Mini-Grant Awards

Nutmeg Bowl
Alyssa Gokey - Hubbell and Ivy Drive School
Awarded: $1,177.58

Dress for Success
Kara Banda & Colin Sonstrom - Bristol Central High School
Awarded: $1,000.00

Sewing for Success
Bridget Gohla - ACCESS Program
Awarded: $836.00

3D Printing
Crystal Caouette - Bristol Arts and Innovation Magnet School
Awarded: $567.96

Michelangelo Comes to Bristol
Gina Gallo - Bristol Central High School
Awarded: $658.99

Zen Dens
Holly Pugliese - South Side School
Awarded: $1,998.42

United Nations High School Conference
John Stavens - Bristol Eastern High School
Awarded: $2,000.00

Robotics
Ken Boudreau - West Bristol School
Awarded: $1,025.00

Sensory Space
Paige Flint - Mountain View School
Awarded: $500.00

Classroom Enrichment CT Humane Society
Erin Hall - West Bristol School
Awarded: $300.00 - Jim Rogers Fundscription

Capturing Our Learning
Marcy Deschaine - Mountain View School
Awarded: $1,000.00

Magic Carpet
Holly Caruso Pugliese - South Side School
Awarded: $1,995.41

Communication Beyond the Classroom
Nicole Redman - BECC/Edgewood
Awarded: $1,935.00

Operation Renovation
Bridget Gohla - ACCESS Program - BEHS/BCHS
Awarded: $422.00

Make Your Mark Mural at BAIMS
Lindsey Dipietro - BAIMS
Awarded: $1,878.64

BREAK ZONE

This grant will provide teachers with resources and supplies to create a safe and quiet space in their classroom for students to take a break. The “Mindfulness Calm Down Kit” will help students learn coping strategies, how to advocate for their needs and how to reduce their anxieties or frustrations among other things.
Stacy Valentine | Edgewood School

CLAYMATION COLLABORATION

This grant will help at least 25 5th grade students to explore how technology can add to their art-making. Claymation is an excellent way for students to incorporate STEAM into their creative endeavors. Students will be able to use clay, digital cameras and stop motion technology to create a sixty second clip of a subject or social message of their choice.
Tina Taylor | West Bristol School

CUBE IT! MOSAIC DESIGN PROCESS

This grant will provide sets of manipulative Rubik’s cubes for students to create images using the colors on the cubes as pixels. Sets of Rubik’s cubes are manipulated to needed configurations so that each cube is a small part of a larger, mosaic image. Students will be able to use templates of images or create their own images using a Google Sheet template or other software that converts an image into pixels. Kristine Woods | Green-Hills School

GEOMETRY – A NEW APPROACH

This grant will provide manipulatives and supplies that will be used for hands on geometry activities. This will support the new Illustrative Mathematics curriculum to be implemented next year. These materials will be used to reinforce geometry standards to support a deeper understanding of the content. 

Michelle Burns and Sara Maestre | Bristol Eastern High School

HUBBELL HOUNDS ARE HAPPY YOU’RE HERE

All new Hubbell students who enroll after the first day of school will be provided with a “success pack” that will include Paw Print themed items such as pencils, erasers and other school related items. These packs will be given out by the 5th grade ambassadors to help new students feel welcomed and connected to their new school.
Lisa Ayotte | Hubbell School

KINETIC CONNECTIONS

This project will allow 12 Special Education seniors to create and install an outdoor kinetic sculpture with the help of all teachers and students in the district who will be invited to create the pieces that will be assembled into this sculpture. Bridget Gohla | ACCESS

MATH FOR ALL

This grant will provide students in grades 2 to 5 a variety of math games to use during guided math, independent work time and math stations. The students may also have access to these games/materials during recess, WINN period or before/after school. 
Marcy Deschaine | Mountain View School

MIDDLE SCHOOL ROBOTICS

This grant will provide updated robotic kits for all the 6th and 7th graders in the district. Over 1000 students in total! s the current technology becomes increasingly outdated, the new Lego EV3 model will take its place.
Adam Sample | Greene-Hills School; Rocco Martino | West Bristol School; Vince Jennetta | Northeast Middle School; Rodney Ellsworth, Robert McConnell, and 
Robert Walling | Chippens Hill Middle School

