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AISD Education Foundation Impact Grant Awards – Spring 2007
AISD Education Foundation awarded 15 grants for $53,441, impacting
7,014 students in March 2007.
Since 1995, the Foundation has awarded
212 grants worth $575,992 to Arlington
teachers.
Bowie HS – Tennis Biomechanical
Analysis – Jon Jones
Students using a PC and video camera
as tools in the development and
understanding of the technical aspects
of stroke production and the
biomechanics each person should model
for the many different swing types and
shot selections in tennis.
$3,000 Students Impacted 300
Crow ES – Music Comes Alive Through
Technology – Sarah Valentino
Will allow students in grades 1-6 to
integrate technology into their music
curriculum. Students will use a variety
of music software programs throughout
the school year to reinforce and enhance
their music education.
$5,000 Students Impacted 585
Ditto ES – Reaching for the Stars
through Science - Shonda Brisco
To increase student achievement and
parental involvement in the area of
science, the “Reaching for the Stars
through Science” project will provide
students and teachers with outstanding
print and digital media science
resources within the classroom and the
library.
$5,000 Students Impacted: 650
District Wide Fine Arts – United in
Song - Thomas Rinn
United in Song will provide the
opportunity for AISD choral students to
work in a workshop and concert, and
provide staff development for choral
directors, with a nationally recognized
conductor and composer at the
world-renowned Meyerson Symphony Center.
$5,000 Students Impacted 650
Farrell ES – STARS: Striving Together
and Reading Successfully – Kelly Norwood
The purpose of the program is to
strengthen home-school connections,
provide resources to support student
skill level, and promote greater
achievement on DRA and TAKS testing.
$4,246 Students Impacted: 120
Goodman ES – What’s Your Shape?
What’s Your Angle? - Robert Stone
Goodman students will use digital
cameras to take pictures of geometric
terms from around the school. They will
then put the pictures into a flipbook or
KidPix class book to use as learning
tools in the classroom.
$1,200 Students Impacted 120
Knox ES – Learning Through Literature
– Laral Coe
My goal for “Learning Though
Literature” is to enrich the classroom
library and math resources to enhance
the teaching of math concepts that have
been identified as areas of needed
improvement based on the 2006
Kindergarten EOY test results.
$2,500 Students Impacted: 81
Knox ES – Developing Young Scientists
– Laral Coe
This project is designed to provide
the materials and lesson plans that will
enable Kindergarten teachers to
integrate Science Concepts into daily
Language Arts and Math instruction while
promoting a foundation of Science
concepts to promote developing your
scientists.
$2,500 Students Impacted: 81
Kooken – Learning to Listen and
Listening to Learn - Dr. Connie Spence
Amplification will be installed in
six prekindergarten classrooms to
enhance learning. Teachers will utilize
wireless microphone/transmitters to
amplify their voices so each student
hears clearly. This technology provides
clear speech signals to high-risk
students who are learning/improving
language skills.
$1,000 Students Impacted 50
Lamar HS – Skeeter Beaters – Cindy
Love
To create a contemporary learning
environment, it is essential to link
scientific issues with student research.
We will take mosquito population
densities and apply non-chemical
controls. Success will be determined by
post application population
measurements.
$5,000 Students Impacted: 2,000
Miller ES – Miller Knights Chess Club
– Kathy Arroyo
Purchase chess equipment so that all
students actively participate during
club meetings and improve higher level
thinking skills that directly correlate
with various TEKS objectives and campus
goals. We currently have over 50 members
but complete sets for 10 participants.
$1,200 Students Impacted 50
Miller ES –Extreme Bookroom Makeover
– Raise Those TAKS Scores!! - Beverly
Jarrett
Extreme Bookroom Makeover - calls
for goals setting, determination, and
creatively selecting and organizing a
smorgasbord of fiction and non-fiction
books that can be used by enthusiastic
teachers customizing instruction in
small groups and resulting with excited
students gaining confidence in reading.
$5,000 Students Impacted 856
Morton ES (Bilingual/ESL) - It’s
Raining Books” - Raquel Leiker
It’s Raining Books: This project
will ensure students’ progression in
attaining English Language Developmental
skills through the use of Yellow
Umbrella Books. These research based
reading kits will enable teachers to
individualize the student’s reading
instruction to increase English levels.
$4,156 Students Impacted 241
Roark ES – Roark Community Library –
Nonie Bowen
The Roark Community Library will
provide continuous literacy support and
enrichment while encouraging parental
involvement in academic achievement. The
library will allow students and parents
access to literacy resources throughout
the calendar year including evenings,
weekends and summer months.
$5,000 Students Impacted 580
Turning Point Junior High School –
Soozy Francis
This is a proposal to place a TI
Navigator system into TPJH Math
classrooms to implement TEKS-based
activities designed and developed by the
math team to improve achievement on
district and state assessments by
increasing students’ time on task.
$3,639 Students Impacted 500
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