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Foundation for Belmont Education
Cycle 2 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved March 26, 2019
| Applicant | Target School | Award Title | Grant Purpose | Amount |
| Tawnya Lewis | Belmont High School | Microscopes with Digital Cameras for Increased Student Engagement | to fund five microscopes with cameras and four live video microscope imager USB digital cameras to increase student engagement and the ability for students to conduct authentic investigations in BHS science labs | $3,001 |
| Meghann Remick | Belmont High School | Developing the Digital Art and Animation Program at Belmont High School | to fund a station of five iMac computers and Adobe creative software to help build the Animation and Digital Art program at Belmont High School | $10,575 |
| Jessica DeFrances | Elementary-All | Energizing Students’ Thinking and Collaboration about Energy | to purchase 48 science related “sparkle” teaching tools to enhance the Focus on Energy unit for all 4th graders across the district to help students better understand energy transformation and transfer | $1,272 |
| Paul Ketchen | Belmont High School | AKAI Professional FIRE Controllers for Electronic Music Production | to fund 16 new AKAI Pro FIRE Controllers for the BHS Music Technology Lab that will enhance, deepen and improve the understanding and facility of students engaged in electronic music production using FL Studio 20 | $2,960 |
| Emily Communiello | Chenery Middle School | ELMO Document Cameras at Chenery | to purchase ELMO cameras to provide practical capability for Chenery 7th grade teachers to share student examples, demonstrate models, or share a page of text with the entire class so that students will be able to engage with content in real time | $5,000 |
| Kristen Bell | Wellington School | Culturally Responsive Texts and Resources | to purchase diverse literature and inclusive classroom materials for the Wellington School so that culturally responsive teaching strategies can be used to improve school experiences and instructional approaches and to provide a welcoming environment for students of all cultures | $3,114 |
TOTAL, 6 APPROVED LEGP GRANTS $25,922
Foundation for Belmont Education
Cycle 1 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved November 29, 2018
| Applicant | Target School | Award Title | Grant Purpose | Amount |
| Kristin Comment | Belmont High School | African & Latin Dance & Drumming Workshop | to fund the Greg Coles “Salsa for the Schools Enrichment Program” to teach students historically accurate, culturally based African and Latin dance and drumming as part of our 2019 Diversity Day program offerings | $1,000 |
| Kristin Comment | Belmont High School | Diversity Day Hunger Banquet | to fund the food services required to produce a “Hunger Banquet” for students to attend during our “Diversity Day” at BHS in the spring | $850 |
| Danette English | Belmont High School | Visiting Artist: Diversity Day | to fund a program by Darrell Gane McCalla, an African American artist, who will provide an interactive art workshop and expose BHS students to social concerns and diversity on Diversity Day in the spring of 2019 | $600 |
| Amy Sanchez | Chenery Middle School | Flamenco Performance by “Flamenco Boston” | to fund a real Flamenco performance by “Flamenco Boston” to allow Chenery 7th and 8th grade students to experience the Flamenco unit they will be studying in class | $1,100 |
| Karl Mitchell | Chenery Middle School | Improving Math Engagement with a Group-Based Immersive Games Platform | to improve math problem-solving skills and student engagement for Chenery sixth graders through an immersive learning games platform | $800 |
| Leon Dyer | Chenery Middle School | Learning to Code and Program with Lego Mindstorm Robots | to fund the purchase of Lego Mindstorms Education EV3 robotics to engage Chenery 6th grade students in a cross-curricular, hands-on learning environment | $3,269 |
| David Beebe | Chenery Middle School | Glow Forge Pro | to fund the purchase of a Glow Forge Pro, specialized equipment which allows for a synthesis of robotics and programming and woodworking and machining, and supplemental materials, for technology and engineering classes in grades 6, 7, and 8 at the Chenery | $7,668 |
| Colleen Foley | Chenery Middle School, Belmont High School | Increase in Communicative Language Proficiency in all BPS Students through Intensive Teacher Workshop
