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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information, contact: Kathi
Murphy, (860) 599-1980
Stonington Education Fund Gives
$24000 to Mini-Grants, Apple Grants and Music Program Enrichment
The SEF board of directors
voted to fund $4798 worth of teacher mini-grants in October 2007.
Mini-grants are evaluated and recommended annually by the school
department’s Career Incentive Committee. A list of mini-grants follows.
The SEF also voted to
provide almost $9000 to purchase a variety of musical equipment and
programs for the entire school district’s music program. Combining this
with last year’s grant of $11220, the SEF has provided over $20000 to
the town-wide music department! It is through the generosity of Mark and
Christine Kepple’s organizing efforts that the Stockroom’s Blue
Mondays Concert Series, held in the Mystic River Park in the summer
months, raised the money for musical enrichment.
 In the fall of 2007, the
SEF approved two grants. The first grant was facilitated by Marika
Heughins and Tina Eisenbeis, co-teachers of the PFISH 5/6 multiage
looping classroom at PMS. The grant funded a multi-media station valued
at $4389. The second grant, “ I See You – Language Through the Lens”,
was written by foreign language teachers Joyce Chase and Eileen Fiore,
both at MMS and PMS. The grant of $2489 provides for digital video
cameras and programs to capture middle school French and Spanish class
language experiences.
In the spring of 2008, the
SEF awarded nearly $3500 to a team of teachers at MMS to fund a cooking
classroom that will integrate many academic disciplines and teach life
skills in a fun, hands on environment.
2007-2008 Mini-Grants
(28 teachers at all six schools applied for grants to fund 15
projects)
- $300: Repairing Femoral Fractures at Mystic Middle
- $360: Kindergarten Digital Pictures at Deans Mill
- $497: Connecticut Kids – 4th graders at West Broad creating a
multimedia website of their explorations of New London county
- $180: science classes at Stonington High will plant, tend, grow,
& harvest vegetables in their greenhouse
- $426: new microphones will allow the BBC at SHS to produce a
video magazine to air on Comcast twice monthly
- $470: Graphic Arts Center for 7th & 8th graders at Pawcatuck
Middle
- $365: 6th graders at Mystic Middle to study Hydroponics
- $230: West Broad’s 3rd graders will learn about and promote
recycling in town, as well as create their own pillow from recycled
materials
- $250: SHS physics students to create experiments and manipulate
models to study physical phenomenon through “Interactive Physics”, a
simulation software program
- $400: the TLC special ed. class at SHS will integrate
photography and writing skills into their photo journals
- $150: Erasable Algebra for SHS students will provide students
the extra edge needed to learning algebraic concepts
- $170: 7th graders at Mystic Middle will learn how to keep a
checkbook and how to keep track of their finances
- $300: West Vine’s 1st graders and their parents partaking in
innovative literacy nights
- $350: Nutmeg Book Club circles involving 4th grade students,
teachers and parents
- $350: Pedometer Math in Mystic Middle’s 7th grade
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The Stonington Education Fund seeks to promote excellence in the
Stonington Public Schools through the effective use of private donations
and grants. A further goal is to increase community support for and
understanding of the educational mission of the Stonington Public Schools.
The Stonington Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation. |
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