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 2010-2011 mini-grants.
Since the program's inception, the Foundation has provided faculty and staff members in Upper Dublin with over $90,000 in financial support for mini-grants that involve a number of different classroom initiatives. This year's recipients and their projects include:
·
Leah Howard, Ryan
White, Michelle Hendricks, and Jessica Baker (FWES)
“Using Student Response Systems as Formative Assessments
to Enhance Learning”
·
Jamie Fiermonte and Randi Windheim (TFES)
“Closing the Achievement Gap through Intensive Small Group Instruction”
·
Kim Small, Gary Hite, Rob Miller, Kathy Swahn, and Rachel Buchman (SRMS)
“Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed”
· Matthew Dorneman (MGES) - “Literature Circles”
· Eric Taylor (FWES) - “Take Home Literacy Bags”
·
Sara Raysinger, Fred Flothmeier,
Michael Lynn, and Crystal Dunn (JES/FWES/MGES/TFES)
“The Picasso Project: A Museum Adventure in Our Schools”
· Jeff Dillon and Sarah Gerding (JES/MGES) - “Upcycling Soda Cans to make a Solar Heater”
· Joanne Lilliandahl, Erin Loch, Mary VanEllis, and Judy Winship (UDHS)- “Environmental Science/Studies”
· Alissa Hart (SRMS)- “Enhancing the German Curriculum through TPRS Reading Selections”
click to view UDEF mini-grant application form
click for mini-grant status report instructions
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