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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
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
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Annual giving to our teachers and administration exceeds $200,000.
