As the school year draws to a close, the USD 428 Education Foundation is preparing to enhance learning opportunities with an outstanding list of grant winners from across the district.
In 2022, the Foundation awarded $21,961 in mini-grants, funding innovative ideas and enrichment opportunities.
Great Bend High School
Ryan Zink - Folding Treatment Tables
- The need for hands-on and practical learning applications is high. These tables allow students access to needed materials for hands-on learning and functional processes.
Cristina Ingram - Reading Growth
- Introduce more reading material to native Spanish Speakers.
Andrea Stalcup, Andrea Siefkes, Cortnea Wilson, Ken Botzung - Biomedical Model Torso
- This torso model would be used within the Anatomy & Physiology classes as well as Biomedical classes, to allow students to use hands-on manipulatives to explore the internal structures of the human body.
Jake Hofflinger - V5 Robotics
- Vex Robotics has come out with a new product utilizing touch screen programming and significate improvements to structure and mobility.
Dawn Galusha and Randy Beck - We Like to Move It Move It!!
- We believe in cooperative learning and encourage social skills through movement and fun activities.
Great Bend Middle School
Nikki Taylor- Financial Literacy
- Doodle Notes is a new workbook trend that uses a combination of instructional strategies to include visual note-taking. This Doodle Note Book is designed to aid in teaching students about financial literacy. The doodle notes include topics such as taxes, budgeting, credit, interest, stocks, banking, insurance, mortgage, investing, loans, net worth, and more.
Eisenhower Elementary School
Kaitlynn Tuey & Layne Smith - Learning Lab Activities
- We will use these items to help students communicate with each other through different scenarios. We will also use these items to help students engage in different learning activities.
Augustina Vondracek - Themed Learning Sensory Bins
- Sensory play supports STEM learning through insects, construction, and animals.
Little Panthers Preschool
Brooklyn Burkhart, Desteny Alcala, & Kimberlyn Sinclair - Learning Lab Activities
- Items to help students communicate with each other through different scenarios. We will also use these items to help students engage in different learning activities.
Jefferson Elementary School
Linda Basye - Communication and Teaching Through Earbud Translators
- Innovative Earbud Translator device, a great asset when a live translator is not available.
Janae Donham - Math Versa Tiles
- Versa Tiles will allow students to work together to solve math problems in collaborative conversations, a learning target for first grade.
Angela Petersen - Blastoff Into Careers Books
- Versa Tiles will allow students to work together to solve math problems in collaborative conversations, a learning target for first grade.
Lincoln Elementary School
Jessica Ferguson - Growing Classroom Culture
- Activity kit to expand our SEL curriculum through classroom culture-building resources to help students build empathy, and compassion, and learn to regulate their emotions.
Stephanie Jecha - MTSS Small Group Activities
- Fun and creative skills and activities for students during MTSS reading and math groups.
Lindsay Mazouch - Career Books
- 70 easy-reader books focused on careers and life skills to add to our library collection.
Lindsay Mazouch - Learning with Robots - Dot & Dash
- Dot & Dash provides hands-on opportunities for students to learn introductory robotics skills and coding. These will be utilized for morning club options and other library time.
Park Elementary School
Amber Shattuck - Multisensory Approach to Reading
- A systematic, multisensory, and explicit phonics instruction that aligns with the science of reading The “secret” stories are the secret reasons why letters make the sounds that they do when they come together in words.
Dara Touslee - Art Studio
- Art Studio learning center encourages creative thinking and imagination and enhances problem-solving skills and improves a student’s social-emotional well-being by reducing feelings of stress and anxiety.
Angela Petersen - Blastoff Into Careers Books
- 70 easy-reader books focused on careers and life skills to add to our library collection.