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Grants Funded
Year | Type | Campus | Grade | Recipient | Amount | Grant Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | CMS Administration | Amanda Kirchoff & Rey Saenz | $248.00 | CMS Staff Boosters | With the future being unknown and a feeling of uneasiness during these crazy times, a boost in morale for staff members is needed. These funds will provide a bulletin board for positive staff shout outs, a Bluetooth speaker to play music on the mobile CMS Treat Train to show support and appreciation for the CMS staff and all their hard work in this difficult year. | |
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | East | Chantal Landry & Kim Rodriguez | $474.99 | Campus Climate | School culture is important to the success of a school because it directly impacts the motivation of every-one involved in the learning process. When a school has a positive culture, it encourages everyone to do their best. A new ice machine, coffee maker, and mi-crowave will ramp up the school culture. | |
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | East | Danielle Maldonado | $496.45 | Making a Difference at Calallen East Elementary! | Circuit Makers make all the difference. With the Cir-cuit Maker and several accessories, teachers and staff can design creative, cute items that can be used for classroom projects, classroom and hallway décor, as well as teacher and student goodies. | |
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | East Elementary | Dalia Flores | $498.64 | Sensory Room Improvements | Sensory spaces in schools have been known to decrease neg-ative behavior and improve student engagement. New light fixtures will help create a more soothing space for when stu-dents are overstimulated. | |
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | East Elementary | Karen Story | $360.96 | Virtual Presentations! | This rolling ,magnetic dry erase board with markers will make learning more convenient for students and teachers both virtually as well as in person. | |
2020-2021 | Standard Grant | West Intermediate | 4th-5th | Lynn LaStrapes | $4,638.47 | Bookworm Vending Machine | The Bookworm Vending Machine will help promote literacy and a love for books through a positive reward system. Students will be able to earn a golden token to be used to “buy” a book from the Bookworm Vending Machine. All 588 students will also be given a token for their birthday to get a book of their choice. |
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | West Intermediate | Kristen Ross | $315.74 | Vivid, Valuable, and Virtual Science Simulations | Virtual Reality Viewers, antibacterial covers, and a subscription to Generation Genius for each student will be used in science stations as an alternative to labs. | |
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | West Intermediate | Wimberley Rose | $399.74 | A Yearbook On Canvas– Calallen Class of 2028 | Students will create their own Wildcat/Calallen themed keepsake of their last year in Elementary school before entering Middle School. Each canvas will be signed by their fellow classmates. | |
2020-2021 | Mini Grant | West Intermediate | Rebecca Nowlin | $496.87 | Mini Science Kits | Mini Science kits will be sent home to students who will be continu-ing with virtual learning. The kits will consist of enough materials to complete the science experiments that would normally be done in class for the first six weeks. | |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Vanezza Reyes | $2,474.00 | Hydroponics System | These grant funds will purchase a Plant Producer Edu-cational Hydroponics System that benefit the Advance Plant and Science students and also the Floral Design & Horticulture students. The system has three vertical shelves that connect to a single water source which enables equal nutrients and concentration plant growth on each level. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Rhonda Voorhees & Valerie Perez | $5,229.17 | Calallen Cats Cottage: Teaching Students the Skills They Need for an Independent Life in a Simulated Apartment | Calallen Cats Cottage will be a fully furnished and equipped mock-apartment where Adaptive Education students will learn life skills to prepare them for the next phase of their lives. From preparing meals to vac-uuming, to washing and putting away laundry, stu-dents will work toward mastering skills that are need-ed at home. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Andrew Spencer | $10,000 | Gym LED Video Board | Grant funds will go towards helping purchase a state -of-the-art LED video board for the Calallen ISD Gymnasium that will not only provide an outlet to highlight the outstanding achievements of student athletes and tell their stories, but will also bring a new wave of excitement by enhancing the game day experience for all. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Joseph Eason | $1,876.24 | Calallen Robotics Club Up-grades | Upgrades to the Calallen Robotics Club will help stu-dents go beyond just the classroom basics and pre-pare for the FIRST Tech Challenge in September that is sponsored by big STEM corporations every year. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Dale Lamb | $5,000 | Outdoor Adventure Education | Imagine learning about life skills through outdoor activities such as camping, fishing, archery, outdoor cooking, and paddle sports. This course is designed to be socially and emotionally engaging while devel-oping technical and intellectual skills in students that will help with sharing decisions and overcoming challenges. |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CHS | Lara Burkhart | $367.73 | I Like to Move it, Move It! | Funds were used to purchase 4 low g accelerometers for experi-ments where students will use scientific inquiry, data collection, and learn to analyze data to support Newton’s Laws of Motion. An accelerometer is a tool that measures proper acceleration. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CHS | Dale Lamb | $411.60 | Get Mic’d Up! | With the UIL allowing the livestreaming of football, and essen-tially all high school sports, the need exists for quality broadcast microphones. The microphones would also be used for audio enhancements, voice-overs and podcasts. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CHS | CHS Counselors | $500.00 | Preparing for SAT/PSAT/ACT | This grant will offset the cost of three tutoring sessions per stu-dent. Up to 180 students (90 students in the fall and 90 in the spring) will benefit from these tutoring sessions that will focus on test taking strategies which will in turn boost overall ratings for the Calallen ISD district. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CHS | Joyce Compton | $500 | Extruders for 3D Printer | Smart Extruders are a crucial part of the Makerbot 3D printer that heats up the plastic filament and places it according to the file. Engineering students use these 3D printers to print the de-signs they created. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CHS | Lesleigh Lynes | $472.15 | Study Session Snack Attack | Smart Extruders are a crucial part on the Makerbot 3D printer that heats up the plastic filament and places it according to the file. Engineering students use these 3D printers to print the de-signs they created. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CHS/LOTE | Maria Muthwill | $183.98 | Bluetooth Speaker for Salsa Club | Salsa club students will get more out of their practices and presentations with the addition of a Bluetooth speaker that will allow their practices to be more efficient. | |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CMS | 8th | Casandra Lopez & Jessica Perez | $4,474.81 | BoxLight Interactive Flat Panel | 8th grade math students will pair the digital Breakout Boxes, previously awarded by the CEF, in a new interactive way that will turn standard lessons into hands-on lessons where stu-dents will use problem-solving models to analyze given infor-mation, formulate a plan or strategy, determine a solution, and then evaluate the problem-solving process. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th | Cynthia Hernderson-Minton & Corinna Navarro | $4,474.81 | BoxLight Interactive Flat Panel | The BoxLight Interactive Flat Panel will be combined with items previously awarded by the CEF such as the MimioPad2, Chromebooks, iPads, Breakout Boxes, and Set the Stage to Engage materials to turn standard lessons into hands-on, collaborative, team building activities and increase student engagement. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th | Randi Maresh & Kate Lopez | $4,694.79 | BoxLight Interactive Flat Panel | The BoxLight Interactive Flat Panel will be combined with items previously awarded by the CEF such as the MimioPad2, Chromebooks, iPads, Breakout Boxes, and Set the Stage to Engage materials to turn standard lessons into hands-on, collaborative, team building activities and increase student engagement. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CMS | 8th | Jared LaPoint | $4,474.81 | BoxLight Interactive Panel | 8th grade math students will pair the digital Breakout Boxes, previously awarded by the CEF, in a new inter-active way that will turn standard lessons into hands-on lessons where students will use problem-solving models to analyze given information, formulate a plan or strategy, determine a solution, and then evaluate the problem-solving process. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th-8th | Lamar Lopez | $5,121 | CAT Fitness Box | New equipment will allow the P.E. and Athletics class to add new fitness stations as well as create obstacle courses for students that will incorporate a variety of physical activities, encouraging different ranges of motion that have both cardiovascular and muscular benefits. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th-8th | Mike Brotherton | $7,559 | Computer App Builder/Career Explorations/ Integrated Technology | With the addition of 20 new iPads, students in the newly created Project Lead the Way class will be in-troduced to the field of computer science and the concepts of computational thinking. They will also learn to use deliberate design processes for gener-ating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative arti-facts and solving problems. |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CMS | Sarah Visos | $352.80 | Two Period Table Wall Mounts | Two 4’x8’ periodic tables will be hung in the middle school sci-ence classrooms so students have a large visual reminder every day. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CMS | Casandra Lopez | $430.12 | Fold and Flip for Math! | Providing students with a blank book will allow them to create foldable, interactive notes that will contain all their review mate-rial in one place and will provide the ultimate study guide for students to prepare themselves for the STAAR test in May. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CMS | Jared LaPoint | $432.08 | Fold and Flip for Math! | Providing students with a blank book will allow them to create foldable, interactive notes that will contain all their review mate-rial in one place and will provide the ultimate study guide for students to prepare themselves for the STAAR test in May. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CMS | Jessica Perez | $445.84 | Fold and Flip for Math! | Providing students with a blank book will allow them to create foldable, interactive notes that will contain all their review mate-rial in one place and will provide the ultimate study guide for students to prepare themselves for the STAAR test in May. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CMS | Heather Bevly | $332.76 | Bye-Bye White Boards, Hellos Re-Write Boards | No more markers, no more mess. Re-Write boards enable teach-ers to replace dry erase boards with a simple, mess-free writing tablet that will benefit Adaptive Education students while mak-ing lessons fun and engaging. