Kennebunkport Consolidated School
School Year 2009-2010
Program:
Handwriting Without Tears
Date: Winter 2010
Sponsor: Tracy Mason
Amount: $5,613.20
The EFKA supported this program last year for K - 1 classes. In this second phase, the program is expanded to include second grade teachers, RTI tutors, Title 1 and special education staff. As part of this project, a Handwriting Without Tears representative would come to our district to present to our teaching staff (approx. 96) about the HWT program and how they could best implement their strategies into the classroom to ensure successful handwriting instruction and remediation. The grant also requests to purchase classroom tools and materials for each teacher.
School Year 2008-2009
Program:
Go Green
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Go Green Committee
Amount: $10,000.00
A comprehensive plan involving the entire student body to "green up" the school in practice and throughout the curriculum. Themes include reduce, reuse, and recycle; alternative energy sources; and vermiculture and composting. The project also constructed a greenhouse, an outdoor classroom, and solar panels to produce electricty for the school.
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Program:
Heartwood College of Art
Date: Spring 2009
Amount: $10,000.00
A comprehensive plan involving the entire student body to "green up" the school in practice and throughout the curriculum. Themes include reduce, reuse, and recycle; alternative energy sources; and vermiculture and composting. The project also constructed a greenhouse, an outdoor classroom, and solar panels to produce electricty for the school.
Program:
Handwriting Without Tears
Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Tracy Mason
Amount: $4,146.00
A developmentally-based curriculum for writing readiness - printing and cursive - involving multi-sensory tools and materials that address visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic learning styles.
Program:
Junior Great Books
Date: Winter 2009
Amount: $1,223.10
Piloting of language arts curriculum centered on discussion and close reading of classic texts. This program expands opportunities for differentiated instruction in reading, literary analysis, and critical thinking.
School Year 2007-2008
Program:
Science Necessities Project
Date: Spring 2008
Amount: $1,200.00
Purchased literature and supplies to supplement and enhance the science curriculum for kindergarten classes.
Program:
Heartwood College of Art
Date: Spring 2008
Amount: $10,000.00
A variety of specially-designed 2-day workshops taught by regular Heartwood faculty. Classes provided hands-on experiences, exposure to new art media, and tangible creations for students to bring home.
Program:
Fabric Heat Press
Date: Winter 2008
Sponsor: Janet Wendle
Amount: $1,175.00
Provides a durable tool that students and teachers throughout the district can use to transfer their artwork onto fabric and create a variety of finished products. Contributes to instructional units in elements of design and in art careers.
School Year 2006-2007
Program:
Spanish Program
Date: Spring 2007
Amount: $2,375.00
Foreign language curriculum development will involve foreign language staff and K-1 teachers. This project will impact our K-1 classroom teachers, and K-1 elementary students.
Program:
Everyday Math Manipulatives
Date: Fall 2006
Amount: $6,000.00
Provided supplemental materials and manipulatives for K-5 pilot math program to support alternative learning styles and to enhance hands-on learning and 21st-century skills.
