SOMEF: Small Grants

Requests for grants classified as "small grants" are for amounts up to $1500.

Grants listed in the School column as "hybrid" are applied to multiple schools.

School	Name of Applicant	Project Title	Objectives
Clinton	Richard Katz	Parent Resource Library	Establish a parent resource library with literature to increase parent awareness and knowledge regarding social, emotional and academic issues their children face and to gain insight into parenting skills to help their children experience success and self-confidence.Popular topics will become the focus of Principal Forum discussions and PTA meetings that will include guest experts in those particular areas.
Clinton	Richard Katz	Clinton Character Education - Project Wisdom	Enrich and enhance our new character education program through daily messages, parent and staff resources, and weekly lessons, journals and themes. All of these concentrate on the same or related character traits of our school initiative.
Clinton	Richard Katz	After School Enrichment Scholarship Program for Title I Students	Provide scholarships for Title I students to participate in the PTA-sponsored After School Enrichment Program at Clinton School. The Clinton PTA already sponsors numerous scholarships, but the growing demand exceeds their ability to provide for these students.
CHS	Stacey Lawrence	Bucks County Playhouse Drama Competition	Provide CHS drama students the experience of performing in front of a live audience on a main stage and receive feedback from professional dramatists.
CHS	Elissa Malespina, Joseph Fanning, MaryBeth Diprima & Michele Ruopp	Facing Challenges Book Club	Purchase a class set of 20 of each of 5 titles dealing with 'facing challenges' to be used for a discussion book club. This will enable lively, class long discussions of the book and spark interest in kids who are reluctant readers.
CHS	Viola DeLuca	Restoration of the Courtyard	Update the CHS Courtyard with comfortable seating and tables. These additions will increase student and faculty use for special events/activities. This will also enable faculty to use this tranquil setting to retreat to regain their motivation and focus.
CHS	Denise Giorello-Moczulski	Changing Behaviors through PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports)	Purchase the following positive supports for special education students at CHS: food & drink items, gift cards, museum & theatre tickets for reward field trips.
CHS	Chris Cook, MaryAnn Balmann, Anita Mack, Michele Ruopp	Use of LCD Projectors in the Classroom	Purchase digital LCD projectors to enrich of the academic experience at Columbia High School's Montrose Campus. LCD projectors will enable teachers to provide new and varied course content, and for students to improve their technological literacy.
CHS	Debra Gomer	Web (Cam) Pals	Purchase 6 webcams and an LCD projector to enable students to apply language skills to real life situations by communicating with high school students in other countries.
CHS	Michael Healy	Project PASS (Parent After School Sessions)	Provide monthly afterschool sessions for 9th grade parents, students and families focusing on various aspects of the school. These ongoing discussions are designed to increase the academic and social opportunities for all 9th grade students.
CHS	JD Robinson	Ipod Nano purchase to support Podcasting Project	Purchase Ipods and make them available to students who do not own these audio devices, so they can take advantage of the historical podcasts being developed by AP US History students at CHS.
CHS	JD Robinson	Concord Review Submissions Fee Waiver	Defer the cost of the Concord Review Submission fee for AP students who do outstanding work or are unable to afford this fee on their own. When writing the mandatory 11th grade social studies research paper, AP students will challenge themselves to write the paper suitable for submission to this academic journal.
CHS	Scott Stornetta	Interactive Response Systems to Improve Equity in Student-teacher Interaction	Purchase interactive response systems to increase individualized learning in a classroom setting. Using interactive response systems not only allows each student to respond to his or her teacher's questions individually without fear of embarrassment, but it also enables his or her teacher to assess how well each individual student understands the concept as it is being taught. Consequently, the teacher is immediately able to adapt his teaching to his students' needs.
CHS	Janice Ellerbe	Desktop Publishing - LaserJet color printer	Purchase a color printer to enable students to print visually appealing documnets such as business cards, brochures, signs, etc.
CHS	Larry McKim	Tony Smith Art Project	Fund a visiting art history lecturer as part of a project to develop an understanding of Tony Smith's artwork among CHS art and art history students. Fully funded by the Pierro Foundation.
