Classroom Grants
Worthwhile educational programs and projects are supported by the Quaker Foundation in an effort to support education in the New Philadelphia Schools. The Quaker Foundation has awarded classroom grants for special projects to enhance learning every year since the 1993-94 school year.
View a historical list of the number of grants and amounts awarded since that first year.
The Quaker Foundation awarded 32 classroom grants this school year totaling $14,907.18. The following is a description of the grants.
Kip Brady - New Philadelphia High School
Linking Water Quality to Land Use History
A study of two woodland ponds. Engage students in scientific investigation of factors influencing the local landscape. Teach important concepts in biology, chemistry, & geology. Provide useful data to local agencies that will help them to better understand the processes shaping the lands under their management.
$466.24
Shanda Mushrush - Elementaries
Communication: There’s an App for That!
Using apps on the iPad, students with communication disorders will engage in therapeutic activities to improve their communication skills.
$499.67
Lori Ricklic - Welty Middle School
6th Grade Book Club
This project is a book club for any 6th grade student interested in reading novels outside the classroom. There will be monthly meetings and discussions. Website open discussion questions will be posted throughout the month.
$500.00
Jody Brady - New Philadelphia High School
Investigating the Trends in Genetics
Students will research genetics beyond the textbook using twenty-first century skills. They will attend a college lecture by Indiana University's Sam Rhine. Students may have an increased interest in setting professional goals to include genetics or medicine as a career field.
$250.00
Jamie Page - Welty Middle School
Teaching with Model Airplanes
The Delta Dart model aircraft is a perfect "hands-on" laboratory activity that will get students involved in building and designing their own model airplane while learning about the scientific principles of flight.
$400.00
Leeanne Alsept Burnworth - Elementaries
STEMming
LEGO Early Simple Machines Sets allow young students to learn by building and manipulating with models. They experience pulleys, levers, gears and wheels and axes, while exploring important topics such as energy, buoyancy, and balance. Hands-on learning nurtures creativity and helps develop critical problem-solving skills.
$500.00
Jamey DiFonzo - East Elementary School
Heidi Songs: Music for Learning
A research based method of teaching language arts and math concepts through simultaneously using multiple pathways in the brain to reach all students.
$480.00
Sherri Norman - York Elementary
Stem: The Foundation for Learning
Math, Science and Engineering will be integrated into activities such as building with materials including geometric solids, recyclable materials, and manipulative building tools to collaboratively plan, explore, and create structures with a foundation that supports a need.
$482.23
Chelsea Drubel - East & York Elementary Schools
Playing 8-Note Resonator Bells
Students will learn to play 8-Note Resonator Bells. Younger students will learn simple melodies, while older students will be able to play more complicated songs as well as play in several contrasting parts.
$499.37
Matt Karolewski - Welty Middle School
iPads for Autism
iPad applications will be used that provide visuals and interactive concepts that enhance learning for students with autism.
$500.00
Scott Houmard and Jody Brady - New Philadelphia High School
Sizzling Summer Science Camp
The Quaker Foundation grant monies will be used to sponsor a student to attend the 2012 Summer Science Camp from each of the 5 district elementary schools and from Welty Middle School. Science camp is a hands-on, activity based science enrichment program where students experience science for 2 hours a day for 5 days during the summer. Monies from the grant will also be used to help defray the cost of construction materials and prizes for all campers attending Summer Science Camp 2012.
$500.00
Starr Henry - East Elementary School
The Future: Learning with iPads
An accommodation for students with learning disabilities and a way to help impove their productivity and academic performance in reading proficiency, math, spelling, and more.
$499.00
Jessica Jones - York Elementary
"Super Duper" Learning
This grant will help students with autism generalize every day skills. Picture cards, social stories and scenario cards will promote learning. Students can categorize, ask questions and learn to respond to situations that occur on a daily basis.
$466.30
Ashley Claxon - New Philadelphia High School
Translate to Relate
This grant will provide resources that will aide English Language Learners in comprehending required English class reading.
$500.00
Emily Conrad - New Philadelphia High School
Entrepreneurs for Independence
Entrepreneurs for Independence will help students with multiple disabilities gain valuable life and independence skills.
$220.00
Debbie French - New Philadelphia High School
Assessing Radio Luminosity & Spin
This Quaker Foundation Grant will be used to purchase reference books for a student research group in astrophysics that will be working on a collaborative project with Cornell University entitled, "Assessing Radio Luminosity and Spin Parameters for Millisecond Pulsars."
