2023 Grant Award Winners

Funding licensing fees for News ELA will allow all Beagle teachers access to this online resource, dedicated providing interesting news articles from a variety of sources. This will be used to introduce literacy in multiple genres and content areas.
This grant will help purchase books representing characters from diverse backgrounds and available through departments that serve diverse populations or through additions to library catalogues.
The bullying prevention unit teaches helpful bystander behavior by teaching students to recognize, report, and refuse bullying starting in kindergarten. These social emotional skills provide a good foundation for bullying prevention.
International Night provides our community with an opportunity to see and experience cultural knowledge outside of their primary social experience. Our students from a variety of background will have an opportunity to highlight their cultural strengt
This bracket style tournament matches picture books in one and one games. Students vote for their favorite, ending with a 'championship' matchup between the top books. The top vote getter is declared the Wacousta March Book Madness winner.
A variety of equipment will be purchased to attend to the whole child by exciting students with choices to explore activities as their own pace, to offer 'challenge by choice.' These choices will differentiate for student interests, skills, and abili
Funding a choice of seating will help students feel empowered to know how they learn best. For active students, choice of seating type promotes core strength and an ability to move in a productive way, improving focus and stamina.
Purchasing these Activity Cards, and additional materials, that would help to teach students to recognize and understand the sensations and signals their body is sending to their brain. In doing so, students will learn to engage in self-regulation st
This project will provide hands on tiles that students may use to build words during phonics and spelling instruction. This tool is aligned with the Science of Reading, and recommended during state provided LETRS training.
This grant will allow students opportunities to move while creating for their art class. This will help those students who are anxious, wiggly, calm, and energetic by providing alternative standing and sitting options during art class.
Xylophone/ glockenspiels and boomwhackers will be purchased to give students the ability to learn pitch identification better. These will help promote pitch independence.
Purchasing these non-fiction decodable sets will give readers numerous extra opportunities to practice reading words in context with the new phonics skills they are learning. Non-fiction text allows students to learn through information, which is pow
These universal supports will support all students, including neurodiverse learners, with time management and transitions. These visual timers are magnetic and gradually decrease the color as the timer advances. This grant provides for one visual ti