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Foundation for Belmont Education
Rapid Response Grants
April 2021
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
Foundation for Belmont Education
Rapid Response Grants
March 2021
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
Foundation for Belmont Education
Rapid Response Grants
February 2021
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
Foundation for Belmont Education
Rapid Response Grants
January 2021
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
Foundation for Belmont Education
Rapid Response Grants
December 2020
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