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March 15 |
All Grant Proposals Must Be Submitted Electronically By 5 pm. |
April 20 |
Applicants Will Be Notified Of Their Grant Status |
Mid-May |
Concord Trust’s Annual Grant Awards Ceremony |
June 1 |
Final Reports Due from Previous Year’s Grant Recipients. All funds must be requested by this date. Remaining funds revert back to the Concord Trust budget. |
Tips for Writing Your Grant Application
Be creative: We encourage creative ideas and want you to experiment with new ideas in teaching and learning.
Follow the instructions: Sometimes we cannot fund a grant request because the guidelines were not followed. Please be sure to include:
Clearly state your objectives and how you will reach them. We cannot fund projects we do not understand. Ask an outsider to read your application to be sure the activities and goals are clearly stated.
Collaborate: Try to make your proposal a team effort. Involve as many educators and students as possible in the project.
Have an evaluation plan. Detail how you will measure progress and determine the results.
Connect the budget to the goals. We closely review the proposed budget. Be sure to connect expenditures to the activities and goals of the project.
Technology Review: Be sure to have any computer or other technology requests reviewed by the Concord School District Technology Coordinator.
Teaching/Educational Benefit: Be specific about what problem
or void your project seeks to address and how it will accomplish this.
What criteria does The Concord Trust consider in awarding grants?
The Concord Trust provides grants to fund innovative projects that enhance the educational experience in Concord’s public schools and are not ordinarily funded through the traditional school budget process. The number of grants awarded each year varies depending upon the number of applications received and funding availability.
Who is eligible to apply for a grant from The Concord Trust?
Teachers, administrators, and staff within the Concord School District are eligible to apply for a grant from The Concord Trust.
How much are the grants for?
The maximum Concord Trust grant is $2500.
How do I apply for a Concord Trust grant?
An outline of the information to be provided in a grant proposal is presented in our application guidelines.
Download an application now.
When is the application deadline?
Applicants must submit completed grant proposals to The Concord Trust’s e-mail address by March 15 at 5 p.m. The Concord Trust will notify applicants of their status by April 20.
When are grants awarded?
Grants are awarded at The Concord Trust’s Annual Award ceremony in late May or early June.
How can I contact The Concord Trust with questions about a specific grant proposal?
If you have a question about preparing a grant proposal, contact us here.
Chronology of Grants Awarded
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Concord Trust Awards - 2010
Project Title: Bringing the Chemistry Classroom into the
21st Century
Grantee: Jonathan Bryde
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of “Boardworks
High School Chemistry” software to be used by more than five hundred chemistry
students at Concord High School. This new technology, which is tailored to the
State of New Hampshire’s curriculum standards and allows for student
differentiation, will motivate, engage and assess student learning with
innovative and fresh science lessons on a variety of topics.
Project Title: Reading With Kindles
Grantee: Helen Dugan
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant provided the Concord High
Library with Kindle electronic books, covers and access cards to introduce
e-reading devices to the high school student population and assess their impact
on reading and literacy.
Project Title: Electronic Books for Use with Emotionally and
Academically At-Risk Students
Grantee: Lauren Orlen
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of Kindle
electronic books, covers and access cards to be used by emotionally and
academically at-risk students enrolled in Concord High’s Advance special
education program. The text-to-speech capability of the Kindles will promote
literacy and reading by enabling students to experience high interest reading
material of their choosing, regardless of reading level, while the immediate
access to reading materials will capitalize on moments of student interest and
motivation to read.
Project Title: Science Materials Lending Cabinet
Grantee: Elizabeth Finney
School: Broken Ground School
Project Description: This grant, requested by teacher Sue Ann
Martin and given in her memory, will provide science materials and a wheeled
storage cabinet to be used by all fifth-grade students at Broken Ground School.
Reusable supplies such as scales, stopwatches, graduated cylinders, a voltmeter,
Petri dishes, magnets and wire will enable all students, regardless of
resources, to conduct, evaluate and present student-designed experiments
annually at Broken Ground’s Science Expo.
