Adopt A+ Grants program - Virginia Beach City Public Schools
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Adopt A+ Grants program - Virginia Beach City Public Schools
VIRGINIA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION 2014-2015 PROJECTS n ools Education Foundatio V i r g i n i a B e a c h Pu b l i c S c h T 20 14 CO MM EM OR AT IV E PR IN d by Teagle & Little r, Thalia Elementary School • Printe Just Be by Heather Piccoli, art teache • Schoolwide Projects • BRANDON MIDDLE SCHOOL Fostering Kindness and Empathy through Literature Director: Debbie Hubbard-Jones Team: Charlotte Baedke, Barb Butler and Meghann Scott Amount: $4,522 Underwriter: GEICO This program will balance literacy goals with character development strategies in order to reduce incidences of bullying. Selected literature will be used to discuss differences of others and injustices to help foster empathy and kindness. CREEDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Growing through STEM Director: Barbara Messina Amount: $3,100 Underwriter: The Breeden Company STEM Design Challenge activities will be incorporated into instruction for first, second and third graders. The students will be grouped into teams according to their interest, ability and learning styles. KELLAM HIGH SCHOOL Becoming an American Director: Angela Parsons and Bruce Rowan Amount: $5,000 Underwriter: Lifetouch Students will research an area of interest from American history/ literature, then develop a media presentation to teach those concepts to fifth, sixth and seventh grade students. Local sites can be included and local experts consulted and interviewed. STRAWBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL It’s Getting Hot in Here: From Climate Change to Climate of Change Director: Katie Catania Team: Tracey Woodberry, Debra Liddon and Roger Mackintire Amount: $4,965.74 Underwriter: Waller Todd & Sadler and The Breeden Company This innovative project will foster science literacy, environmental stewardship and collaboration. Students will investigate the causes and impacts of climate change on local and global communities and assume the roles of various stakeholder, including organic farmer and oyster gardener. TALLWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Tallwood Science Lab: Taking Science from Drab to Fab Director: Lakeisha O’Neal Team: Geri Pattie, Crystal Wilderson, Susann Daugherty, Kathleen Mendoza, Amanda Jarrett, Amanda Everton and Leanna Hedges Amount: $5,000 Underwriter: CH2M Hill and Beach Windows & Siding Science learning labs will be provided to students inside and outside the school. Parents and school partners will assist students in the hands-on experiments with the hope of inspiring a love of science. • Sustainability Impact Projects • FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL Reuse 2 Reduce Directors: Matt Hotaling and Diane Polk Team: Green Team members and Leadership Skills Class members Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: Lifetouch The goal of this project is to encourage students to think globally and act locally. Leadership Class members and Green Team Club members will educate fellow students and provide key resources, i.e. refill station and refillable water bottles to students to reuse their resources and reduce the amount of waste produced. KEMPS LANDING/OLD DONATION SCHOOL Positive Impacts Director: Melissa Follin Team: Heather Shuler, Chelsea Kimbro, Courtney Bennis and Rebecca Fritzinger Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: GEICO and The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach Students will be “agents of change” when they analyze oyster restoration data to design and build oyster castles in a local waterway and a new float to house cordgrass to improve our watershed. PRINCESS ANNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Wreathcycling Director: Leslie Allman Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: Waller Todd & Sadler Architects Students will plan and construct holiday wreaths made of second-use materials. They will research the materials to determine if they will be a threat to the environment and if the materials can be replaced by more sustainable, environmentally safe materials. SEATACK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL From Land To Sea: One Step At A Time Director: Maria Culver Team: Robert Reynolds, Melissa McQuarrie, Gina Coss, Deane Donahue, Maggie Smith, and Melanie Dixon Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation This recycling-sustainability project will include beach clean-ups, waste audits, a rain garden, trash sculptures and upcyling garden art. These will promote ecological literacy, watershed interdependence and global awareness. • Innovative Learning Projects • ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CENTER Point & Click Director: Linda Lavender Team Member: James Spruill Amount: $1,799 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Schools Federal Credit Union The response system software will engage students and offer immediate feedback on assessments plus the freedom of movement as it doesn’t require a presentation station and integrates with desktop systems, tablets or using response clickers. ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Ipad Magic For Kindergarten Directors: Deborah Dunn and Jennifer L. Evans Team: Silvia Babcock and Karen Bennett Amount: $1,883.95 Underwriter: The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach Kindergarteners will use iPads to work on sight words, phonics, reading comprehension and reading fluency through interactive apps that are differentiated to meet their needs. ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Pairperfect Pets Promote Pawsitive Virginia Choice Reading Director: Kathryn O’Brien and Ann Green Amount: $336.61 Underwriter: Quality Stone Concepts Imagine taking the embarrassment out of reading aloud. Young readers will pick one of 10 stuffed animals to read to in an effort to help them feel confident and more at ease when reading. BAYSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Garden Buddies Director: Mary Anne Decker Team: Mi Corbin, Rebecca Pederson and Carolyn Sevem Amount: $300 Underwriter: RRMM Architects Students will design, cultivate and maintain a variety of gardens using sustainable garden methods within the school courtyard. Their efforts will enable classrooms to complete plant life-cycle experiments, as well as study the effects of weather and change in weather, create and observe habitats in the earth’s ecosystems. BAYSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CIS Club of Investigative Science Director: Mary Anne Decker Amount: $600.00 Underwriter: The Tom Wilson Memorial Fund Students teams in grades three through five will use their research skills to create an investigative science project and exhibit to share with the entire school during a day of science. BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL Overnight Student Leadership Workshop Directors: Ashley Williamson and Lisa Corpew Team: Darryl Barraclough, Jon Duggan, Nicole Ingalls, Tatiana Kasyanik, Kathleen Kussart, and Michele Parker Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: DeFord Ltd Description: Students will learn lifelong skills such as working in groups, planning and implementing events as well as serving as role models. The purpose is to engage them to be further involved in their families, schools and communities. BAYSIDE SIXTH GRADE CAMPUS, BAYSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL C Straight Director: Rob Lanz and Jeneshia Ferebee Team: Dawn Kramer Amount: $7,500 Underwriter: Community Leadership Partners of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and three “Cs” (College, Careers and Community) will be infused in activities for more than 120 students in grades five through eight. High school and college students will serve as mentors throughout the year. BRANDON MIDDLE SCHOOL A Shorter Walk To Water Directors: Charlotte Baedke and Debbie Hubbard-Jones Team: Anne Fox, Teresa Ripoll, Millie Robles and Meghann Scott Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: The Tom Wilson Memorial Fund All seventh-grade students will read A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. Before and during reading, they will participate in a variety of interdisciplinary activities in which they will learn background information about the setting, characters and conflicts in the novel. After reading the novel, students will collaborate to implement a fundraising campaign to build a well with the organization Water for South Sudan. COOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ESL Elementary Summer Scholars Directors: Marie Aronson and Mary Moore Amount: $500.00 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Education Association First graders will improve their listening skills, reading comprehension, sight word skills and English language skills as they are given the opportunity to read and listen to fluent reading multiple times throughout the day and at home. COOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Lego Literacy: Story Starter Directors: Amy Rille and Paula Ott Amount: $1,677.8 Underwriter: PACE Collaborative and The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach This innovative way of achieving traditional language arts goals replaces paper and pencil with materials that involve student-led, hands-on instruction. Students will create stories and presentations that are visually engaging. Cooke Elementary School Kindergarten goes Buggy! Director: Cheryl Camerino Team: Sheryl Cholish and Karen Alther Amount: $515.77 Underwriter: Patsy & Jim Slaughter Kindergarteners will experience life processes of butterflies, frogs, plants, praying mantises and ladybugs in real time. They will provide food, water, air and care as well as observe them in different life-cycle stages. Corporate Landing Elementary School Reciprocal Reading And Writing Across Genres Director: Amy Furlich Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Education Association and Willcox & Savage Students in grades two through five will use digital periodicals and fiction and nonfiction texts to examine a variety of writing forms. They will then become authors and share their work with the school through video, print and school-community functions. Corporate Landing Middle School History Happens Directors: Dawn Garvey and Leann Pauley Team: Joann Baxter and Mike Herold Amount: $1,705 Underwriter: Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation Students will create replicas of historical artifacts to develop a better understanding of concepts and reinforce the importance of the diverse cultures, improvements in technology and the movement of people in U.S. history. Kemps Landing/old donation School Mentoring with Literature (Students Teach Children About Heroes With A Little Free Library) Director: Adrian Hayes and Karen Luecke Amount: $1000 Underwriter: Jake’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que Eighth grade students will study the concept of a hero, and