The Needham Education Foundation will make 15 grant awards for a total of $44,376 in the 2000-2001 academic year. This is in addition to the $28,100 awarded to the NEF 2001 Large Grant recipients.
Gallery on the Go
Mitchell | $1,775 |
| DeCordova gallery residency for 8 weeks focusing on the theme of A Sense of Place |
Making the Reading Writing Connection
Broadmeadow | $3,250 |
| Purchase teacher resources and student materials and training program to support existing literacy program funded by NEF. |
Book Making Workshop
Hillside | $3,338 |
| Workshop for students in grades K,1,4 and 5 to make books. |
Portable Multimedia Projector
Mitchell | $3,216 |
| Purchase of a multimedia projector to be used in existing programs |
Kakilub’e Celebrating Culture thru Dance
Eliot | $3,500 |
| Multicultural dancer/choreographer residency for 14 weeks |
A Day at the Schoolhouse
Elementary | $3,500 |
| Develop 3rd grade program to take place in town’s 1 room schoolhouse for all 3rd graders to experience a day in the life a mid 1800’s 3rd grader |
The Many Faces of Respect
Pollard | $2,200 |
| Expansion of existing character education program to a speakers program focusing on respect |
Sound System and Microphone
Pollard | $3,000 |
| Purchase of a sound system and microphone to add dance and rhythms unit to phys ed program and enhance existing programs |
Lit Circles
Pollard | $3,500 |
| Purchase groups of novels for grade 7 for students to read outside of English class and form lit circles to discuss novels |
Survivor: Middle School Parents and Children Pollard
Pollard | $2,250 |
| Program to bring groups of parents and children together to focus on issues and develop communication skills |
Grow Lights for the Teaching of Botany
Pollard/High | $1,258 |
| Purchase grow lights for science classrooms for teaching of 7th grade botany |
Youth Creating Solutions
Pollard | $3,500 |
| Train 25 students to become peer mediators |
Community-Wide CPR Initiative
Pollard/High | $3,439 |
| Purchase CPR mannequins to teach CPR to 7th, 9th and 11th graders |
Expanding Career Awareness Resources
High School | $3,150 |
| Funding to create a career website |
Needham Townscapes
High School | $3,500 |
| Purchase kiln capable of firing at high temperature and supplies to be used for ceramics students to create Needham townscape tiles to be displayed in the town library and other town buildings |