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CMS | Jennifer Davis | $489.90 | “Written on the Walls” with Easel-Style Magnetic Dry Erase Board | Research suggests that using whiteboards engages multiple sens-es and more learning styles thereby maximizing student engage-ment. This grant allows five whiteboards to be strategically placed around the classroom that will in turn create a more flexi-ble learning environment and improve student collaboration. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | CMS | Karen Mondragon | $350.00 | Learning for the Future | Providing students with a blank book will allow them to create foldable, interactive notes that will contain all their review mate-rial in one place and will provide the ultimate study guide for students to prepare themselves for the STAAR test in May. | |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | East | 1st | Erica Eicher-Hernandez | $892.62 | Making an Impact | These grant funds will be used to purchase materials to in-corporate social-emotional learning to help students learn to overcome obstacles and build strong minds. Students will have a scheduled time during class where they will develop and apply one skill per week for the entire year. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | East | K-3rd | Vanessa Chenault | $9,900.00 | Taking Learners Outdoors | Research shows that there are a plethora of benefits to out-door learning such as promoting creativity and focus, build-ing confidence, reducing stress and fatigue, as well as im-proving physical health. With the help of this grant, two oc-tagonal picnic tables will be built around trees that will pro-vide shade, as well as four covered picnic spaces, perfect for doing class work outdoors. All students at East will benefit from these picnic tables. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | East | K-3rd | Vanessa Chenault | $9,727.77 | STEM & Maker Lab | The sky will be the limit for East students in this brand new, state-of-the-art STEM & Maker Lab as they solve challenges, struggle, test, iterate, make changes, test again, and finally succeed in this en-gaging and challenging space. With this lab, all 600 East students will have more time to engage in hands-on, STEM-based challenges to build those 21st century skills that are so necessary! |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | East | K-3rd | Vanessa Chenault | $9,559 | Mobile Math Intervention Lab | With the help of the Calallen Education Foundation and the 20 iPads they granted, this mobile math in-tervention lab would give access to all 3rd-5th stu-dents. This portable math lab would be available for check out and allow teachers to collaborate with the math interventionists to find which app best suits their students based on the skill being taught. This resource would strengthen gaps, reinforce math skills, and create a more motivating and engaging resource. |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | East | Karen Story | $465.89 | Guided Reading Games! | “Guided Reading Games!” will provide a variety of reading games and materials to use in reading stations for Karen Story’s special education students. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | East | Erica Eicher- Hernandez | $465.55 | Definitely Noteworthy | Providing students with a blank book will allow them to create foldable, interactive notes that will contain all their review mate-rial in one place and will provide the ultimate study guide for students to prepare themselves for the STAAR test in May. | |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | West | 5th | Jessica Almaraz | $4,474.81 | Hands On Reading-Interactive Flat Panel BoxLight | These students have one mission in mind—becoming superi-or readers! Reading will come to life as students actively par-ticipate in each hands on interactive lesson on the flat panel and build a strong foundation of reading skills. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | West | 3rd | Kristen Ross | $892.93 | Differentiating Makes the Difference! | Subscriptions to Generation Genius, iEarn USA, and Scholastic’s Super Science will give this group of di-verse learners individualized options for student-led exploration, group projects, and teacher-guided rein-forcement. Generation Genius will provide upbeat sci-ence video lessons that can be accessed at school or home. iEarn USA will connect the teacher’s classroom to classrooms around the country so students can col-laborate on global projects. Scholastic Super Science magazines will be given to each student every month. |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | West | 5th | Laura Ozuna | $4,474.81 | Math in Action | BoxLight Interactive Flat Panel opens the doors for an endless world of possibilities in learning as students “interact” with images on the screen using a tool or their finger. Students will use the Boxlight to interact directly with numbers and pictorials to aid in building their math skills. |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | West | Jessica Almaraz | $446.55 | Wildcat Wellness Champions are Wild for Health | Ms. Almaraz and her students used their grant funds to tackle a 2-part action plan to promote self awareness and a healthy class-room culture. In step 1, called Realize and Sanitize, each student will be equipped with a lanyard that has a 1 ounce refillable bottle for sanitizer. In step 2, called Say It, Don’t Spray It, wire-less voice amplifiers will be provided in each POD classroom to empower all students to be safely heard, even while wearing masks. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | West | Kristin Ross | $419.76 | Read Your Way to Science Success | Some students struggle with applying their science knowledge to written questions due to ongoing struggles with vocabulary and visualizing lab scenarios and descriptions. Graphic novels add one more tool to help students acquire vocabulary while visualiz-ing the science content. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | West | Kayla Otahal | $486.73 | Full STEAM Ahead—Classroom Maker Space | Salsa club students will get more out of their practices and presentations with the addition of a Bluetooth speaker that will allow their practices to be more efficient. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | West | Wimberly Rose & Josh Ortiz | $461 | Hula Hoops, Squirt Bottles, Pool Noodles,...OH MY!!! | The Fine Arts & Physical Education teacher/Coach will utilize these materials in cross curriculum activities. Outdoor & indoor games, involving art, PE , Music and core academics. Materials will be shared and used within the ACTIVITY SQUAD and all stu-dents on campus will have access to materials and activities de-veloped by teachers using these materials in various ways. | |