Project Title: Multicultural Library
Grantee: Pamela Briggs & Diane Jacobsen
School: Dame School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of books
depicting multicultural students and their family heritage for use by Dame
School students and the Dame School Family Center. The program aims to provide
diverse literature, beginning at the preschool level, to build students’
understanding of and respect for all cultures.
Project Title: Home-School Communication for ALL Families
Grantee: Linda Stephenson, Laurie Hart & Barbara Hemingway
School: Dame School
Project Description: This grant provided for digital voice
recorders, compact disks and players, and translators. The goal of the program
is to record and distribute important school information, typically sent home
with students in the form of written newsletters and flyers, to families with
literacy or language barriers in an effort to increase home-school
communication.
Project Title: Kimball Walker Neighborhood News
Grantee: Paul Bourassa
School: Kimball Walker School
Project Description: This grant provided a high definition
video camera, video editing software and recordable disks for students to create
a series of televised news programs focusing on different aspects of the
transition from Kimball and Walker Schools to the new school building. Student
broadcasts will focus on the history of the project, physical changes and the
impact on students and teachers. Broadcasts will air on the school’s own
station, Kimball Walker Neighborhood News (KWNN), as well as Concord Community
Television, and will be distributed to students on DVD.
Project Title: Netbooks for English Language Learners:
Differentiating Instruction and Increasing Equity for Our Most Recently Arrived
English Language Learners
Grantee: Ellen Kenny & Jacqueline Delorie
School: Rumford School
Project Description: This grant funded netbooks, small laptop
computers that can be programmed with Smartboard applications and provide both
audio and video capacity, to teach differentiated math lessons to English
language learners in grades three through five.
Project Title: Making Dirt to Beautify Rundlett
Grantee: Tamara Anderson
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: This grant funded a locked compost
tumbler, peat moss and “Lasagna Gardening” book. Students will learn about
composting and environmental awareness as they create organic soil to be used
for planting annual and perennial flower beds around the perimeter of Rundlett
Middle School.
Project Title: Lego Mindstorms - The Next Generation
Grantee: Jim Harvey & Rick Bragg
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: This grant provided Lego Mindstorm NXT
kits for use by all seventh grade students at Rundlett Middle School. Students
will develop critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills as they
build and program NXT robots.
Project Title: Kindle Use in Title I Reading
Grantee: Jane Merrow & Nancy Keane
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: This grant funded Kindle ebook readers,
covers and access cards for use by readers in the Title I program. The goal of
the program is to improve reading scores and motivate reluctant readers by
providing them with the ability to select “just right” titles at their reading
level as well as reading tools and listening options to help them engage in the
discussion of popular literature beyond their reading level.
Project Title: Learning Through Listening for Concord
Regional Diploma Academy Students
Grantee: Jane Cogswell
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of Victor
Reader CD players to be used by approximately 150 high school students
participating in the Concord Regional Diploma Academy, a dropout prevention
program started in January 2008. The CD players will enable students to listen
to books on tape, in conjunction with reading, to improve reading skills and
comprehension and foster an enjoyment of literature.
Project Title: Framing Feedback
Grantee: Denise Fournier
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of digital
camcorders with detachable USB drives for use in the Concord High School Public
Speaking course. As many as 150 students will record practice speeches and
download them to a DVD or projector for ongoing teacher, peer and
self-assessment throughout the course.
Project Title: Are My Students Certifiable?
Grantee: Gary Hendley
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant provided a 1-year membership in
the Computing Technology Association (CompTIA) Education to Careers program.
Information Technology students can attain CompTIA A+ certification through
involvement and testing, thereby making themselves more marketable in the
information technology industry.
Project Title: Making Mathematical Connections for English
Language Learners (ELL Students)
Grantee: Harriet Kraybill
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of
mathematical manipulatives and hands-on activities, which will provide visual
and tactile support and stimulate environmental connections for English Language
Learners studying pre-algebra at Concord High School.