CHS	Eugene Porta	Student Incentive Program	Implement a system of rewards that will promote student motivation towards academic excellence, improved attendance, and money management.
MMS	Kristopher Harrison	Healthy Choices: An After-School Weight Loss Support Group for Students	Develope an afterschool program to educate students and their families, with the support of the school nurse, regarding obesity and how it impacts on their health. Using the latest nutritional research, students will improve their diets and learn to integrate physical activity into their daily lives and begin living healthier lifestyles.
MMS	Lori Neetz	"Hands-On" Learning	Purchase vocational and packaging activity units to introduce special education students to positive, independent work habits.
MMS	Lori Neetz	Cooking to Learn	Purchase cooking utensils and food supplies to teach students to plan, shop for and implement healthy snacks and meals as well as stock a kitchen with items necessary to prepare food for consumption.
MMS	Lori Neetz & Holly Scalera	The Arts Make Sense	Fund a program that will allow MMS Special Education students to experience the Arts with an emphasis on the 5 senses which is a science topic we will be exploring in our 'Systems of the Human Body' unit. This program will include photography, sculpture, pottery, dance, theater, and cake decorating.
Seth Boyden	Susan Brody, Rhena Jasey, Shayna Polk, Maureen Koppenaal	Everyone's an Author	Purchase a 24-page blank hard-cover book (6"x9") for every third grader, in which to illustrate and publish a fictional story, memoir, poems or a non-fiction report.
Seth Boyden	Mary Garrigan-DeSarno	Building Literacy in Kindergarten with Big Books	Purchase grade-level appropriate Big Books for the Kindergarten Language Arts Program to help foster the development of literacy in the classroom.
Seth Boyden	Brian Edgerton	etv - Student Video Production	Purchase video studio equipment to enable students to utilize their creative strengths (intelligences) to contribute to a 'video magazine' which will strengthen their understanding by 'teaching' others.
Seth Boyden	Mark Quiles & Tina Lehn	Fifth-Grade Musical	Produce a spring musical which will allow 5th grade students the opportunity to perform before an audience to demonstrate their musical, kinesthetic, and verbal intelligences.
Seth Boyden	Tina Lehn, Sheila Murphy, Rhena Jasey	Leading the Way - Authors as Mentors	Purchase the literature books that will enhance the implementation of the Seth Boyden Writing Workshop pilot program 2006-2007. This pilot program provides a structured scope and sequence and format for teachers to improve delivery of writing instruction.
Jefferson	Pat Barker	Hoops and Chat	Provide a mentor/role model program which pairs 5 Jefferson 5th graders who are deemed socially 'at risk' by their teachers with 5 high school students in a 'sports & talk' program.
South Mountain	Ellie Esposito	Professional Development Self Study	Purchase ASCD (the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) videos for professional development of South Orange Maplewood School District teaching staff.
South Mountain	Dawn Geannette	Let's Pretend	Purchase dress-up costumes for up to 36 preschool students so they can develop dramatic and imaginative play skills
Hybrid	Dawn Geannette	Leap into Math	Purchase Mind Mania Math games to provide elementary resource room teachers with a motivational teaching tool to encourage challenged students to learn, practice and master math facts and operations.
Hybrid	Pat Barker	Invention Convention Workshops	Provide workshops for student/parent partners who are unable to complete the third grade Invention Convention project on their own. The workshop provides 'science enthusiasts' and a variety of materials to enable the student/parent team to successfully complete the invention study packet and produce an invention to proudly display at the third grade Invention Convention.
Hybrid	Dawn Geannette	Boardmaker	Purchase two Boardmaker with Addendum computer software packets for our middle schools. Boardmaker is a computer based system with over 3000 pictures that can be used to create visual supports for teaching lessons.
Hybrid	Dawn Geannette	Boardmaker Printers	Purchase a printer and ink for each elementary school to enable staff to use Boardmaker on a dedicated computer. Boardmaker is a computer based system with over 3000 pictures that can be used to create visual supports for teaching lessons.
Hybrid	Dawn Geannette	Literature for Preschoolers	Purchase books appropriate for literacy prompts designed in the creative curriculum for the preschoolers enrolled in the Early Launch to Learning Initiative (ELLI) programs.