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		LAWRENCE Township School Foundation
		SPRING, 2002 GRANT RECOMMENDATIONS
GRANT #	TITLE	SCHOOL	PROJECT DIRECTOR(S)	AMOUNT	DESCRIPTION
MINI-GRANTS
02-101	Anthology Selections	CV	Lynn Laffey	$403.80	A proposal to use literacy and technology-based materials for creative
					means in developing student confidence and trust in reading and writing
					skills.  Funding will be used to purchase various genres of text and
					educational technology tools.
02-102	Creating a Reggio Emilia	CK-N	Erin Sughrue	$748.76	A  project with the goal of creating an environment based on the
	Environment				teachings of Reggio Emilia, Italy.  This grant will fund the purchase of
					numerous small, child size tools, hardware and art supplies.  Children
					will use these in exploring their interests, discovering their own strengths
					and talents.
02-104	Write On!	SS	Liz Terando	$733.00	The goal of this proposal is to improve student writing through editing
					and revising their rough drafts.  Appropriate books on writing, editing and
					revising along with plastic sun visors, highlighter pens and red pencils
					will be purchased with the funding granted for this project.
02-105	Literacy	FG	Kathy Tappy	$500.00	A funding request for specifically selected, age and ability appropriate, books
					and books on tape.  The goal is, through the use of high interest literature, to
					bring each student to grade level, or above, in decoding and comprehension.
					Partial Funding
					Matching Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
02-106	Mobile Equal Access	FCV	Kayla M. Russick	$222.14	Grant will purchase a mobile cart to carry a closed caption TV previously
	to All Via Captioned TV				donated by Special Services and a VCR donated by Fall Creek Valley.  To be
					used in the general classrooms for the benefit of deaf and hard of hearing
					students as well as ESOL students.
02-107	Enhancing the Resource	FCV	Marla Gee	$750.00	To purchase educational software, magazines, books, videos and board
	Room				games to expand the resource room's potential to provide students with
					self-initiated activities.  These hands-on manipulatives will assist special
					education students in building critical thinking skills.
02-108	"Star Writers"	ST	Cheryl Howell	$250.00	A proposal for the funding of the purchase of Alpha Smart portable word
			Stephanie Lutin		processors.  The goal is to help 3rd, 4th and 5th grade learning disabled
					students more easily manage written language assignments and projects.
					Partial Funding
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GRANT #	TITLE	SCHOOL	PROJECT DIRECTOR(S)	AMOUNT	DESCRIPTION
02-109	Take-Home Learning	FG	Judy Canfield	$605.00	Funding of a proposal to purchase backpacks and specific learning
	Backpacks		Joni Faux		materials which will be provided to the two kindergarten classes.  The goal
					is to increase parent involvement with their child's education, specifically
					encouraging parents and children to read together.
					Matching Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
02-110	The Development and	FG	Viola	$750.00	The goal of this proposal is to increase students' literacy skills by developing
	Expansion of Literacy		Hamilton-Mitchell		a passion for reading in Spanish.  Funding will be used to expand a classroom
					library with books that offer a variety of genres.
					Matching Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
02-111	Multicultural Literature for	FG	Joni Faux	$750.00	To purchase matching children's literature which will allow full-day
	Emergent Readers		Judy Canfield		kindergarten Spanish Immersion students to be exposed to the same books
					in both Spanish and in English.
					Matching Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
02-112	Improving Immersion	FG	Mabel Ramos	$750.00	A proposal to set up a library of bilingual books in the 2nd grade Spanish
	Classroom Literacy by				Immersion classroom.  The books, narrated in both English and Spanish,
	Promoting Parent				will allow non-Spanish speaking parents to become more involved in the
	Involvement				child's language development.
					Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
02-113	Special Education	LN	Hillary Pyle	$250.00	To purchase appropriate level dictionaries, reading material and classic
	Classroom Library				novels in order to expand a classroom library for special needs students.
					The goal is to improve students' comprehension and reading.