MODEL U.N. HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE

This grant will match any student fundraising up to $1,000 for those who will attend this conference in NYC. Model UN will give students the opportunity to represent a country in various committees and situations where the students will have to research and write position papers to present at the conference. 
John Stavens, Jason Cirillo, Wendy Adams, and Thomas Lavoie | Bristol Eastern 
High School

ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE

This grant will help support the many students at the Bristol Preparatory Academy who can earn additional work credits through employment by assisting them in obtaining a driver’s license.
Larry Covino | Bristol Preparatory

PANISH FOR EVERYONE

This grant will allow approximately 120 students in upper level Spanish classes to teach elementary students about the Spanish language and culture. The younger students will be taught basic conversation skills in a fun and engaging way.
Justin McDermott | Bristol Eastern High School

SUPPORTING OUR CREW

This grant will help meet the social and emotional needs of students. The daily CREW period connects to the school-wide and districts social emotional learning curriculum. Lessons focus on Perseverance, Social Awareness, Self-Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills. The texts and materials provided will be used during the CREW period as a way to improve these skills.
Marcy Deschaine | Mountain View School

TRIP OF A LIFETIME WASHINGTON DC

This grant will match any student fundraising up to $500 for students to attend this multi-day trip. Students will have the opportunity to learn more about American history and culture.
David Digiacomo, Courtney Decker, Mark Kilray, and Paul Philippon | Bristol Eastern High School

UNLOCKING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

This grant allows the purchase of Breakout EDU kits, which follow an escape room model with curricular connection to math standards as well as opportunities for review and fluency practice. The students benefitting from the grant are 7th and 8th graders at Northeast Middle School.
Michelle Cantin and Carolyn Palmero | Northeast Middle School

SMART SPACE for Student Social Emotional Learning Groups

This grant allows for an under-utilized occupational room to be transformed into a safe, calming atmosphere to enhance the teaching of social emotional skills during small group work, with K-8 children who have been identifies as needing support.  
Sandra Godin | Greene-Hills

A Moment to Breathe Project– This grant will support training provided by Mindful Schools, a nonprofit organization  dedicated to the integration of secular mindfulness in the learning environment of K-12 classrooms. Weekly mindful meditations will take place at the beginning or end of class to help students release tension, stress and anxiety that interfere with learning. An after-school club will also be created for more students to participate in weekly mindful meditations.
Kathryn Roberts | Bristol Eastern

Breakout EDU and You! – This grant allows the purchase of Breakout EDU kits, a puzzle box learning system, to be used by high school Special Education students and their mentors. They are paired with Special Education elementary school classrooms and students. The Special Education high school students coordinate a group of Special Education elementary students to work together to solve a puzzle and open the box while teaching and reinforcing executive functioning skills.
Bridget Gohla | ACCESS

Building Capacity for Next Generation Science Instruction in Elementary Classrooms – This project provides supplies for elementary teachers to teach science and students to engage in meaningful science practices. In collaboration with high school science teachers, who have received training on Next Generation Science Standards, elementary teachers will be better prepared to use materials in ways to promote consistent science learning and teach science to students based upon newly adopted science standards.
Corey Nagel & Mary Hawk | Bristol Central & Mt. View

CHMS Helping Hands Program – This program is an experiential learning program with the SBF Animal Rescue that will provide students, receiving special education services, the opportunity to connect with animals to foster social and emotional growth as it relates to interaction with others and build self-esteem. There is a classroom component and site-visits to the animal rescue.
Kathryn Krawiec & Mariliz Fitzpatrick | Chippens Hill

Connecting Social-Emotional Learning Standards, Common Core, and New Report Card Indicators: “Behaviors for Success!” –  This grant allows for the ability to purchase Second Step Program Kits, a classroom based program designed to increase student success and decrease problem behavior by promoting social-emotional competence, to be used in Pre-K through Second Grade. With the new report card format asking teachers to rate students on social-emotional learning standards, this program will provide the tools teachers need to target certain skills and accurately rate students.
Paige Flint | Mt. View

