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Enhancing the Knowledge and Skills of NPS Staff to Respond to Students’ Challenging Behavior
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Enhancing the Knowledge and Skills of NPS Staff to Respond to Students’ Challenging Behavior
Given the many stressors that students have been experiencing over the past year, and that they continue to experience, students with a wide variety of learning profiles are presenting with behavioral challenges, warranting the need for additional training for our staff. Training is needed for BCBA staff, but also for our behavior therapists, teaching assistants, general and special education teachers, and all other staff who are supporting students who present with challenging behaviors.
Applicant: James Ellis
Schools: District
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $5000
Expanding Special Education Assessment Understanding and Tools
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Expanding Special Education Assessment Understanding and Tools
This project will expand teacher's knowledge and expertise in the area of testing students for learning disabilities. It explores new measures available that the district currently does not have/use and analyze their worth for initial and re-evaluations for special education.
Applicant: Allison Hutchinson
Schools: Horace Mann
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $2000
Families Organizing for Racial Justice (FORJ)
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Families Organizing for Racial Justice (FORJ)
This group of diverse Newton families helps children learn about issues of power and inequality and how to stand up for racial justice. The organization seeks to generate understanding and curiosity about differences in our society, and to work together towards racial equity.
Applicant: Superintendent’s office
Schools: K-12
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $2500 ($11,500 total )
Focus on Art
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Focus on Art
The goals of this grant included bringing the art world into the classroom and having the equipment to share student work across the grades. Students were able to access the electronic libraries of museums and galleries worldwide. Images and information enhanced the curriculum through the study of individual artists and artistic movements.
Schools: K-12
Fostering Lifelong Music Learning with the Ukulele
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Fostering Lifelong Music Learning with the Ukulele
A team of five elementary music teachers will explore, develop, and pilot a K-5 scope and sequence of ukulele music lesson units with the goal of establishing the ukulele as a standard general music classroom instrument. Throughout the 21-22 school year, the team will share their work and experiences with the full elementary music department during fine arts department professional development meetings and will make a recommendation to the department in May, 2022, with a plan of action to establish an elementary ukulele program in Newton Public Schools elementary music programs.
Applicant: Kathleen McIntosh
Schools: Pilot: Bowen, Burr, Franklin, Mason-Rice, Ward
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $6843
Generation Citizen
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Generation Citizen
Eighth graders learn how to affect meaningful change through civic action by choosing and researching an issue, developing a plan, and taking concrete action. On Civics Day, Generation Citizen students from around Massachusetts share their presentations at the Massachusetts State House.
Applicant: Alan Ripp, K-8 history curriculum coordinator
Schools: Brown, Bigelow, Day, Oak Hill
Date Approved: FY 2020
Amount: $10,000
Graphic Arts
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Graphic Arts
NSF funding enabled Newton North High School to purchase two new etching presses for fine arts printmaking. Printmaking is a very old process; it is infinitely variable and an excellent media for high school students. Few high school art departments are willing to teach this challenging process both because of the equipment demands and the expertise needed to teach it.
Schools: Newton North
Greengineering
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Greengineering
NSF funds helped launch a Greengineering program at Newton North High School. Students use design thinking to integrate science and engineering to discover new solutions for known problems and issues that affect local and global communities. With NSF’s support, the program has grown and expanded into the Newton’s Lab, the incubator for innovation in the Newton public schools.
Healthy Living for Emotional and Physical Development
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Healthy Living for Emotional and Physical Development
The goal of this project is to engage students in hands on scaffolded nutrition classes. These multi-disciplinary lessons provide students with the opportunity to develop life long skills and healthy habits for independent living and improved mental health.
Applicant: Diane Locheed
Schools: Central High School
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $2800
Historic Newton Research
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Historic Newton Research
A middle school social studies teacher will conduct research to develop a 5th-6th grade curriculum that explores the history of the public schools, expands on the Summary of Newton History timeline, and expands the Google Map of Newton adding layers from 19th century maps, and create correlating curricula.
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Purchase
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Purchase
NSF will purchase copies of the book for students in junior year biology classes to engage in learning about science through an anti-racist lens.
Applicant: Emma Lichtenstein
Schools: Newton North
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $1700
Increasing LGBTQ Representation Among Classroom Libraries
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Increasing LGBTQ Representation Among Classroom Libraries
The goal of this project is to increase the visibility and representation of nonbinary and LGBTQ students at the elementary school level. One objective is to make these students feel represented in their classroom libraries. Another objective is to raise awareness for students who do not identify as LGBTQ so that they can be allies to their classmates if issues arise related to gender.
Applicant: Toni-Marie Kelly
Schools: Franklin
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $500
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