Rapid Response Grant Awards

Page through for information about grants awarded in previous cycles.

School	Title	Purpose	Amount
Chenery Middle School	Headphones to Support Collaborative Work	To provide funding for one class set (25) of headphones with a microphone in order to best support collaborative group work in our socially distanced setting for one 6th Grade Team.	$325
Belmont High School	5 Minutes Ago Morning Show	To purchase recording equipment necessary to continue producing the morning show started at the high school featuring high school students, which has been well received by the high school community.	$1982
Belmont High School	Integrated Capstone Pilot	To purchase 50 copies of Heather McGhee’s new book “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” to support the continued development of Belmont High School’s first integrated class Social Justice by the Numbers and our new integrated Capstone pilot.	$900
Belmont High School	Microphone Equipment for PAC Virtual Theater Projects	Yo purchase 20 additional wireless microphone headsets to assist the BHS Performing Arts Company in the recording of their spring musical project and for their June Improv Show: these headsets will allow a larger number of students to safely wear microphones for recording and sound amplification, without needing to engage in time-consuming sanitizing procedures.	$924

TOTAL, 4 APPROVED RAPID REPOSE GRANTS $4,131

School	Title	Purpose	Amount
Wellington Elementary	Flexible Seating for Covid Learning	To purchase 5 sets of 12 AuThe Surf, Au chairs to provide flexible seating for Wellington 4th grade students who are attending school in person to enable them the opportunity to move around and find alternate locations to work and in the classroom.	$1,275
Winn Brook Elementary	Wireless Keyboard for Teachers	To provide each Winn Brook Elementary school teacher with a wireless keyboard and mouse (20 sets) to give them more flexibility to move around the room when teaching remote and students learning in-person at the same time.	$918

TOTAL, 2 APPROVED RAPID REPOSE GRANTS $2,193

School	Title	Purpose	Amount
Chenery	Headsets for Classroom Teachers	To purchase thirty (30) headsets to amplify teachers’ voices and to reduce strain on their vocal chords as they must raise their voices to be heard through a mask and teach both in-person students at their desks and students who are virtually streaming into class.	$918
Butler School	Recess Equipment	To replace worn out recess equipment such as balls, jump ropes, hula hoops, etc. to: maximize in-person recess time while hybrid students are at school, reduce social isolation that many students experience as a result of the pandemic, and increase students’ overall social emotional wellbeing.	$1,690

TOTAL, 2 APPROVED RAPID REPOSE GRANTS $2,608

School	Title	Purpose	Amount
Chenery	Fountas & Pinnell LLI Lesson Guides	Purchase additional lesson guides for the Fountas & Pinnell System Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) (Gold – 2 copies and Purple – 1 copy) so that each reading specialist has access to the lesson guides to enable them to implement LLI intervention more consistently.	$1,620
Chenery	Robot Crawlers – Kits for Engineering Class During Remote Learning	Purchase 380 Robot Crawler kits to provide every sixth grade Chenery student a project-based, hands-on learning, remote engineering class experience to explore friction, materials, mechanical energy, experiment with variables, testing, and redesign.	$4,038

TOTAL, 2 APPROVED RAPID REPOSE GRANTS $5,658

School	Title	Purpose	Amount
Chenery	Pixton Education Subscription for ELE students	Fund a one-year subscription to Pixton Edu to enable ELE students who are learning virtually or in-person to create comics to write and show their understanding through words and visuals.	$99
BHS	Elmo Camera for Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy and Physiology Classes	Purchase an Elmo camera to allow students to see demonstrations of labs and dissections given that students are currently unable to perform labs on their own or in groups because of the current remote and hybrid teaching schedules.	$661
BHS	Recording Equipment for BHS Band Ensembles	Purchase a 12-pack of microphone with boom tripod stands, 2 speaker stand bags, 12 tripod mic stands, 12 microphone cables, and 12 Focusrite Scarlett Interface bundles in order to enable students who cannot currently play together in person as an ensemble to record individually and then use the audio to create a multi-track recording of the students all together, recreating a full ensemble sound.	$3,191

TOTAL, 3 APPROVED RAPID REPOSE GRANTS $3,951