Hubbell Hound Explorers’ Huff and Puff STEM Challenge – Hubbell students and their families will participate in a school-wide STEM night. Science and reading activities will be based on “The Three Little Pigs” where students will use various building materials to create structures to withstand the “Big Bad Wolf”.
Lisa Ayotte | Hubbell

Makerspace 2.0 – This grant allows for the improvement of the STEM Room utilized by all K through 5 students at Mt. View. The incorporation of a 3D printer will allow students to improve researching, problem solving, and collaborating skills by creating 3D STEM projects and assist with the science curriculum shift to NEXT Generation Science Standards.
Marcy Deschaine | Mt. View

One Book, One Team – This project is aimed to increase reading achievement and enjoyment in all seventh grade students and staff by reading the same book, at the same time. Students will have the ability to connect their personal life to that of the main character. The book’s content allows for group discussions regarding the text, along with ties to science and social studies skills.
Katie Mercieri, Paul Ryskowski, Jake Madden & Michelle Cantin | Chippens Hill

Only One You – The Path to Kindness – This grant will allow for the purchasing of the book Only One You, utilized by the entire school annually, to celebrate individuality and diversity. Students will then paint rocks, symbolizing their uniqueness in order to create a path representing their individuality in their community. The path will be added to when new students and staff enter the school.
Karen Pileski & Jen Gura | West Bristol

Paws (Pause) for Reading – This is a school-wide, incentive based, literacy initiative to increase reading at home. Students, upon completing selected books, based on their comprehension level, will write a short report that a guardian has signed off on and will earn a chance to win a small prize with all reports being hung on the reading bulletin board at the school. Students may also have an opportunity to present their reports to their classroom peers.
Lisa Ayotte | Hubbell

Play “Works” – This grant allows for the purchase of blacktop stencils in order to create a fun, colorful, and educationally based play space for all students to use at recess. Once students learn the rules of the activity, they can learn and teach fellow students while being physically active. Other community groups, such as the scouts, can also use the blacktop space and benefit from learning and physical activity.
Holly Caruso-Pugliese| South Side

Shake it Like a Polaroid – This project crosses disciplines and is a collaboration between the Art and World Language Departments.  Students in both classes will develop a lesson based on Italian Renaissance art, share the lesson, recreate a famous piece of artwork, and create an art gallery using Polaroid cameras.
Kristin Monaco & Gina Gallo Reinhard | Bristol Central

Social-Emotional-Behavioral Library – This grant allows for the creation of a Social-Emotional Behavioral library containing children’s books, activity manuals, online activities for staff to be able to teach and reinforce a range of social-emotional behavioral skills within the school. Students will learn the skills and techniques to improve their own behavior in a learning environment.
Kristen Cicchetti | Greene-Hills

STEM Wonder Workshop – Students will learn coding, problem solving skills and work together creatively with the use of “smart” robots. The robots, accessed by all students, will increase the technology in the STEM room. Students will utilize their knowledge from their core classes to complete science experiments, mathematics to calculate measurements and English to write final reports.
Marcy Deschaine | Mt. View

Tell Me Your Board – Science students will be provided their own dry erase board to show their thought process, present their scientific findings, converse more easily in group projects – aligning with the Next Generation Science Standards. These dry erase boards make the shift from teacher directed to student centered classrooms easier for students to organize their thoughts and receive instructive feedback.
Terry Grant | Greene-Hills

Time for Technology! – This grant allows for technology to be incorporated into kindergarten classrooms to increase reading and math literacy. Learning opportunities can be tailored to students’ needs and support further enrichment.
Megan Lombardi | Greene-Hills

Virtual Reality in the English Classroom – This grant allows for virtual reality technology to be brought in to the high school English classroom. Students would be able to “see” what they are reading and have a more enriched sense of the environment where the story is taking place enhancing understanding and content.
Jennifer Plourde & Matthew Boissonneult| Bristol Central   

Sarah Brown a technology teacher from Chippens Hill submitted a grant to update the LEGO robotics kits at Chippens Hill as replacement parts and batteries for the old kits were no longer available. The Foundation Board was made aware that there was a significant discount in purchasing the kits in bulk. So they allocated $6,300 to purchase 30 kits to be shared with all the middle schools. $1,000 was used to purchase t-shirts, supplies, awards and refreshments for the robotics competition.