Project Title: Probing for Knowledge – Hey, Nothing is
Happening or Just Look Harder
Grantee: Jane Voth-Palisi
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of Vernier
LabQuest data collection probe ware programs and sensors. Over 200 Concord High
School students enrolled in advanced life science courses will be able to more
accurately capture results that occur in milliseconds and measure rates of
enzyme reaction, changes in pH, water, electrical conductivity, turbidity,
oxygen and heat and carbon dioxide generation as well as many aspects of
vertebrate and invertebrate physiology such as behavioral biology, circulation
and neurophysiology.
Project Title: Project SEE Pavilion Classroom
Grantee: LuAnne Pigeon
School: Project SEE
Project Description: This grant funded the design and
construction of a pavilion-style outdoor classroom at Project See’s Science
Center at White Farm. The pavilion will serve as a central gathering location
and accommodate an average classroom seated at four tables. Set in a clearing
overlooking a wetland area, the pavilion will be used by all Concord students in
grades Kindergarten through grade 6 when visiting White Farm as part of their
science curriculum. In addition, students in the Concord Regional Technology
Center at Concord High School will be involved in the building process wherever
practical.
Project Title: Drama Makes a Difference
Grantee: Amanda Neidhardt
School: Broken Ground School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of three
play performance packs, including teacher and student scripts, music CD, props
and costumes, offering elementary students the experience of learning through
drama. Students will work on the development of reading, music and social
skills, and lessons will culminate in a final stage performance for families and
friends.
Project Title: Document Camera
Grantee: Mary Wilke
School: Broken Ground School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of a
document camera, a stand-mounted video camera that is linked to an LCD projector
and projects an image of anything placed under its lens. The camera will
function as a useful classroom tool, particularly for visual learners, in
teaching all aspects of the 5th grade curriculum and helping students maintain
focus.
Project Title: Family Connections
Grantee: Laurie Hart
School: Dame School
Project Description: This grant provides for the services of
interpreters, who will be hired to help facilitate weekly parenting classes and
family educational activities for immigrant and refugee families.
Project Title: Story Connections: Tell It, Read It, Share
It, Feel It
Grantee: Jane Fellows
School: Eastman School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of Story
Kits (including books and supporting manipulative and visual materials such as
puppets and scenery to enhance the story), corresponding Big Books, CD’s,
cassette tapes and a portable listening center for use in the preschool and
kindergarten classrooms. Materials will serve to engage all children in story
time and reading and address the needs of a multi-aged, highly diversified
classroom.
Project Title: “Rape Aggression Defense Simulation”
Grantee: Hayden Daly
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of Rape Aggression Defense (“RAD”) simulation equipment. RAD will be used by faculty members in the physical education department to teach risk awareness, risk reduction, risk recognition and risk avoidance to nearly 200 female students. In addition to self-protection, the RAD program seeks to empower women to find their inner physical strength.
Project Title: “Wireless Interactive Teaching”
Grantee: Joanne Lowe
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of a Smart Airliner Slate, projector and software for use in the mathematics classroom. The technology allows the teacher to put notes on the board from anywhere in the room while circulating in the classroom, thus creating an interactive learning environment between teacher and students. In addition, lessons can then be printed or emailed to students.
Project Title: “School Garden”
Grantee: Lisa Burton
School: Beaver Meadow School
Project Description: This grant provided funds for deer netting and supplies to sustain a vegetable and flower garden cultivated by students. Students sow seeds, plant seedlings and harvest vegetables. They learn about both gardening and community service as they donate their vegetables and flowers to the Friends Program.
Project Title: “Kids Count! Economics in the Elementary Classroom”
Grantee: Jane Donohue
School: Broken Ground School
Project Description: This grant funded guided reading books and educational media with related business and economics themes. The grant also provided for a portable book/school store cart to enable students to run a retail business. Students will write a business plan, research vendors, purchase inventory and advertise their business while learning about economic concepts of inventory, pricing and supply and demand.
Project Title: “Broadening Horizons”
Grantee: Laurie Hart
School: Dame School
Project Description: This grant funded books designed to build the vocabulary of refugee students through experiential learning. By focusing on the themes of cooking, science and nature, and geography, students will “experience” life situations and develop the vocabulary needed for successful future learning.
Project Title: “’It’s All About Me’ – Supplemental Wellness”
Grantee: Stephanie Celestin, R.N.
