2005-06 Grants

How Much Money Has Been Awarded?
Over the last seven years MEF has awarded close to $72,000 in grants. This year over $29,000 in grant requests were received. We believe that this year's recipients presented a broad range of ideas and are pleased that each of our public schools is represented in these grants. Download the 05/06 Grant Press Release.

2005/06 Grants:
Over $12,000 will be distributed to the following twelve grant recipients:

JAWOREK SCHOOL:

• $1,255 to Reading Specialist, Molly Callahan and Inclusion teacher, Lisa McManamin for "The Fluency Lab." The funds will be used to purchase headphones, cassette recorders and stories on cassettes that will be used to set up a lab designed for children in grades K-3 who are experiencing difficulty reading. The program will allow the students to work individually, on their reading and reading comprehension.

KANE ELEMENTARY AND MARLBOROUGH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL:

• Recipient of the FishEye Software, Inc. grant for the promotion of science and math technology within the schools: $700 to each school for the purchase of a SMART Board. The grant was written by Kane teachers Deb Rudman, Patti MacMunn and Norine Elliott, and by MIES teachers Romelle Baker Jarvis and Susan Leavey. A SMART Board is an interactive white board that is networked to a computer and projector. Working in groups, students can then manipulate data and share information.

RICHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

• $500 to teachers Karen Murphy, Sue Van Winkle and Sandy MacCormac for the purchase of "Everyday Math Games" CDs. These computer games will be used to help 1-3 grade students learn and/or reinforce math skills covered in class.
  
  
• $2,775 to Reading Specialist, Paula DiPerri, for the purchase of "Story Grammar Marker Program". This program uses manipulatives that helps students organize their thoughts for oral and written expression. The program has been used with great success at the Jaworek School and was funded there by MEF in 2002.
  
  
• $1,000 to teachers Faye Lessner, Stephanie Tesorero and Tina Petty for "Discovering Colonial Times". This "kit" comes complete with maps, books, learning games and instructional tools that will be used to update the resources used by this school"s third grade teachers to teach this period of history.

MARLBOROUGH INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND
MARLBOROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL:

• $400 to Art teacher, Cheryl Wareck for "Character Education Visual Arts Kits." The program consists of 11 units that combine art appreciation with the study of character and values. Students will learn about a specific piece of art and the artist, and then use this knowledge to discuss other issues of character- tolerance, equality, ethics, etc. The program ties closely to the school"s anti-bullying program.

MARLBOROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL:

• $1,373 to William White, grade 7 teacher, for the purchase of an "Impulse GII Race System". The race system includes a mini race track, power supply and software that will be used by all 7 th grade students. Students in this technology class design and build their own racing cars. The track is used to test their projects.
  
  
• $485 to Phyllis Goldblatt, grade 6 and 7 D.E.L.V.E. teacher for "SpinS" (Students and Parents into Science). Parents and students will design and build parachutes or hot air balloons and test them in competitions against other family teams. This program will reinforce engineering and math concepts taught in the D.E.L.V.E. program for advanced students.
  
  
• $161 to grade 6 & 7 Spanish teachers Michelle Scully and Molly Daily for books, videos and games that will be used for the school's newly formed after-school Spanish Club.
  
  
• $1000 to Music teacher, Shelley Turnbow to replace ten guitars that will be used by students in her music classes.

MARLBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL:

• Recipient of the Zammatti/Carvalho grant for promoting literacy education within the schools: $445 to Jose Reyes, high school English teacher, for "Vocabulary as Paleontology: Understanding the (Hi)stories of Words". This grant will be used to purchase an online subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The subscription will be used by most English and College Writing classes. Teachers will use this resource to help students understand the root, or beginning meaning of a word and enhance vocabulary.

The Foundation extends its thanks to the other applicants for grants. The Foundation also wishes to thank the administration of the Marlborough Public Schools for their continuing support.

For further information, please contact: Penny Kahn 508-624-4570 or pakahn@comcast.net Or Valerie Cowan 508-481-0008 or vlcowan@comcast.net

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