02-114	Return to the Moon	FG	Dave Shafer	$750.00	Funding that will allow up to 72 5th grade students participate in a "space
					mission" at the Challenger Learing Center in Brownsburg.  Activities
					leading up to the mission, the mission itself and post-mission are multi-
					disciplinary, involve teamwork and communications, creative and critical
					thinking, and responsible decision making.
					Matching Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
02-115	"Two Left Feet"	BELZ	Cynthia Jones	$650.00	Funding of a proposed grant which will provide an opportunity for Cynthia
					Jones to attend Showchoir Camps of America.  During this weeklong
					professional development activity Mrs. Jones will learn music, dance and
					stagecraft instructional tools that will be incorporated into Belzer's
					performing arts curriculum.
					This PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROPOSAL meets the criteria
					of the Foundation's new Alignment pertaining to Professional Development
					funding.  The Grants Committee recommends that the funding of this proposal
					be moved from the Grants budget to the Professional Development budget.
	TOTAL MINI-GRANTS			$8,112.70
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GRANT #	TITLE	SCHOOL	PROJECT DIRECTOR(S)	AMOUNT	DESCRIPTION
SCHOOL, MULTI-SCHOOL AND DISTRICT GRANTS
02-201	English 9:	LN	Rebecca Cash	$750.00	A proposal that will allow eight freshman English teachers, the
	4MATION Live Text				department head and principal to access the 4MATION Live Text web site.
					The web site will enable teachers to collaborate on curriculum and specific
					lesson plans.  All the English teachers will share instructional ideas to come
					up with the best strategies.  Most will attend a Tech Prep Conference,
					discussing a better integrated approach, and will begin imputing lesson
					plans into the 4MATION site.
02-202	Reading Renaissance for	BP	Jamie D. Strebing	$3,400.00	Funding 40 participants from Brook Park, Amy Beverland, Harrison Hill,
	Student Success	HH	Angela Thatcher		Sunnyside and Forest Glen Elementary Schools to attend an INTRODUCTION
					TO READING RENAISSANCE WORKSHOP, to provide training for the use of
					previously purchased STAR READING, ACCELERATED READER and STAR
					EARLY LITERACY software programs.  Once the "core group" in each
					building is trained, they will then train and support their colleagues.
					This PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROPOSAL meets the criteria
					of the Foundation's new Alignment pertaining to Professional Development
					funding.  The Grants Committee recommends that the funding of this proposal
					be moved from the Grants budget to the Professional Development budget.
02-203	Crestview Bio-Cart	CV	Susan Watson	$1,000.00	A proposal requesting funding for establishing a biography library to assist
					in teaching students to learn to read non-fictional informational text.  The
					goal of this project is to create a "movable" library of 36 leveled sets of high-
					interest, varied readability biographies, with focus on Americans of many
					backgrounds who have made a contribution to the heritage of this country.
					Partial Funding
02-205	From Story to Stage		James Leagre	$2,000.00	To fund a theater arts program.  This after-school curriculum will allow
		CMS	Marilyn Slemenda (Parent)		students to create and perform their own original play, doing everything
					from script writing, set design, directing and acting.  Theater professionals
					will teach each aspect of production as students practice teamwork,
					responsibility, perseverance and creative expression.
02-208	Extending Bilingual Leveled	FG	Lisa Collins	$1,000.00	A funding request for the purpose of expanding the 2nd grade classrooms'
	Library Collections across		Carol Ensminger		bilingual libraries.  The purchase of multiple copies of English and
	Grade Levels				Spanish titles will extend a successful, in-place, literacy program to include
					the entire primary population of 375 students.
					Partial Funding
					Matching Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
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GRANT #	TITLE	SCHOOL	PROJECT DIRECTOR(S)	AMOUNT	DESCRIPTION
02-209	Staying in Touch:	FCV	Jill Rusk	$1,000.00	The goal of this proposal is to facilitate social interaction of children with
	Making New Friends and		Ann-Marie Looper		moderate and severe disabilities, who choose to attend their home schools,
	Keeping the Old				allowing them to make new friends while maintaining current friendships.
