| School/Department |
Project Title |
Description |
| Arlington Elementary – Becky Blanton |
Reading Level through Literacy Footprints |
Assessment kits to help identify instructional and independent reading levels for students to target instruction. |
| Booker T. Washington Elementary – Jennifer Baker |
STEM Activities for Preschool |
Developmentally appropriate preschool STEM materials. |
| Cassidy Elementary – Elisabeth Darce |
Literacy Footprints, Enhancing Guided Reading |
Guided reading system designed to teacc primary children to read and write. |
| Coventry Oak Elementary – Veronica Boller |
STEM Sewer Solutions for our Community |
STEM tools to design potential solutions to sewer problems and participate in community awareness initiatives. |
| District-wide: Student/Family Transition Support and Dropout Prevention |
Mentoring and Leadership Conference |
The conference will celebrate and motivate a generation of future leaders with a focus on boys of color. |
| Eastside Technical Center – Lisa Rudzinski |
VR for All |
Virtual reality program to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of our special populations while enhancing their career and technical education experience. |
| District-wide: Family and Community Engagement Office |
Violence Awareness and Prevention Project |
Collaborative project with community and school-level partners to bring anti-violence programming to our Title 1 schools. |
| Frederick Douglass HS – Tracy Bolinger |
Happy Medium: Teen Perspectives |
Student led discussion about relevant issues to work on active listening and increasing capacity to process and evaluate information presented from two differing points of view |
| Garden Springs Elementary – Kathleen Kiely |
Lego Spike Prime Kits |
Kits engage students to think critically and solve complex problems and help students learn the essential STEAM and 21st century skills needed to become the innovative minds of tomorrow. |
| Garden Springs Elementary – Kim McClure |
Re-Write Tablets |
Reusable writing tablet that requires no dry erase markers and uses a stylus for first graders. |
| Jessie Clark Middle School – Troy Chafin |
Project F.I.E.R.C.E |
Empower students to be successful, contributing members of society by applying current curriculum knowledge to real world financial applications in a club setting. |
| Lexington Traditional Magnet School – Lolita Cartwright |
M&M Mondays |
Mindfulness and Meditation Mondays will help students to increase focus, self-control, classroom participation, and compassion. |
| Mary Todd Elementary – Marisol Valles and Michael Jones |
International/LatinX Dance Team |
A dance team to celebrate students’ heritage and culture, music and the traditions of the various countries represented by our large, rich diverse LatinX and immigrant student population. |
| Mary Todd Elementary – Amanda Campbell |
Scholastic Storyworks WORKS |
Supplemental curriculum to help our teachers use materials that are engaging and better aligned to the updated state standards. |
| Mary Todd Elementary – Ashley Yazell and Michael Jones |
Vex Robotics |
Robotics club to expose students to critical thinking, math, engineering and problem solving abilities in a school that serves a very diverse group of students that are under-represented in the STEM field. |
| Rise STEM Academy for Girls – Kristen Witt |
Building and Coding Robots |
Scholars will work together to build a mindstorm robot. Then, they will learn to code their robot through mazes and to complete different actions. |
| Rise STEM Academy for Girls – Craig Schroeder |
Harnessing Solar Energy |
Explore the concepts of potential and kinetic energy, solar energy, the greenhouse effect, and salinity through investigation, designing, building and testing as well as creation of a public service announcement. |
| SCAPA – Julie Moore |
Engineering Gardening Solutions |
Project-based learning experience where students will be designing and 3D printing elements,to enhance our school’s gardening as well as researching and working within a budget. |
| Tates Creek HS – Joe Jenkins |
Gear Book Club |
Book club in which students read a book and complete Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) activities. |
| Tates Creek HS – Patricia Fitzpatrick |
Real World Clinical Lab |
Students enter the Medicaid Nurse Aide Lab and work as if in a real world setting donning a “uniform,” secure their hair according to industry standards, etc. while learning skills like electronic charting in a real medical environment. |
| Tates Creek HS – Laura Catherine Gallien |
TCHS ADHD Support Group |
Develop ADHD Support/Coaching Group for high school students diagnosed with ADHD (or in an evaluation process) to learncoping strategies with a focus on sharing successes, highlighting positive aspects of living with ADHD, and providing new research to families and teachers. |
| Veterans Park Elementary – Ashley Carter and Stacey Altwies |
Kindness Squad! |
Begin a Kindness Squad program where third graders will spread kindness around the school through a variety of literary projects. |
| Veterans Park Elementary – Jessica Ault |
With a focus on BRIGHT |
Purchase a giant light, interactive wall (like a Lite Brite) that invites students to learn through play and encourage them to use ingenuity. |
| William Wells Brown Elementary – Carrie Mulert |
C.O.L.T.S Time – school wide enrichment project based learning |
COLTS Time provides children with daily experiences that will expand knowledge, arouse curiosity, foster creativity, enhance social skills and nurture self-worth. |
| Winburn Middle School – Jenny McCall |
3D Printing & Project Based Learning in the PLTW Classroom |
Student create and print 3D designs and build an underwater robot that simulates deep space exploration. |
| Yates Elementary – Dawn Keith |
Makerspace |
Create innovative spaces in the Media Center and STEM Lab so all students have access to enriched curriculm and enhanced learning processes that nurture their imaginations and enhance academic proficiency. |
