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Welcome to the Grants in Action area of the WEBF website! Whether you are a community/ business member, parent or Waltham Public School teacher, these pages will keep you up to date on the important work that the Foundation is funding in our classrooms. Check out the Grant Summaries to see how your favorite school has benefited from Excellence in Education grant program.

Don’t miss the Success Stories which highlight our grants in action.

Also available are the 2008-2009 Grant Summaries and Success Stories.


The Foundation’s ability to fund these enrichment programs depends on your support. Please consider making a donation on behalf of Excellence in Education.

GRANT SUMMARIES

Waltham Education & Beyond Foundation
Excellence in Education Grant Program
2009-2010 Grant Cycle

Grant Recipient, School
Project Title and Description
Amount

Kendall Boninti
Waltham High School

 21st Century School Library and Millennium Learner
Provide students with access to new and innovative technologies
that can be used in the 21st Century learning environment.
21st Century learners are living in an interconnected, global world
where communicating, collaborating and creating content online is a
natural part of their everyday life. As the technology/information
hub of the school, WHS library has an important role to play in
supporting today’s millennial learners. Funding will allow purchase
of: Amazon Kindle, 3 Kindle subscriptions, Online Subscription
database with e-books for history, flip cameras, net books and
play away audio books.
$5,000
     
Judi Paradis
Plympton Elementary		 Encouraging Literacy through Sibling Read Aloud
Many students enter school without significant literacy experiences and
typically struggle with reading. These students often fall behind in Grades 1-3. This project would encourage students who need reading support by providing them with reading materials to share with younger siblings. Students would regularly receive a kit that they would bring home that contains appropriate reading to share with a preschooler and a reading response journal. Sharing books and completing reading journal will both improve reading abilities of students and provide early literacy experiences for preschool siblings.
$940
     
Laura Vittum
MacArthur & Northeast Elementary Schools
 It all adds up to Fun: Linking Literacy & Math
This project allows the students and teachers the opportunity to make
literacy and math connections using math related literature and math manipulatives. The literature (with a mathematical focus) will be used to
inspire the students to use mathematical thinking while also working on
literacy skills. Funding allows purchase of portable kits of trade books,
manipulatives and activities that will be provided for a variety of math
content areas.
$3,375
     
Carla Baxter-Paparella
McDevitt Middle School

“Trekking Across Cultures and Continents”
“Trekking Across Cultures and Continents” is a 21st Century interdisciplinary project that supports the required standards in both English Language Arts and social studies for the newly created middle school cluster challenge course. “Trekking Across Cultures & Continents” will challenge our students to work collaboratively, to think critically, to apply knowledge, to manage time effectively, to improve organizational skills and to explore a variety of world cultures while
creating meaningful projects that demonstrate what they have learned.
Funding allows technology purchases needed to implement curriculum.
$1,588

Sally Elizabeth Enrichment Program
2009-2010 Grant Cycle

Grant Recipient, School
Project Title and Description
Amount
Joyce Kidd
Northeast & Stanley Elementary Schools		 Alphabet Rockers
The Alphabet Rockers will provide two live performances at each school.
Their performances will provide an educational music experience for the
Elementary Schools special education and integrated preschool programs. The children will actively participate in the live performance and replicate the experience through the use of CD’s that will help to carry over and continue with the development of the concepts introduced at the performance.
 $2,100
     

Carol Klatt
Northeast Elementary School

“Hands-on, Heads-on Science”
This project has three goals: to make interdisciplinary connections to
science concepts, improve science literacy and provide real-world
problem-solving experiences. Students will investigate a common
scientific theme and connect the concepts to content they are learning
through the use of science notebooks. By recording information during investigations, students will use the science notes to write reflections thus developing scientific thinking and literacy skills.
$2900*

*$365 additional funding from EEGP

SUCCESS STORIES

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