2021-2022 | Mini Grant | West/SPED | Elisabeth Valadez | $497.69 | Light Up Learning! | The light up LED Activity Tablet will provide a calming environ-ment as well as a creative and unique way of learning. Various subjects can be used for the light up tablets. | |
2021-2022 | Standard Grant | WRE | K-3rd | Hannah Fowler | $3,804.75 | Scootermania | Research shows that physical activity has positive effects on the brain and on school performance. The addition of scooter boards into the P.E. class will put a creative, fun spin on conditioning and exercis-ing for students without them even knowing it. Ac-tivities such as scooter tag will be implemented to increase physical education participation. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Meghan Donald & Dale Lamb | $5,888.00 | I Think, Therefore iMac | Calallen TV is a program that provides live broadcast of news, sports and announcements specific to Calallen High School and the com-munity.. The additional iMac will provide the much needed resource as the program has grown to fill over 5 classes. Calallen Publications, consisting of Yearbook, Photojournalism, Journalism and Digital De-sign, is an award winning program. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Casandra Lopez & Jennifer Vincent | $4,449.00 | BoxLight Interactive Panel | The Boxlight Interactive Flat Panel turns a standard lesson into an engaging, hands-on, team building activity. Box-light allows a teacher to not be restricted to a desk, still be connected to the internet, and utilize resources to im-prove lessons. This panel also allows teachers to provide instruction using various methods without utilizing addi- |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | CHS | 9th-12th | Omar Sanchez & Jennifer Vincent | $4,945.07 | Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio | Technology in the classroom increases engagement by bringing lessons to life by delivering relevant, per-sonalized learning experiences to the student. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio will turn standard lessons into hands-on, team building activities for high school algebra students. The laptops, when paired with the Boxlight Interactive Flat Panel pur-chased from previous grant funds, will allow teachers to roam the class and still be able to take notes that will display on the flat panel. |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CHS | Casandra Lopez | $438 | Maneuvering the Middle: All Access to Algebra I | Maneuvering the Middle provides curriculum, designed by teachers, to help engage students and meet Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards. Curriculum includes hands-on cooperative learning activities and scaffolded content to make students excited to work together to solve problems in Algebra I. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CISD | Maggie Fowler | $495 | QPR for Suicide Prevention | Funds will be used to attend a QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Trainer Certification Course online. The training will be shared with all those that want to be trained and will help faculty and staff implement social-emotional learning standards for their students based on the core SEL compe-tencies outlined by the Collaborative for Academics and Social-Emotional Learning. | |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th-8th | Brett Moore | $4,979.00 | CMS Outdoor Adventures | Imagine learning about life skills through outdoor activities such as camping, fishing, archery, outdoor cooking, and pad-dle sports. Offering a program such as Outdoor Adventures in the public school system will give our students an opportunity to learn these skills and have exposure to outdoor activities that they may not receive otherwise. The skills learned from this class can be shared with family members in hopes of pro-moting a positive outlook on the outdoors and wildlife con-servation. Outdoor Adventures will teach students lessons and practices that will last a lifetime and ensure that they are equipped to share their knowledge with the next generation. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th-8th | Lamar Lopez | $6,649.00 | Sideline Interactive Table | Grant funds will go directly towards helping purchase a state-of-the-art Digital (TV) Scorer’s Table. This table would be an awesome addition to our CMS Gymnasium and add excite-ment and uniqueness to all middle school activities. The table will also provide a new and innovated platform for CMS stu-dents who can display their talents in Journalism Class through graphic designing, photography, videography, and broadcasting. The scorer’s table would also be an amazing feature at pep rallies, band performances, parent/teacher nights, and assemblies. The objective of this initiative will fur-ther enhance various CMS athletic and non-athletic activities through creativity, organization and to provide our classes held in the gym a proper way to view CATS TV announce- |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th-8th | Jessica Perez & Corinna Navarro | $4,766.79 | Nspiring Updated | According to research, using technology in the class-room improves the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching in diverse classrooms. Fun and academic rigor must