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Park City Education Foundation Awards $45,700 for 2011-2012 Teacher Grants

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Jeremy Ranch Elementary School

• Adaptive Tricycle & Cycling Program - Susan Boone & Julie Lonczak, Special Education. $1,245 .The adaptive tricycle increases fitness, promotes motor planning, influences behavior, and provides a peer-appropriate activity that may be used during class time, PE, or recess.

McPolin Elementary School

• Spanish Language Library – Melissa Bott with Mona Lesar, Reading. $4,800. Spanish reading books for both native and non-native Spanish-speakers, to introduce foreign language and create true bilingual proficiency among Spanish-speaking students.

Parley’s Park Elementary School

• 2nd Grade Science Program - Tricia Perkins, Science. $1,455. Increase science experiences through hands-on activities by assembling science tubs that are complete with lesson plans and materials.

Trailside Elementary School

• Kindles for Classrooms - Ben Kahn, with Michelle Owen, Terry Daenitz, and Lorrie Mirams, Reading. $3,864. Funds 7 Kindles per 5th grade classroom. Kindle e-readers will be used for guided reading and literacy circles increasing comprehension and fluency of every title read.
• iPads for Kinder Reading and Math Curriculum - Susan Minneci, Nancy Langford, and Mark Etheridge, Reading and Math. $3,146. Funds 6 iPads to use during small group direct instruction time. Implement growing number of educational applications to supplement current literacy and math curriculum.
• Balance Ball Chairs - Heidi Kaiserman and Krista Ingle. $500($4,714.00 requested.) Funds balance ball chairs. Studies show sitting on balance ball chairs channels extra energy to keep students bodies balanced, which in turn helps them concentrate more on their teachers, tasks, and tests. 

Ecker Hill Middle School

• The Shoe Tree Book - Deborah DeKoff, Writing. $500. Students create books using literary language and student art depicting the Park City icon, the Shoe Tree. The books will be published via LuLu.com, and student authors would have the opportunity to share the book with students in the elementary schools, leaving a copy of the book behind.
• Gizmos...On-Line Interactive Simulations for Math and Science - Nancy Krivick, Tricia Jackson, Science and Math. $7,815 for three years. Funds a website subscription that simulates math and science concepts and experiments. Students experience real life situations that help them develop a deeper understanding of concepts through inquiry and exploration. Ability for teacher to differentiate the experience.
• Home/School Connection - Elisabeth Wadman, Special Education. $700. Program hopes to build a strong, trusting relationship that bridges the gap between classes and events at Ecker and its ESL parents. Meeting with parents on a regular basis, at locations where many families live, will help parents understand how Power School, Canvas, and other resources work, enabling them to continue to be involved in their child's education.
• FIRST Lego League After School Program - Celeste Cohorn, CTE. $4,500($10,000 requested). Provides students with the opportunity to compete to design and build a robot from Legos and motors, program the robot to complete missions, and prepare and present a research project with real-world application.
• Utah Formative Writing Assessment - Liz Thompson, Emily Sutherland, Laura Todd, and Sam Thompson, Writing. $2,000($2,500 requested). Provides more writing opportunities through UFWA, an online writing program that allows students to submit writing and receive immediate feedback and scores. The program will be used at least once a month in Language Arts classes.

Treasure Mountain Junior High School

• Clay Extruder for Ceramics Program - Pam Strong, Art. $368. The clay extruder helps create uniform coils for students working with ceramics. Saves time, leaving students more opportunity for creativity.
• ScreenFlow Software - Julie hooker, Andrea Payne, Mark Parker, Michele Dieterick, Ari Fishman, Megan Zarnetske, Andy Coleman, Virginia Skeffington. $792. ScreenFlow allows teachers to create video to supplement classroom instruction online via CANVAS and LIFESIZE, supporting the on-to-one initiative and facilitates online coursework and distance learning.
• Park City Walking Tour App Creation - Shannon Hase, Social Studies. $4,200($10,000 requested). Funds a club, eventually to become a class, to create, document,, and facilitate an App. The App is a walking tour that will include both current and past images of historic buildings in and around Park City. Students will be responsible for images, writing small narratives regarding the structures, creating content, and eventually running updates and operation.
• Nystrom Digital Online Atlas - Leslie Stark, Emily Gaudet, Zac Zumbrunnen, Shannon Hase, Tim Jeffrey, Social Studies. $2,556. Funds web-based software which allows all Social Studies students to work with, manipulate, and layer maps in History and World Geography. Students and teachers will have access to an up-to-date map that actively engages students in a multi-layered world and to easily share content and collaborate in new innovative ways.

Park City High School

• The Latino Leadership Scholarship - Anna Williams, with Holly Ray at TMJHS. $500. A scholarship incentive plan that will increase Latino academic performance by empowering and engaging students in classes and activities that have been previously dominated by mainstream students. Offering the highest performing Latinos a scholarship at the end of each grade(9 - 12), will greatly motivate the students to accomplish at advanced levels during secondary school and beyond.
• Senior Photo Project - Anna Williams and Ali Webb, ELL. $500. Funds a cross-disciplinary photo exhibit of the ELL Senior Class. The project consists of black and white portraits of each senior, accompanied by a self-penned six word poem titled, "My Future in Six Words."
• Elmo Document Cameras - Ali Webb, ESL. $1,000. Funds the purchase of one Elmo Document Camera for PCHS's two ESL classrooms. The cameras enhance teaching and learning by allowing teachers and students to display text, share work, make corrections in front of the class, and help students with tracking while reading.
• CanoScan LiDE200 - Matt Nagel, Technology. $1,800. In anticipation of the high school's 1:1 computing and new Learning Management System, CANVAS, teachers will have an efficient way to digitize existing teaching materials so they can be utilized in the digital learning environment. This funds two CanoScan LiDE200 Scanners per academic department.
• Student Filmmaking Grants - Jeff Hill, Media. $4,000. The role of the producer and business aspect of filmmaking will be recreated with funds awarded to students only after they write a grant for a short film. Students will formulate a business plan and budget for equipment, software, tools, and materials. The equipment bought with these funds will stay with the program and will continue to benefit the program.

Park City Learning Center

• Active Community Members - Tessie Palczynski, Special Educaion. $1,300. Funds Jupiter Bowling trips once a month for 8 months. These trips are age appropriate social and community activities that help students as they move from on-campus, school-based activities, to off-campus independent living, vocational, family, and community based activities.
• iPads for Science - Jenny Polloczek, Science. $2,400. Purchase 4 iPads for use in the science classroom to facilitate group interactions and improve outcomes on the Biology Core test. iPads also help students visualize and learn by creating group presentation through the free Apps "Show Me" and "Kahn Academy."