then use their lessons to mentor fifth grade students who will choose books with engaging and worthy heroes to stock a Little Free Library for their community. Eighth graders will build the lending library and unveil it to the community. Kemps Landing/old donation School Capstone Director: Dianna McDowell Amount: $500 Underwriter: CH2M Hill Students in eighth grade Earth Science and Civics classes will identify a problem or need in the community and then utilize the scientific process to formulate a sustainable solution while charting their growth as a citizen. Kemps Landing/old donation School iThink. iLearn. Ipod. iGrow in the 21st Century Director: Christopher Bone Amount: $1,400 Underwriter: RRMM Architects and BB&T Seventh-grade students will establish a podcasting and webinar station to routinely engage in discussion of literature, writing analysis and research with their peers, including students in Virginia, North Carolina, California and Spain. Corporate Landing Middle School What’s In Your Water? Beneficial Bivalves! Directors: Sherry Kelly and Rhonda Tuck Team: Joyce Hinson and Betty Piacco Amount: $720 Underwriter: Patsy & Jim Slaughter Experimental design and STEM activities will be incorporated in this project as students follow the growth of a 2,000-oyster spat house in a Taylor float in Owl’s Creek. Kemps Landing/old donation School Project Redbot: Igniting Interest In Innovation Director: Leyla Caralivanos and Christine Troxell Team: Eric Helke and Wendy Newman Amount: $1,961.39 Underwriter: Quality Stone Concepts and Cherry Bekaert & Holland SparkFun RedBot kits will be catalysts for science, technology, engineery and mathematics (STEM) exposure as fifth graders design, build, program and modify robots. Independence Middle School Building 21st Century Leaders’ Leadership Workshop Director: Christopher Felton Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: The Tom Wilson Memorial Fund Delegates and staff will participate in real-life situations to train them in decision-making, group dynamics, effective meeting skills, team-building activities, project planning, communication and leadership styles. Kemps Landing/old donation School Rube Goldberg Invention Convention Director: Sharon Boudreau and Melissa Follin Amount: $1,289.70 Underwriter: PACE Collaborative and The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach Creative and tenacious elementary and middle school students will design, build and present their very own Rube Goldberg Machines at a competition hosted by the school. Kellam High School Second Life Sustainable Outdoor Power Equipment Project Director: Timothy Kennedy Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: Thompson Consulting Engineers Students will pair up to form companies that diagnose and repair small engines, using the technical skills, tools and resources that have become standard in today’s small engine repair shop. Kemps Landing/old donation School Sustainability Starts with Us! Director: Caroline Greene Amount: $1,570 Underwriter: HBA Architecture & Interior Design Working with local organizations, students will develop solutions for minimizing waste, learn to appreciate LEED building and gain understanding of sustainability. These projects will be the foundation for analyzing the interactions among economic, environmental and social components that define sustainability. Landstown High School Flip It Director: Kelli Bradshaw Amount: $910 Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding This blended learning method will free up class time for more collaborative activities by shifting lectures out of the classroom. Lessons will be videotaped and shared on Edmodo, a secure website, for students to view in advance and then discuss in class. Landstown Middle School Self 3.0: Shaping Every Lancers’ Future Director: Kelly Jackson and Jen Lauzon Team: Kim Rimer, Sara Wade, Gina Hofacker, Kim Snyder and Sarah Newby Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: Optima Health In collaboration with local farmers, landscape architects, horticulturists, chefs and other professionals, students will study environmental effects on organisms and how mankind impacts the environment. Luxford Elementary School Arrays of Sunshine Director: Melinda Liebau Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: HBA Architecture & Interior Design A school courtyard will become a learning environment with each grade level responsible for creating an “array” (garden with a mathematical plan for how it is set up) that will use sunshine and brighten up the school. Lynnhaven Middle School Literacy Comes To Life In The Middle School Classroom Director: Carolyn Brown and William J. Davis Team: Adam Barger, Rachel Kauffman, Sara Marr, Kendra Merlet, and David Ruark Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Education Association Fine arts, practical arts and technology teachers will collaborate to bring literacy to life in the middle school classroom using animation. The inspiration for students creating their own animated production came from student’s enthusiasm for “Boxtrolls,” a newly-released, stop-motion animated movie. New Castle Elementary School Summer CREW (Creating Readers, Enriching Worlds) Director: Keitha Havey and Debbie Seth Amount: $1,379.94 Underwriter: Beach Windows CREW is designed to create opportunities for struggling readers in grades K through two to strengthen reading skills during the summer with weekly reading. The goal is to diminish reading loss usually observed at the start of a new school year. Newtown Elementary School Growing Great Leaders Director: Amanda Hamilton Team: Jennifer Blais, Karen Holl and Ellen Shackley Amount: $1,030 Underwriter: Tidewater Home Funding and Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation Science, reading, writing and math lessons will be incorporated in a schoolwide student garden. Students, many living without a home gardening space, will learn the importance of keeping their community clean and a healthy lifestyle by growing and providing food to the community. North Landing Elementary School S.O.S.