Congratulations to all the 2018-2019 Grant Recipients in the WGSD!
Avery Elementary - Total Awarded $4,031.80
iSee-iSaw-iPads - $2,531.80 is a project that is focused on improving communication and collaboration with parents, teachers and specialists by showcasing students’ daily activities and progress toward their individualized Education Plan (IEP) goals. This multi-media journal will empower students to showcase what they are learning at school to their parents, demonstrate strategies in action and invite parents to be more involved in their special education activities and spread learning beyond the classroom.
Bringing Science Home - $1,000 Blending learning at home and at school will enhance students' learning opportunities. Utilizing this program students will take home kits to learn from with their families. It will help families and students understand topics that are being taught at school and further support a collaborative learning approach between home and school.
Conflict Resolution Time Machine - $500 A student's intelligence is not only the ability to understand material within subjects like reading, math, science, and others. Learning how to be emotionally intelligent is critically important in the development of people. Students can learn through this program how to become better problem solvers when experiencing a conflict with a peer or teacher, and others. It capitalizes on "teachable moments" and teaching children how to learn to "Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood” It creates an environment of respectful listening and learning the concept of perspective, leading to life long lessons.
Bringing Science Home - $1,000 Blending learning at home and at school will enhance students' learning opportunities. Utilizing this program students will take home kits to learn from with their families. It will help families and students understand topics that are being taught at school and further support a collaborative learning approach between home and school.
Conflict Resolution Time Machine - $500 A student's intelligence is not only the ability to understand material within subjects like reading, math, science, and others. Learning how to be emotionally intelligent is critically important in the development of people. Students can learn through this program how to become better problem solvers when experiencing a conflict with a peer or teacher, and others. It capitalizes on "teachable moments" and teaching children how to learn to "Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood” It creates an environment of respectful listening and learning the concept of perspective, leading to life long lessons.
Bristol Elementary - Total Awarded $5,541.00
Sound Domes - $3,394.00 - The “Sound Dome” concept are focused speakers hung from the ceiling to emit audio throughout a small area. Only the individuals standing directing below the dome can hear the sound being emitted. This will create an intimate learning environment in a large space. The school will use the Sound Domes to pair musical compositions that students create in class with a work of art or selection of writing, encouraging students to synthesize new information and see something familiar in a new and unexpected way. This will also showcase the school’s use of new technology in the education of our students.
Find, Feature, Film - The Power of Positive - $2,147.00 - This project is all about student voice and choice. It allows students to showcase that our school community , as well as the WG community in general, does great things which are certainly news worthy. This grant will allow a different medium to express their creativity. Student will be able film and edit stories and/or other projects based entirely about their subject and personal inspiration. They will have to communicate in all areas (reading, writing, speaking, listening, interviewing).. Students will learn to evaluate and select best social media ways to share out their creation. Students will scaffold video editing learning progressing from aps like Snapseed and Art Studio to more advance video editing such as Photoshop and Adobe Premiere.
Find, Feature, Film - The Power of Positive - $2,147.00 - This project is all about student voice and choice. It allows students to showcase that our school community , as well as the WG community in general, does great things which are certainly news worthy. This grant will allow a different medium to express their creativity. Student will be able film and edit stories and/or other projects based entirely about their subject and personal inspiration. They will have to communicate in all areas (reading, writing, speaking, listening, interviewing).. Students will learn to evaluate and select best social media ways to share out their creation. Students will scaffold video editing learning progressing from aps like Snapseed and Art Studio to more advance video editing such as Photoshop and Adobe Premiere.
Clark Elementary - Total Awarded $2,529.00
All the Feels, Social Emotional Learning - $2,529.00 - This “Second Step” program takes place in partnership with the University of Missouri - Columbia’s Department of Special Education. The curriculum a will help ensure academic success for elementary school students experiencing personal trauma (home life), peer anxiety, and low socio-emotional functioning by reinforcing skills and encouraging positive behaviors that promote self-regulation, emotion management, problem solving, and responsible decision-making. The program creatively interweaves catchy songs, fun games, and other engaging activities that develop social-emotional skills and are beneficial for all students; children learn how to make friends, manage their emotions, solve problems, and deal with peer pressure.