					Funding will provide scheduling, ticket purchase and transportation to
					"events" with "peers" from each of the three middle schools.
					Partial Funding
02-210	Fourth and Fifth Grade	FG	Susan Martin	$1,000.00	A proposal to extend the existing Guided Reading Program in grades 1
	Leveled Classroom		Marilyn Brower		through 3 to grades 4 and 5.  The funding will be used to purchase multilevel
	Libraries				classroom libraries, allowing the continuation of the individualized instruction
					using the same program.
					Partial Funding
					Matching Forest Glen PFO Co-Funding
02-211	Magnifying Our World	CMS	Barbara Diehl	$1,400.00	To fund the purchase of stereo microscopes for instructional demonstration
					and student use.  Stereo microscopes allows the magnification of three
					dimensional objects that can't be placed on a slide and viewed, such as parts
					of a flower, bacterial growth, rocks and minerals, crystal shapes, insects
					and organisms in water.
					Partial Funding
02-212	Accelerated Math	BELZ	Chris Brown	$2,000.00	A request to participate in the funding of Star Math and Accelerated Math
	Technology		Amy McDowell		Software, which provides a computer generated, individualized math
					program that will enhance traditional math instruction.  Students coming into
					Belzer will be able to continue the same individualized math instruction
					that has previously been successfully implemented in some of the
					elementary schools.
					Belzer PFO Co-Funding of $7,194.00
02-213	Students Helping Students	BELZ	Jerry Hammes	$1,600.00	The purpose of this proposal is to enhance and improve the existing
					after-school Peer tutoring program to improve student achievement.
					Funding will provide training and certification for administrators, tutor
					trainers and tutors.
02-214	WE CAN HANDLE IT	IC	Gina Apple	$1,500.00	Recognizing that the same character issues being dealt with at school are
	TOGETHER: Character-				also issues at home, this proposal will offer parents resources that will be
	Based Teachable Moments				helpful in their dealing with such issues.  A lending library will include
					multicultural literature to assist parents in teaching a child how to emphasize
					with others, analyze situations, solve problems and make the right choices.
					Partial Funding
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GRANT #	TITLE	SCHOOL	PROJECT DIRECTOR(S)	AMOUNT	DESCRIPTION
02-215	A Cutting Edge Curriculum	OAK	Jack Monninger	$1,600.00	A proposal with the purpose of strengthening and expanding the art
					program's capability.  Funding will purchase a hand-operated printmaking
					press, miniature model skeletons and anatomy molds (for life / figure
					drawing and painting), and updated instructional materials to support the
					study of art history.
					Partial Funding
02-216	Cuddle Up and Read	IC	Tamara Sarbinoff	$1,200.00	A program designed to encourage 1st grade parents to spend time reading
			Celestine Bloomfield		to their children on a regular basis.  The goal is for parents to establish both
					a regular reading time and reading place and continue the practice
					throughout childhood.  Eight classroom sets of books showing courage,
					perseverance and other positive character traits, that can be discussed
					and reinforced by parents, will be purchased.
					Partial Funding
02-217	Freshman Orientation	LC	Barbara Brouwer	$1,500.00	Funding to establish a freshman orientation/mentoring program.  After a
			Laura Reysz		detailed orientation with the incoming freshmen, planned and executed by
					upperclassmen, the upperclassmen become mentors.  Through monthly
					meetings with planned activities, the mentors assist with the high school
					acclimation process.  The goal is for the freshmen to become more involved
					in school activities and develop a sense of belonging.  The initial training will
					be done in the "Freshman Solutions" program implemented by Lee Lonzo
					Enterprises.
					Partial Funding
TOTAL SCHOOL, MULTI-SCHOOL AND DISTRICT GRANTS				$20,950.00