Breaking Down Barriers – To create a classroom library with fiction and non-fiction literature dealing with mental illness to break down barriers so students can better understand mental health issues and decrease the stigma associated with it.
Creighton Paquette-Claman | Bristol Eastern High School

Building Unity Interactive Installment – Create an outdoor sculpture that promotes the human connection, an appreciation for diversity and the realization we all have something in common. The sculpture helps celebrate our uniqueness, strengthens are ties to each other and promotes cultural competence and acceptance.
Bridget Gohla ACCESS Program

Cultivating STEM at Northeast Middle School – Convert an unused, neglected courtyard into a vibrant learning space by building raised beds, planting a garden, providing seating and creating a Zen garden for use by teachers to conduct lessons and students to study.
Vince Jenetta and David Luchina, Northeast Middle School

Digging in the Dirt – Master Gardeners Dr.& Mrs. Bartles will teach a class in horticulture, design and help the 5th grade students refurbish the butterfly garden to beautify the school grounds, support the science curriculum and create a habitat for the butterflies the primary grades raise.
Christine Fanelli and Chelsea Konyndyk, Hubbell Elementary School

Digital Boards – Purchase 2 LED monitors for the English hallway to display students’ Google work and what assignments, novels and units teachers are working on to increase and spark communication/collaboration between students teachers and departments.
Jennifer Plourde, Bristol Central High School

Every Minute Counts! – A pilot program to provide students who are chronically late or absent with an alarm clock or watch to improve their attendance/tardiness. Students will be given an incentive for improvement.
Kristine DeLeo | West Bristol School

Expanding Horizons – Purchase books written by authors outside the U.S. for freshman to read to widen their world view, give them a perspective outside the U.S. and explore situations like illegal immigration, war, revolutions and cultural injustice teens in other nations experience.
Elizabeth Burdelski | Bristol Eastern High School

Focus and Stand-to Learn – Purchase standing desks for special education classrooms to see if they increase student engagement and focus that current research supports.
Barbara McLean, Hubbell Elementary School

Good Morning Gators – To purchase the technical equipment and camera needed for middle school students to create daily newscasts that will be broadcast important school news to the entire school. Middle school students will learn technological and leadership skills.
Adam Sample | Greene-Hills School

Hubbell Hound Builders – Provide each grade level (K-5) with LEGO building sets to be used during indoor recess time. LEGOs instill creativity, build confidence and allow self-expression. They are a STEM activity that supports counting, patterning and problem solving.
Lisa Ayotte | Hubbell Elementary School

Improving Students Social, Emotional and Behavioral Functioning – This grant will purchase social-emotional and behavioral programs/curriculums, such as “Impulse Control for Elementary Students,” that target specific skill deficits, help children overcome their challenges and become productive learners and future citizens.
Marissa Graziano | Hubbell Elementary School

Living the Comic Life: Purchase subscriptions to Comic Life 3 Education Software so students can take the information presented in a unit and create a visual presentation/graphic novels through storytelling and storyboarding. This activity develops creativity and higher level thought processes.
Maggie DeVito

Math Literature for Grade 1 – To purchase math texts to support 1st grade math by including literature as a means to teach math. Math literature is a great motivator and makes math more meaningful as students see can see other applications of the concepts.
Stacey Clingan & Sara Kulig | Greene-Hills Schools

Move and Focus – Alternative seating for classrooms such as standing desks and yoga balls is shown to help students refocus on a task, engage in learning, get out their energy and strengthen core muscles. Incorporating exercise into the classroom makes students less fidgety and more focused on learning.
Holly Caruso-Pugliese | South Side School

One Book, One Team – The grant will purchase enough copies of the book, Fever 1793 for the whole team to read. The shared reading will provide discussion opportunities on various topics in the book, increase critical thinking and show how history and science are related. The goal is to motivate students to read outside of school.
Katie Mercieri, Jake Madden, Paul Ryskowski & Michelle Cantin | Chippens Hill Middle School

Pawsome Activities for Pawsome Behavior – Purchase educational games, puzzles and activities that will serve as rewards for the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS ) program. The incentives will be used in all classrooms as earned rewards for good behavior or academic achievement.
Lisa Ayotte, Hubbell Elementary School

