| 2008 REF Health & Wellness Grant Awards | |||||||
| # | Title | Description | Applicant | School | Grade | Amount Granted | |
| 1 | DVDs for Health and Advanced Health Classes | Purchase DVDs to replace outdated resources (alternative medicine, inhalants, emotional health) and add newer, current health topics that promote health & wellness (advertising, media and health, binge drinking, sexual harassment). | Peggy Filer | Cedarcrest | 9-12 | $ 591.36 | |
| 2 | CHS Physical Education New Curriculum: Lacrosse | Purchase 24 Lacrosse sticks and 4 goals to start a Lacrosse program in order to expand the Team Sports PE curriculum | Chelsea Redfield | Cedarcrest | 9-12 | $ 927.18 | |
| 3 | Adapted Bike | Purchase adaptive biking for pre-school to elementary age students with developmental & physical disabilities, in order to allow them access to the health benefits of bike riding and support their physical education, mobility, and leisure skill development | Marty Heneghan | Preschool, Cherry Valley, & Stillwater Elementary (District-wide) | preschool - 5th grade | $ 3,000.00 | |
| 4 | Tchoukball for All Ages & Abilities | Purchase a Tchoukball Starter Kit, game balls, and practice balls to enhance the PE curriculum | Kent Christensen | Tolt | 6-8 | $ 789.13 | |
| 5 | Adult Trike for use with Special Needs Students | Purchase an adult 3-wheeled coaster bike with front hand brakes. Bike will be available for all students in classroom to ride. Bike will have adapted fixtures (trunk support for body on seat, foot rests to secure feet on pedals). | Jeannine Luce | Tolt | 6-8 | $ 1,017.45 | |
| 6 | Functional Training Needs | Purchase Functional Training equipment, including an ABC ladder, resistance speed training harness devices, and Olympic squat pads for weight training. | Micah Rieke | Cedarcrest | 9-12 | $ 1,160.15 | |
| Total H&W Grants Awarded | $ 7,485.27 | ||||||
| 2008 REF General Grant Awards | |||||||
| # | Title | Description | Applicant | School | Grade | Amount Granted | |
| 1 | Performance Arts/Reader's Theater Scripts | Purchase sets of Reader's Theater Scripts for 2nd graders of different reading abilities, to allow emergent & beginning readers to participate in performances | Jamie Latta | Cherry Valley | 2 | $ 266.78 | |
| 2 | A History of US - Making Thirteen Colonies | Purchase 80 copies of the textbook A History of US to supplement the current history curriculum | Kait Teachout | Cherry Valley | 5 | $ 1,031.80 | |
| 3 | Bilingual Books for Students & Parents | Purchase Spanish bilingual non-fiction books for school library to help students and families strengthen their reading & communication skills | Nelda Brangwen | Cherry Valley | 5 | $ 543.00 | |
| 4 | Creative Workstations: Workstations within the Classroom that Encourage Different Independent Skills, Educational Skills, and Functional Academics | Purchase hardware, hands-on manipulatives, strategy games, tools and puzzles for workstations within the classroom that enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, and independence readiness activities in special education students | Leslie Johnson | Cedarcrest | 9-12 | $ 500.00 | |
| 5 | CHS Music Department Portable Sound System Upgrade | Purchase new amplifier, speakers, cables, "peak" absorption unit, & microphones for the Music Department (including students, staff, and community members) to allow high-quality live performances and recordings | Cody Chriest, Kellen Fox, Ryan Lewis | Cedarcrest | 9-12 | $ 3,036.26 | |
| 6 | Listening & Reading Centers for Struggling Readers & English Language Learners | Purchase 2 cassette/CD player/recorders with headphones to set up listening centers to benefit struggling readers and ELL students (Title I for CE & LAP for CVE) | Sandy Rodgers | Carnation & Cherry Valley | 1-5 | $ 1,319.25 | |
| 7 | Social Studies and Science Leveled Texts | Purchase leveled non-fiction books to allow students at various reading levels to access information about Social Studies & Science | Cindy O'Dannel, Lisa Renahan | Carnation | K-5 | $ 2,500.00 | |
| 8 | Amazing Americans Biographies | Purchase a set of biography books for various reading levels for the school library, and an LRC storage container, to stimulate learning & supplement existing curriculum | Joan Turchin | Carnation | 2-5 | $ 518.41 | |
| 9 | Tinker Plots | Upgrade "Tinker Plots Dynamic Data Exploration" software license from a 10-user site to a 50-user site license, to allow more teachers & students access to the resource. | Janet Laverne | Tolt | 8 | $ 581.95 | |