-Science Of Soil: Composting Made Easier Director: Tracy Coffin Team: Stacie Maynard, Eric Wood and Michael Brown Amount: $355 Underwriter: Speight Marshall & Francis Third-grade students will collect biodegradable trash from lunch to composte into soil and use for the school’s garden plots. As environmentalists, they will observe the role of earthworms as decomposers and their importance in composting. North Landing Elementary School Bird Brained, Batty Buzzed, Or Just Flighty Director: Tracy Coffin Team: Vicki Lynn Baker, Eric Wood, Stacie Maynard and Michael Brown Amount: $645 Underwriter: RRMM Architects Thinking like ecologists, students will learn about the interdependence of birds, bats, bees and butterflies in our environment and debate which one is most beneficial to a garden. Students will also build houses specific for each of the creatures for the school garden area. North Landing Elementary School Reach for the Stars! Director: Tracy Coffin Amount: $460 Underwriter: GEICO By studying the relationships of the Earth, Moon and Sun, students will think like astronomers. Programs at the VBCPS Planetarium and community resources will help them reach for the stars and expand their learning. Pembroke Elementary School P.A.C.T. (Positive Action Changing Tomorrow) Director: Tara St. Clair and Mayra Romo Team: Cathy Hull Amount: $1,430 Underwriter: Catherine’s Catering This organized club will help motivate students to make a difference in their school and community. Students will research important community topics, design a plan to promote and implement positive change as welll as evaluate and assess their work. Plaza Middle School Books And Beyond Director: Catherine Taylor and Vanessa Maxwell-Brooks Team: Julie Brow Amount: $920 Underwriter: Cherry Bekaert & Holland Thirty seventh- and eighth-grade students and their parents will participate in a book club with the purpose of developing a love of reading, strengthening analysis skills and preparing for SOL testing. Plaza Middle School Build a Better Oyster Reef Director: Robert Carroll and Catherine Susewind Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: Speight Marshall & Francis Since oyster shell is a limiting factor in the creation of new oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay, students will create modified “oyster reef balls” using cement and the sustrate that had the best oyster settlement in their experiment. Reef balls will be placed in the Lynnhaven River for students to continue to observe over subsequent years, improving the design as necessary. Plaza Middle School and Lynnhaven Elementary School Community Little Free Library Director: Lisa Kilczewski and Mitzy Cromwell Team: Rachel Lugo, Sade Graham, Evelyn Gross and Jennifer Krzewinski Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Education Association In order to serve the literacy needs of the surrounding community, two schools are collaborating to build a Little Free Library, a community-based lending library, and filling it with new books for children and their families. Princess Anne High School Analysis of the Correlation Between Solar Activity and Global Climate Change Director: Jeff Kinser Amount: $1,981.93 Underwriter: RRMM Architects and Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation Students in astronomy and earth science classes will study solar activity by viewing sun spots through sun filters atop telescopes and binoculars and recording data throughout the year. They will determine how various types of solar activity affect mankind and if there is a correlation between solar activity and global climate change. Princess Anne High School History Alive! World Connections (TCI: Teachers Curriculum Institute Program) Director: Roderick Zano and Christine Campbell Team: Susanna Davis Amount: $328 Underwriter: Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation and Waller Todd & Sadler Architects This educational program takes a global approach to the study of world history by exploring the interregional connections and the interdependent political, social and economic themes that link the world today. Providence Elementary School It’s Not Just For The Birds: An Odyssey Into Ornithology Director: Wendy Carolino and Julie Byers Team: Molly Robinson, Dana White and John Conway Amount: $1,999 Underwriter: Speight Marshall & Francis Third graders will have unique opportunities to connect with local organizations to research current issues affecting our environment as well as the human impact on the Atlantic migratory flight paths of birds in Virginia Beach. Red Mill Elementary School Give and Take in a Global Community Director: Susan Jusell and Sarah Morris Amount: $650 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Schools Federal Credit Union and Willcox & Savage First graders will communicate with an overseas class using Skype, a blog and the exchange of student-created picture books to build connections while developing reading and writing skills. Rosemont Forest Elementary School