Read It! Hear It Say It! – This grant will purchase audio books for the world language department to help students comprehend language usage, difficult vocabulary, pronunciation, decoding and grammar structure. These skills are directly related to the curriculum.
Gina Gallo Reinhard, Bristol Central High School

STEM and Story Writing Buddies – Third grade and Kindergarten students will work together to create and publish fairy tales with the help of LEGO story building kits. The stories will be made into books for the children to illustrate and take home. Students will become better readers, writers and story tellers.
Marcy Deschaine & Jennifer McCaffrey | Mountain View School

Skills for Social and Academic Success – Upgrade the Second Step social skills program curriculum to help students develop the skills associated with self-regulation, that allow children to focus their attention on learning when they are distracted, upset or having difficulty following school rules. The mastery of these skills underlie the learning potential of every student.
Kristen Cicchetti and Sarah Morehouse | Greene Hills School

The Breakfast Club – Many students read significantly below grade level. This grant will be used to purchase high school themed texts at lower reading levels to engage and motivate students to read. The club will be before school adding reading time to the day in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere with snacks.
Paul Phillipon & Katie Roberts | Bristol Eastern High School

The Gator Gallery – Create an art gallery with permanent pedestals and frames where student work of multiple forms can be displayed. Students submit their work which will be displayed for one month to a panel for selection. Students will have to write a description of their work for the display.
Joe Johnson and Jennifer Chase | Greene-Hills School

Unified Sports – Grant funds will be used to purchase tee shirt uniforms for the new Edgewood Unified Sports team which competes with elementary other schools in the districts.
Michelle Gugliotti | Edgewood Elementary School

West Bristol Community Garden – Upgrade and plant the six raised beds at West Bristol with a variety of crops to promote teamwork and cooperative learning and healthy eating as well as support the science curriculum. Extra crops will be given to community groups.
Cindy Ahern | West Bristol School

A Space Odessey, 2016 – This grant will support the creation of an Art Show in the BCHS library. The artwork will be used to inspire students to engage in creative writing as well as create the backdrop for such activities as poetry, debates, and music jams.
Gale Dickau and Paul Pinette| Bristol Central High School

Advancing Student Success by Reducing Chronic Absenteeism – This grant will be used to purchase school and community-wide signage and student incentives and host city-wide family discussions on the importance of school attendance to decrease the absent rate.
Jeanine Audette | Board of Education

Algebra 1 & 2 Interactive Notebooks – This grant supports the purchase of materials for students to create detailed notebooks that include important information from the text and class notes to practice problem solving, note taking and then use this information to study for assessments.
Michelle Burns, Bristol Eastern High School

Chippens Hill Garden– Through this grant the 7th grade will purchase a Growtop indoor garden and the other materials they need to start plants indoors to study their growth. The plants will then be transplanted in their raised beds in the spring.
Elizabeth Porter | Chippens Hill Middle School

Creators Over Consumers – This grant supports the purchase of technology so students can read and comprehend information and then create podcasts to share their knowledge and thinking with their peers. This allows students to be content produces instead of content consumers.
Keagan Radziwan | Bristol Eastern High School

Earworm – This grant supports the purchase of technology to create listening stations for world language classrooms to use music as a catalyst for the memorization of words, increase vocabulary and develop term memory.
Gina Gallo-Reinhard | Bristol Central High School

Greene-Hills Business Leaders of Tomorrow – Greene Hills students will learn how to own and operate their own business through creation of a school store. Students will fill out a job application, meet with clients and create, market and sell a product.
Terry Grant | Greene-Hills School

Greene Hills G-Men – The G-men is a group of middle school boys chosen at Greene-Hills for their leadership and values. The group’s mission is to develop strong character traits and facilitate activities that help their school and community, such as fundraisers, the school beautification project and Friendship Day.
Tim Hokanson | Greene-Hills School

Hubbell Hounds are Pawsome” Readers – Hubbell adopted a new mascot the “Hubbell Hound”. This grant provides funds for books about dogs students can read and share. Students will complete a short summery (on a paw print) of each book they read which will be displayed on a school bulletin board.
Lisa Ayotte | Hubbell School