| 10 | Geometer's Sketchpad | Upgrade "Geometer's Sketchpad" software license from a 10-user site to a 50-user site license, to allow more teachers & students access to the resource. | Amie Miller | Tolt | 6-8 | $ 581.95 | |
| 11 | Bringing Literature Alive for Young Readers | Purchase 1 cassette/CD player/recorder with headphones, 1 Read-along storage units, and 1 Read-along sets to enhance the listening & reading centers in kindergarten classrooms | Vanessa Hair, Cody Crane | Carnation | K | $ 941.00 | |
| 12 | Science & Social Studies Education DVD | Purchase relevant & up-to-date science and social studies DVDs to enhance and synthesize concepts and strateties | Ann Marchel, Dianna Labate | Stillwater | 5 | $ 745.47 | |
| 13 | Phonemic Awareness Educational Video Set Produced by PBS | Purchase a phonemic awareness video series to enhance the literacy program for Kindergarteners, 1st graders, some 2nd graders, LAP, and ELL students. | Cathy Carlson | Stillwater | K-1, LAP, Special Ed, ELL | $ 650.00 | |
| 14 | Enhancing the Second Grade Social Studies Curriculum | Purchase Social Studies trade books on 2 curriculum units for four 2nd-grade classrooms to enhance the social studies curriculum. | Kara
Eichels-doerfer |
Stillwater | 2 | $ 1,000.00 | |
| 15 | New Merriam-Webster Dictionaries for Language Arts Classes to meet WASL Requirements | Purchase class sets of dictionaries for 5 Language Arts classrooms. | Lorna Barth | Tolt | 6-8 | $ 552.00 | |
| 16 | Novels for use in Literature Circles in an 8th Grade Language Arts Classroom | Purchase high-interest & challenging novels for literature circle activities. Grant would provide 2 novel sets. | Matt Stewart | Tolt | 8 | $ 344.00 | |
| 17 | All the World's a Stage! | Purchase a quality sound system for the stage at Stillwater Elementary. System would include powered speakers, a mixer board, wireless microphones, and other equipment. | Amy Wright, Karin Llyr | Stillwater | K-5 | $ 2,000.00 | |
| 18 | Biology Education - A "Cut" Above | Purchase dissection tools, dissection trays, and specimens to augment the current biology curriculum. | Kellie Halverson | Cedarcrest | 10 | $ 1,545.00 | |
| 19 | Listening to Literacy | Purchase 18 portable CD players, 18 headphones, and books with corresponding CD's to enhance reading skills in Kindergarten & 1st grade students | Roxanne Luchini | Cherry Valley | K-1 | $ 1,041.00 | |
| 20 | "Playing" Around in Second Grade: Using Theater to Enhance Curriculum | Purchase professionally produced musical play kits for student performances. Kits include scripts, directions, and a musical accompaniment CD. | Kate Brougham, Kay Smoke | Carnation | 2 | $ 189.00 | |
| 21 | Building Better Readers Between School & Home | Purchase leveled books to supplement the school's "Take Home" Reading Program, allowing families to monitor their child's reading progress and have access to books at a "just right" level. | Jenni Mickelson | Cherry Valley | 1 | $ 1,306.80 | |
| 22 | Multilingual Gifts: A Carnation Celebration | Purchase bilingual books and games to set up a muliticultural books & games cart, to support both bilingual & mainstream students by deepening cultural understanding through play. | Ellen Irion | Carnation | Preschool - 12th Grade | $ 938.83 | |
| 23 | Getting School Ready - Supporting Families in Successful Transitions to Kindergarten | Purchase Lake Shore Take-Home Learning Packs in English & Spanish for parents and books for a Spanish/English library to help families support their child's development and prepare their child for Kindergarten. | Barbara Toledano | Carnation Elementary & Stepping Stone Preschool | Birth to Kinder-garten | $ 1,128.21 | |
| 24 | Wild West Math Software | Purchase a site license for math skills reinforcement software for the school computer lab, in order to improve math WASL scores | Sharon Nelson | Stillwater | 2-6 | $ 869.86 | |
| 25 | Essential Skills Software Program | Purchase the Essential Skills software program for the Life Skills classroom, providing differentiated activities to support classroom instruction in basic skills for special education students. | Jeannine Luce | Tolt | 6-8 | $ 556.12 | |
| 26 | Portable Digital Keyboard | Purchase a digital keyboard for the band program, to use for both computer music applications and jazz band rehearsal & performance | Julie Werth | Tolt | 6-8 | $ 452.50 | |
| 27 | Seeds, Sprouts & Supplies | Purchase seeds and equipment to set up an indoor greenhouse to enhance the school curriculum. Students will be involved in all aspects of the greenhouse maintenance & design. | Deborah Edwards | ERMA | K-5 | $ 363.91 | |
| Total General Grants Awarded | $ 25,503.10 | ||||||
| 33 Total REF Grants Awarded | Grand Total | $32,988.37 | |||||