2022 Grants

$965.00 Fun with Alphabet: Royse City High School, Lizzie Watson

Accucut Diecut Lowercase Letters

$7,364.58 Bulldog Factory- Stitching a New Path: Royse City High School, Lisa Davis

Bulldog Factory Commercial Embroidery Machine. The Bulldog Factory is a group of CTE students that run a Spirit Wear/items business.

$1,890.70 Bulldog Factory-Working smarter not Harder: Royse City High School, Lisa Davis

Bulldog Factory Automatic Opening Heat Press for Sublimation. The Bulldog Factory is a group of CTE students that run a Spirit Wear/items business.

$801.80 Show Me the Money!: Royse City High School, Debi Wood

RCTA- Credit card reader and iPad to prepare my students for careers in our community.

$3,750.00 Lights, Sound, Action! Performing Every Day: Fort Elementary, Brody Ross

My goal for this proposal is to create an environment of spectacle, awe and professionalism that matches the excitement and dazzle the students bring to the space themselves.

$894.85 Giving Words Life: Fort Elementary, Tiffani Eakin

The SnapWords System takes words and turns them into pictures and actions that appeal to a different part of the brain. This innovative twist on sight words was created to address the very students I serve!

$2,500.00 YELLOW There! ORANGE You Glad There Are Books Being RED In Art Class?!: Fort Elementary, Melissa Kilgore

This “INSPIRATION” station will reinforce learning, help close reading gaps, provide a safe space when learners become overwhelmed, and support our second language learners, all while students discover more reasons to love reading and art!

$5,056.45 Dawgs Court: Fort Elementary, Amber Hutcheson, Rachel Turner

Dawgs court is a fun and inviting area where students of all ages can enjoy time to team build, interact with each other, and have a safe and structured play environment. This will be a multipurpose basketball court that will have so many more elements than just basketball.

$2,023.45 At Fort, Everyone deserves a voice!: Fort Elementary, Heather Wise

Communication is a right and all children need these social communication opportunities to grow communication skills and develop relationships with their peers and teachers. Everyone deserves a voice! However, not all children have the ability of verbal communication. The goal of this grant is to give ALL students at W.R. Fort Elementary means to have a voice on the playground!

$2,023.45 At Cherry, Everyone Deserves a Voice!: Ruth Cherry Elementary, Cynthia Braden

Communication is a right and all children need these social communication opportunities to grow communication skills and develop relationships with their peers and teachers. Everyone deserves a voice! However, not all children have the ability of verbal communication. The goal of this grant is to give ALL students at Ruth Cherry means to have a voice on the playground!

$507.71 Hands on FUN TIMES with Literacy: Fort Elementary, Alexia Juneman

A variety of literary resources that will encourage students to work together and discuss their learning. These resources will give them the buy in that they need to fall in love with reading. I want you to help me be the teacher that gives them to tools to grow.

$5,393.25 "Ruth Cherry Rocketeers": Fort Elementary, Laura Vandenburg w/Chad Spurlock

The students will be able to use hands-on materials alongside an online curriculum which will allow them to explore and discover science in real world experiences. This will also encourage students' motivation, creativity, and logic when investigating as they use the scientific method.

$1,065.54 Zoning Out to Zone In: Davis Elementary, Jaime Watson

Emotional intelligence gives us the ability to develop awareness of feelings within ourselves as well as others, as well as how to influence these emotions. All items purchased with this social emotional learning grant help to build emotional intelligence in students.

$4,171.38 Stencils, Learning and Paint...Oh My!: Davis Elementary, Bonnie Geistweidt w/Jadetta Grant, Debra McDaniel, Haley Watson, Xiomara Barcenas

This outdoor learning/play area project will allow every student a chance to engage in learning and cooperative play while having fun at recess.

$2,023.45 At Davis, Everyone deserves a voice!: Davis Elementary, Alyse Reavis w/ Bretleigh Roper

Communication is a right and all children need these social communication opportunities to grow communication skills and develop relationships with their peers and teachers. Everyone deserves a voice! However, not all children have the ability of verbal communication. The goal of this grant is to give ALL students at Davis Elementary means to have a voice on the playground!

$3,348.00 Escaping the TEKS!: Davis Elementary, Rebekah Crenshaw

Students (and teachers alike) will use teamwork, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills to work together to solve curriculum - based, TEK embedded challenges. Let the games begin!

$3,473.45 Play With Me: Everyone Deserves a Voice: Glenda Arnold Early Childhood Center, Delia Bauer, SLP

The goal of this grant is to give ALL students at Glenda Arnold Early Childhood Learning Center a way to have a voice on the playground, Indoor and Outdoor! A large outdoor communication board with symbols and English and Spanish text will provide a means for children who do not speak verbally, have limited expressive language, stutter, speak a different language or may be shy to have the ability to communicate with their friends while they play!

$2,023.45 At MMV, Everyone Deserves a Voice!: Miss May Vernon Elementary, Robyn Meyer

Communication is a right and all children need these social communication opportunities to grow communication skills and develop relationships with their peers and teachers. Everyone deserves a voice! However, not all children have the ability of verbal communication. The goal of this grant is to give ALL students at Vernon Elementary means to have a voice on the playground!