School: Kimball and Walker Elementary Schools
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of colorful visual models and games to be used by the school nurse to teach wellness to all K-5 students at Kimball and Walker schools. The materials are stimulating and manipulative to encourage interest and learning in topics such as healthy foods, hygiene and healthy habits, skeletal exploration, cholesterol, the dangers of smoking, etc. In addition, many of these materials will be shared with families through events such as the school health fair.
Project Title: “The Asus Revolution”
Grantee: Nancy Keane
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: This grant funded four Asus eee portable, wireless internet devices. Designed to be “easy to learn, work and play,” the device is preloaded with over 40 applications and allows students to access and research information via the internet from the school library or other locations in the building. Its shock-proof design and ease of use make it particularly amenable to the school environment.
Project Title: “A Multimedia Approach to Instruction and Learning in the English Classroom”
Grantees: Kaileen Gleason and Heidi Crumrine
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded a laptop projection system to enhance writing instruction and expand the English department’s ability to engage students through a variety of media. The technology enables teachers to access and project internet information related to the curriculum and allows students to create podcasts to share in the classroom and online. The projection system also allows teachers and students to view, discuss, edit, and save drafts of written texts and multimedia projects.
Project Title: “NoodleBib”
Grantee: Barbara Thomas
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the CHS library’s purchase of web-based note-taking and documentation software. Students use this software, both at school and at home, to help them more effectively take notes and correctly cite sources when working on a bibliography.
Project Title: “My Robot”
Grantees: Charlie Swift, Donna Reardon and Philip Browne
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the expansion of the “My Robot” project and provided 10 Lego NXT Robot sets. Students work in teams to learn physical science, basic programming, engineering, and digital animation concepts while creating robots.
Project Title: “What Kind of Fingerprint is That?”
Grantee: Donna Reardon
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant expands a previous Concord Trust Grant awarded in 2000. Students learn basic genetics and DNA fingerprinting techniques using biotechnology equipment funded by the grant. In addition, students sharpen critical thinking and laboratory skills while actively participating in real-life data collection and analysis.
Project Title: “Picture a Responsive Classroom”
Grantee: Dawn Morris
School: Dame Elementary School
Project Description: This grant funded a digital camera and photo printer to foster the “Responsive Classroom” program in use at Concord Elementary Schools. Students share with their families monthly photo postcards to celebrate their accomplishments. In addition, the grant recipient utilizes the camera and printer in her role as the school district’s certified Responsive Classroom trainer.
Project Title: “From Fleece to Fabric”
Grantee: Liz MacBride
School: Kimball Elementary School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of colored fleece for use in several fiber arts processes. Young students create felted beads and cut shapes while older children create felted vessels, flowers, and pictures. The project culminates with all students working together to create a woven fleece mural.
Project Title: “Literacy Learning Center with Freedom”
Grantees: Diane Johnston and Jan Smith
School: Kimball Elementary School
Project Description: This grant provided cordless listening centers to increase reading fluency, promote reading comprehension, and make good literature accessible to all students in the classroom.
Project Title: “Teaching Special Education Students the ‘SMART’ Way”
Grantee: Tracy Harte
School: Walker School
Project Description: The SMART board funded by this grant provides interactive lessons to engage students with learning disabilities.
Project Title: “Formative Assessment”
Grantee: Lise Bofinger
School: Concord High School
Project Description: Funding covered the purchase of 30 “clickers” and related equipment for a high tech electronic response system. These “clickers” are remote control devices that allow teachers to quiz students and review concepts in the middle of a lesson in order to assess student comprehension; teachers then use this immediate feedback to tailor instruction.
Project Title: “Virtual Cat Dissection”
Grantee: Tom Crumrine
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of virtual cat dissection software for use in anatomy and physiology classes.
Project Title: “After School Yoga”
Grantee: Usha Bailey and Tim Sullivan
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: This grant funded an after school yoga program for middle school students.
Project Title: “Animation Expansion”
Grantee: Neal Hanowitz
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: This grant expanded a previously funded digital animation program through the purchase of additional software and equipment. The goal was to make this popular and highly effective program available to all students in the middle school.
