3,333.33

Middle School

Supporting Reading with Innovative Technology
Cheryl Joys/Deb Hannon, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant would pay for Kindles for students in MS Instructional Support and RTI groups to assist in reading. This technology helps with reading skills but also can help reduce the stigma often felt by the reluctant reader.

$1,000.00

Middle School

Science & Technology in 21st Century Schools
Steve Connolly, 7th Grade Science
Science and technology are changing every day. New discoveries and leading edge learning will be brought into all the MS science rooms with these monitors, Smartoards and a Clicker travel pack to enable teachers to lead classes though electronic media.

$11,500.00

Middle School

Sixth-grade Podcasting
Elizabeth Johnston, 6th Grade
This grant puts technology into the hands of our students. It provides an editing room, initially for 6th-grade students but with potential for other grades/teachers to use; to write, film and edit a weekly podcast about activities specific to 6th-grade and in the middle school.

$1,651.85

Middle School

Middle School Months of Wellness
Gretchen McCloy, All grade levels
This grant continues with many of the ideas that have been so successful in the HS wellness program. This 10-month pilot program promotes monthly healthy choices to all CEMS students. Issues facing our children from drug and alcohol abuse, to healthy eating habits, to how to recognize and cope with depression are just a few of the themes which will be addressed throughout the monthly program.

$1,000.00

Middle School

Global Connections
Susan Dana, Multiple Grade Levels
Following the highly successful CEEF-funded program last year, this grant aims to bring more immigrant stories to students, parents and our community, fostering cultural diversity and world understanding here in Cape. The date for this evening café will be announced soon.

$882.00

Middle School

Total Middle School

$21,780.85

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High School

Latin III, Vergil's Aeneid
Morton Soule, Multiple Grade Levels
Funding for Latin has been largely lost in the HS. This grant provides essential texts for the currently parent-funded Latin program for students' in-depth study of Vergil.

$413.16

High School

Engineering Curriculum Development
Evan Thayer, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant funds the purchase of engines for the engineering program for the hands-on study of the combustion engine, guest speakers in various subjects as well as construction and lab equipment to study wind velocity and heat transfer.

$1,850.00

High School

Total High School

$2,263.16