Pond Cove School

Kids at the Center: Student Friendly Assessment Conferences
Tom Eismeier, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant will fund the hiring of substitute teachers in January in order to provide Pond Cove faculty the opportunity to meet with their students individually to review progress and set goals with writing as the focus but also including information about reading and math. The goal of these conferences is to convert information the teachers gather through classroom assessments to ﾓterms, strategies, and goals understandable and meaningful to children.ﾔ

$1,000.00

Pond Cove School

Therapeutic Horseback Riding
Morrigan Burns, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant continues a program funded by CEEF which enables students in the Pond Cove Elementary Life Skills program to participate in six therapeutic horseback riding lessons during school hours at Riding to the Top Therapeutic Horseback Riding Center.

$800.00

Pond Cove School

Fostering Motivation to Read in Reluctant Readers
Linda Alfiero, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant seeks to motivate reluctant 3rd and 4th grade readers by offering them the opportunity to select books for independent reading. The teacher plans to partner with Nonesuch Bookstore to offer students the opportunity to browse through newer selections of literature provided by the bookstore. Once students have made their choice of reading material, the teacher would then use funds to purchase those books. Hoped for outcomes would include increased student self selection of reading as a preferred activity; increased confidence in reading in content areas; improved reading skills as measured by reading assessments.

$800.00

Pond Cove School

Total Pond Cove School

$2,600.00

Middle School

CEMS Global Connections
Susan Dana, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant funds three activities related to the United Nations proclamation of 2008 as the ﾓInternational Year of Languagesﾔ. The three activities are a Multicultural Book Club, a special 2008 World Language Week, and a ﾓHear our Stories ﾓ Caf￩ and Lecture Series.

$2,850.00

Middle School

Think Like a King Guided Chess Program
CEMS/Maine Chess Club, Multiple Grade Levels
This proposal seeks to establish Chess as a competitive sport at the Middle School level by purchasing and introducing the Think Like a King Chess Educational Software Program and by providing a stipended educator to act as a chess coach. The grant asks for $2746 in the first year to supply the software, supplies and stipend; $848 in the second primarily for the teacher stipend; and $898 in the third year, again primarily for the teacher stipend and replacement materials.

$2,746.00

Middle School

Middle School Choral Program and Classroom Music
Rebecca Bean, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant provides funds to invite three musical performing groups into the middle school to perform and talk about their professional music careers. The three different groups represent an all male a cappella group; a local hip hop artist ; and a guitarist.

$1,500.00

Middle School

Japan: Integrated Unit for Grade 5
Kathy Walsh, 5th Grade
This grant provides funds to supplement a planned integrated unit on the culture, history, and aesthetics of Japan for the 5th grade. An MSPA grant will fund a visiting artist; the language arts curriculum will cover The Big Wave; the science and social studies teachers will also cover relevant aspects of Japan; and this grant provides funding for guest speakers/presenters to share knowledge of Japanese customs, traditions, schools, etc.

$1,200.00

Middle School

Total Middle School

$8,296.00

High School

World Affairs Council
Gretchen McNulty, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant provides ongoing support of a relatively new organization of students who meet biweekly with a structured agenda to plan and discuss issues of global importance. Students attend off site lectures, discussions and films; plan functions that involve speakers; and research and write papers for Model United Nations Conferences. Funds will purchase membership in the World Affairs Council of Maine; provide support for The People Speak(organizationﾒs community event); and help defray conference registration fees for students.

$4,850.00

High School

CEHS Environmental Club's Solar Panel Display
Susan Guerrette, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant allows the Environmental Club to install one small solar panel which will be hooked up to a computer displayed in a public area of the high school that will show how much energy is being turned from solar to energy usable for the school.

$2,500.00

High School

Government Interview Project
Ted Jordan, Multiple Grade Levels
This request provides funds to bring two consultants to the fall and spring semester Government classes who will train students on how to set up and conduct an interview. This instruction will then be utilized by the students to complete their Government Interview Project in which they research an agency, interview someone from that agency and use the information they have gathered to prepare an oral presentation for their class.

$1,580.00

High School

CEHS Music Club
Shawn Guerrette, Multiple Grade Levels
These funds will be used to purchase equipment that will launch the CEHS Music Club, a group with three main components: live performance, improvisation, and digital music.

$1,300.00

High School

High School Annual Art Awards
Mary Hart, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant provides funding to continue the tradition of awarding three student artists $100 toward the purchase of their artwork which is then framed and displayed permanently in the halls of the school. The artists are chosen by a jury of arts professionals based on work displayed during the annual student art show in May.

$600.00

High School

Total High School

$10,830.00

All Schools

Escapade
Mary Chris Bulger, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant continues CEEF's support of the mentoring program that matches students with disabilities with high school students and adults so that the younger students can participate in after school activities. Funds are used to support the training, supervision and support of mentors by Gail Schmader.

$2,000.00

All Schools

Cape Robotics
Evan Thayer, Multiple Grade Levels
This grant seeks to investigate the viability of a Pond Cove after school robotics program, enhance the full middle school program, provide travel costs for two high school robotics competitions and defray start up costs for a community robotics periodical.

$1,300.00

All Schools

Total All Schools

$3,300.00