Curricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Equipment, COVID Response
Schools: Whitson Elementary School
Items Purchased: Individual educational play kits
Teachers used this grant to purchase durable products and supplies to create individual kits for 2nd grade students so they could play independently while still social distancing. The products selected have long term benefit as well.
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology; Equipment; COVID Support
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Math manipulative and Kami App Licenses
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Supplies; COVID Support
Schools: Henkle Middle School, Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: Art materials
This grant provided students with high-quality art materials for projects completed at home during distance learning. While the WSVEF doesn’t typically use grant funds for “consumable” supplies, this was seen as a welcome break from screen time, and allowed for art to continue to be part of the curriculum during 2020-2021 COVID crisis.
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Social Studies
Grant Focus: Curriculum; COVID Support
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Laminated world maps
The set of laminated geography maps purchased with this grant can be used for years to come to help students visualize world geography. This request came in during COVID times to provide a learning option that is away from the computer, to give students a break from the increased screen time.
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects; Crisis Support
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology; COVID Support
Schools: District-wide
Items Purchased: Chromebooks and hot spots
Forty Chromebooks and 5 hot spots were purchased for the schools to enable distance learning for all students during the COVID crisis.
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects; Crisis Support
Grant Focus: Equipment; COVID Support
Schools: Whitson Elementary School
Items Purchased: Lap desks and storage racks
This purchase will enable Kindergarten teachers to more easily social distance students in the classroom.
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Social Emotional Learning
Grant Focus: Books
Schools: Whitson Elementary School, Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: Books
Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Band Instruments
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: Chimes, Tuba, Euphonium, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax
CHS's Band Program has seen great success and growth over the last 5 years. It has grown from 40 students in 2013 to a projected 70 for 2020. As the ensemble grows, the need for essential instruments has also become more apparent. This grant pays for a collection of instruments (Chimes, Tuba, Euphonium, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax) that will enhance the sound and maintain proper balance within the Concert Band ensemble.
Read MoreCurricular Area: English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Books
Schools: Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: Books and teacher research time
The teacher applying for this grant noted that the classroom libraries didn’t fairly represent the diversity in our student population. This grant will compensate the teacher for research time as well as the purchase of novels and nonfiction literature for WPSIS 4-6th grade English Language Arts classroom libraries. Books will be by diverse authors about diverse topics featuring diverse protagonists.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: 90 TI-84 CE Graphing Calculators plus Chargers
This grant outfits high school math classes with TI-84 CE graphing calculators with a primary goal of building confidence and promoting engagement among students.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School; Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: Beehives and beekeeping supplies
This grant provides for the installation of an observation beehive at Henkle Middle School and at Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School. This hives will be part of the project based learning curriculum, helping students understand why honeybees are an important part of the agriculture in both local and national production.
Read MoreCurricular 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.
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