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EBEF Awards Grants for a Variety of Projects The EBEF has awarded more than 800 grants totaling over $1.2 Million to teachers throughout the district. |
Recent Major Grant Recipients We the People Grant First Lady of the Foundation Grants First Lady of the Foundation/Northfield BANK Foundation Grants Dr. David Lloyd Kabus Foundation Memorial Grant Mario "Chic DeCarolis Memorial Music Grant Kupchynsky Memorial Music Grant East Brunswick High School Class of 1975 Grant Lorraine Schoenthaler Memorial Grant Blue Ribbon Grants Excellence Grants |
So You Say You Want A Revolution? Grant awarded to: Vickie Albert, Lisa Berry, David Braveman, Barbara Carr, Katie Fabiano, Jill Green and Patty Knouse, Frost School Using a variety of different modalities, the fourth grade students of Frost school learned firsthand, the role that New Jersey played during the 10 crucial days that changed the course of the revolutionary war. They then shared their knowledge with the third and fifth grade students at Frost school
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We the People Grant EBHS IPLE II Honors Program - “We the
People” ….. National Competition, Alan Brodman
First Lady of the Foundation Grants What is it? Central Elementary School- Making Connections with a Little Help From My Pen, Denise Budveit and Robin Levy Reading pens will be purchased for students who are ELL and students with Learning Disabilities. The pens will connect diverse learners with one another while building self-esteem, friendships and a love of learning. Churchill Junior High School-The WeatherBug Program: Enhancing Math, Science and Technology, James Kelly This program will place a state-of-the-art WeatherBug weather station, Motion Camera, InstaCam and WeatherBug Achieve online software at the school. Real-time weather data will be used for enhanced mathematics, science, geography and technology education. Beyond the classroom, East Brunswick will be provided with weather information accessible via the internet. Chittick Elementary School-Facilitation Verbal Language Through Technology, Carrie Semeniak Students in the K-2 Autistic Classroom will receive two iPads to be used in the classroom. During group lessons this will be used to elicit language responses from non-verbal learners. In addition, there are applications for math, reading and language based IEP goals. Staff will also use the equipment to maintain and organize students’ academic progress. Chittick Elementary School-Chittick School Has a New Point 2 View, Steve Decker and Debbie Krauss Point 2 View cameras will provide teachers with a new, effective and inexpensive way to share information in the classroom. The camera provides live image capture for documents, share information in the classroom. The camera provides live image capture for documents, pictures, textbooks and three-dimensional objects. Teachers will be able to project books, documents, manipulatives and classroom objects so that all students will be able to see what the teacher is reading or using during the lesson. Hammarskjold Middle School-Apples for Autism, Earl Michael Swayze The Apple iPad will be used in this classroom to enrich current ABA programming and coordinate with the district’s current Smart technologies. Students will be able to download any type of book the teacher assigns. While reading students who might have difficulty viewing normal sized text will have zooming options available. They will also be able to personalize their reading experience. This type of learning covers all types of learning styles; visual, auditory and kinesthetic. First Lady of the Foundation/Northfield BANK Foundation Grants Funding of these grants in honor of Amy Fisher has been made possible by the generosity of the Northfield Bank Foundation. Bowne-Munro Elementary School-“M.A.D. Math” – Mathematics Activities with Diversity. Patricia Colaizzi This grant will provide an extensive array of Math Resources to help teachers meet the needs of their diverse learners. They will be able to select and share materials or games for specific content skills which will allow at-risk and special needs learners to succeed and challenge the gifted learners. Central Elementary School-SmartBoard for Success, Travis Musolf This tool will be used to incorporate both Discrete Trial Instruction and group work in this self-contained class. The Smart Board allows students to interact with the board and with each other. The board creates opportunities for each child to take turns, verbally and nonverbally communicate and work with one another to complete tasks and objectives. Dr. David Lloyd Kabus Foundation Memorial Grant What is it? East Brunswick High School