I Can Hear You Load and Clear at Stafford School – The grant purchases a new sound system for Stafford School to provide adequate amplification for school concerts, assemblies, guest speakers and student work showcases to enhance each activity.
Tracy Youngberg & Joy Cannata, Stafford School

Increasing Student Engagement Using PearDeck – PearDeck is an online tool that allows teachers to informally assess students’ understanding of concepts by having them engage with an interactive presentation through the device. Through PearDeck teachers can ensure each student participates and tailor instruction to meet the needs of the class.
Carolyn Kielma | Bristol Eastern High School

Maker Mondays – The Bristol Eastern library will become a “Makerspace” where students come together to share resources to create a variety of projects from computer programming to sewing. Students can try new things, learn to problem solve and interact with each other.
Janet Kenney | Bristol Eastern High School

Pre-AP Academy – The Academy will target freshman who do not envision themselves as potential AP students prior to their high school course selection process. Through presentations and classroom experiences students will be inspired to begin their college career in high school to start them on a path toward college success.
Carly Fortin | Bristol Eastern High School

Podcast Party – The goal of this program is to increase student performance and engagement through the writing process. Students will be invested in their writing by taking ownership of content by personalizing their narratives through the creation of podcasts. Students who are anxious can gain confidence by sharing their work without having to get in front of an audience.
Jennifer Plourde | Bristol Central High School

Que pasa el en mundo? – Students will be introduced to culture and current events in the Spanish speaking world through Spanish Scholastic magazines that enrich their curriculum. Students will complete a comprehension assessment, write a reflection on the article and participate in a discussion on the content. Ashley Ingvertsen | Bristol Eastern High School

Supporting and Increasing Reading Through Raz Kids – Targeted students will be able to use the website Raz Kids at school and at home to select and read a fiction or nonfiction ebook, listen to highlighted texts at their independent level to increase their comprehension and fluency.
Betsy Curto | Mountain View School

Tech Buddies – Fifth grade students will be using Google Chromebooks to interact via shared Google Documents and face time capabilities with scientific presentations, documents and video lessons created by eighth grade students. Students will also collaborate to created shared projects.
Stacey Pratt | Mountain View School

Yoga Balls for Improved Concentration – Recent studies have showed the positive impact balance balls can have on student concentration, quality of work and focus. Fourth grade and resource room students will use the balls to increase attention on learning by engaging core muscles to stay focused. Erin Daly, Hubbell Elementary School Yoga Club – The goal is to reduce the stress level of the school population through a six-week yoga program. Students challenged with anxiety issues are on the increase. By lowering their stress levels students can work to increase their self-esteem, feel more comfortable in school and improve their performance in class.
Lucia Infante | Bristol Eastern High School

Access to Success: File folders will be purchased and installed outside all freshman classrooms providing students who have missed class to access to any notes, homework or class assignments they may have missed.
Elizabeth Burdelski | Bristol Eastern High School

Book Club: Read Listen and View: This grant provides funding to purchase, books, auditory books and the book as a movie to create a book club for third grade students. During book club students will read/listen to a selected book. They will hold collaborative discussions and watch the movie version to engage compare and contrast dialogue to improve reading comprehension.
Marcy Deschaine, Christine Morin, Sarah Rutkowski | Mountain View School

Close Reading Using an ELMO Document Camera: A major goal in fifth grade in close reading which requires students to develop a deep understanding of the text, by marking important details, vocabulary and analyze various aspects of the text. This is essential in analyzing non-fiction genres. The Elmo allows the teacher to model these strategies to the entire class at once. Students can also share their work.
Julia Darcy | South Side School

Coffee Hour for Performance Writing: In conjunction with writing workshops and contests, student writers will perform their work at evening coffee houses for fellow students. The pieces will also be offered to students and staff who wish to interpret and integrate them into other creative media such as art or film.
G. Gale Dickau, Paul Pinette, Kate Scanlon | Bristol Central High School

Curl-up with a Great E-Book: This grant provides four kindles to allow children at all reading levels the opportunity to read independently to improve their reading accuracy, fluency, stamina and comprehension. This technology will be also use as a motivational tool and a SRBI intervention to help struggling readers.
Marcy Deschaine | Mountain View School