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to fund the registration fees for seven foreign language teachers from BHS and the Chenery to attend a four day intensive workshop by the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA), from July 22–25, 2019 at Westfield State University, to help these teachers become more versed in new best practices and teaching methods | $3,710 |
| Danielle Betancourt | Butler School | Desk Cycles for Active Learning | to provide two desk cycles for each Butler classroom (grades 2 to 4) to give students opportunities for physical activity while learning to improve engagement, health, and academic and social/emotional outcomes | $1,280 |
| Jaynene
Dellitt-Young |
Elementary-All | 95 Percent Group Phonics Chip Kits | to purchase phonics chip kits (basic and advanced) for all first grade teachers across the district to support small group instruction during their core instruction | $4,620 |
| Lisa Hurtubise | Chenery Middle School | The Girlhood Project 2: Education and Empowerment through Leadership Development | to fund the cost of twenty 6th-8th grade girls from the Chenery to participate in ‘Girlhood, Identity, and Girl Culture’, a program at Lesley University, to learn about the social and cultural construction of girlhood and how cultural practices help form girls’ identities | $6,700 |
| Kristin Ciappina | Chenery Middle School | FIFA Soccer & Handball | to purchase soccer goals and nets for the FIFA Soccer Tournament and Handball Units to enhance the physical education experience for Chenery students in all grades | $3,000 |
TOTAL, 12 APPROVED LEGP GRANTS $34,597
FOUNDATION FOR BELMONT EDUCATION
CYCLE 2 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved April 10, 2018
| Applicant | Target School | Award Title | Grant Purpose | Amount |
| Janet Carey | Winn Brook School | Bringing Science Standards to Life – four programs from the Discovery Museum for Winn Brook | to provide highly engaging, hands-on science experiences which teach, reinforce, and extend the concepts and skills in our new curriculum frameworks | $1,826 |
| Audrey Ruddock | Butler School | Discovery Museums Traveling Science Workshop: Force and Motion for Butler Kindergartens | to extend and enhance learning related to science standard K-PS2-1 by comparing the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object | $721 |
| Patrick Mongeau | Burbank School | Plantmobile Science Enrichment and Training Program with Burbank School Gardens Connection | to bring the Plantmobile, Mass Horticultural Society’s traveling science enrichment program, to Burbank second grade classes and to sustain the utilization of Burbank’s school gardens for hands-on learning | $800 |
| Jaynene Dellitt-Young | Elementary | Guided Reading Short Reads – Fiction | to provide each elementary school with a full set of authentic, Scholastic fiction short reads (levels A through Z) to improve the genre selection for guided reading groups | $13,186 |
| Jessica DeFrances | Elementary | Increasing Science and Literacy Success Via Integration | to purchase trade books and early readers for all kindergarten classrooms to support literacy development in nonfiction and introduce weather related phenomenon in language and visually rich ways to supplement our new Weather in My World unit, which is aligned to the 2016 STE frameworks adopted this year | $5,000 |
| Jaynene Dellitt-Young | Elementary | Teachers College Reading Conference | to fund a one-day Teachers College reading conference for all 1st through 4th grade teachers on June 21, 2018 | $8,000 |
| Katharine Kelley | Chenery Middle School | Visual Art Instruction for the YouTube Generation | to purchase technology to teach fine arts lessons using media that is relevant and recognizable to middle level learners | $701 |
| Jessica Endres | Wellington School | Windows and Mirrors: Looking at the World Through Different Lenses | to develop a library of grade-appropriate, accessible, high-quality books to expose fourth grade students at Wellington to diverse immigration stories about culture, race, ethnicity and identity | $2,500 |
| Lindsey Rinder | Elementary | Diverse Voices in the ELA Curriculum | to include more diverse voices in our language arts curricula, which is important to reduce the ELA achievement gap for students of color and increase background knowledge of the world for all students at Burbank, Butler, and Wellington (previously funded at Winn Brook) | $15,000 |