$500.00
Scott Houmard and Tom Bitticker - New Philadelphia High School
Academic Challenge
This grant will permit the NPHS Academic Challenge team to enter local/state academic competitions and help defray the costs of hosting the ECOL and TACL Academic Challenge tournaments at NPHS.
$500.00
Lois Victor - Central & East Elementary Schools
Communication: The Technology Connection
The purpose of this grant is to provide students with the most currently available strategies for developing communication skills. We have children with mild to severe communication deficits and the use of the iPad 2 will enhance learning for these students.
$499.00
Louanne Casini - South & West Elementary Schools
Enhancing Speech Therapy with iPad
iPad applications will be used in the assessment and treatment of communication deficits. iPad technology allows us to tap into therapies relating to articulation, language, grammar, communication, literacy and cognition.
$499.00
Nancy Cooke - York Elementary School
Daily 5 + 100 Books = Successful Reading
This program will give students the skills they need to increase fluency and reading comprehension. It will help them build stamina in reading independently. Students will learn to pick "just right" books for reading.
$432.97
Bridget Irvin - West Elementary School
Sensory Learning
Children learn best by having "hands on" experiences with materials, and sensory experiences are vital to children's learning. Our students will be able to experience different hands-on types of learning with the use of sensory items.
$498.40
Joyce Anderson and Julie Watson - South Elementary School
Read to Succeed
The purpose of this project is for emergent readers to become fluent readers. Strategies and concepts for independent reading will be reinforced and practiced through single and multiple copies of leveled books. Students will be exposed to both fiction and non-fiction books that improve reading and promote academic growth.
$500.00
Patty Riker - York Elementary School
Welcome to the 21st Century
An interactive white board will be used for students to gain practice in common core standards for math, reading, science, social studies, and twenty-first century skills. This project has hundreds of standards-related lessons and activities that will allow for another method of reaching children.
$500.00
Steve Eckert - Welty Middle School
Study Island
Study Island Middle School Technology is an online self-paced mini-course that emphasizes online safety, computer skills, telecommunications, ethical issues, and technology in society.
$368.00
Carleen Latchic - Welty Middle School
The Game of Life as an Active Learning Tool
Consumer & Financial Literacy class will use the Game of Life as an active learning tool to test drive different lives, make choices about career promotions, education and family. Students can track their choices in education, career, salary, life cards, transportation, housing, marriage, and kids on their LIFE worksheet and reinforce a variety of concepts.
$500.00
Chelle Bauer - Central Elementary School
Leap Into Learning
First grade students will leap into learning through the use of leveled readers to investigate basic concepts of science as stated in the Ohio Science Content Standards. Students will investigate science concepts through the use of leveled readers, writing activities and hands on activities in differentiated small group stations in the regular classroom setting.
$500.00
Deb Ketchum - Central Elementary School
Lights, Camera, Learning
This is a projection that is different from an overhead because it is 3-dimensional and live. It will allow for more students to view at the same time and in more detail what the teacher is teaching.
$399.00
Jacklyn Triplett - South Elementary School
Tales from the Pumpkin Patch
South Elementary will host a primary Literacy Night for students and families. The evening will include parents and children in kindergarten, first, and second grade. Volunteers from the community, PTO, and the teaching staff will collaboratively plan the night of reading adventures. A theme using pumpkins has been chosen.
$500.00
Sherri Norman - York Elementary School
100 Book Challenge
This reading challenge targets early primary students in kindergarten through second grade.
$500.00
Marsha Reed - York Elementary School
More Learning With MOBI
The MOBI is an interactive whiteboard system designed to support student-centered collaborative learning. It gives the teacher the freedom and flexibility to manage the class and deliver engaging lessons from anywhere in the room.
$449.00
Kandice Meek - New Philadelphia High School
OGT Calculators
Three classroom sets of OGT based calculators will be purchased with this grant. These are the only calculators allowed by the State Department of Education for use on the Ohio Graduation Tests. Students in regular and inclusion classes of Basic Geometry and College Prep Geometry will use the calculators.
$500.00
April Range- Central Elementary School
Soaring to Higher Levels
This grant will create class sets of a leveled reading library. It will provide students with the opportunity to learn, at their instructional level, to become successful readers.
$499.00