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CLASSROOM GRANTS

The Foundation Board of Directors has long realized that a relatively small investment of $500 can transform a good lesson into an excellent learning experience with far reaching impact.  The Bay Education Foundation will have, by the end of this year, helped build skills in 43,000 people, our students, by awarding over $350,00 in $500 grants to 1,100 teachers in the last twenty years.

Excellence in Education Mini-Grants Evaluation Form
Evaluations Due:  June 1, 2010
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Junior Service League and Bay Education Foundation Award $20,000 in Excellence in Education Grants
 
The Junior Service League and the Bay Education Foundation announce awards totaling $20,000 to Bay District teachers to improve academic performance in local schools.   The special program provides grants of $500 to teachers who design innovative projects to enhance learning in their classroom. Teachers and other educators throughout the district are eligible to compete for these mini-grants.
 
The projects funded this year focus on improving literacy skills for students and raising achievement for underperforming students.   “The Junior Service League loves helping children,” said Candace Leebrick, Chairman of the Excellence in Education Grant Committee. “We’re excited that these projects will impact more than four thousand kids this year.” 
 

Grant recipients will implement their programs from December 2009-May 2010. Grant recipients include Heather Fox, Katy Svitenko, Marilyn Smith, Nancy Williams (Bay High School); Janice Lucas, Judy Hughes, Nichole Linvill, Toni Luciow (Everitt Middle School); Cindy Peacock (Hiland Park Elementary School); Ashley Christie (Merriam Cherry Street Elementary School); Diane Wishart, Julie Cook (Mowat Middle School); Kari Moseley (New Horizons Learning Center); Michelle Creel (Oakland Terrace Middle School); Rebekah Wishart, Sebrina Burke, Charlotte Blue (Parker Elementary School); Anna Hull (Patronis Elementary School); Richard Johnson (Rosenwald High School); Ann Everett, Deborah Street, Salley Kelley, Kelly Raby (Southport Elementary School); Susan Sanders (Springfield Elementary School); Marsha Rockhill (St. Andrew School); Denise Phillips (Surfside Middle School); Mary Frank Sheesley (Tommy Smith Elementary School); Pamela Moseley (Tyndall Elementary School); and Ashley Williams, Dee Schmidt, Leigh Brannon (Waller Elementary School).

“We appreciate the opportunity to partner with the Junior Service League,” said Beth Deluzain, Executive Director of the Bay Education Foundation, “and we’re convinced these funds will make a difference in classrooms."

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  LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS

  
Pictured: Ashley Williams, Michelle Creel, Cindy Guerry, Margaret Gamble; BEF Arts Committee Chairman Scott Bowman; Cathy Irby; Jessica Hughson; Mary Sheesley; and Heidi Easley  

 You can buy a lot of paint and clay with $4,500, and you can excite a lot of children when you use these materials to promote literacy. 

 The Bay Education Foundation and the Bay County Art Teachers’ Association announced winners of the second annual Literacy through Visual Arts Classroom grants competition today. Nine teachers received $500 each to integrate literacy and visual arts in their classrooms. 
 
Grant recipients include Margaret Walters Gamble and Cathy Irby (Bay Haven); Marsha Rockhill (St. Andrew); Jessica Hughson (Patronis); Carolyn Sickerman (Everitt); Mary Sheesley (Tommy Smith); Cindy Guerry (Patterson); Ashley Williams (Waller); Heidi Easley (Breakfast Point); and Michelle Creel (Oakland Terrace). 
 
“We believe in arts education, “said Bay Education Foundation President Ronnie Adams, “and we partner with the community to raise money for these classroom grants.”  
 
In conjunction with the annual Best of Bay Student Art Show, The Bay Education Foundation conducts a student art sale and an art auction to raise funds to reinvest in art education. Community sponsors of this program include Bay District Schools, the Visual Arts Center, Knology, Marcum Consulting, Steve Southerland, Marilyn Fenimore, Chuck Thiele, and P, B, S, & J. 
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