| Carrie Salvato | System-Wide | New England Association of Teachers of English Conference | to send a group of English teachers from the middle and high schools to the annual New England English Association of Teachers of English conference who will then bring back new ideas to share with colleagues to enhance the district’s English/ Language Arts curriculum | $2,040 |
| Janet Carey | Winn Brook School | Flexible Seating for Diverse Needs at Winn Brook | to provide students with flexible seating options which address their needs | $900 |
TOTAL, 11 APPROVED LEGP GRANTS $50,684
FOUNDATION FOR BELMONT EDUCATION
CYCLE 1 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved November 29, 2017
| Applicant | Target School | Award Title | Grant Purpose | Amount |
| Molly Arnason | Wellington School | How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit On A Plane? | to purchase math-based literature to enhance the 2nd grade math curriculum at the Wellington School | $400 |
| Tawnya Lewis | Belmont High School | Engaging Students through Dissections in Biology Class | to purchase specimens to allow dissections of different animals in biology class | $523 |
| Tawnya Lewis | Belmont High School | Using Crazy Traits in Biology Class to Engage Students | to purchase 12 Crazy Creatures Kits to increase the understanding of genetics in biology | $1,710 |
| Lisa Hurtubise | Belmont High School | The Girlhood Project: Education, Empowerment and Leadership | to fund the cost for a BHS teacher and 20 students to attend ‘Girlhood, Identity, and Girl Culture’ at Lesley University to learn about the social and cultural construction of girlhood and how cultural practices help form girls’ identities | $6,200 |
| Colleen Cox | Burbank School | Force and Motion (Discovery Museum Traveling Science Workshop) | to fund the Discovery Museum Traveling Science Workshop ‘Force and Motion’ for all Burbank kindergarten classes | $898 |
| Patrick Mongeau | Burbank School | Physical Changes of Matter (Discovery Museums Traveling Science Workshop) | to fund the Discovery Museum Traveling Science Workshop ‘Physical Changes of Matter’ for all Burbank second grade classes | $306 |
| Tricia Clifford,
Amy Spangler, Janet Carey |
Elementary | Chromebooks for Elementary Schools (Grades 3 & 4) | to purchase Chromebooks and carts so that all third and fourth grade students at the Burbank, Wellington, and Winn Brook Schools have access to a Chromebook (Butler was previously funded in a pilot program in FY2017) | $23,500 |
| Deborah McDevitt | Chenery Middle School | Integrating Civics Education into the 8th Grade Curriculum | to expand the focus on Civics in 8th grade by providing training for one 8th grade teacher to attend the Primary Source workshop ‘Strengthening Civics Education Throughout the K-12 Curriculum’ | $200 |
| Jessica DeFrances | Elementary | Math Enrichment Units for 2nd and 4th Grades | to provide math extension and enrichment projects for second and fourth grade teachers across the district | $2,164 |
| Deborah McDevitt | Chenery Middle School | Teaching about Africa in World Geography | to provide training for one 7th grade teacher to attend the class, “Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World” | $1,500 |
| Margot Reavey | System-Wide | Palaver Strings Orchestra Residency | to expose string students in grades 5-12 to innovative and contemporary professional string musicians through in-school workshops and evening community performances | $3,275 |
| Allison Ruane | Chenery Middle School | Helping to Make Social Connections in a School Setting | for six after school sessions to provide opportunities for students who are feeling disconnected to make social connections within a school setting | $300 |
| Colleen Foley | System-Wide | Social Justice in the Foreign Language Classroom | for four Foreign Language teachers to attend ‘Teaching Social Justice in the World Language Classroom’ | $800 |
| Lindsey Rinder | Chenery Middle School | Analyzing and Creating Digital Media, Part 2 | to partially fund the purchase of iPads and a cart to be used by grades 6-8 students to analyze and create digital media | $6,678 |
| Arto Asadoorian | System-Wide | Grade 4-6 Ukulele Project | to purchase a classroom set of 80 ukuleles for grades 4, 5, and 6 | $4,368 |
| Kathryn McLeod | Belmont High School | VEX EDR Robotics Kits for Belmont High School | to fund VEX EDR Robotics kits to use in the Engineering Design course at Belmont High School | $5,503 |
TOTAL, 16 APPROVED LEGP GRANTS $58,325
FOUNDATION FOR BELMONT EDUCATION
CYCLE 2 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved March 30, 2017
| Applicant | Target School | Award Title | Grant Purpose | Amount |
