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Teacher Mini-Grants Osborn School District |
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Teacher Mini-Grants The Fall 2010 Cycle is now open
The Osborn
Educational Foundation supports innovation in education through
mini- Please note that receipts are required for all expenditures. Recipients are requested to save all receipts and make additional notations on them for clarity. Please attach the receipts to your final written project report, which is due May 14, 2011.
Spring 2010 Clarendon sixth grade Dual Language Teacher Carlos Ardon will purchase copies of “El Principito” (The Little Prince) in Spanish for his classroom library. Students will engage in comparing and contrasting the English and Spanish translations. OMS Social Skills Teacher Gwen Barlow’s class will purchase nutrition books, aprons, nutrition games, and ingredients to study nutrition. Encanto Dual Language Teacher Audrey Downey and Collaborative Peer Teacher Stacy Courtright will purchase analogue watch sets for students to share while they learn to tell time. OMS Science Teacher Amber Struthers’ eighth grade students will learn about adaptation through growing modified bacteria and dissecting squid. Clarendon Resource Teacher Justine Goldman will purchase books on the Untied States, Ancient History, and Arizona Nature for his classroom library. Encanto Third Grade Teacher Kristin Gross will purchase an additional MP3 player, audio books and print texts to for students to work on reading fluency. OMS Music and Media Teacher Cat Hilgers’ students will learn how to use digital cameras, Microsoft PowerPoint (for presentation), and Windows Media Player (to input music to go with presentation). Clarendon sixth grade Teachers Chad Kobold, Carlos Ardon, Corissa Quijada, Kristi Wilhelms, and Ben Baldner plan to take students to YMCA Camp Sky in Prescott for an outdoor education and team building overnight camping experience. Clarendon Art Teacher Barbara Middleton plans to teach fourth grade students about Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson, and then have them combine found objects and small wood pieces to make an assemblage. Fall 2009 Congratulations to the following teachers who have been selected as mini-grant recipients by the Osborn Educational Foundation: Longview Art Teacher Panthea Begay’s project Totem Poles will purchase air dry clay to augment a lesson on North Coast Indians. OMS Music Teacher Kevin Eberle’s project Band and Choir Music for Hollywood Concert will purchase sheet music specific to combined Band & Choir providing opportunities for Band and Choir students to work together. Montecito PE Teacher Debbie Fields' project Hiking Our Phoenix Rural Back Yard will take fourth grade students hiking at North Mountain trail. Longview Teacher Aimee Graefe and Tina McMillion’s project Phonics - A Firm Foundation will improve phonics skills for students. Solano Music Teacher Nancy Heath’s project Holiday Music will purchase musical plays for younger students and music pieces for the fifth and sixth grade Choir. Longview Kindergarten Teachers Irma Garcia, Maui Taylor, and Collaborative Peer Teacher Mark Pfister’s project Insta Learn will purchase materials for students to work more independently. Clarendon Art Teacher Barbara Middleton’s project Model Magic Gargoyles will augment a lesson on the purpose of gargoyles in medieval architecture- students will study and use clay sculpture techniques to create a gargoyle of their own. Clarendon School Based Family Counselor Rachael Post’s project Clarendon's Kindness Campaign promotes positive problem-solving and bulling prevention through acts of kindness. OMS Teacher Amber Struthers’s project Rockets! Physics In Action will purchase model rockets, engines, and a launch system to study Newton's Laws of Motion in regards to projectiles. Longview Librarian Meg Williams' project Battle Of The Books will purchase books to promote reading with a fun, Family-Feud style competition.
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grants of amounts up to $300. These grants are used by
Osborn District teachers for educational opportunities involving
their students. The projects take place during the school
year, with a Completion Report due mid May. You will find
examples of last year’s awards below.