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2007 Grant Review & Summary of Grants

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Our grant committee is boarding the bus to award big checks and balloons to grant recipients.

In April, 2007, the Hallsville ISD Education Foundation awarded $15,370.30 for five grants to 26 teachers.  Each grant is summarized below.

   

"The Classroom for the 21st Century" - $1,799.00
The purpose of the Seneo Interactive Response System is to have a fast, fun, interactive method to assess the learning of our students.  Through the provided software, teh teacher will instantly know the level of understanding.
Grant Impact:  256 students
Campus:  Intermediate

 

WRITE "RIGHT AWAY!" - $3,000.00
The Mobilepresenter boards allow the students to have an interactive experience with the lesson that is being taught.  The boards allow for mobility during the classroom lesson.  The lesson is no longer taught in the front of the classroom; instead the lesson is centered around the location of the students, working in small groups on projects or individual student presentation.  The teacher becomes the facilitator of learning with use of the innovative Mobilepresenter boards.
Grant Impact:  600 students
Campus:  Junior High

 
One Size Really DOES Fit All:  Differentiation Stations - $869.00
The goals and expectations are to propel struggling students to educational success, to inspire average students to reach higher levels of schievement, and to stretch above-level students to soar to new heights in learning and growth.  When children are able to learn using multiple approaches: hands-on, visual, auditory, and pencil-paper, retention is higher and application is more likely.
Grant Impact:  44 students
Campus:  Intermediate
 
Earobics Literacy Launch - $4,755.00
The goal of this project is to increase student reading skills through the use of Earobics Literacy Launch in all LAnguage Arts classrooms.  The program will give teachers effective strategies for teaching reading and give students practice developing key skills in the five critical components of reading:  phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
Grant Impact:  300 students
Campus:  Elementary
 

Teens "PlayAway" with Literature - $4,947.30
HISD Junior High and High School libraries
 will be partnering with teachers to reconnect
teens with literature.  The new "Playaway"
 audio book device will be utilized to expose
 teens to classic and contemporary literture
 that is in a format of a new technology that
teens are eager to utilize.
Grant Impact: 2,405 students
Campus:  High School and Junior High

Click Here to Download a 2006-2007 Summary of Grants

Click Here to Download a Grant Application

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Hallsville ISD Education Foundation
P.O. Box 810
Hallsville Texas, 75650
Phone: 903-668-5990, Ext. 5723; Fax: 903-668-5990