| Colleen Cox | Burbank School | LEGO Storytelling Kits | to purchase Lego Storystarter kits to motivate reluctant writers to create and write their own stories and to be used as an alternative assessment tool when appropriate | $855 |
| Colleen Foley | System-Wide | Authentic Resources and Assessment Through Modes of Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom | to provide professional development regarding the use of authentic resources in foreign language instruction and assessment through the three modes of communication: interpersonal, interpretative, and presentational | $1,862 |
| Kathyrn McLeod | Belmont High School | 3D Printer for Belmont High School | to fund the purchase of an NVBots 3D printer to use in numerous classes across multiple departments at Belmont High School | $12,499 |
| Monica Frender | Chenery Middle School | Health and Wellness Technology – iPad Cart | to purchase an iPad cart for safe storage and transport of iPads/tablets that will be used to enhance and improve the health curriculum for students | $1,700 |
| Deborah McDevitt | Chenery Middle School | Chromebooks and Cart for Grade 6 Social Studies | to provide up to 30 Chromebooks and a storage cart for 6th grade social studies students to practice their research skills and create products for authentic assessments that demonstrate their progression towards mastery of content and skills | $7,830 |
| Dan Richards | Belmont High School | Project Zero Perspectives: Making, Innovating, Learning Conference | to fund the registration of four Belmont High School faculty members to attend the ‘Project Zero: Making — Innovating — Learning’ Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | $3,300 |
| Nichole Bukowski | Belmont High School | Yoga 4 Classrooms Implementation Leader Training | to train a cohort leadership team of Belmont High School staff members to receive, plan, and implement the Yoga 4 Classrooms Program at BHS | $5,394 |
| Margot Reavey | Chenery Middle School | Chenery Auditorium Stage Portable Speaker System | to implement a portable speaker system for the Chenery Auditorium Stage Rehearsal Space to allow effective presentation of educational materials from devices already routinely used in orchestra rehearsals | $1,000 |
| Janet Carey | Winn Brook School | Reflections and Connections | to purchase teaching materials which reflect students’ cultural background, ethnicity, and identity | $2,500 |
| TOTAL, 9 APPROVED
LEGP GRANTS |
$36,940 |
Foundation for Belmont Education
Cycle 1 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved November 30, 2016
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Applicant |
Target School | Award Title | Grant Purpose | Amount | |||
| Amy Spangler | Wellington School | Wellington Soar Academy | to increase achievement of low performing fourth grade students by providing targeted learning opportunities in ELA, mathematics, and social/emotional learning in the hour before school begins (or ends) twice a week for twelve weeks | $1,801 | |||
| Ann Walsh | Wellington School | Fairytale Story Performance for Wellington Kindergarteners | to fund a visit by Odds Bodkin, internationally-renowned storyteller and musician, who will present three stories with Wellington kindergarten that touch on themes of empathy and kindness and engage students with music and a group discussion | $863 | |||
| Julie Kim | Belmont High School | Motivating and Engaging Students through Dissections in Biology Class | to purchase equipment that will allow hands-on dissections of different animals so as to increase student motivation and engagement in all biology classes at the High School | $485 | |||
| Kate Hayashi | Burbank School | Renaissonics Workshop | to fund a workshop for third graders on the recorder by Renaissonics, an innovative musical ensemble | $450 | |||
| Janice Darias | System-Wide | Achievement Gap Professional Development – METCO Conference | to fund the conference registration fees for seven district leaders and teachers to attend the METCO Directors’ Annual Conference for Educators on December 2, 2016 | $1,525 | |||
| Adrienne Dinh | Wellington School | Animal Adaptations | to fund a Museum of Science Animal Adaptations program for third grade students, including two presentations by museum staff, DVD’s, and five sets of classroom books | $1,257 | |||
| Kristin Ciappina | Chenery Middle School | Enhance Physical Education Curriculum | to purchase yoga equipment to enhance the physical education experience of all Chenery students | $1,804 | |||
