Pelham Education Foundation News

 

Foundation Grants $103,000 to Schools

The Pelham Education Foundation, using funds raised during its annual spring fundraising campaign, has made grants to the Pelham school district totaling over $103,000. These grants will provide funds for critical technology tools as well as professional development to ensure that teachers use new technologies effectively in their classrooms. Read more here.

Foundation, In Partnership With District Hosts Exploratorium 2010

 

On March 24, over 230 Pelham Families attended this event which was sponsored by TD Bank. Exploratorium 2010 featured fun, hands-on learning activities across the whole curriculum spectrum for elementary students. Dinner was provided by AJ's Burgers of New Rochelle. To read more, click here.

Foundation Approves Teacher-initiated Grants

The directors of the Pelham Education Foundation recently awarded seven teacher initiated
mini-grants for a total of $25,624.72. “We were very pleased with the quality of this
year’s grant applications,” said Foundation project development chair Cathy Draper. “The input
of the district’s directors of elementary and secondary education, as well as subject-area
supervisors, ensured that the proposals we received supported both the Foundation’s mission to
enhance the quality of public education in Pelham and the school district’s curriculum goals.”

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Foundation Funds Global Simulation Workshop for Seventh Graders

Imagine that you know that a major, but undefined, disaster will soon affect the earth, but
that it can be averted if nations, non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations
contribute sufficient resources to fight it. Imagine further that you are a leader empowered to
decide how much your country or organization will contribute, but you don’t know how much
the solution will cost or what any other organization will contribute.  If you were a seventh-grader at Pelham Middle School, you would have been faced with that situation on Thursday, November 5 during a four-hour global simulation workshop. Read entire article.

Foundation Supports the Performing Arts

While most of his fellow 2009 graduates of Pelham Memorial High School are busy this summer outfitting dorm rooms, and working at summer jobs if they’re lucky, Max Kleiner commutes daily into New York to pursue his dream of becoming a professional actor.  As a newcomer to theatre during his senior year, Max landed feature roles in the two Sock N Buskin productions— A Midsummer Night's Dream and Blood Brothers.  While he is not the first Sock N Buskin alum to hear the call of the professional theater, increased enrollment in the high school has resulted in more students wanting to be part of the theatre group and/or a weekend Theatre Day, a new Forensics Club and the Young Playwrights Festival. Read entire article »

Foundation Grants $100,000 to Pelham Schools

The Pelham Education Foundation, using funds raised during its annual spring fundraising campaign, has made grants to the Pelham school district aggregating over $100,000.  The contributions “were made possible by the incredible generosity of the Pelham community,” said Foundation President Jeanne Radvany.  The largest grant will fund the first phase of the multiyear “21st Century Teaching and Learning Tools” project.  Read entire article »

Foundation Co-Hosts 21st Cenury Learning Skills "Exploratorium" with School District

Do your memories of school include rows of silent students facing a teacher standing in front of a dusty chalkboard?  Did you learn geography from a pull-down wall map that never quite kept up with the changing face of Africa, and think that science was a subject best deferred until you reached college and real laboratories?  Was talking to another student during class punishable by detention or worse? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, you owe it to yourself to learn how much better school can be at the 21st Century Learning Exploratorium. Read entire article »

Foundation Funds Seven Programs With Mini-Grants

The Pelham Education Foundation approved $15,000 in grants to fund seven different initiatives reaching high school and elementary school students.  The mini-grants, awarded in the Fall of 2008, provide funding for programs and materials that was not available through the district budget and align with the Foundation and district's shared interest in providing 21st century teaching and learning opportunities. Read entire article»

Education Foundation To Fund Language Lab Upgrade and Expansion

The Pelham Education Foundation has approved a $67,320 grant to fund the purchase of technology equipment for a major upgrade and expansion to the language laboratory serving Pelham Memorial High School and Pelham Middle School.  Read entire article »

K-5 “Leveled Libraries” Program Benefits Schools, Thanks to $60,000 from the Pelham Education Foundation

Pelham's elementary schools each has been benefiting from a K-5 "Leveled Library" of books and related programs since the school year began last September. The Pelham Education Foundation provided $60,000 for the new program, acting on a proposal developed by the four elementary school principals. The program was purchased last spring at a generous discount from Benchmark Education of Pelham. Along with the books came teacher training, lesson demonstrations, and Bookroom CDs that provide multiple options for teachers to search for books by title, theme, reading level, etc.  Read entire article »

Middle School Teachers Awarded Technology Grant

There was an audible gasp in the Middle School technology classroom as two model cars shot across the room and, almost instantaneously, reached the finish line 24 feet away.  Each of the cars suffered damage - David Morgan's car lost a wheel, which was easily replaced, while Thomas Mendoza's car cracked in half - but nobody seemed to care as the members of the Middle School Technology Club, together with club advisors Ed Ganbaum, Patricia Satalich and Alan Woliner, enjoyed the inaugural run of the new Paxton Patterson Raceway.  Read entire article »

"Dancing Classrooms" at Hutchinson School

Typical ten year olds might grimace at the idea of ballroom dancing classes, but thanks to a collaboration between the Pelham Education Foundation and the Hutchinson School PTA, Hutchinson fifth graders are learning to dance and loving it!  As fifth grade teacher Maureen Morrissey says, "Even the reluctant dancers are having fun in spite of themselves."  Read entire article »

Foundation Awards Teacher Grants

Laura Sawyer, President of the Pelham Education Foundation, has announced that the Foundation recently awarded eight mini-grants, totaling over $19,000, to district staff members.  “We were very pleased with the quality and quantity of grant requests, and hope that we will see similar numbers of teachers applying for equally exciting projects during our spring mini-grant cycle,” said Dr. Sawyer. “Successful grants will go to teachers at elementary, middle and high school levels and reflect a number of disciplines, ranging from core curriculum to technology to the arts.”  Read entire article »

Art Exhibit on Civil Rights Movement At the Middle School

The Pelham Education Foundation, in coordination with the Pelham Middle School, brought a powerful and thought-provoking educational art exhibit to Pelham.  Artist and teacher Chris Burns' installation, Soles of the Movement, brings the African Americans' struggle for civil rights out of abstraction and into the immediate world of the viewer. Read entire article »

$60,000 Grant to Fund Guided Reading Leveled Libraries at Elementary Schools

The Pelham Education Foundation has awarded a $60,000 grant to fund Guided Reading Leveled Libraries at Pelham's elementary schools.  "Teachers will be able to use these books in the classroom to better meet the reading needs of all students, including English language learners, advanced readers and Special Education students," states Laura Sawyer, President of the Foundation.  Read entire article »

 

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