Excellence in Education Foundation
Spring 2013 Grants
Carol Lawson (P.L.), Jean Ann Strong Charleston High School
Title of Proposal: “F.Y.I.” Grant Award: $ 386.00
In the fall of 2010 the CHS Class of 1959 donated a digital marquee to be placed on the school grounds of Charleston High School. The software came pre-loaded with some displays which included a small section for education. The approval of this grant application will expand the software of digital displays that are suitable for the messages we share on the marquee.
Lou Conwell, Suzie Bosler
Title of Proposal: Books, Books, Books!
Carl Sandburg Elementary
Grant Award: $ 1,500.00
This project requests funds to purchase print and electronic books for third grade students at Carl Sandburg. Through the purchase of additional resources, multiple copies of texts will be available. Multiple copies of texts will be motivating for book discussion groups, and allow teachers to plan effectively for the instruction of many types of student groups. The use of ebooks will also increase student learning and make available an increased number of reading materials. The ebooks can be used with all netbooks, computers, Smartboards, and the newly acquired tablet computers
(recently made available through a building-wide grant). District curriculum and new
Common Core Standards contain rigorous standards. Technology use is increasingly important as a motivational tool to increase student learning. This grant will provide a diverse group of learners with reading resources which will help students increase their reading abilities and more reading opportunities.

Excellence in Education Foundation
2013 Large Grants
Rudyard C. Watson, Cindy Hager, Mandie
Hildebrand, Scarlet Conley, Stephanie Habing,
Teresa Beck, Pamela Paul, Marylee McGee
Title of Proposal: iPad Integration for Speech-
Language Therapy in the Schools
Jefferson Elementary
Grant Award: $4999.52
Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) across the nation have seen some dramatic changes since incorporating iPads into their therapy. The CUSD #1 Speech-Language
Pathologists are eager to join this growing movement in the field of communication disorders and integrate this new technology into their daily therapy practices. This project would entail the purchase of 8 iPad tablet computers, one for each of the speech-language pathologists in Charleston. The iPads would be used in all buildings in the school district and with all age groups who present with a wide variety of communicative deficits. The cutting edge technology of the iPad has tremendous clinical potential to improve our student’s learning experience in therapy. Some of these opportunities may include visual/interactive speech therapy materials, exploratory learning through web based content and applications, as well as provide exciting technological experiences for students who may not have this opportunity in their home environment. The Otterbox cases would be purchased to protect the iPads. The iTunes gift cards would be used to buy relevant speech-language (S-L) applications.
Tyler Hanner
Title of Proposal: Classroom Graphing Calculators
Charleston High School
Grant Award: $ 3,499.15
The ability to have a graphing calculator in the classroom opens up the possibilities to extend what we are teaching to a much higher level. The graphing calculator lets us explore concepts that we may skip, due to time it would take to perform certain functions, such as graphing parabolas and doing work with statistics. A classroom set of
30 would ensure that all of my students could have one in their hands and do higher level work than they can do right now. And in the future, I would love to purchase equipment that goes along with the graphing calculators to perform authentic experiments and activities to highlight what I am teaching. Also included in this will be a storage container that can store and transport the calculators to various teachers as well as the TI-Smartview program that allows teacher to display a graphing calculator on our smartboards for all students to see and follow along.