Staff Reports
The Bartholomew Consolidated School Foundation has awarded nearly $20,000 in fall 2018 innovation grants.
The recipients, amount received and an overview of the projects include:
RuthAnn Lane and Stephany Kiel — CSA Fodrea Elementary School: $2,000. Fodrea will expand a student-led garden project and will be used to complete a fence, greenhouse, raised garden beds and paths through the garden.
Alan Birkemeier — Central Middle School: $2,000. Grant funds will allow social studies teachers to go to Gettysburg and experience it as educators.
Kim Chamberlin — Southside Elementary School: $500. Funds will enhance the Business Town created last school year and will be used to purchase pens and refills, as well as do-it-yourself supplies for students to create products to be sold in Business Town.
Shawna Netser — CSA Lincoln Elementary School: $500. Funds will allow third-grade students to use simple machines to create a contraption that will help raise money and awareness for United Way. Students will be working in teams to create contraptions that complete a simple task.
Kim Smith — Mt. Healthy Elementary School: $599. The grant will be used to purchase culturally diverse books for the classroom, which would be used for read alouds, curriculum needs and be placed in book baskets for children to read.
Makayla Caldwell — Columbus North High School: $1,300. Funding will enable Caldwell to create a unit that connects to other books with a common theme. Students will be able to explore their own interests and create a project that connects back to a universal theme.
Corie Williams, Jenni Dettmer — Rockcreek Elementary School: $2,000. The grant will be used to create options for students that will allow for more opportunities for engagement, collaboration and communication during unstructured times like recess. Student input will be utilized to create carts of games and materials that teachers or paraprofessionals can pull into classrooms during various times throughout the year.
Leah Seniour, Kristina Owens — Rockcreek Elementary School: $650. Funding will provide 2 Qballs, which are throwable wireless microphones designed for young learners.
Lori Cash — CSA Lincoln Elementary School: $1,983.60. Funding a sensory walk for students who need to release energy, refocus in a time of distress or distraction or engage their core muscles and senses to assist in developing cognitive capacity and motor control.
Delaney George and Shawna Netser — CSA Lincoln Elementary School: $300. Funding will be used to purchase materials that will help students build their prototypes that replace the function of a human body part along with the 3D printing costs. Funding will also cover the cost of transportation for students to and from C4 so they are able to go work with the high school students and use the printer.
Kate Edgren — Schmitt Elementary School: $1,000. Providing sensory tools to help provide appropriate sensory breaks, opportunities for successful self-regulation, and effective ways to communicate and interact with others.
Brenny Kummer — BCSC information technology: $1,922. Acquiring the technology tools that will make professional development opportunities accessible to all staff, all hours, all day, so that staff may gain the vital training to improve instruction while in a time frame that best fits their busy schedules.
Andrew Larson — CSA New Tech High School: $1,494. It is a physics-based project to supply electrical power to the garden shed on the CSA New Tech campus. Project details include running electric underground, installation of interior and exterior outlets, as well as interior and exterior lights.
Matt Morrill — CSA New Tech High School: $2,000. Creation of a small audio/visual studio that will allow students access to equipment, sound and lighting to create quality videos to be used in school projects, senior projects and clubs.
Laura McCracken — Northside Middle School: $500. The grant will fund motivational messages on restroom doors that will be a colorful reminder to students to be strategic and goal-directed.
Barbara Handt — Columbus North High School: $1,125. The grant will provide funding for Adrian Matejka, Indiana’s current Poet Laureate, to give three presentations. About 100 students and 20 to 30 faculty members will attend the session in January. Students will also have access to Matejka’s books in the library.
