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Lewisville ISD Education Foundation, Inc.

Serving the Communities of Lewisville ISD.

LEF AWARDS $20,000 TO LISD TEACHERS FOR INNOVATIVE TEACHER GRANTS

November 30, 2005 Lewisville, Texas -- During LISD campus staff meetings, you could here shrieks and cheers as Board Members of the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) awarded 29 Innovative Teacher Grants to 65 teachers on 22 campuses in the Lewisville School District. Grants were awarded to 18 Elementary Schools, 8 Middle Schools and 3 High Schools. Awards were valued between $378 and $1,000.

To be eligible 42 teachers or teams of teachers completed the Foundation's new online application. Lewisville ISD Education Foundation awards Innovative Teacher Grants for projects that enhance and augment educational opportunities for students and teachers in the Lewisville Independent School District . Community volunteers review the applications blindly and awarded grants based on established donor criteria. LEF Teacher Grants provide an opportunity for creative teaching approaches and innovative projects to be introduced in the classroom. LEF funds only projects that meet district curriculum guidelines and are not funded through district budgets. Grant applications are accepted once a year. This year's deadline for submission was September 9, 2005.

To learn more about LEF Innovative Teacher Grants, LEF in general or how to establish a grant or scholarship visit http://lisdef.com


2005 LISDEF GRANTS TO TEACHERS
$20,000 Awarded to 2005
Names Campus Project Name Amount
Katrina Sanford Camey Elementary Integrating Science and Social Studies into Language Arts Using Historical Fiction and Non- Fiction Texts 500
Lee Ann Hewett & Team Central Elementary BRIDGES with PARENTS (Bridging Reading Instructional Delays and Gaps among ESL Students with Parents: Awareness of Reading Essentials Needed to Succeed 1,000
Rachel Mueller & Glenna Santo Creek Valley Middle School Up, Up and Away featuring "21 Balloons" 530
Shawn O'Hara & Glenna Santo Creek Valley Middle School Keys to Survival of Planet Earth 500
Stacey Callaway Donald Elementary Building Bridges: Teaching Techniques and Strategies to Parents and Families 1,000
Stephanie Thompson Downing Middle School Getting Involved with GLOBE 703
Kari Zamora & Sara Wharry Durham Middle School Smartmusic--an in school studio making practicing and soloistic opportunities more fun! 800
Thomas LeGalley Flower Mound High School 21 st Century Technical Theatre Media Editing 1,000
Deborah Lampman Griffin Middle School Spellbound Spellers 500
Patti Cornelius & Brooke Cates Griffin Middle School History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism 875
Brenda Ethridge Griffin Middle School 'Gone to Texas ,' but taking you along in the wagon train 500
Teresa Clyde, Susan Bradford, Barbara Harris, Angie Bonilla, Becky Garza, Sherri McCarthy, Matt Ludlam, Jane Potts, Charity Barth & Cathy Blakeney Hedrick Elementary Building Character all the Way 1,000
Luis Matos Hedrick Elementary CORI 500
Barbara Prins, Janet Davis, Kimberly Lee, Beth Liebold, Linda Murhphy Heritage Elementary The Four S's (Science, Social Studies Success) 1,000
Nancy Duhe', Carla Yocum, LaVerne Brookshire, Stacy Pacheco, Robin Peterson, Jamie Henson, Michelle Chaffin Heritage Elementary Loving Literature With The Leveled Library 530
Linda Tkacs & Su Brusco Highland Village Integrated Language Arts & Social Studies 378
A. Thompson Highland Village Elementary SMARTer Learning equals a Lifetime of Learning 1000
Loretta Dunnaway, Erin Brown, Cheramie Dankesreiter & Jodi Rosen Indian Creek Elementary Reading with a Science Twist 450
Rebecca Weston Lewisville High School Magnetic Manipulatives 500
Janet Cranston Lewisville High School LHS' Cultural ImPRINT 1,000
Eileen Lennox Liberty Elementary Science Station Tubs 1,000
Dennis Simonek & Clark Hollingsworth McKamy Middle School Math in the Middle 500
Dana Ranne Old Settlers Elementary Change The Pace With Music Ace 830
Louann Oellermann Owen Elementary Language Arts the Qwizdom Way 500
Susan Bourenane & Rebecca Windham Polser Elementary Where on Earth am I? 500
Sally Tamulewicz Stewart's Creek Elementary Multiuse Math Kits 420
Lisa Collett Timber Creek Elementary Family Literacy Kit Expansion Project/Phonics Teaching Guides 500
Jennifer Dunn Vickery Elementary Bridging the Gap-Reading and Writing in the Bilingual Classroom 620
Rebecca Mitchener , Kristy Bloss, Ronda James Wellington Elementary Tiny Typists 864
    TOTAL $20,000

 


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