Document Cameras to Improve Scientific Literacy and Engagement: This grant supports the purchase of a document camera to increase direct instruction of literacy strategies and student engagement in science courses. The camera will work with the Smartboard to facilitate the display of student work, model note-taking, summarizing and writing skills, provide a platform for student presentations and increase communication between students and teachers.
Keagan Radziwon | Bristol Eastern High School

Driving Safe Decisions: This grant provides funds to purchase driving simulators gaming systems that will be used in high school health and transportation technology classrooms to demonstrate and reinforce the dangers associated with driving while impaired or distracted without a safety risk to students. Twenty four classes per year totaling over 350 students will participate.
Chris Carrier & Jonathan Horan | Bristol Central High School

Engaging Our Minds by Engaging Our Core: Student chairs will be replaced with stability balls. Students need to make small movements to stay seated. Brain research shows there is a link between movement and academic progress for some students who have difficulty staying on task. The goal is to increase time on task by incorporating movement while seated.
Vicki Ciralli | Northeast Middle School

Greene-Hills Garden: Large planters separate the cafeteria at Greene Hills School. This project will plant a community garden in the planters. Classes from K-8 will take turns taking care of the planters and keep different types of data on the plants. All the produce will be donated through the Family Resource Center.
Terry Grant | Greene-Hills School

In Focus: Document Camera to Enhance Learning: The document camera will be used by fourth and fifth graders at Ivy Drive School to help them learn the elements of close reading. Teachers can display printed materials and have students analyze key ideas and details. Teachers can share a map, 3-D scientific objects or photos to the whole class at once expanding the opportunities for student learning. Students can also use it for their own presentations.
Mila Zadrozny | Ivy Drive School

Literacy a Home for Grade 2: The funds will be used to purchase book bags and leveled books that will be brought home and returned to school each week. This project will promote family literacy and insure students have the level appropriate books they need to increase foundational skills, fluency, word recognition and phonics.
Tiffany Fox | South Side School

P.U.S.H. “Parents Using Strategies at Home:” The PUSH program is designed to give parents the tools to support learning at home and create a partnership among educators, students and parents. Students can sign-out content specific backpacks in math, reading, science and social studies for one week filled with educational activities and resources for students to share with their families. These backpacks will be used to connect with families and support student learning.
Robert Garry and the PUSH Committee | South Side School

SMART Document Camera Interacts with the Musicians at Mountain View: The document camera will allow music teachers to annotate the music scores with marking and music symbols to increase music literacy. The teacher can visually help students model the steps of creating music leading to the performance of their composition. It will help spark students’ creativity.
Joy Cannata, Kelle Barrieau, Olga Harhay | Mountain View School

Stand-Up Desks: Sitting still in a classroom for 84 minutes can be difficult. With students with ADHD it is even more difficult. The desks will allow students who need to stretch and move around to be able to concentrate on their school work. The desks will be used to increase student performance, work completion and student engagement.
Jennifer Plourde | Bristol Central High School

Supplementary English Resources for Special Education: This grant provides auditory books to supplement the books approved for the curriculum at a specific grade level. This will offer a different instructional technique/tool to help students with different learning styles increase their reading ability and engagement in literacy lessons.
Colleen Cyr, Kelley Lynne Thibodeau, Michael Higgins | Bristol Eastern High School

Tutto Italiano: Through this grant the world languages department will purchase Tutto Italiano a new audio magazine for intermediate and advanced speakers of Italian. It is designed to help improve the fluency and literary skills in both students and teachers. The magazine offers fiction and non-fiction articles along with an accompanying audio CD improving listening comprehension and speaking skills.
Gina Gallo-Reinhard | Bristol Eastern High School

What is on My Plate and in My Garden: is a program that introduces children to My Plate, the new food guide pyramid. Children will learn the importance of healthy eating, better food choices and fun ways to exercise through various activities. Students will also create a healthy cookbook and work with media technology to create videos about healthy choices which will be shown on the school’s television network. Students will also plant a garden in the schools raised beds.
Cindy Ahern & Derrick Lachance | West Bristol School