| Karen Duff | Chenery Middle School | Chenery Upper School Author Series | to fund a two day visit by Kekla Magoon for all grade 7 and 8 students, including presentations and mini-writing workshops, to enhance understanding of race and racism in American culture and history through the lens of literature | $5,000 | |||
| Mark Abruzzese | Belmont High School | Data Acquisition Expansion for High School Science | to purchase data collection equipment to further High School students’ ability to design and carry out authentic scientific experiments | $9,873 | |||
| Kristin Comment | Belmont High School | Facilitating Difficult Conversations | to fund an EDCO consultant who will train BHS faculty in how to facilitate difficult conversations about race, ethnicity, and other differences in the classroom so that they can help students to process new ideas and experiences in Diversity Programming | $1,920 | |||
| FBE ID | Target School | Award Title | Grant Purpose | Amount | |||
| Janet Carey | Winn Brook School | Responsive Classroom Training | to fund Responsive Classroom training for two members of the Social Emotional Steering Committee at Winn Brook and purchase books related to this curriculum | $638 | |||
| Paul Ketchen | Belmont High School | Marching Band – Battery Percussion Instruments and Carriers | to replace the current failing inventory of marching percussion instruments in order to enhance instruction, performance, and overall experience of all students in the Belmont Marching Band | $5,042 | |||
| Ezra Flam | Belmont High School | Diversity Programming: Interactive Workshop Assemblies with Urban Improv | to fund two Urban Improv workshops to engage BHS students in sensitive and productive conversations about race and identity | $3,000 | |||
| Janet Flaherty | Burbank School | Scholastic Book Library: Guided Reading for Daily 4 in Grades 3 & 4 | to purchase fiction and nonfiction texts that align with the Common Core Standards to complete the shared level library for students in grades 3 and 4 | $3,000 | |||
| Danielle Betencourt | Butler School | Chromebooks for Third Grade Google Classrooms & Digital Literacy | to fund a pilot to purchase Chromebooks for a third grade class to allow ready and regular access to digital tools so as to develop skills necessary to collaborate, create, and effectively use and manipulate technology to solve complex problems | $7,304 | |||
TOTAL, 15 APPROVED LEGP GRANTS $43,962
Foundation for Belmont Education
Cycle 2 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved March 30, 2016
| Applicant | School | Title | Purpose | Amount |
| Jessica DeFrances | All Elementary | Improving Number Sense through Number Talks in Kindergarten | to purchase Number Talks and the accompanying Rekenrek materials to create student Rekenreks for every kindergarten classroom in all four elementary schools | $1,552 |
| David Beebe | Chenery | Experiential Curriculum Aids for the Transportation Unit | to purchase materials for grade 7 students at the Chenery to use and enhance their understanding of the Transportation Unit, one of the newly adopted science standards | $250 |
| Michael McAllister | Butler | iRover for Grade 1 Mathematics | to fund the purchase an iRover interactive easel to help first grade teachers at Butler make their classrooms more interactive and engaging | $3,531 |
| Jessica DeFrances | All Elementary | Engineering Curriculum Pilot for Elementary | to support the pilot of three engineering units, including curriculum, materials, and professional development, for grades 2, 3, and 4 in all four elementary schools | $2,519 |
| Jennifer Scranton | All Elementary | Traveling Field Microscope Lab | to create a traveling field microscope lab that can be used at all elementary schools in the district | $2,487 |
| Jessica DeFrances | All Elementary | Engaging Students in Inquiry Based Science Instruction Using Picture Books | to enhance inquiry based science units for all grades in the four elementary schools by purchasing picture books to be used during read alouds to help capture students’ interest in scientific phenomena, and additional materials for students to use in investigations | $2,500 |
| Colleen Foley | High School | Utilizing Authentic Interviews to Aid Cross-Cultural Proficiency and Linguistic Development | for authentic interviews, via online resources, to aid in cross-cultural proficiency and linguistic development, to enhance the existing French and Chinese curriculum at BHS | $2,800 |
