Arlington School & Family Magazine March/April 2016 | Page 38

Nonprofit Organizations

Arlington ISD Education Foundation
Awards Teacher Grants
The Arlington ISD Education
Foundation recently distributed 16
grants totaling a record-breaking
$87,771.05 to 17 AISD campuses. Some
of the projects funded include a STEM
Academy Inspired Learners Camp, a
collaborative Fine Arts Dual Language Library project, and
a restart of the Jazz Band Program at Lamar High School.
The Arlington High School Alumni Association also helped
sponsor a $3666 grant through the Foundation for Bailey
Junior High School for a project entitled “Shake, Rattle
& Roll.” Bailey teacher Mark Cooper notes the project
will engage students in problem solving, critical thinking,
collaboration and creativity. Students will investigate and
design structures to be tested in a simulated earthquake
environment and analyze the results of the activity.
Last year the Foundation distributed $80,866.32 in teacher
grants. Since 1994, the Education Foundation has awarded
classroom instruction grants to all AISD campuses totaling
more than $1.4 million.
To recognize recent grant recipients, the Arlington ISD
Education Foundation hosted its first annual Dream
Makers Banquet on Feb 25 at Cacharel Grand Ballroom in
Arlington.
“The Foundation plans on recognizing those who have left
their legacies in the AISD through the years and creating
more named endowments,” Foundation President Brian
White stated. “We want broad-based community support to
let people know what we’re doing so we can give back even
more to our classrooms.”
ARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
2016 GRANT AWARDS:
Corey Academy & Jones Academy
Total Amount: $9,915.24
Instructors: Tammy Ledesma (Corey) &
Michelle Casey ( Jones)
Project: Leer! Read! Supporting the Dual-Language Fine
Arts Academies in the Library
Bailey Junior High
Amount: $4,663
Instructor: Michael Wyant
Project: SolVe-IT (Solar Vehicle - Innovative Technology)

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Bailey Junior High
Amount: $3,666
Instructor: Mark Cooper
Project: Shake, Rattle & Roll (Engineering for
Earthquakes)

Turning Point Junior High
Amount: $2,248.28
Instructor: Kandy Kay Scaramuzzo
Project: STEMming the Flow of Apathy
Martin High School
Amount: $3,347.88
Instructor: Suzanne Severns
Project: Participatory Learning in the Library with 3D
Printing
Ditto Elementary
Amount: $2,089.23
Instructor: Jeanie Murrow
Project: Launching Off to Out-of-This-World Learning
With Launchpads!