What is the Mini-Grant Program?
The Upper Dublin Education Foundation Mini-Grant Program is a grass-roots vehicle for supporting our District educators' creative ideas and initiatives which exist outside the "normal" parameters of the District budgeted curriculum programs. The Foundation accepts applications from teachers or administrators for funding of such ideas which are then evaluated by a Foundation subcommittee using pre-established grant criteria. Awards are approved by the Foundation and funds go directly to those educators in the field. Successful awards have the potential to be expanded for more students and be adopted by the district.
The Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of the 2008-2009 mini-grants. The total allocation of this year's awards is the highest ever, totaling over $12,000. Since the program's inception, the Foundation has provided faculty and staff members in Upper Dublin with over $85,000 in financial support for mini-grants that involve a number of different classroom initiatives.
This year's recipients and their projects include:
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Jill Lunch, "Reading Comprehension Games: Tackling the Six Basic Comprehension Skills"
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Jamie Fiermonte and Randi Windheim, "Thomas Fitzwater - One School... One Book"
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Ryan Thomas, "Amplified Classrooms: Wireless Classroom Microphones"
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Connie Nitschke, Ed Bush, Mary DePaul, Alison Egitto, and Leah Howard; "It's a Small World Map Mural"
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Sarah Gerding, "Solar Racers"
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Julia Walsh, "Click and Learn"
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Dorothy Weiss, "Audio / Multimedia Enhancement"
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Joanne Lillendahl, "Teaching Evolution through Interactive Technologies"
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Neil Evans and Karen Salomen (on behalf of SPEAC). "SPEAC, Listen, Read, Learn"
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Debbie Einhorne, "No Place for Hate: Student Leaders"
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Rob Miller, "UDRI Expansion Step 3"
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Kim Schuler, "Wii in Adaptive PE"
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Kathleen Gambino, Lunn Strauss, and Jacqueline Pizzico; "After School Adventures with a Friend"
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