Project Title: “4th Grade Weather Station”
Grantee: Sue Ann Martin
School: Broken Ground School
Project Description: Funding provided for the purchase of a weather station for use in the classroom so that students could study meteorology with “hands on” equipment.
Project Title: “Readers’ Theatre”
Grantee: Nancy Siff
School: Dame School
Project Description: Funds provided for the purchase of reading materials designed for a dramatic reading program for elementary school students.
Project Title: “Home at Last”
Grantee: Ellen Segal, Ellen Kenny, Sylvia Lethbridge
School: Rumford School
Project Description: This grant provided funding for a series of field trips designed to help recent immigrant families in the Rumford School community acclimate to life in Concord.
Project Title: “Road Show”
Grantee: Ellen Segal
School: Rumford School
Project Description: Funding for this project brought experts from local museums and science centers into the school.
Concord Trust Awards –2005
Project Title: “Rivers and Bridges”
Grantee: Phil Brown
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded part of an outdoor recreational and cross-cultural experience which culminated in a canoe trip down the Contoocook River. The project was designed to build cultural bridges among Israeli, Palestinian, European, and Concord High School students.
Project Title: “Literacy on the Go!”
Grantee: Jennifer Sanborn, Chris Lebrun, MaryBeth Morrill, Karen McCue, Stacy Macri, Lori Young, Jill Young, and Laura Hoglund
Schools: Beaver Meadow, Walker, Conant, Dame, and Eastman
Project Description: This collaborative early literacy project assisted classroom teachers in the kindergarten classes of five Concord elementary schools by providing age-appropriate reading materials to be shared among the schools.
Project Title: “Young Filmmakers in the Making”
Grantee: Clint Klose
School: Beaver Meadow School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of video production equipment to enhance the production and editing capabilities of the school’s video production club.
Project Title: “Hands-on Science Kits”
Grantee: Kay Garrigan
School: Beaver Meadow School
Project Description: Funding provided “hands-on” science education materials, including Delta Science Simple machine nutshell kits, to be used by 4th grade students.
Project Title: “After School Yoga”
Grantee: Tim Sullivan
School: Kimball School
Project Description: This grant provided funding for an after school yoga program designed to improve health, reduce stress, and promote social and emotional well being among Kimball 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
Project Title: “Kamishibai Storytelling”
Grantee: Joan Griffin
School: Kimball School
Project Description: Funds provided for the purchase of several sets of Japanese Kamishibai storytelling cards and a stage to enhance the curriculum.
Project Title: “Travel Club”
Grantee: Melanie McSteen
School: Kimball School
Project Description: This project focused on helping students explore and experience the unfamiliar through field trips in our community; through their experiences, students refined their literacy skills working with a variety of non-fiction texts with “real world” travel applications, including maps, menus, pilot’s logs, personal journals, and schedules.
Project Title: “Positive Parenting”
Grantee: Ellen Segal
School: Rumford School
Project Description: This project provided funding for a series of parenting workshops and related parenting resources at Rumford’s parenting center.
Project Title: “Freshman Advisories”
Grantee: Lise Bofinger, Denise Bourgoine, Tom Crumrine, Kate Daniels, Glen Ring
School: Concord High School
Project Description: Grant funds covered the training and implementation costs of advisories for the 2004-2005 school year. Advisories are small groups of students that meet regularly with an adult during the school week to increase students’ sense of belonging at Concord High.
Project Title: “Software for Music Theory”
Grantee: Ben Greene
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of software installed in the music department computer lab that allows students to work independently to improve their music reading, ear training, and understanding of composition.
Project Title: “Digital Animation Hardware and Software”
Grantee: Neal Hanowitz
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: Grant funds provided for digital animation hardware and software; with these tools, students learn about many technical aspects of digital animation, including digital filming with sound, editing, and claymation.
Project Title: “Mobile Publishing Station”
Grantee: Sue Ann Martin
School: Broken Ground School
Project Description: This grant funded a binding machine, digital camera, and other supplies for creating and assembling magazines and books written by fifth-graders.
