Through generous, tax-deductible donations, the Foundation has funded projects such as - Oklahoma! our first School/Community musical, Innovation Grants for classroom enrichment opportunities, and scholarships.
Wayland Union Education Foundation
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2007/2008 & 2006/2007 & 2010/2011
Wayland Union Education Foundation
Teacher Innovation Grant Awards 2011/ 2012
Wayland Union Education Foundation
awards almost $18,000 for 2011-12 Innovation Grants
The Wayland Union Education Foundation is proud to announce that almost $18,000 has been awarded to staff at Wayland Union Schools for their innovative ideas. Each year, the Foundation has an application process allowing staff to put together innovative ideas for their classrooms that would not otherwise be covered by regular school funding. The Foundation Project Committee reviews the applications and makes their recommendations to the Board of Directors for a final vote of approval. The Wayland Union Education Foundation is a separate entity from the school, governed by a volunteer Board of Directors made up of community members. The mission of the Foundation is to supplement and enrich educational experiences for the students of Wayland Union Schools. They provide funding for camps, conferences, competitions and scholarships, and assist with funding for various requests throughout the school year.
The following awards were granted for the 2011-12 school year:
Katrina Brown, First Grade, Baker Elementary, received a grant to increase reading achievement and motivation for her students through the use of a listening library downloaded on individual MP3 players that will be used by students during their daily independent reading block. Click here for pictures...
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Amy Hielkema, Jill Hood and Laura Pillars, Second Grade Dorr Elementary, will be able to purchase an iPad 2 with WiFi for each of them to use to enable them to easily access student information, share information and forms with colleagues and parents, as they use the Daily 5 and Café as a key component of literacy instruction.
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Travis Jonker, Elementary Media Specialist and Amy Huyck, Middle School/High School Technology Consultant, will purchase eight Nook Simple Touch readers and approximately 60 e-books to be downloaded onto the Nooks. Those will then be available to Pine Street, Middle School and High School students to check out. eReaders will hopefully engage reluctant readers in ways that traditional books would not.
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Melissa Kuipers, Eighth Grade Language Arts, will get ten Kindles and approximately 71 books to download onto the Kindles. This will help to differentiate reading instruction for the various levels of students, increase student academic achievements in Language Arts and make educational technology instruments accessible to at-risk populations. Students will have access to electronic books at their individual reading levels and will be able to listen to curriculum required books that often times are above their reading level.
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Leigh Ann McBride, High School Dance Instructor, will bring new and diverse cultural experiences into the classroom by inviting Master Dance Teachers to demonstrate and teach their area of expertise. They hope to cover Irish Step Dancing, Native American Dance, Professional Dance (Ballet/Lyrical/Contemporary), African American Step Dance, Latin Ballroom Dance, Japanese Kabuki, Indian/Polynesian Dance, etc. This will translate into a different level of understanding for the students, as well as personal growth and educational development.
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Dana Omness, Eighth Grade Science Teacher, will purchase 20 iPod Touch, to help engage students with technology and allow them to learn, rather than just chat and play games while online. There are highly interactive educational apps available. Dana will also purchase a MacBook Pro which will allow her to easily sync the iPods to the educational apps. It also gives teachers a place to demonstrate in full screen, how the apps, podcasts, HD video recording, and many other feathers of the Mac can be used by the individual students.
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Tessa Potgeter, High School ELA Teacher, received a grant to help with Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS). The overall goal of this project is to have a well-behaved student population. This program encourages positive behavior, with a rewards system, to keep students in the classroom, rather than having them removed for behavioral issues. Students can collect tickets for their good behavior and turn them in for rewards, either weekly or they can save them up to turn in when they have more of them to receive a bigger award. The anticipated results will be lower discipline rates, higher student achievement, students will feel safe in school and parents will know that their student(s) are safe and getting the best education possible.
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Wayland Union Education Foundation congratulates each of this year’s recipients, and would like to thank all of those who applied.