What Funds Were Used for
Your gifts made it possible to ...
Provide Scholarships
Scholarship support provides the greatest impact from philanthropic gifts . Donors ’ contribution to Falk ’ s overall scholarship awards totaled more than $ 139,000 .
Support Programs and Student Enrichment
• Repair musical instruments
• Hire a consultant for a vision , orientation , and mobility study
• Participate in research initiatives
• Purchase new work benches and materials for the WonderLab
• Continue the Artist-in-Residence and legacy artwork project traditions
• Maintain the Falk Library collection and purchase new books
• Launch new literacy curriculum and hold the 2023 literacy clinic
Maintain and Improve Our Facilities
• Update and repair the sound system in the Marshall Family Theater
• Purchase furnishings for the second-floor terrace
• Purchase a new digital scoreboard and new basketball backboards for gymnasium
• Repair and maintain the playgrounds and Anji Play equipment
Provide Faculty Professional Development
Your gifts provided more than 20 training opportunities to Falk ’ s faculty and staff , including the following trainings , courses , and conferences :
· American Orff-Schulwerk Association Professional Development Conference
· Association of Play Therapy , Annual Conference
· The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
· Civilian Response Active Killer Training
· Culturally Responsive Counseling and Autism : A Cursory Review of Assessment and Intervention
· Current , Best Strategies to Decrease Attention- Getting and Tantrum Behaviors : Practical Solutions for Disruptive Students ( Preschool-Second Grade )
· Do Not Fear the Fight Ahead : Abolitionist Futures in Today ’ s Education Landscape
· Embodied Collective Joy : A Path to Liberation : Joy as Creating : Imagining the World We Want
· Exploring the Teaching of Human Sexuality
· Fundamentals of Restorative Practices
· Glass Center Pittsburgh , Fused Glass Training
· International Association of Laboratory Schools Conference
· Maker Educator Leadership Certificate Program
· National Association of School Nurses Conference - Stronger Together
· National Conference on the Value of Play
· Progressive Education Network National Conference
· Professional Learning and Community Education Conference
· Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association Conference
· Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Summer Orff Institute : American Orff-Schulwerk Association Teacher Education Course , Level 2
· Using ChatGPT for Educators
· Youth Mental Health First Aid
· Wilson Reading System Introductory Course
Should you wish to learn more about charitable giving , please contact Laurie Hess , manager of constituent relations at ldh31 @ pitt . edu or 412-624-7301 . ■
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