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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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