2015 Grant Recipients

COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR SCIENCE, BERKLEY, CA

$35,000
Support for a partnership with UC Berkeley’s Natural History Museums and the Lawrence Hall of Science to develop a project designed to increase the quality of science teaching and quantity of STEM learning experiences to teachers and students in 6 cohort schools in the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE, BALTIMORE, MD

$35,000
Support for Project UNITE (formerly referred to as Classroom Interventions).  Kennedy Krieger seeks to demonstrate that evidence-based educational interventions can be effective for improving outcomes in school-aged children who are at risk for placement in special education programs.  The Institute believes that if these at-risk students receive proactive support via targeted classroom modifications and adapted instruction, based on expert developmental and neurobehavioral assessments, their behavior and academic functioning will improve; they will be more available for learning; and many will be able to avoid placement in special education services. These interventions, initially targeted toward specific students, are also expected to have broader effects on instructional practices of the teacher and ultimately on the entire classroom, thereby reducing the risks of special education placement for multiple students.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MI

$35,000
Support of work with social studies teachers in one middle school department to design and pilot curriculum materials that will systematically support their students as they learn to read critically, think historically, and write arguments over time. The curriculum materials will help students within and across grade levels work on two main learning goals: (1) reading and analysis of historical and current sources and (2) writing effective arguments.

ORLEANS SOUTHWEST SUPERVISORY  UNION, HARDWICK, VT

$35,000
Our Food Matters Project of the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union of Hardwick, Vermont to support and work with a team of six diverse grade level educators from around the district in designing and implementing innovative, standards aligned, science curriculum. This curriculum will use food systems and agriculture as a lens of learning that is inherently relevant and incorporates tenants of effective learning and 21st century skills: inquiry, applied technology, whole-child wellness, and project-based, real-world problem solving.

2014 Grant Recipients

Deer Isle Stonington High School, Deer Isle, ME

$35,000
Support for launching three new project-based learning Pathways: Marine Studies, Health Care and Visual & Performing Arts.

Mindful Schools, Oakland, CA

$35,000
Support for providing mindfulness education to K-12 schools via direct classroom instruction and training for educators.

University of Nebraska, Kearney, NE

$35,000
Support to increase physical activity and fitness of elementary school children in an attempt to decrease excessive weight gain and prevalence of obesity.

Washington and Lee UNIVERSITY, Lexington, VA

$35,000
Support for Foreign Language Futures (FLF), a unique learning/teaching partnership developed between Washington and Lee University of Lexington, Virginia, and our two neighboring local school districts, Rockbridge County Public Schools and Buena Vista City Public Schools.

 

2013 Grant Recipients

E3: Education, excellence, & Equity, San rafael, CA

$10,000
Support for teacher professional development that focus on practical strategies that teachers implement in the classroom to increase student engagment.

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, alexandria, VA

$10,000
Support to design and pilot a series of professional development workshops assisting school implementation of the common core state standards for English language Learners.

Utah International Charter School, salt lake city, UT

$10,000
Support to support the licensing and development of teachers of refugee and immigrant status.

Lloyd Center for the Environment, Dartmouth, MA

$35,000
Support to create and implement curricula in public school science classes that include hands-on mentoring in climate science research for 3rd, 5th grade and select high school students.  The project will also train teachers how to blend children’s discoveries about the effects of climate change on local ecology with in-class science lessons throughout the year.

New York School for the Deaf, White Plains, NY

$35,000
Support to identify and implement the best practices to aid in the successful creation of a Dual Language Program.

The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, New orleans, LA

$35,000
Support for Teacher Resilience Education and Enhancement (TREE):  A five-part professional development series designed to increase resilience and retention of K-12 teachers in high-risk urban neighborhood schools in post-Katrina New Orleans..