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| Recipient | Project Title/Description | Award |
2004-2005 |
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| Teresa M. Bitti Clawson High School 101 John M. Street Clawson, MI 48076 |
Literacy for All Students Literacy for All Students provides high school students with learning disabilities access to the general education curriculum through assisted technology. The goals of this project are to: (1) build student's confidence, (2) provide knowledge to organize their thoughts, and (3) build their vocabulary and word comprehension. |
$1,000 |
| Linda Johnson Crescent High School 9104 Hwy. 81 S. Iva, SC 29655 |
Dressed to Work Dressed to Work focuses on strengthening critical job skills to be successful in the world of work. The goals of this project are: (1) to prepare students to recognize the dress expectations associated with certain jobs (2) to prepare the students to exhibit appropriate work habit and behaviors (3) to prepare students to be responsible for personal hygiene and appearance. |
$1,000 |
2003-2004 |
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| Barbara Pfeiler Dubuque Senior High School 1800 Clark Dr. Dubuque, IA 52001 |
Organization Binder and Success in the Classroom Students each receive a binder to help their organization in general education classes. Organization strategies will be taught. Study skills teachers will also establish communication with parents to reinforce the study skills and use of the binder. |
$1,000 |
| Jodi Thurman and Gretchen Gerfen Hazelwood West Middle School #1 Wildcat Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042 |
Kids Are Readers The Read Naturally program will focus on speed of reading within a given passage, improve oral reading, and boost reading confidence. Improvement in comprehension will also be a focus. |
$1,000 |
| Christina Godard Biglerville Elementary School 3270 Biglerville Road Biglerville, PA 17307 |
Literacy Learning Kits: School to Home Connection Literacy kits will be developed and sent home with students who have been identified as needing intensive support to reach grade level benchmarks. These kits may include: KEEP BOOKS©, word study cards, making words mats, decoding notebook, games, writing folders. Parents will be trained to provide support at home. |
$1,000 |
| 2002-2003 |
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| Judith A. Erickson Leavenworth High School Basehor-Linwood High School Tonganoxie High School Leavenworth County Special Education Cooperative 730 First Terrace Lansing, KS 66043 |
Career Awareness and Employability is a transition program for students with learning disabilities. Although these students are employed, they are often underemployed in part-time entry-level jobs. This program will provide training that is crucial to the process of selecting obtaining, and maintaining employment. | |
| Marcia Donavan Fort Collins High School 3400 Lambkin Way Fort Collins, CO 80525 |
Supports for Success for Multisensory Structured Language Learners is a program for students reading below grade level. The program can be adapted throughout the four high schools in the district. Classroom learning centers will facilitate the small group reading instruction. Students will also learn to subscribe, order, and use recordings from Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic. | |
| Brenda Swanson Chamberlain High School 9401 North Boulevard Tampa, FLA 33612 |
Lessons in Human Rights and Dignity is a language arts project for learning disabled students. The focus of the project is the lessons learned in human rights and dignity while studying the story of Anne Frank. Students will be able to visit a Holocaust Museum and participate in a "Unity" Multicultural Assembly. | |
| Shelly McCoy Klenk Elementary / Epps Island Elementary Klein Independent School District 7200 Spring-Cypress Road Klein, TX 77379-3299 |
Basal, Waterford, or Saxon: Which Program Enhances Reluctant readers to Succeed? This project focuses on early intervention for reluctant readers using several intervention methods: Basal Reader, Basal Reader and Waterford Computer Program, and Basal Reader and Saxon Phonics Program. | |
| 2001-2002 |
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| Janet Tidwell Gaston School District PO Box 68 30 Park Street Gaston, OR 97119 |
Each Student Deserves REWARDS (A reading program validated by the Reading Excellence: Word Attack and Rate Development Strategies developed by Anita Archer. The target population is grade 7 through grade 12.) | $800 |
| Paul Morgan Dodson Elementary School 4401 Chandler Rd. Nashville, TN 37076 |
Leaping into Literacy! (A multisensory approach to teaching reading, writing, and research activities. The combined efforts of teachers, parents, and administrators will provide immediate and corrective feedback. Students will use LeapPads, an electronic tool that allows books to talk, to assist in reading exercises. Target population is grade 1 through grade 4.) | $1,000 |
| Jo Hubbard Bethesda Elementary School 525 Bethesda School Rd. Lawrenceville, GA 30044 |
United States History: Read All About It! (This approach to history encompasses the use of ability level instructional lessons to teach events in history. Instruction will be infused with pre-reading strategies, visual images to help with retention and recall of information, and mapping techniques to help students retain events in history. Target population is self-contained grades 4 and 5.) | $1,000 |
| Lyn Hoffmaster |
A Collaborative Model between a General Education Teacher and a Learning Disabilities Teacher (This project will involve the collaboration of special education teacher and a general education teacher. The focus will be on contextualized reading materials and integrated reading and spelling programs. Target population is grade 4.) | $1,000 |
| 2000-2001 |
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| Laurie Bickett |
"Math Manipulatives/Math Resources" | $1,000 |
| David W. Farah Rome City School District Support Services 112 East Thomas Street Rome, NY 13440 |
"From Here to There" | $600 |
| Florence Williams |
"Early Intervention to Prevent Reading Failure" | $600 |
| 1999-2000 |
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| Sandra Brueck 711 St. Joseph Ave. Berrien Springs, MI 49103 |
Reading is Key: Empowering Parents to Teach Their Children How to "Break the Code" | $1,000 |
| Patricia L. Hensley |
School Beautification: Landscaping for the Wren High School Self- Contained LD Students | $1,000 |
| June Utecht Stepney Elementary School 180 Old Newton Rd. Monroe, CT 06468 | Virtually "Volumize" Visual Processing | $750 |
| Ronni Waldman Easter Seal Demonstration School 1475 N.W. 14th Ave. Miami, FLA 33125 | Creative Cooking: Using Math, Reading, and Writing | $500 |
| Ella Karwowski Lincoln Park Middle School 2800 Lafayette Lincoln Park, MI 48146 | "Hands to Minds": Hands on Science Lab | $400 |
