supporting educators to inspire and enhance student success
Suzanne Livesay of Bethel and Valle Crucis Schools for “All About the Bass,” will purchase Orff instruments to be used by K-5 Music classes at both schools to create Orff ensemble experiences and explore the concepts of music – rhythm, melody, form, expression, harmony, and timbre – through the musical skills of singing, moving, playing instruments, listening, creating, and speaking.
Laura Keys and Stephanie Ballance of Valle Crucis School for “The Empowerment Library,” which will purchase a variety of high interest, low level (HI-LO) books to build a strong library with a wide variety of topics for EC and ELL students, empowering reluctant readers and helping them to build reading confidence.
Megan Laws, Kristina Shableski, Brianna Swartz, and Alex Seymour for “Cracking the Code to Reading – Decodable Readers.” The grant funds will be used to purchase small group sets of decodable readers and items for hands-on phonics instruction for use in the four first grade classrooms at Parkway School. The project will provide students with high quality materials to practice reading skills to achieve growth and gain confidence through evidence-based ways aligned with the science of reading.
