This was one of our Teacher Grants awarded to Tara Bernier and the 4th Grade at QCE for Marshal Trimble the Official State Historian to visit Queen Creek Elementary.  ... Support the Education Foundation and enable more grants like this!

Each of the following teachers was awarded $300 for the Spring Semester.

Kathy Olmstead, from Queen Creek Middle School, will help her students by buying books that will allow them to work on their own autobiography. The students will be able to compile information for their autobiography, put the information on the computer and then print out their own autobiography book.

Linda Okonowski, from Queen Creek Elementary school will use her grant money for “Book Cooks.” Students will be introduced to different literature. They will do graphing, rhyming, punctuation, songs, and learning to follow directions and work together with the purpose of doing a recipe to cook with a theme that goes with a book and a lesson.

Mrs. Okonowski said; “It will give the students a variety of ways to learn the curriculum. They also will learn different objectives in each lesson. Each lesson will have reading, writing, math, thinking, following directions, social studies, science, and learning to work together, which is an important life skill.”

Kimberly Rutherford, also from Queen Creek Elementary, received her grant money for her students to learn “the life cycle of the chick.” During this project,...

On Wednesday, July 23 when the teachers returned to school, The Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation awarded two teacher grants.

Photo - L-R Scott Glandon, Tom Bidlack, Carolyn Vail

Three teacher grants awarded by The Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation
 
Three teachers received grants totaling $900 on Friday December 21, 2007.

L-R Stephanie Maynard, Environmental Science Teacher receives her check from
Tom Bidlack, President of Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation

Stephanie Maynard, a Science teacher from Queen Creek High School, received a $300 teacher grant to help her students study Environmental Science by creating in a controlled environment in the classroom an oil spill, and then study the effects it has on our environment and the cost factors that go into global warming and the cost of clean up from a natural disaster such as this.

 L-R Principal Laura Valenciano; Second Grade teacher Ann Adkins and Tom Bidlack

Ann Adkins, a second grade teacher from Jack Barnes Elementary School, received a $300 teacher grant for “Barnes Beautiful Butterflies.”

 The purpose of the Grant is to provide second graders with visuals to observe the complete metamorphosis of butterflies.

Meredith Relken, a Speech-Language Pathologist for Preschool children at Queen Creek Elementary School received a $300 teacher grant to be used for buying materials for an Adaptive Library for students with special needs. The students will have the opportunity to have literature and technology available to them to enhance their ability to participate as they explore literature.

On Friday, February 16, 2007 the Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation awarded two teacher grants in the amount of $200 each to Kathy Olmstead and Chantel Parsons from the Queen Creek Middle School.

Mrs. Olmstead, who is a Language Arts Teacher at the middle school, was awarded the grant for her project titled "Literature Circles." She will use the money to purchase novels to help the students increase their knowledge and skills in reading as well as helping their growth in preparing for the AIMS State Reading Test in the spring.

 Mrs. Parsons, who teaches Music and Drama at the Middle school, will use her grant money to purchase drums for her classroom with the goal to get students excited about music. This will allow the students to expand their opportunities in music and help add to the curriculum of the music department. With the purchase of these additional instruments, the students will work on creating their own compositions and demonstrate application of rhythms and drum playing by performing a variety of ensemble pieces.

The Foundation is proud to award these two grants at this time. In addition to these grants, the Foundation awarded three grants in the Fall and last year awarded a $1,000 student scholarship.

The first recipients of the Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation $100 Grants were awarded their grants on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at their schools.

CONGRATULATIONS to our Fall 2006 Teacher Grant winners:

• Elementary: Kshama Rosales – Frances Brandon Pickett – Early Intervention Program

• Middle School – Deb Short – Bullying / Harassment Prevention

• High School – James Brian Mabb – Spanish Picture Cards

A big THANK YOU to ALL of the Grant applicants for their applications. There will be another opportunity to apply for more grant monies at the beginning of the second semester.