Curricular Area: STEM, Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: Plans and parts for building the ATEV
For the past six years CHS students have been designing and fabricating electric cars to compete in over 50 Electrathon America races. With this grant, students will pilot an innovative and highly motivational twist to this event by building the first of its kind all-terrain, full suspension electric vehicle: the Piranha III!.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: 28 Chromebooks
Chromebooks purchased with this grant will be integrated into the 7th grade science classroom to “bring scientific modeling, simulations, presentations and publications into our classroom on a regular basis, to give life and form to the abstract concepts we are studying”.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Social Emotional Learning
Grant Focus: At-risk students
Schools: Columbia High School, White Salmon Academy
Items Purchased: Coordinator for Sources of Strength
Sources of Strength (SOS) is a comprehensive wellness program focusing on the prevention of suicide, violence, and substance abuse in schools and their communities.
Read MoreCurricular Area: English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Books
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Books
This grant provides funds for English Language Arts teachers at Henkle Middle School to purchase “high interest books for our students that reflect the diversity of our students, their experiences, and interests”.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects, STEM
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Items Purchased: Coaching on the use of technology in the classroom
The focus of this grant is to provide teachers with the training needed to implement and integrate technology, using Chromebooks, in the classroom in all content areas.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects, Social Studies (World Languages)
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Items Purchased: Chromebooks
These Chromebooks will enable Whitson Elementary to offer a new Digital Spanish class, while continuing a newly combined Library/Computer Science class.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Health and Physical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Wally & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate
Items Purchased: Basketball Hoop Height Adjusters
Together with funds from the School District and the WSCY basketball program, this grant allows for the purchase and installation of height adjusters on the backboards at the small gym at Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: Whitson Elementary, W&P Stevenson Intermediate, Henkle Middle School, Columbia High School
Items Purchased: Teacher training for Project Based Learning
This grant sends three teams of five teachers consisting of staff members from each of the four schools to a foundational workshop for Project Based Learning.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate
Items Purchased: In-depth teacher training for Project Based Learning
The PBL World Institute is supported by the Buck Institute of Education, a nonprofit that helps teachers to design, implement, and assess projects for Project Based Learning.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Social Emotional Learning
Grant Focus: At-risk
Schools: Columbia High School, White Salmon Academy
Items Purchased: Curriculum, Training and Support
Sources of Strength (SOS) is a comprehensive wellness program focusing on the prevention of suicide, violence, and substance abuse in schools and their communities.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary School, Wally & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Workshop Sets of littleBits
Using littleBits, students prototype and build endless engineered inventions, exercising their logical and critical thinking skills while learning about electronics.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Arts; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Henkle Middle School, Columbia High School
Items Purchased: iPad Pro Kits and accessories
The aim of this grant is to facilitate a 7-12th Media Arts Pilot Program, with the long-term goal of a sustainable Career and Technical Education program in Film and Media Arts.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Positive social behavior
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Projector, installation, and miscellaneous hardware
The Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) committee at WPSIS and HMS is tasked with leading powerful assemblies to teach and inspire the whole school community about respect, responsibility, and perseverance.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment; Curriculum
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: 10 Quadcopter kits; technology and flight lessons, curriculum development
This grant funds a nine-week unit on unmanned aerial vehicles (or "drones") to be implemented in the introductory robotics class at CHS.
Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Curriculum
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate
Items Purchased: Engineering is Elementary curriculum (3 units for 4 classrooms); professional development
This grant is aimed at promoting high-quality and rigorous instruction to integrate engineering concepts into math and science lessons through hands-on learning.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Experiences; Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: a class set of 30 virtual reality goggles, 30 phones, and 1 “Guide” (teacher) tablet
Google has launched an educational experience called Google Expeditions—field trips that are teacher-lead through 360° virtual reality tours of over 1000 locations, colleges, and careers.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Professional Development, Equipment
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Tuition for "The Art of Improvisation", 10 Remo Drums
This grant enabled the Intermediate and Middle School music teacher to attend a week-long, summer professional development program, "The Art of Improvisation", and the purchase of 10 Remo hand drums (adding to the 6 already owned by the school).
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment; Curriculum
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate
Curricular Area: Social Studies
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: 30 Chromebooks; Chrome Management Software
Henkle 8th Grade Social Studies teachers submitted this grant for a class set of Chromebooks.
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