Mini and Major Grants of 2007
We are thrilled to present the grants that have been awarded for 2007. Thirty-five grants were awarded, totaling over $90,000. Your donations make it possible for us to fund these amazing programs.
Thank you for your generosity in supporting the Hingham Education
Foundation.
Specific grants awarded are as follows:
For All the Schools
- Fund one LCD projector to be used at Hingham Public Schools’ Central Office to provide more effective ways of communication and presentations for parents and teachers.
Hingham High School
- Provide partial funding for Assistant Principal and Advisor to
attend the 12th Annual Senior Project Institute, a 3 day seminar which
will help revamp/improve the Senior Project program.
- Pilot the PeaceKeepers program, a course in peer mediation at the
High School. The program addresses such topics as conflict resolution,
anger management, low academic achievement, negative attitudes toward
school and behavior problems.
- Purchase new series of Lego Mindstorm education curriculum for
students to participate in applied engineering robotics projects which
include applied inquiry, motivated design, communications technology,
scanning, mapping and more.
- Purchase the Aavelin digital signage and video messaging system to
replace old system that posts school bulletin notices on cable channel
22.
- Develop a new African unit in the 10th grade English curriculum by
partially funding a teacher’s trip to Africa.
- Compile a primary and secondary library to provide students with
individual work that enhances skills and supports the social studies
curriculum.
- Help defray costs for Muslim student from Bosnia, Mirela Turkic to
attend High School.
- Develop a handbook that will outline a common language with which to
teach writing across the curriculum. Handbook will be reference tool for
all teachers, students and parents at High School.
- Purchase 2 Multi Region DVD players and transportation carts to show
foreign films and television programs in foreign language classes.
- Partially fund a week long working seminar to explore teaching of
Shakespeare.
- Purchase a Tablet PC for classroom use within the math department
which teachers and students would use to help with assessment and
feedback.
- Provide supplemental teaching materials for History Alive program
which allows students to do simulations and historical role plays.
- Assist in funding of Genocide Prevention Advanced Leadership Summit.
Hingham Middle School
- Purchase Smartboard for all 3 geography teachers to enhance lessons
and make geography come alive for students.
- Purchase LCD projector that will allow teachers to stimulate student
interest and enhance student understanding of specific mathematic
topics.
- Purchase 2 software programs that will help facilitate decoding
skills and increase reading fluency for dyslexic students and any other
students who need focused instruction.
- Purchase Smartboard for 6th grade teachers to help enrich and
enhance classroom.
- Sort and catalog all questions from previous MCAS exams for grades
6th, 7th, 8th, 10th for practice testing.
- Host a school-wide celebration of “Pi-Day” for 7th and 8th graders.
- Purchase 9 Palm Pilots which will provide technological enhancement
to 9 different classrooms and allow each 6th grade teacher to be part of
a revolutionary grading program.
- Purchase The Ultimate Water Rocket to be used by all 6th grade science teachers to stimulate interest in the science curriculum.
Foster School
- Assist in defraying costs for Mobile Learning Lab that will
integrate mathematics, music and technology to enhance the Everyday
Mathematics program for all students at Foster School.
- Provide initial funding for an early literacy 1000 Book Club Program
for Foster School.
- Enhance social studies curriculum by partial funding of teacher’s
trip to Ghana.
- Purchase and coordinate phonological awareness curriculum and
materials to use as an intervention program for at risk students.
- Purchase a classroom sound field amplification system that will
filter excess sound so that each child in classroom hears speaker’s
voice at an equal level.
Plymouth River School
- Provide additional resources (books, kits, games) to be used for
phonemic awareness and phonic instruction for all kindergartners at
Plymouth River School.
- Enhance 4th grade social studies curriculum by partial funding of
two teachers’ trips to China . Pilot an art enrichment unit on
Traditional Chinese Landscape.
- Fund new program with Jon Belber of Holly Hill Farms in Cohasset to
develop indoor/outdoor classroom activities that focus on botany,
organic gardening and deeper respect for nature and environment. Program
goes hand-in-hand with PRS Children’s Garden which has been in existence
for 3 years. This program is also partially funded by Garden Club of
Hingham.
- Purchase 6 Alpha Smart desktop keyboards for use by special education students in 5th grade.
South School
- Train 5 paraprofessionals in Applied Behavior Analysis to work with
autistic and special needs children in the integrated preschool at South
School as well as the other elementary schools in Hingham.
- Enhance 4th grade social studies curriculum by partial funding of
teachers/administrator trip to China.
- Purchase new memory chips for lab computers that will improve their
speed and efficiency.
- Purchase license for Study Island for 3rd and 4th graders for
home-practice and self-assessment for MCAS testing.