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Scholars Program This grant will provide equipment for students in the Waksman Student Scholars Program. The camera and pipets will allowstudents to learn to analyze DNA sequences via electrophoresis, PCR, restriction Digests and utilize databases. The research conducted by the students is on a graduate level with the potential to be published. Mario "Chic DeCarolis Memorial Music Grant What is it? East Brunswick Arts Education – Denis diblasio quartet and a night of jazz Jeffrey Lesser This grant will support the second "Night of Jazz" on March 21, 2011. This will feature jazz ensembles from Hammarskjold Middle School, Churchill Junior High School and East Brunswick High School. Denis Diblasio will be the guest artist who will provide second half entertainment and education in this program. Students learn to better their performance skills by listening to the best artists and emulating their style and technique. They then creatively take ownership and synthesize these practices into their own. Kupchynsky Memorial Music Grant What is it? East Brunswick Arts Education – Anita Chen , Violinist and pianistJeffrey Lesser This grant will allow students to have the opportunity to attend clinics and classes with Anita Chen as well as provide an evening concert with Anita Chen and East Brunswick students including the EBHS Chamber Orchestra. Anita has won many piano and violin competitions and recently, competing on the violin, was the winner of the GBS Carlson-Horn Competition. A former East Brunswick student, she began to study the piano at age four and within a year, she added the violin. At age seven, she was accepted into the pre-college division at Julliard. East Brunswick High School Class of 1975 Grant The East Brunswick High School Class of 1975 has funded this grant, matched by the East Brunswick Education Foundation, on the occasion of its 35 year reunion. Its generous donation was made in memory of classmates who have passed away. East Brunswick High School – Clickers in the classroomPaul Kimmel and Sandra Krupinski The goal of this program is to increase the teacher’s knowledge of student understanding during the course of the lesson.Clickers will be used for students to answer questions during the course of the lesson and provide instant feedback for class response: how many right, how many wrong. Since all students will be answering the question using the clickers, this will provide feedback for the whole class, not just the few that raise their hands. Lorraine Schoenthaler Memorial Grant This grant, matched by the East Brunswick Education Foundation, has been funded by donations from the family and friends of lifelong educator Lorraine Schoenthaler. She began her teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Iowa and retired from the New Brunswick Public School District, working primarily at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School as a preschool teacher. Her commitment to education also included serving nine years on the East Brunswick Board of Education. Warnsdorfer School – Success ! We have an app. for that !Lauren Basselini The goal of this project is to increase student achievement in reading. iPads are an intervention to help students strengthen basic skills and increase reading levels. This grant will help meet the needs of individual learners. Specific applications on the iPad target areas of weakness and help students build their confidence as readers. Warnsdorfer School
– iThink , iLearn , iSoar with the iPad Twelve iPads will be purchased for use in 4th and 5th grade classrooms. The iPad will be used as a tool for enrichment for students who have completed assigned work in science and social studies. It will also be used during guided group math with activities that will be based on the level of the small group. Hammarskjold Middle School–
Phyla Photos Teachers in the 6th grade science department will purchase sixteen digital cameras for use during a science field trip. This project will enhance student understanding of animal characteristics found among various Animal Kingdom phyla. Photographs will be taken at predetermined sites to identify characteristics that place animals with specific Animal Kingdom phyla. Students will then be able to write a detailed description of what they were doing, thinking and learning about when the photographs were taken. All East Brunswick Schools – Respect 4 All An intensive, three-day summer institute will allow for training of staff and administrators in providing a united message against harassment and bullying. The core teams will share the information through a series of mini-lessons at Faculty, Department and Grade Level team meetings. The goal of this is to train all staff members to effectively diffuse discriminatory bullying behavior that may occur before, during or after school. Churchill Junior High School – Get a head start
...Think Smart ! Two 77" SMART Boards will be purchased for use in the media center. The permanent SMART boards will be available to staff members to use during media center instruction. The boards will provide opportunities for teachers to implement new instructional techniques, and will assist students in meeting their curricular needs through more interactive activities. Irwin School – A 'Touch ' of Class Special education students will use the iPod Touch as a supportive tool in all areas of the curriculum, with a focus on reading fluency and comprehension. Students will be able to listen to downloaded audio books while reading the text in front of them during literacy centers. In addition, the iPod Touch will be used in other subject areas. The 'MeMoves' application can be used to help students with behavior concerns to refocus, relax and calm down. |
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