For the 2019-2020 school year, $75,000 in Excellence Fund grants have been awarded for projects and ideas submitted by teachers and staff in our schools. In total, 28 applications, requesting $180,000 in funding, were considered. The following projects were selected for funding.
2019-2020 Excellence Fund Grant Awards
Seeing is Learning $7,000 – Vision screening equipment for the Health Services Department
NCJH Virtual Reality $9,500 – Virtual reality devices and a cart to integrate virtual reality into the literacy and social studies curriculum
DeTracking Math $10,000 – A pilot project to detrack Math 7 at Southeast Junior High to diversify upper level math
Mann Museum $5,000 – Materials to assemble a school community-building museum highlighting students and families
Upper Body Fitness $10,000 – Upper body ergometers for lower body impaired students at City, Liberty and West High Schools
Strong Families from the Start $5,988 – Pre-K parent education sessions to promote positive parenting
MiniOne $2,262 – Bringing BioTech to the Classroom – Electrophoresis System for DNA testing/biotechnology at West High
AP Summer Institute/Equal Opportunity Schools $3,000 – A summer institute at Liberty High to prepare students taking AP classes for the first time
Student Designed Investigations into Physics $6,649– Equipment and tools allowing for student designed physics investigations at Liberty High
Seeing the Unseeable $2,000 – GoPro and thermal imaging cameras to “see” the changes during experiments at City and West
Christine Grant Grizzlies $5,000 – Osmos for the K-2 elementary classrooms
Quad Cities Cultural Field Trip $6,900 – Funding for a cultural field trip for special education students