Project Title: “Electronic Reading Pens”
Grantee: Josh Gajowski, Brooke Blum
School: Conant School
Project Description: This project involved the purchase of electronic reading pens that scan written text, display word definitions and syllables, and read aloud word spellings and pronunciations. Learning-disabled students and English language learners may find the pens especially helpful when reading.
Project Title: “ESOL Mobile Cooking Center”
Grantee: Julie Billings
School: Conant School
Project Description: This rolling cart with cooking supplies gave ESOL students (English for Speakers of Other Languages) a creative way to explore concepts in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.
Project Title: “Word Salad With Punctuation On Top”
Grantee: Brooke Blum, Pat Blevens
School: Conant School
Project Description: Word Salad is a student-authored arts and literature magazine.
Project Title: The Walker Talker
Grantee: Paul Bourassa, Erin Schaefer, Carol Chumak
School: Walker School
Project Description: This funding revived The Walker Talker, a student-authored newspaper.
Concord Trust Awards – 2003
Project Title: “Shared Literacy Activities for Kindergarten Students and Their Families”
Grantee: Linda Howe, Margaret Barry
School: Dame School
Project Description: This grant funded the purchase of “take home” shared literacy activities and materials that enhanced the educational experiences of students and their families.
Project Title: “Activity Based Physics”
Grantee: Nathan Carle, Chad Fleming, Hilary Thomson
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This project expanded on a previous Concord Trust grant and funded the purchase of additional equipment for the effective classroom use of computer-based laboratory sensors and software for physics and physical science instruction.
Project Title: “Quilt Connections (Weaving the Curriculum Through 180 Days)”
Grantee: Kathy L. Donovan
School: Walker School
Project Description: Second grade students explored the use of quilts through an integrated theme, enabling them to make connections in all curriculum areas. Grant funded quilting materials and related literature and mathematics curriculum materials.
Project Title: “Third Grade Digital Portfolio”
Grantee: Tootie Arnold, Steve Daigle, Karen McCormack, Melissa St. Pierre
School: Broken Ground
Project Description: This grant provided funding for technology to support the development by each third grade student of a digital portfolio of original artwork, music, and writing.
Concord Trust Awards 2002
Project Title: “CRTC Marketing Video Project”
Grantee: Steve Jones, John Wheeler, Fred Place, Myrna Vashaw, Mary Heartz, Nancy Gaudet, Cindy Cain, William McNamee, Monica Unger
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This grant provided funding for the development and production of a video to be used for marketing vocational technical programs at the Concord Regional Technology Center (CRTC) in order to inform students of the career exploration opportunities available at the CRTC.
Project Title: “Literacy Enrichment Initiative for Sixth Graders”
Grantee: Leah MacLeod, Susan DiCroce, Michele Bartlett
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: Funding provided for the purchase of a variety of literacy enrichment materials including multiple copies of fiction and non-fiction texts and magazine subscriptions. Through a variety of literacy enrichment experiments, including the establishment of parent-student reading groups, the grantees sought to increase students’ ability to understand a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction, and dramatic texts.
Project Title: “Saltwater Aquarium”
Grantee: Christopher Lane
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: Funding provided for the materials for a student-designed and maintained saltwater aquarium.
Project Title: “Getting Down To Basics”
Grantee: Christina Harmon
School: Kimball School
Project Description: Funds supported the purchase of a student computer music station and additional software to enhance students’ music reading skills
Project Title: “Take Home Math Kits”
Grantee: Sandy Metevier
School: Rumford School
Project Description: Grant funds paid for materials used to create “take home” boxes of math tools recommended by the Everyday Math Series to be used by Special Education or At Risk students; the project also included specific math training so that parents and students could effectively use these materials at home.
Project Title: “District-Wide Creative Writing Magazine”
Grantee: Sue Ann Martin
School: Broken Ground
Project Description: Funds financed the publication of a creative writing magazine featuring the work of students (K-5) from all of the elementary schools in the district.
Concord Trust Awards – 2001
Project Title: “Using TV Technology to Combat Teen Drug Use”
Grantee: Jon Kelly
School: Concord High School.