| Elizabeth Gentes | Chenery | 6th Grade Science iPad Cart | to purchase an iPad charging cart and 30 iPad cases to be used by the sixth grade science classes at the Chenery (30 iPads to be supplied by the Belmont Public Schools) | $4,270 |
| Lisa O’Sullivan | Burbank | Animal Adaptations Program and Materials | to fund a Museum of Science Animal Adaptations program (2 sessions), books, and DVDs about Animal Adaptations for grade 3 at the Burbank | $957 |
| Lindi DeLorio | All Elementary | ESL Center Materials | to purchase materials needed to implement language-focused centers for ESL classes in all four elementary schools | $6,396 |
| Jessica DeFrances | All Elementary | Supplemental Materials for Struggling Math Students | to pilot the purchase of a math intervention module for students in grades three and four at all four elementary schools | $4,022 |
| Jonathan Marks | Chenery | Hands-On Physical Science with ErgoBots | to purchase six ErgoBot robots to supplement the eighth grade physics curriculum | $3,600 |
| Victoria O’Regan | Burbank | Scholastic Leveled Library (Levels E-N) | to partially fund the purchase of the Scholastic Leveled Library (Levels E-N) book sets for the Burbank | $1,000 |
| Jaynene Dellitt-Young | Winn Brook,
Burbank |
Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention – Gold & Red | to purchase Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (Gold & Red) for the third grades at the Winn Brook and Burbank | $10,890 |
| Erica Ross | Winn Brook | Teaching Reading With Rich Literature and Leveled Non-Fiction | to partially fund the purchase sets of leveled nonfiction and rich literature to support Grade 4 student learning in English Language Arts at the Winn Brook | $1,000 |
TOTAL, 15 APPROVED LEGP GRANTS $47,774
Foundation for Belmont Education
Cycle 1 – Learning Excellence Grants
Approved December 3, 2015
| Applicant | School | Title | Purpose | Amount |
| Justin Lipomi | Chenery | SOS Signs of Suicide – Middle School Program | to assist in identification of at-risk youth by addressing the issues of depression, suicide, and self-injury | $395 |
| Kristin Ciappina | Chenery | Updating Project Adventure and Physical Education Equipment | to purchase and/or replace Project Adventure and other physical education equipment to enhance the physical education experience for all Chenery students | $5,000 |
| Jaynene Dellitt-Young | All Elementary | Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention – Green | to allow one guided reading intervention kit to be purchased for each first grade at the four elementary schools | $8,745 |
| Kelly Hiltz | Winn Brook | Kindergarten Leveled Libraries at Winn Brook | to purchase a leveled reading library for each of the four Winn Brook kindergarten classrooms in order to support literacy goals for our youngest readers | $1,436 |
| Karen Duff | Chenery | Tales2Go: Creating a Digital Audio Library at Chenery | to create a robust, readily accessible digital audio library of over 5,000 titles for the Chenery Middle School | $5,000 |
| Ezra Flam | BHS | 21st Century Lighting Control for BHS | to purchase a modern lighting control system for the Belmont High School auditorium | $7,108 |
| Sharon Phipps | Chenery | CMS: Instruments for All | to provide musical instruments, with a focus on guitars and tubas, for use by Chenery students who wish to participate in music instruction | $5,000
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| Erin Gillies | Winn Brook | First Grade Listening Centers at Winn Brook | to equip each 1st grade Winn Brook classroom with up to date listening stations | $2,613 |
| Arto Asadoorian | BHS | Recording and Playback System for BHS | to purchase a Light and Sound recording/playback system for use by BHS faculty and students in band, chorus, and orchestra | $10,000 |
| John McLellan | Chenery | CMS: Band Room Sound System | to purchase an amplification system to enhance instruction by making audible all forms of technological tools used in the music class including iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, computer, and the metronome/tuner | $3,402 |
| Briana Wall | Wellington | Music for Preschoolers | to purchase the ABC Music & Me program to help develop the essential listening, early literacy, and social-emotional skills that all pre-school students need to succeed in school | $2,435 |
| Sarah Forrey-Pettit | Wellington | Playworks: Play and Recess to Support SEL at Wellington | to implement and establish Playworks recess strategies and activities for 3rd and 4th graders at the Wellington | $6,000 |
TOTAL, 12 APPROVED LEGP GRANTS $57,134
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