Current Grants

Grants of 2009

It is with much pleasure that we announce the awards from the Salem Education Foundation. The foundation received 92 eligible applications for consideration and fully or partially funded 65 for a total of $36,977.05. These projects will be implemented during the 2009-2010 school year.

Bates Elementary School
Kim Rae Jolie, MA, CCC/SLP Using Specialized Software to Improve Students’ Writing Skills $375.00
Eleanor King School/Home Partnerships Book Bags Part 3 $375.00
Ann Berman Can You Feel the Rhythm? $139.23
Ann Berman Have You Heard Those 3rd Grade Recorder Players? $124.45
Bentley Elementary School
Kevin Andrews and Mariann Mehr Books Alive! Literacy with Puppets $250.00
Maryellen Stone The Ives Award
We Both Read – Parents and Children Reading Together
$375.00
Marlene Turner The Art of China $185.00
Kevin Andrews The Dominion Salem Harbor Station Award
Sensing, Measuring and Graphing Data from our Environment
$732.00
Amy Copp Streams in the Second Grade $475.56
Carla Meagher and Erin Cherry The Magic of Signing $557.00
Marsha Feffer and Kathleen Boucher Let’s Go Fly a Kite! $747.25
Carlton Elementary School
Elizabeth Lutts Science Court $278.64
Anne Leblanc and Laurie Mendoza Fit for Travel, Next Stop Salem $350.00
Mary Tuttle Taking Art to the Streets, Playgrounds, Parking Lots or Green Spaces $689.37
Laurie Mendoza and Mike Lister Planet Protectors $650.00
Jenifer Aldrich and Mary Tuttle The Science of the Arts $708.89
Collins Middle School
Roger Perham Vernier Motion Probes for Technical Education $431.21
Bonnie Muse Praise for Literature $300.00
Spiridoula Politis Fabric of our Lives $250.00
Spiridoula Politis Painting with the Masters $400.00
Cheri Saltzman Francophone Festival $300.00
Ellen Finn Fun With World Percussion $688.00
Oscar Lazo The Little Zoo of Survivors $750.00
Ruth Henrickson and Martha Tierney Chariots of the Sun $650.00
Stephen Choate Kite Manufacturing $748.00
Bob Brown Gravity Race Car Challenge $749.33
Stephen Choate Clock Manufacturing $750.00
Collaborative
Alyce Davis Rainy Day Activities for School Readiness $500.00
Carl Thomsen for HMLS, Bates and WHES Legends School Program – Salem Expansion $2,250.00
Horace Mann Laboratory School
Donna Pelletier and Dianne O’Donnell Kids, Community and College Connections $375.00
Mary Cura and Linda Farinelli Reading Success for All: At Risk Readers Read $749.55
Nathaniel Bowditch Elementary
Benjamin Chertok Bowditch Meets The BSO $320.00
Heather Burke Now We’re Reading! $749.00
Benjamin Chertok Stomp, Boom, Blast $350.00
Seton Wood A (PVC) Pipe Dream $750.00
Anne Hayes Propaganda Project $385.00
Salem Academy Charter School
Robert Pelletier History Day $202.13
Stephanie Coats Ancient Civilizations, Past to Present $749.50
Chris Maniachi Turbulence: America ’s 19 th Century Paradigm Shift $750.00
Shamus Mruk The Hawthorne Hotel Award
History Alive! The Salem Community Primary Source Project
$750.00
Todd Schumacher Hands and Feet on the World: A Geography Energizer $750.00
Salem High School
Meghan Martin “What Makes You Tick?” $605.64
Kacie Fyrberg Healthy Start for Teens $375.00
Jill Kalowinski and Lori Marenda Maus I & II Teaching the Holocaust & Toleration $406.80
Kenneth Wilson Untitled – Life Skills/Vocational $500.00
Susan Mickey Learning the Language of Science $750.00
Cynthia Napierkowski and Sushila Day Watch, Listen and Learn $750.00
Terri Russo Vocational Business for Life Skills Students $600.00
Allyson Bachta Food Production Methods using Cell Functions $737.00
Janis Lavine Visiting Artist Collaboration in Paper Art $735.00
Janis Lavine Environmental Art Indoors and Outdoors $706.00
Jennifer Toler The Rick Guttenberg AwardSalem Travel Poster $750.00
Jesse Stansfield Camera Obscura $745.50
Kenneth Wilson Untitled – Tech Ed $695.00
Danielle J. Marquis Astronomy: Making the Intangible….tangible $749.90
Danielle J. Marquis Hands on Plate Tectonics $411.85
Saltonstall Elementary School
Melissa Horemiotis, Katherine Gasper, Jan Morris, Adrianna Lopez, Susan Morgenstern and Cindy Hatcher The Dance of the Simple Machines $750.00
Felice Kachinsky, Darryl Huntington and Sue Brown Justice and Humanity $750.00
Nalani Fujiwara Tuning in to the Music $300.00
Kathryn DiPietro Exit Portfolio $550.00
Katherine Gasper The Betsy Award
Weaving Tradition in Our Lives
$350.31
Katherine Gasper Worms , continued $149.94
Julie Carter and Daryl Huntington Project Adventure for Middle Schoolers $750.00
Susan J Brown, Pam Schorr, Rich Stafford and Susan Spang Africa and America — Our Roots in History $750.00
Witchcraft Heights Elementary
Kristen Clark, Jocelyn Sheahan and Kathy Karch The Stephen O’Grady Award
Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum
$450.00