Edgar Road School - Total Awarded $5,117.72
En Plain Air - $1,000 - The purchase of new outdoor looms will give Edgar Road students the opportunity to be inspired by their beautiful outdoor campus as they weave among the landscape. As the art room at Edgar Road does not have windows, this grant gives students the opportunity to bring the inspiration of the natural world into their woven creations through color, subject, materials, and environment, including natural habitats, entomology, plants, and light.
Light Up the Learning - $313.72 - Supplies would be purchased to go with the light table that meet a wider range of curricular goals - specifically science, math, and reading/writing. A new experience would be created for children by adding the light table into centers or stations during specific lessons. For example, putting numbers in order from 1-50 on the light table, matching upper and lower case letters on the light table, finding part of the body on x rays on the light table, building a tower using 3D shapes on the light table, and more! After exploring and learning at the light table with new materials, the children will be able to write about, draw and or share about their learning experience at different stations. Many children will benefit from this different way of learning. Still specific to goals, but more hands on and engaging for the young minds.
The Living Portfolio - $3,804.00 - The “Living Portfolio” is the next phase following the implementation of Teaching for Artistic Behavior. The Living Portfolio Project is a student-curated collection of personal thoughts, moments, big ideas, accomplishments and creations that have come out of their learning experiences in art. This project demonstrates an innovative use of technology, allowing students to create a personal digital portfolio that will authentically represent their journey as artist spanning the most crucial years of development.
Light Up the Learning - $313.72 - Supplies would be purchased to go with the light table that meet a wider range of curricular goals - specifically science, math, and reading/writing. A new experience would be created for children by adding the light table into centers or stations during specific lessons. For example, putting numbers in order from 1-50 on the light table, matching upper and lower case letters on the light table, finding part of the body on x rays on the light table, building a tower using 3D shapes on the light table, and more! After exploring and learning at the light table with new materials, the children will be able to write about, draw and or share about their learning experience at different stations. Many children will benefit from this different way of learning. Still specific to goals, but more hands on and engaging for the young minds.
The Living Portfolio - $3,804.00 - The “Living Portfolio” is the next phase following the implementation of Teaching for Artistic Behavior. The Living Portfolio Project is a student-curated collection of personal thoughts, moments, big ideas, accomplishments and creations that have come out of their learning experiences in art. This project demonstrates an innovative use of technology, allowing students to create a personal digital portfolio that will authentically represent their journey as artist spanning the most crucial years of development.
Hixson Middle School - Total Awarded $2,558.00
Sensory Garden - $500 - A hands-on sensory garden will be a beautiful and useful addition to Hixon Middle School! The garden will include plants with a variety of colors, textures and smells and not only serve as an area for multi-disciplinary learning, but also attract butterflies and other pollenating insects. The grant includes gardening tools that students will use to maintain the garden for years to come!
STEM-spiration - $2,058 (Funded by Class of 1958) - This STEM-inspired program will provide opportunities for students to experiment and tinker with computer science- and engineering-related instruments at the middle school level, sparking student interest and helping students to recognize their potential in STEM-related fields. Classroom STEM kits will be created for students to use in the middle school classrooms to teach students that STEM is everywhere and everyone is a STEM-capable learner; access to hands-on tools that surpass typical classroom content and experiences will provide opportunities for students to go beyond the material being taught and cater to their natural abilities to be creative.
STEM-spiration - $2,058 (Funded by Class of 1958) - This STEM-inspired program will provide opportunities for students to experiment and tinker with computer science- and engineering-related instruments at the middle school level, sparking student interest and helping students to recognize their potential in STEM-related fields. Classroom STEM kits will be created for students to use in the middle school classrooms to teach students that STEM is everywhere and everyone is a STEM-capable learner; access to hands-on tools that surpass typical classroom content and experiences will provide opportunities for students to go beyond the material being taught and cater to their natural abilities to be creative.
