Grants

April 2010 Grants
The Belton Educational Foundation awarded over $20,000 in grants durings its spring round of funding. This brings the total amount of grants the foundation has awarded since the beginning of 2007 to over $150,000.
Alice Correa and Debby Patton, teachers at Grace, receive a grant for $2,000, which will be used for purchase scientific tools and materials "to increase curiosity, interest and excitement for science" in their classroom. Megan Carroll and Angie Ekberg plan to incorporate audio and video documentation of students’ book writing, storytelling and story acting to provide additional evidence of learning for families. Their grant totaled $850. Scott Elementary and Principal Starr Rich received a grant for $4,060. The money will assist teachers with a voice enhancement system to project their voices throughout the classroom, enhancing the development of sounds discrimination and word pronunciation. Michelle Norman, principal of Yeokum Middle School, was awarded the highest total grant this semester - $4,997. The funds will purchase student computers, which will help students who struggle with reading fluency and comprehension. This will be a part of Yeokum's Response to Intervention Initiative, to ensure no students are left behind.



Hillcrest Elementary teachers Marla McMillen, Michelle Castle, Tracey Redfern and Stephanie Hiegel received a grant for $2,368.62 for their students' reading, language arts and literacy development. They plan to offer students the opportunity to select books to put in individual book bins to be read at school or at home.

Cambridge principal Michelle Biondo accepts grants for teachers Kristin Corbin and Travis Gowen who together received $1,419.63 to purchase books and other items that make reading more interactive and fun.

Mill Creek Upper Elementary received three grants this semester, the most in the district. Tricia Trutzel-Betts and Mill Creek principal Kim Mauck received $2,667.56 for the school's gifted program. The money will help provide students with problem-solving activities that focus on collaboration, cooperation, communication and creativity.

Deanna Feeback plans to purchase a classroom library of 200 content area picture books and magazine holders to categorize those books to promote literacy within the curriculum. She was awarded $1,000.

Pam Pressley received $988.45 to create a classroom library with picture books and guided reading books.

November 2009 Grants
The Belton Educational Foundation awarded over $15,000 in grants during its fall round of funding.
March 2009 Grants
November 2008 Grants
May 2008 Grants