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Responsive Classroom Training – ELL Adaptation
Responsive Classroom Training – ELL Adaptation
A group of English Language Learning teachers (ELL) will create visual aids to help newly arrived ELL students access the Responsive Classroom curriculum.
Applicant: Gareth Lindwall Honig, ELL Professional Development Coordinator
Schools: K-5
Date Approved: FY 2020
Amount: $1,500
Restorative Practices Training
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Restorative Practices Training
Statewide disciplinary trends continue to show that African American and Latino students, and students with identified disabilities and supported with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), continue to be suspended at rates significantly greater than their peers. Through this program, leaders within the district receive training that enables them to help improve the culture and climate within each school community, deepen the social-emotional learning opportunities for students, and offer restorative discipline as an adjunct or, in some cases, an alternative to suspensions.
Applicant: Art Ferguson, School Psychologist
Schools: K-12
Date Approved: FY 2020
Amount: $10,500
School Store
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School Store
Special education students will access the school store for practical and meaningful job training . It will also create a functioning school store space for students to further develop their vocational and independent living skills. Staff and students will be able to access the store as a community-building space that will grow into one that can be accessed by the entire NSHS community.
Applicant: John Curley
Schools: Newton South
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $1760
Science in Society
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Science in Society
This interdisciplinary science and history course at Newton North High School gives students a richer understanding of the relationship between science and society, while allowing them to investigate their own questions, conduct quality research, and create a professional presentation.
Smart Music Training
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Smart Music Training
Seven middle school music teachers participate in a three-day training to implement Smart Music, a software program that allows them to assess music students individually, which the current large ensemble model does not. This enables the student to work towards specific musical skills and concepts that relate to the class and ensemble.
Applicant: Caleb Cutler, middle school music teacher and Richard King, K-8 Fine Arts Coordinator
Schools: Brown, Bigelow, Day, Oak Hill
Date Approved: FY 2020
Amount: $10,000
Spanish Literacy
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Spanish Literacy
Literacy is a skill that needs to be enhanced in all content areas, even in Spanish. The Spanish Department at Brown Middle School, with funding from NSF, developed its reading curriculum by incorporating new reading materials that interested the students, and broadened the scope of both culture and language. This gave students the opportunity to develop strategies for reading in a foreign language.
Schools: Brown
STEAM in the Classroom
STEAM in the Classroom
Introduce art curriculum into the 6,7 and 8th grades as part of their overall STEM education.
Applicant: Sherry Edwards
Schools: F.A. Day
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $3000
STEM for Students with Visual Impairment
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STEM for Students with Visual Impairment
Today’s era is a STEM driven world so having access and gaining confidence with STEM subjects when in school is critical for early exposure and learning with a structured support system in place. Visually impaired students will develop self advocacy, speaking and leadership skills and a sense of community involvement. This funding will allow us to supply materials for the STEM related activities and buy materials to ensure the STEM curriculum can be adapted for the students during the 2020-2021 school year.
Applicant: Tammy Reisman
Schools: Newton North
Date Approved: November 9 2020
Amount: $325
Storytelling Approach in the World Language Classroom
Storytelling Approach in the World Language Classroom
Professional development for all middles school world language teachers on Storytelling Strategies as a way to provide comprehensible input for middle school language students.
Applicant: Joanna Modica
Schools: All Middle Schools
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $5000
Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
A committee of faculty representing all school levels is designing procedures to identify and better serve SLIFE students throughout the Newton Public Schools.
Supporting Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (Alternative High Schools)
Supporting Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (Alternative High Schools)
This project includes intensive mindfulness training for high school staff that support students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.
Applicant: Diane Locheed, Director, Central High School
Schools: Central High School
Date Approved: FY 2020
Amount: $6,000
Telling the History of Racial Justice, from the 19th century to 2021: A Conversation with Historians Kellie Carter Jackson and Kevin Levin
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Telling the History of Racial Justice, from the 19th century to 2021: A Conversation with Historians Kellie Carter Jackson and Kevin Levin
A virtual webinar for NNHS students with special guests, Kellie Carter Jackson and Kevin Levin, both local and esteemed historians. Both are experts in 19th century American history. They would speak to their own areas of expertise (Black abolitionism and dispelling the myth of Black Confederate soldiers, respectively) and make connections to modern times – political division, transfer of power and racial backlash.
Applicant: Max Roberts
Schools: Newton North
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $750
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