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The
2007 grant awards are targeted to keep curriculum and
technology up-to-date and provide support for positions
throughout the district that positively impact classrooms as
class sizes increase…Ultimately every child at every level in
the Mequon-Thiensville School District benefits from these
grants!
$412,205 TOTAL GRANTS
Click on a 2007 grant
award below to learn more.
$75,000/English Language Arts Support Staff
$70,000/Academic Intervention Enrichment
$50,000/Discretionary Spending Needs
$48,242/KILT Fund/eSAIL II “Enhancing Student Access to
Information Literacy”
$29,300/Community
Resource Director
$26,555/Donor
Designated Grants
$10,000
Staff Leadership and Development
$7,000/English
Language Learners
$96,108/Many Hands Project
$75,000/English Language Arts Support Staff
This grant
is available to re-establish as full-time the English Language
support staff at each elementary school in the
Mequon-Thiensville School District. This grant will help to
provide full-time support to students who require additional
assistance with language arts and reading skills. Providing such
support not only benefits the identified students, but enables
the classroom teachers to utilize precious classroom time more
effectively for the remaining students.
$70,000/Academic Intervention Enrichment
This grant
is available to fund two Academic Intervention and Enrichment
positions- one at Lake Shore Middle School and one at Steffen
Middle School. The middle school academic intervention and
enrichment program is designed to support students who have been
identified by their teachers in need of additional academic
support. The overall goal of the Academic Intervention and
Enrichment positions is to reduce and/or eliminate such
deficits. Providing this support not only benefits the
identified students, but also has broad positive classroom
implications with increasing class sizes.
$50,000/Discretionary Spending Needs
Each building principal received
$5,000 grant for discretionary funds in the Fall 2006 to support
efforts to sustain excellence in the educational process during
this fiscally challenging period. Although the grants were
allocated on a building-by-building basis, the schools were
encouraged to work together to support programs/needs that were
consistent at the K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 levels. This collaborative
effort resulted in the following uses of funds:
K-5: Purchase of “Write
Source” books that support “The Six Traits of Writing” model
for consistent delivery of instruction district-wide.
6-8: Computer labs were
upgraded and expanded to meet the needs of larger class
sizes.
9-12: Purchase of the Dragon
Naturally Dictate software for special education students,
purchase of a PC computer and computer lab expansion to meet
the needs of larger classes, and continuing
education/workshops for teacher of Advanced Placement
classes.
An additional $20,000
discretionary funds grant was provided to the high school in
Spring 2007. The high school principal along with the Curriculum
council will determine the best use of these funds this Fall.
$48,242/KILT Fund/eSAIL II “Enhancing Student Access to
Information Literacy”
Information
resources and equipment needs have been funded with eSAIL
proceeds in the instructional media programs district-wide since
2005/06. This grant made possible through the KILT Fund improves
student information literacy and creates a foundation for
lifelong learning by providing students with the necessary
technology and IMC resources.
Instructional media specialists, in conjunction with department
curriculum chairs, were able to meet the specific needs at each
school with the 05/06 fundraising proceeds and purchased items
such as mounted classroom projectors, digital cameras, science
equipment and DVD players in the elementary, middle and the high
schools. These are items that typically were funded from
individual school budgets; however, as a result of the financial
pressure facing the district, these items would not be available
in the district without the KILT Fund resources.
Grant
proceeds from the KILT Fund/ eSAIL II will also fund IMC
information resources and equipment needs for each of the six
schools’ instructional media programs. The majority of these
proceeds will help to fund the Instructional Media Tech staff at
the K-5 level for the 2007/08 school year. The Instructional
Media Tech staff at each elementary school in the school
district will be re-established as full-time through the support
of this grant.
$29,300/Community
Resource Director
Year two of
a two-year commitment to support the district’s Community
Resource Director position. This grant award was partially
funded with generous donations from HHS Booster Club and private
individuals with the goal of leveraging the power of private
money through fund development. Dennis Krause commenced this
effort and focused on fund development efforts with alumni and
major donors, established a framework for a major gifts campaign
and naming rights, and made progress with positive PR via an
alumni newsletter, public TV channel 13, local newspapers and
school publications in the M-T community. Stay tuned for more
information about the restructuring of this position for the
upcoming school year.
$26,555/Donor
Designated Grants
Individual donors have funded
these grants to meet specific needs throughout the school
district. The use of these funds is designated by the donor and
includes funding items such as staff enrichment opportunities,
technology, learning resources and equipment, and co-curricular
programs. As a result of one of these donations from the
Homestead High School PTSO, an entire computer lab was replaced
and upgraded. The “old” computers from this lab were placed in
the high school science labs and throughout the elementary
schools to replace obsolete 8-10 year old computers.
$10,000 Staff
Leadership and Development
This grant
award is to provide staff enrichment and leadership development
in order to sustain excellence in the educational process during
this fiscally challenging period. Funds are available as
follows: District-$3,000 Homestead-$2,000 Steffen, Lake Shore,
Donges Bay, Oriole Lane and Wilson-$1,000 each school. This is
the fourth year funding has been allocated to building
administrators.
$7,000/English
Language Learners
MTSD continues to seek ways to
better support students who have English as a second language
and who are performing at the lowest levels of English language
proficiency. This grant is available to purchase the
computer-based program, ELLIS Academic, to assist these students
to become proficient in English. The grant proceeds are
available to purchase software and equipment and to provide
staff training with 2 stations at Homestead and 1 station at
each of the middle schools.
$96,108/Many Hands Project
The Many
Hands Project grant provides an unrestricted gift to the school
board for the 2007/08 school year allowing them to consider the
entire K-12 program when making the difficult budgeting
decisions. The M-T School Board has indicated that these
proceeds will be used to address specific class size concerns
throughout the district once school registration is complete.
The initial
launch of this project took place Spring 2007 to provide donors
the opportunity to make a contribution to impact the 2007-08
budget. All school district families received a direct mail
solicitation and fellow teachers solicited the MTSD staff. The
community-wide launch of this fundraising project will take
place fall 2007 as part of the Foundation’s Annual Campaign.
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