Project Description: Students experienced all aspects of video production as they created commercials about teenage drug use.
Project Title: “Visual Impact”
Grantee: Richard Bragg
School: Rundlett Middle School
Project Description: “Sign shop extraordinaire.” Students learned the process of customer service, sales, production, and delivery.
Project Title: “Visiting The Seven Continents”
Grantee: Kathy Donovan
School: Dame School
Project Description: Different cultures were integrated into all aspects of the curriculum, enhancing writing, reading and geography.
Project Title: “LBI-Wilson 2”
Grantee: K. Anne Lloyd
School: Kimball School
Project Description: This project provided training for the faculty member and a pilot practice for students in both the elementary and upper grade levels for the Wilson Language Reading System, a proven method for assisting those students with reading challenges.
Project Title: “Grand Conversations”
Grantee: Ellie Papazoglou
School: Walker School
Project Description: This project promoted the teaching of comprehension strategies and literacy across grade levels and provided an avenue for parental inclusion.
Concord Trust Awards 2000
Project Title: “Baby, Think It Over—Phase 2”
Grantee: Jari McNamee, Michele Josefiak, Kathy Baum
School: Concord High School.
Project Description: One of the original projects funded in 1999, the success of this real-life experience resulted in higher demand for the course. Students gained a better understanding of parenting issues.
Project Title: “Student-Oriented Science”
Grantee: Mary Jane Bergman, Sarah Carson, Lauren Hodsdon, Dennis Saimi, Gary Schollsnagle, Hilary Thomson
School: Concord High School.
Project Description: High school students experienced the integration of scientific experiments, academic learning, and computer-aided tools to gain a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.
Project Title: “What Kind of Fingerprint is That?”
Grantee: Donna Reardon, Mary Jane Berman, Lise Bofinger, Phil Borwn, Dennis Salmi, John Kettinger, Jan Voth-Palisi
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This project allowed students to participate in real life crime science investigation by engaging in experimental biotechnology activities.
Project Title: “Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8”
Grantee: Melissa St. Pierre
School: Broken Ground School
Project Description: This project helped students explore the art of writing as they became more sophisticated writers.
Project Title: “Eastman Weather Station”
Grantee: Cathy Miller, Sarah Jonick, Shirley Blanchard
School: Eastman School
Project Description: First graders worked on a daily basis as a weather team collecting and analyzing data while utilizing special equipment and applying concepts studied.
Project Title: “Baby, Think It Over”
Grantee: Jari McNamee, Michele Josefiak, Kathy Baum
School: Concord High School
Project Description: This program simulated the responsibilities of parenting by providing a realistic experience. The program was to be incorporated into the Wellness/Life Studies curriculum. Participants became responsible for a lifelike baby and all its needs.
Project Title: “LEGO Mindstorms Rage”
Grantee: Michele Bartlett
School: Rundlett Middle School.
Project Description: This project funded the training of teachers that allowed the integration of the LEGO program into the sixth grade curriculum. The LEGO program integrated science, math, and computers with other skills.
Project Title: “Midi for Kids”
Grantee: Clint Klose, Philip Hoefs
School: Beaver Meadow School.
Project Description: The addition of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) station provides students a multifaceted tool for self-expression and non-verbal communication, which foster independent learning.
Project Title: “Our Big Backyard: Exploring Habitats in Our World”
Grantee: Kathy Donovan, Susan Philips
School: Dame School.
Project Description: This project integrated activities into a year-long theme science center established in the first and second grade classrooms.
Project Title: “Picture Writing”
Grantee: Betty Smith, Marian Richard, Teri Grant, Marcia Krueger, Sandy Metevier
School: Rumford School
Project Description: This project was designed to address writing skills in the content areas of science, math, social studies, and literature. Developing and enhancing vocabulary, sequencing, conceptual knowledge, and observational skills, and linking these skills together were key components of this process.
Project Title: “Readers Theater”
Grantee: Ellie Papazoglou, Christine Chase
School: Walker School.
Project Description: This project provided collaborative opportunities for faculty and students schoolwide. Integrated into the daily curriculum, the program focused on team building, critical thinking, independent learning and effective communication skills.