By Amanda Foust
The Carmel Education Foundation rewards teachers with great ideas each spring and fall with grants. This fall, 17 grants were awarded to 44 teachers totaling $15,554. These funds were raised from fundraising events, including last month’s Ghosts and Goblins 5K and a telethon.
The grants given are determined based on the CEF grant committee’s application reviewing process. During this process, Margaret Hollies served as the grant committee chairperson while Stephanie McDonald and Barbara Danquist co-directed and managed the online website for proposals.
Grants are offered to teachers who have ideas that further excellence in education through projects, technology, or professional development.
Hollies said: “We hope to continue to increase our funding of teacher grants in the future. We continue to explore ways with the teachers and administration in which we can assist more teachers in the Carmel Clay Schools.”
Fall Classroom Grants 2014
Orchard Park Elementary— Classroom and staff radios
Prairie Trace Elementary—Yearbook committee funds
West Clay Elementary— WCE lemonade day
Prairie Trace Elementary— Expanding expression tool
Clay Middle School—Video modeling in the science classroom
Carmel High School—Carmel Symphony and Lynn Harrell
Cherry Tree Elementary—iPads for art and music classrooms
Mohawk Trails Elementary—Step Into Books
Prairie Trace Elementary— Orton-Gillingham (OG) math training
Carmel Middle School—Acts of random kindness
Towne Meadow—Stability balls
Mohawk Trails—Technology in the arts
Orchard Park—Headsets with microphones to increase fluency rate
ESC—ATIA International Conference
Carmel Middle School—Activating students’ minds through active seating
Woodbrook—PE equipment for life skills and FIATS classrooms
Orchard Park Elementary—ePortfolio
