Grant History
The Calculus Project
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The Calculus Project
Research indicates that success in higher-level high school mathematics is strongly associated with college enrollment and is one of the most reliable predictors of college completion. The Calculus Project aims to narrow the achievement gap in mathematics by increasing the number of African American, Hispanic and low-income students who enroll in and successfully complete calculus in high school.
Applicant: Jennifer Shore, K-8, Math Curriculum Coordinator
Schools: Brown, Bigelow, Day, Oak Hill, Newton North and Newton South
Date Approved: FY 2020
Amount: $290,000
The Challenges and Work of Being Anti-Racist featuring Dr. Edward Fergus
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The Challenges and Work of Being Anti-Racist featuring Dr. Edward Fergus
This event is designed to invite the NPS community (educators, parents, and Newton residents) to learn more about the work of anti-racism and what it looks like in action. The event is a collaboration between the NPS administration and FORJ board members as a way to provide context and information for updates and changes in our school practices in relation to COVID, our commitment to anti-racism, social emotional needs of students and capacity of educators.
Applicant: Kathy Lopes
Schools: Community Wide
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $3000
The Da Vinci Program
The Da Vinci Program
The Green Trail
The Green Trail
The Green Trail at Newton South High School is a cohesive link between the wetlands project, South's organic garden, the greenhouse, and the aquariums representing the Charles River and Boston Harbor.
The Portal: Gateway to Globalization
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The Portal: Gateway to Globalization
The Portal event provides an immersive educational experience using video technology to “teleport” students to another portal around the country or across the globe, offering an interactive learning experience, to gain an understanding of one another that can only come through shared spaces.
Applicant: Tim Finnegan, English Teacher, Newton North
Schools: Newton North
Amount: $5,000
The Voice of Literature
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The Voice of Literature
The funding of this grant will be used to bring in local poet and Newton North alumni, Chen Chen, to give students exposure to a real life poet and help them refine their craft. Chen Chen is a successful poet-in-residence at Brandeis University. We would like haveg Chen Chen come to a number of English classes to run personalized workshops over the course of a few days. The unit will deepen student appreciation for the power of the written word while celebrating diversity and empowering students to speak their minds.
Applicant: Alex Laser
Schools: Newton North
Date Approved: November 9 2020
Amount: $2000
Therapies for Severe Speech Sound Disorders
Therapies for Severe Speech Sound Disorders
Expands the therapeutic skill set and resources of speech-language pathologists in order to improve student outcomes.
Applicant: Kate Finnerty, Suzanne Bugemann, Zervas
Schools: K-5
Date Approved: FY 2020
Amount: $725
Time to Talk
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Time to Talk
NSF is funding teachers to attend professional development conferences as they pertain to the Time To Talk program, which provides students with a space to discuss and learn about race, racism and how it impacts their experiences both in and outside school.
Applicant: Elizabeth Opiyo, Alison Wilson
Schools: Oak Hill
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $600
Urban Garden
Urban Garden
In coordination with City Green Growers, students learn local food systems in the context of ecology and sustainability, and the community learns about sustainable urban agriculture.
Applicant: Kathryn Teissier du Cros, World Language and Anndy Dannenberg, Science
Schools: Newton North
Date Approved: FY 2020
Virtual Band Project
Virtual Band Project
Funding provides for three classes; Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Ensemble to produce a virtual band recording of some of the music all students have been working on this year.
Applicant: Lisa Linde
Schools: Newton South
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $1900
Writing as Activism – Nic Stone Author Visit
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Writing as Activism – Nic Stone Author Visit
In her inspiring presentation titled “Writing as Activism”, Nic Stone, shares her own experience growing up as a Black girl in a mostly white school, and how feeling under-represented in curriculum materials inspired her to be an author and to write books with characters who look like her that are now taught in schools all over the United States. She also shares how current events inspired her young adult and middle-grade novels, Dear Martin and Clean Getaway. Bringing Nic Stone to Brown, is part of a Universal Design Learning unit where students think about how to harness their energy to research a topic and advocate for racial and social justice - whether it be to write to a politician, a letter to the editor, a business, or a piece of fiction, related to a topic they feel passionate about.
Applicant: Adrian Pickworth
Schools: Brown
Date Approved: May 3, 2021
Amount: $500
Zervas One Book, One School Project
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Zervas One Book, One School Project
All students will read one of two books that highlight issues of race and racism in our society (Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker for K-2 students and Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly for grade 3-5 students ). Students will read this book in school and at home and will have follow up activities to engage in. Focused on issue of race and equity, families will be supported in learning how to use children's literature to talk with their children about issues of race. Books will be purchased from Black-owned bookstores.
Applicant: Diana Beck
Schools: Zervas
Date Approved: Jan. 19 2021
Amount: $1900
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