be combined for true student involve-ment. By providing learners with relevant, personal-ized, collaborative, and well connected learning ex-periences, technology in the classroom promotes engagement. The main goal of Calallen Middle School is to integrate technology into the classroom as much as possible while preserving the same level of aca-demic rigor in the information and knowledge reten-tion for our students. Our teachers can construct en-gaging lessons using the TI-nspire CX II while also studying the state-mandated TEKS, with the added benefit of using modern technology to improve stu- |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | CMS | 6th-8th | Jared LaPoint & Tiffany Amrich | $4,766.79 | TI-Nspire Renovation | According to research, using technology in the class-room improves the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching in diverse classrooms. Fun and academic rigor must be combined for true student involvement. By providing learners with relevant, personalized, collabo-rative, and well connected learning experiences, tech-nology in the classroom promotes engagement. The main goal of Calallen Middle School is to integrate tech-nology into the classroom as much as possible while preserving the same level of academic rigor in the infor-mation and knowledge retention for our students. Our teachers can construct engaging lessons using the TI-nspire CX II while also studying the state-mandated TEKS, with the added benefit of using modern technolo-gy to improve student learning. |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CMS | Christine Price | $490.00 | Leadership Begins with Service | Leaders lead by serving others and showing leadership, not just by giving others instructions. These grants funds will be used to purchase resources to start two community service projects: the food distribu-tion project and the pen pal project with Magee Intermediate. These projects will not only make a lasting impact on the students that par-ticipate, but also on our community. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CMS | Sarah Visos | $230.73 | Swingline 3-Ring Hole Punch | Students will create science binders from the guided notes they made using Google Slides. Since the notes will need to be put in a 3-hole binder, the 3-ring hole puncher will be an efficient way to make sci-ence binders for three 8th grade science teachers. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CMS | Jessica Perez | $184 | Maneuvering the Middle: All Access to Algebra I | Maneuvering the Middle provides curriculum, designed by teachers, to help engage students and meet Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards. Curriculum includes hands-on cooperative learning activities and scaffolded content to make students excited to work together to solve problems in Algebra I. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CMS | Kirsti Hadlock | $394.20 | K’nex Education STEM Explorations: Roller Coaster Building | Students will use the K’nex Education STEM Roller Coaster Building Kit to build a variety of roller coasters to model potential/kinetic energy, balanced/unbalanced forces, model Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion and more. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CMS | Jared LaPoint | $471.14 | “Fold and Flip for Math” | Students will use higher-level thinking skills to create folda-ble, interactive notes from bundles of assorted colored sheets purchased with grant funds to review for the 8th grade Mathematics STAAR test. These interactive notes will help students practice the concepts that have been taught. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | CMS | Tara Perry | $401.48 | “Fold and Flip for Math” | Students will use higher-level thinking skills to create folda-ble, interactive notes from bundles of assorted colored sheets purchased with grant funds to review for the 8th grade Mathematics STAAR test. These interactive notes will help students practice the concepts that have been taught. | |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | East | K-2nd | Vanessa Chenault | $9,659.00 | Pause for Books | The Bookworm Vending Machine is a fun, innovative way to encourage students to have good behavior, help with attend-ance issues, and promote literacy through a positive rewards system. All students would be given a token for their birthday to buy a book from the vending machine. Students will also have opportunities to earn tokens for good behavior, attend-ance, reading incentives and other creative ideas. The vend-ing machine will serve as a daily visual reminder in the school |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | East | Heather Emshoff | $433.98 | “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??” | Public speaking takes on another level, with this portable speaker system that comes with engaging LED lights. The portable speaker system with also be used for afternoon dismissal, Fall Fest, STEM night, parades, and other school wide celebrations. | |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Jessica Almaraz | $2,498.10 | Literacy Alive: Reading Museum | In today’s world, it’s imperative to create a classroom culture that nourishes the motivation to read. Grant funds will provide an updat-ed classroom library of captivating biographies, information texts, and graphic novels that will keep students wanting to read more and more! Additionally, the Reading Museum will utilize a 3D printer that will allow students to create artifacts that will bring both read-ing and reading motivation to life! |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Erica Eicher-Hernandez & Jonell Jechorek | $4,449.00 | Shaping the Future | Technology education is a necessary requirement and life skill of the 21st century. Students must be proficient in technology in order to be successful well- rounded individuals in today’s workforce. Box-light MimioPro 4 provides students and teachers with the tools and abilities to thrive in the ever-changing world of education and tech-nology. Integrating video, animation, graphics, and text/audio brings curriculum to life and enhances the lessons. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Charolette Sears & Sarah Wilhelm | $4,449.00 | Classroom Innovation through Interactive Education | Research shows that there are a plethora of benefits to out-door learning such as promoting creativity and focus, building confidence, reducing stress and fatigue, as well as improving physical health. With the help of this grant, two octagonal picnic tables will be built around trees that will provide shade, as well as four covered picnic spaces, perfect for doing class work outdoors. All students at East will benefit from |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Karen Story | $8,507.18 | iPads! Innovative Plans with Appropriate Devices for Students | Having updated iPads will allow special education classes to pro-vide interventions by using highly effective apps for reading, math, and social emotional skills aligned to the TEKS. These re-sources would provide individualized, engaging opportunities for differentiation of students needs and levels. Students would also be able to access a variety of educational, creative, and mental health apps on newer devices. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Stephanie Hamiter | $6,631.33 | Bookworm Vending Machine | The Bookworm Vending Machine is a fun, innovative way to encourage students to have good behavior, help with attend-ance issues, and promote literacy through a positive rewards system. All students would be given a token for their birthday to buy a book from the vending machine. Students will also have opportunities to earn tokens for good behavior, attend-ance, reading incentives and other creative ideas. The vending machine will serve as a daily visual reminder in the school hallway to kindle a love for reading in students. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Jessica Almaraz | $2,239.98 | All Hands on Tech: A Collaborative Technology Station | The writing process can pose many challenges for students. Many times, they are out of ideas and just get “stuck” with nothing to write about. Two touch screen laptops, purchased with the grants funds, will be merged with 3D printing and collaboration to create workstations that give students a hands-on approach to journey through the writing process. These workstations will allow for planning, collaboration, en-gineering, design, and student access to 3D printing while in-spiring students as they journey through the writing process. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Erica Eicher-Hernandez | $2,039.88 | Love of Learning | The Reading Rockets Public Media Literacy Initiative states that children are able to listen and talk about more complex ideas than they can read and write about. These grant funds will be used to create a lis-tening studio that will engage all students; where students can curl up and get lost in a book, listen to an education podcast, or even create a podcast of |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Magee | 3rd-5th | Lindsey Marek & Charlotte Spears | $5,149.00 | Learning Through Tech | The Boxlight Interactive Flat Panel turns a standard les-son into an engaging, hands-on, team building activity. With the interactive panel, students can become more involved in their learning, even teaching each other. Because the interactive panel engages students in a way that pencil and paper lessons can’t, literacy increases, test scores improve, students retain more, and learn better. |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee | Erica Eicher-Hernandez | $497.02 | Bridging the Gap | Reading centers are an important part of literacy instruction. They help students get back into the groove of engaged learning while the teacher facilitates vital small group interventions. The grants funds will be used to purchase reading center materials, activities, and re-sources that will diversify the learning experiences that students en-counter during their daily literacy stations. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee | Lisa Naranjo | $343.48 | Maslow’s Before Blooms | “Maslow’s before Blooms” suggests that in order for a student to effectively participate in the educational process (Bloom), they must first have their basic needs met (Maslow). Funds will be used to cre-ate a safe, peaceful, environment known as the “counseling corner” that will have books, activities, sensory items and other resources available to help students who are struggling socially or emotionally learn coping strategies. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee | Jonell Jechorek | $497.02 | Closing the Gap | Grant funds will be used to purchase math materials, activities, and resources to create math stations that will help students get back in the groove of engaged learning. This will allow the teacher to meet with students who are struggling to focus on closing learning gaps by reinforcing math skills throughout the year. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee | Ruben Gonzalez | $376.00 | Camp Rock STAAR | The 4th grade math department has put together a themed STAAR prep called Camp Rock STAAR. We have designed Camp Rock STAAR so that as students’ progress through the STAAR prep they are earning incentives keeping their en-gagement heightened. Students will also be making a file foldable that has all the TEKS, skills, and strategies that go along with our 4 main subcategories (whole number opera-tions, fractions, decimals, and geometry). The foldable will help re-introduce the TEK and its strategies. Each TEK will be color coded to help distinguish one TEK from another, this also helps all our visual learners. Camp Rock STAAR will take place over 17 days leading up to the math STAAR test in early May. These incentives, colored paper, and file fold-ers will help to enhance and engage students as we prepare for the STAAR season. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee | Lindsey Marek | $474.15 | Not so “Board” Literacy Stations | Fifteen different literacy stations will be created to help refine skills such as comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, multiple genres and more! The stations will allow students to learn in a variety of ways. Through the use of hands-on, interactive stations, students will build time management skills, team collaboration, as well as social skills such as fol-lowing directions and student participation. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee | Karen Story | $218.95 | Fast Track to Reading! | According to Science of Reading research, the most effec-tive way to teach phonics is through systematic, explicit phonics instruction followed by opportunities for students to read text that target new skills. Hello Phonics is a struc-tured literacy routine for differentiating phonics skill in-struction with decodable text for individual and group les-sons. It is skill based reading instruction | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee & West | Wimberley Rose & Kristy Trevino | $474.97 | Color My Muscles and Bounce to the Beat– Integrating Physical Education with the ARTS | Art and physical education are usually thought of as differ-ent fields, but integrating them can benefit students. For kids reluctant to learn about art, using physical activity will have them jumping at the chance. For kids who don’t like to participate in gym class, the artistic components of the les-sons will keep them engaged and active. With this grant, basketballs, colored powder, and canvas drop cloths for painting will be purchased to be used during PLC/Focus Fri-day’s and adventure days. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Magee/West | Wimberly Rose | $380 | Music Connects the Students! | This portable Bluetooth stereo speaker with CD player and karaoke microphone ports will be used in the Fine Arts classroom, cafeteria, and gym. It will be also be used at events such as Turkey Trot, PE relat-ed events, school dances, and talents shows that would CONNECT | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | Star Building for Magee/West | Amanda Kirchoff | $498.72 | Cultivating Calallen (School Garden) | All 4th grade students will experience a hands-on oppor-tunity to apply their learning from the classroom into culti-vating a school garden. They will be actively involved with the germination process, exploring soil composition, com-paring life cycles of plants, photosynthesis, and problem-solving techniques that arise with caring for a garden. Stu-dents will take weekly measurements and notate plant growth, rainfall amounts, temperature, and write reflec-tions from their observations | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | West | Jessica Buentello | $499.33 | Technology at their “Fingerprints” | Keyboard covers, known as speed skins, for Chromebooks, wired headphones, and a wired mouse will be added to the Technology/Keyboarding classrooms at West Intermediate. Students will learn keyboarding and basic word processing. The headphones and mouse will help develop skills with programs being used. The speed skins will allow students to develop proper typing skills to become more efficient in class and learn lifelong skills that will make them more successful in the future. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | West | Kayla Otahal | $308.95 | Capturing STEM | A Makerspace is a designated area of the classroom or school in which students learn to use materials and tools to create something unique. These grant funds will be used to continue to expand the classroom makerspace by adding in more technology aspects. STEM challenges would be com- | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | West | Larissa Quintanilla | $376.00 | Camp Rock STAAR | The 4th grade math department has put together a themed STAAR prep called Camp Rock STAAR. We have designed Camp Rock STAAR so that as students’ progress through the STAAR prep they are earning incentives keeping their en-gagement heightened. Students will also be making a file foldable that has all the TEKS, skills, and strategies that go along with our 4 main subcategories (whole number opera-tions, fractions, decimals, and geometry). The foldable will help re-introduce the TEK and its strategies. Each TEK will be color coded to help distinguish one TEK from another, this also helps all our visual learners. Camp Rock STAAR will take place over 17 days leading up to the math STAAR test in early May. These incentives, colored paper, and file fold-ers will help to enhance and engage students as we prepare for the STAAR season. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | West | Elisabeth Valadez | $495.10 | Listen Up! | Noise cancelling headphones, purchased with grant funds, will give students the ability to participate in online learning without being disturbed by others around them. | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | West | Charlene Sandroussi & Wilma Cavazos | $421.72 | “Floor is Lava” | Play fosters cognitive growth which is essential to health brain development. Grant funds will be used to purchase sets of balance river stepping stones, colored paper, sheet protectors, and laminating sheets. The stones will be laid out on the floor and labeled with numbers, vocabulary, facts, or models to reinforce a multitude of skills and con-cepts. Students will have to step on “stones” to answer questions, without “falling” in the “lava.” | |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | West | Nikki Schrank | $491.03 | Science Workshop & STEM—Classroom Maker Space and STEM stations | Kids are natural thinkers, explorers, and inventors, they just need help sometimes pulling those skills out of them. A maker space in the classroom would allow students to plan, research, construct, and analyze a wide variety of STEM projects. STEM stations would be used for extended in-struction, small groups, and early finishers. | |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Wood River | K-2nd | Corrine Pena Garcia | $998.11 | Building Our Future with a Solid Math Foundation | Students with a solid understanding of math’s essential knowledge and skills are able to build their mathematical understanding for future success. Math manipulatives aid in building that solid founda-tion and include dice, playing cards, snap cubes, color counters, hun-dred charts, pattern blocks, number charts and more. Because ma-nipulatives provide hands-on learning, it allows students to under-stand complex math concepts by helping them visualize what they are learning and show their thinking. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Wood River | K-2nd | Felipe Garcia | $6,695.95 | Music Instruments for Wood River | The Remo World Music Drumming set would benefit all students at Wood River. It comes with 55 instruments from various cultures around the world and includes tubanos, djembes, talking drums, buffalo drums, bongos, ngomas, maracas, guiros, claves, and more. These drums would allow students to learn music on new, high qual-ity instruments for years to come. |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Wood River | K-2nd | Corrine Pena Garcia | $9,659.00 | Book Vending Machine: When You’re Hungry for Knowledge | The Bookworm Vending Machine is a fun, innovative way to encourage students to have good behavior, help with attend-ance issues, and promote literacy through a positive rewards system. All students would be given a token for their birthday to buy a book from the vending machine. Students will also have opportunities to earn tokens for good behavior, attend-ance, reading incentives and other creative ideas. The vend-ing machine will serve as a daily visual reminder in the school |
2022-2023 | Standard Grant | Wood River | K-2nd | Caitlin White | $713.39 | Mrs. White’s Pre-K Class | Flexible seating in the classroom has many benefits. It gives chil-dren choices, which they enjoy. This helps them feel more in control of their bodies and their environment, which can also help with excess energy since it calms them. Flexible seating also allows children to wobble, rock, bounce, lean or stand, which increases oxygen flow to the brain, blood flow and core strength. In turn, this burns energy. These benefits combined are linked to higher academic performance, better health, and improved be-havior. |
2022-2023 | Mini Grant | WRE | Stella Moore | $498.52 | Flexible Seating | A flexible classroom is a learning environment where traditional seating is replaced with stackable stools, floor cushions, and donut balls and gives students the opportunity to pick their own seats. Re-search shows that when students have the option to wobble, rock, bounce, lean, or stand, it increases the oxygen flow to their brain which in return leads to keeping their minds more alert and focused. | |
2023-2024 | Mini Grant | CHS | Sara Nelson | $494.25 | Suicide Prevention at CHS | Funds will be used to purchase consumable items for all CHS stu-dents to access such as cards with 988, bracelets with 988, mental health pamphlets, and anxiety/ sensory items to decrease periods of anxiety. Bringing mental health and suicide prevention to our students is ongoing and we will use the items from this grant throughout the school year. | |
2023-2024 | Mini Grant | CHS | Casandra Lopez | $492.03 | Algebra 1: EOC Survival Guide | Students will use higher order thinking skills to review and prepare for the Algebra I EOC Test in April, by creating foldables/interactive notes. Providing students with a blank book will allow our students to have all their review material in one place and will provide the ultimate study guide for students to prepare themselves for their EOC Exam. | |
2023-2024 | Mini Grant | CHS | Brianna Melvin | $496.44 | Algebra 1: EOC Survival Guide | Students will use higher order thinking skills to review and prepare for the Algebra I EOC Test in April, by creating foldables/interactive notes. Providing students with a blank book will allow our students to have all their review material in one place and will provide the ultimate study guide for students to prepare themselves for their EOC Exam. | |
2023-2024 | Mini Grant | CHS | Lana Adami | $500 | Mad About Minks | This grant will allow for 90 students to dissect minks instead of frogs. Minks mimics human anatomy closer than frogs and are larg-er which will allow students to have more hands-on learning. | |
2023-2024 | Mini Grant | CHS | Joseph Eason | $488.09 | Acquisition of Updated Elec-tronics for Competitive Readiness | Funds will be used for the purchase of updated motors and spare batteries/chargers for use in the Robotics club competitions. There is a final competition for the Buc Day’s Festival on May 4, and the updated motors and spare batteries will help the teams be more competitive during the last tournament. | |
2023-2024 | Standard Grant | CHS | PE Department | $1,420 | Laser Time | Wireless laser training sprint, physical fitness test, sports timer will allow for extremely accurate times. Students that not only participate in athletic program, but also, courses such as physicals, ROTC, Fitness and Wellness, Fitness and outdoor training, weight training and exer-cise, and other heath and Physical Education electives. A laser timer would benefit over 2,000 Calallen High School and Middle School Stu-dents within it’s first year of use. | |
2023-2024 | Standard Grant | CHS | Monica Cash | $6,076.17 | Advanced Apes | Advanced Placement Environmental Science is a college-level environ-mental science course that is taught as a traditional science course, incorporating laboratory activities, virtual activities, short-term pro-jects, long-term studies, field investigations, and the use of technology for gathering data. Experiences in the laboratory and field and through virtual internal labs will provide students with opportunities to relate classroom concepts to real-world applications of environ-mental science. |
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