Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Curricular Area: Career and Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School, Henkle Middle School
Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Curricular Area: English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Curricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: District Wide
Students at White Salmon Valley School District (WSVSD) will now receive access to Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a nationally recognized program designed to support students in achieving college readiness and success.
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Curricular Area: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Experiences Schools: Whitson
This grant provides funding to build on a program already implemented at Whitson Elementary that introduces students to local history fro the perspective of the local tribal culture through hands-on projects, writing activities, reader’s theater, historical text analysis, and visits from tribal members.
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Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment Schools: Whitson
This grant provides materials for the 4th Grade classes at Whitson Elementary. These STEM tubs will provide hands-on, creative resources for teachers to inspire students to engage with and learn math in nontraditional ways.
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Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Curriculum Schools: Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
A one-year pilot program for Science and Math Curriculum for WPSIS to support current labs and hands-on experiences to help students learn content visually through investigation and inquiry.
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Curricular Area: English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Updating Whitson Elementary Schools Instructional Book Room with new books that are aligned to research based practices from the Science of Reading. These new books will be used in addition to the materials in K-4 English Language Arts (ELA) Core Curricula to help teachers differentiate instruction to meet the needs and skill levels of their students.
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Curricular Area: Health and Physical Education, Career and Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School, Henkle Middle School, W & P Intermediate School
Updating the nearly 30-year-old kitchen learning space at CHS to provide hands-on, real-world knowledge and skills to students from intermediate school through high school during school hours and after school programming.
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Curricular Area: Career and Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
To enhance the Electronics Technology course at CHS, we are acquiring twelve additional electronics training units (trainers). These units will supplement the twelve trainers already provided by CGCC. This ensures that every student enrolled in the course will have access to a trainer for 100% of their class time.
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Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Curriculum
Schools: Columbia High School
Purchasing 35 concert band and jazz band pieces of sheet music to diversity and enhance CHS’s music library. The goal is to provide music students with sheet music to perform that is relevant to them, speaks to them, and inspires them.
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Curricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: District-wide
When our schools experienced a significant financial crisis this year, resulting in devastating budget shortages, staffing reductions, and program cuts, we promptly responded by awarding a grant totaling $87,325. In partnership with our new superintendent, Rich Polkinghorn, we will be allocating those funds to address the specific needs of our schools.
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Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Professional Development
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: Kiln, pottery wheel, and professional development
This grant will expand the offerings available for students taking Foundations in Mixed Media, Intermediate/Advanced Media and Independent Art.
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Curricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: Henkle Middle School, Columbia High School
Items Purchased: Implementation of the AVID Elective and AVID School Wide programs within two to three years. AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination.
Providing staff with the professional development necessary to implement the AVID program is part of a larger district-wide vision to increase rigor and opportunity for all students.
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Curricular Area: Across Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: WPSIS, Whitson Elementary
Items Purchased: Sensory Tools including wobble stools, wiggle cushions, noise cancelling headphones, and weighted lap pads, among others.
This grant provides tools that will help students with their emotional regulation, improve attention and focus, and help teachers promote different learning styles.
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