Now That’s What I Call a Microscope Director: Brad Ward Amount: $1,584 Underwriter: CH2M Hill Using the Celestron Micro Fi, a Wi-Fi enabled handheld digital mircoscope that works with smart devices to stream live video and record movies and still images, elemenatary students will see microscopic images projected on up to three devices at a time. Salem High School All Aboard: The LeaderSHIP Director: Leslie Miller Team: Elizabeth Kress, Margaret Sloan, Laura Tyler and Leeane Turnbull Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Schools Federal Credit Union Modeling the division-hosted Virginia Beach Leadership Workshop, project activities will develop students’ personal leadership philosophies and foster their understanding of group processes in relation to their school, community and working world. Salem High School Compost STEWards! Director: Cindy Kube Amount: $442 Underwriter: Speight Marshall & Francis Biology classes will “dig deeper” to understand that soil is the foundation of a healthy and productive natural environment, with economic, political and social implications. The heart of this project is cultivating environmental stewardship and strengthening scientific literacy. Salem High School Lighting the Way Director: Jeffrey Kline and Justin G. San Agustin Team: Cindy Kube, William Ferris and Charles Kinnison Amount: $1,903 Underwriter: Thompson Consulting Engineers Lab kits will expose students in technology, physics and biology classes to the use of solar energy to power the modern home, a practical application that is underutilized at the homeowner level. They learn about this affordable option while learning aspects of STEM in education. Seatack Elementary School It Takes a Community to Grow a Garden Director: Marie Culver Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: Future Leadership Partners of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation This community garden project will focus on the essential question, “How do we empower children and adults to live sustainably in order to positively affect the world?” A variety of organic vegetable gardens and fruit trees will be planted and maintained on school grounds to be used as educational tools as well as a source of food for the school community. Strawbridge Elementary School Dig It! Director: Susan Ruhl Amount: $1,275.00 Underwriter: Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach A simulated archeological dig will offer students a chance to learn more about Native Americans, the Earth’s movement and the Jamestown Settlement. Students will research how items were used by people in the past. Tallwood High School Lifetime Games: A Collaborative Learning Experience Director: Lori Morris Team: Chad Rotella, Charles Richardson and Tricia Campbell Amount: $1,106 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Schools Federal Credit Union and Cherry Bekaert & Holland Technology, art and health and physical education classes will collaborate to build Corn Toss boards for use in PE classes. Tournament play will teach lifetime physical activity and promote community involvement. Thoroughgood Elementary School Kindergarten Readiness Is Fundamental! Director: Kathy Scott and Kelly Brewer Team: Cathy Louk, Annette Conley and Patti Lauer Amount: $1,055 Underwriter: The Tom Wilson Memorial Fund Preschool students and their families will engage in fun, interactive learning activities in language, literacy, math and technology to support school readiness. Virginia Beach Middle School The Living Art Museum Director: Leah Krueger Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: DeFord Ltd. Students will recreate artwork in “wearable” form. After researching an artist and identifying one of the artist’s pieces to be included in a museum exhibit called “Story of Art,” each student will take on the role of artist, artwork or docent to act out this Living Musem in the school hallways for others to experience. Windsor Oaks Elementary School Museum Box Director: Norene Skiles and Katie Knapp Amount: $2,000 Underwriter: The Tom Wilson Memorial Fund In teams, students will research artifacts, make models and produce informational videos and summaries for a printed display. Students will arrange a display case along with QR codes to guide users to the videos. Woodstock Elementary School Sea Turtles Environmental Management Director: Stephanie Wyman Amount: $1,000 Underwriter: GeoEnvironmental Resources This yearlong STEM project is designed to educate the public about the effects of trash from marine vessels and beach goers on sea life. Volunteer teams of students, teachers, parents and community participants will promote environmental responsibility. Members Nelson Adcock, President Frank Malbon, President Elect Robert Broermann, Treasurer Randall Dubois, Secretary Neil Rose, Immediate Past-President Marion Akins Kathy Allen Bennett Doug Bitterman Sandy Bowie Ray Breeden Barbara Deal Nancy DeFord Catherine Gettier Nancy Guy Duane Harver Kevin Hill Mike Loflin John Mazach Betty Michelson Kevin O’Brien Tony Pirrone Harry Purkey, Jr. Scott Seery Patsy Slaughter Danny Speight Ex officio Members Debbie Thomas, Coordinator Tony Arnold Pam Bennis Bill Brunke Eileen Cox Daniel D. Edwards Janene Gorham Lesley Hughes Daniel Keever Kelly Kinnear Barbara Sessoms Aaron Spence Emeritus Betty Broyles Charlie Cortellini Christopher Ettel Debi Gray Bill Kamarek John Langlois Jane Purrington Mike Ross Emilie Tilley Ned Williams Congratulations to Virginia Beach City Public Schools and our fabulous educators! Patsy and Jim Slaughter