$6,100.49 Animating Our Future: Miss May Vernon Elementary, Lisa Ross

Welcome to the new age. Welcome to an animation studio where a student’s work comes to life. Students will learn about cutting edge technology with the addition of a class set of 30 Chromebook Draw Pads and 6 digital tablets. Students’ creativity becomes limitless inside the free software linked to their Chromebook.

$5,495.00 MMV Robo Dawgs 2.0-- Coding and Robotics for All!: Miss May Vernon Elementary, Kimberly Villarreal w/Amanda Reed, Christi Mones

Critical thinking and creativity, our students will use these skills to problem solve and code robots through programming in our Miss May Vernon Chrome Lab. This grant also addresses reasoning, technology, and problem solving for all students.

$1,007.92 Glowing Our Way to Success!: Summers MS, Ashlee Poor

Glow Day will ensure academic engagement and fun for all at Bobby Summers Middle School. This classroom transformation will be set up in a “station” style, or with rotations in which students move to each reading and writing activity.

$6,840.00 Reading is a TREAT!: Summers MS, Elizabeth Holland-Linley

Middle School kids still love new books and we want to keep encouraging this excitement for reading by getting even more books into their hands. This book vending machine will allow our students to earn tokens and get even more books into their hands.

$2697.84 Innovative Creations - Summers Fab Lab: Summers MS, Shelby Ward w/Ryan Stout

Summers CTE students will learn how to use a sublimation printer to create more items efficiently. They will also learn to use business principles required to design, market, and sell products.

$7,490.38 RoboDAWGS Robotics Grant: Summers MS, Timothy Gilmartin

VEX 5 competitive kits that will expand the robotics classroom curriculum. Using the VEX V5 material, the Vex Robotics Team will be able to engage in many STEM Labs and competitions, which would be hundreds of hours of instruction. VEX V5 robots are also eligible for local, state, and national competitions which would provide valuable learning opportunities for our students.

$3,069.00 Can You Escape it? The Only Way Out is Together!: Herndon Elementary, Pamela Gatton

These escape rooms can also be used with the GT students that I serve. They foster collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, student engagement, and problem solving as the students compete against each other and time to escape.

$4,900.00 "BEAM" Me Up!: Herndon Elementary, Cheryl Strayhorn

This BEAM by Eyeclick is an interactive floor projector that can turn our physical space into a virtual playground. This interactive floor projector will be used across all grade levels K-5 and including our Functional Academics class. In addition, these interactive games will also integrate other forms of curriculum, not just physical education.

$2,023.45 At Herndon, Everyone deserves a voice!: Herndon Elementary, Andrea Potter

Communication is a right and all children need these social communication opportunities to grow communication skills and develop relationships with their peers and teachers. Everyone deserves a voice! However, not all children have the ability of verbal communication. The goal of this grant is to give ALL students at Herndon Elementary means to have a voice on the playground!

$2,500.00 Just the Facts, Please!: Herndon Elementary, Nichole Hahn

Replacing outdated Non Fiction books and adding Elementary level Non Fiction books. Helping our students discover facts about their world!

$2,500.00 Activate Your Brain Through Music!: Scott Elementary, Bailey Jones

Music is a powerful tool in education. Research has shown that music is the only activity that activates, stimulates, and uses the entire brain. Flocabulary is a resource for teachers to teach content through rap songs. Flocabulary will increase our students' love for learning by engaging students in all content areas.

$2,976.00 3D Creative Mindset: Scott Elementary, Jennifer Chaney w/Kristen Clement

The Flashforge 3D printers will offer students the ability to experience their school projects go from the model stage to the actual creation of their model. Students will be able to explore details in reality, not just on a screen or in a textbook. 3D printing also brings the world of theory to the physical world where students can see and touch, opening up new possibilities for learning and activities.

$2,500.00 Scott Elementary Readers Are Leaders: Scott Elementary, Julie Geer

At Scott Elementary, we strongly believe that "Readers are Leaders!" To support this mission, our library needs a variety of new and interesting books to keep our young readers interested and engaged in reading.

$2,023.45 At Scott, Everyone Deserves a Voice!: Scott Elementary, Anna Walker

Communication is a right and all children need these social communication opportunities to grow communication skills and develop relationships with their peers and teachers. Everyone deserves a voice! However, not all children have the ability of verbal communication. The goal of this grant is to give ALL students at Scott Elementary means to have a voice on the playground!

$1,000.00 Filling the gaps in a "Snap"!: Scott Elementary, Nichole Chick

The Snap close reading program has been proven to help fill learning gaps. Every student that used this resource last year grew. We have the Snap Close reading for the 4th grade level, but would love to have the lower levels, so that I can fill the gaps with students who are working below level.

$3,140.10 Making Curriculum Swell!: Admin, Donita Potts w/Kathy Milton

A Swell machine allows the VI/OM teacher to modify materials for visually impaired(VI) students. “The Swell Form machine…is a simple, fast and low-cost method of creating stunning tactile maps, diagrams, text and graphics.” For students in Functional Academics and general education the machine will allow access to the same materials as their sighted peers.