Hudson Elementary - Total Awarded $7,915.00
Outdoor Stage - $7,915.33 - This is an innovative way to integrate the community into the goals of the district to enhance student learning through diversified learning opportunities. This is an alternative way to enhance a students' interest in a variety of ways to share their knowledge and learning. It is an incredibly creative way to integrate learning AND providing a community space.
Steger Sixth Grade Center - Total Awarded $3,600
Authentic Inventing for Design Thinking - $3,600 - The “Authentic Inventing for Design Thinking” will change the Library Media Center at Dr. Henry Givens Jr. Elementary School to a more innovative space for creative thinking, coding, STEM and problem solving. Little Bits for Education Packs will teach fifth and sixth grade students the basics of using circuits for engineering. Once students have mastered the basics, they will be able to take what they have learned and apply it by creating their own inventions. This activity has the potential to deeply engage students by allowing them to explore a new avenue for their learning. By requiring students to invent solutions to problems in small groups by using components of design thinking, they will be engaging in higher-level skills not achieved through ordinary problem solving.
WGHS - Total Awarded $3,549.00
VR Robots, Oculus Rift and Steam Outreach - $1,200 - This grant provides funds for three oculus rift packages that expands on a project initially funded by the Foundation. The WGHS Statesbots Robotics Team plans to expand community outreach, learn how to create content for the VR systems and begin the process of learning how to link the robots the program creates to a VR environment. Their ultimate goal with this grant is to create robots that are then controlled by members of the program wearing the VR headsets.
Canvas Creativity - $1,699 - The grant committee was excited to award a Dell Canvas to Webster Groves High School! The Dell Canvas is a 27-inch combination drafting table and intuitive digital art board that students can use to bring their creations to life and become effective visual communicators. The canvas will be housed in the Makerspace lab, and available to all Webster Groves district students. Immediate visions for the product include Makerspace and A.M.P.E.D. students creating design models for their clientele, as well as visual arts and computer students using it to enhance creativity and learning.
Junior Gardeners - $650.00 - The Junior Gardeners program will create a space where preschool-aged children can learn how to appreciate nature by interacting and observing in the planting/cultivating/harvesting process with the use of a ten-by-twelve foot greenhouse. The greenhouse will provide one-hundred and twenty square feet of sanctuary for children to create a relationship with nature that will stay with them for years to come. Besides teaching young minds how to maintain their own fruits, herbs, vegetables, or spice garden, the project fosters a sense of community as students work together and will be able to give back to needy in our community with their produce. Additionally, the development of programs for the preschool greenhouse can inspire creativity within current high school programs.
Canvas Creativity - $1,699 - The grant committee was excited to award a Dell Canvas to Webster Groves High School! The Dell Canvas is a 27-inch combination drafting table and intuitive digital art board that students can use to bring their creations to life and become effective visual communicators. The canvas will be housed in the Makerspace lab, and available to all Webster Groves district students. Immediate visions for the product include Makerspace and A.M.P.E.D. students creating design models for their clientele, as well as visual arts and computer students using it to enhance creativity and learning.
Junior Gardeners - $650.00 - The Junior Gardeners program will create a space where preschool-aged children can learn how to appreciate nature by interacting and observing in the planting/cultivating/harvesting process with the use of a ten-by-twelve foot greenhouse. The greenhouse will provide one-hundred and twenty square feet of sanctuary for children to create a relationship with nature that will stay with them for years to come. Besides teaching young minds how to maintain their own fruits, herbs, vegetables, or spice garden, the project fosters a sense of community as students work together and will be able to give back to needy in our community with their produce. Additionally, the development of programs for the preschool greenhouse can inspire creativity within current high school programs.
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