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Teacher Innovation GrantsThe
following Teacher Innovation Grants were approved
April 17, 2007. #0307-04 Jack VanNoord, Middle School South Social Studies Teacher Social Studies Cuneiform Project: $293 This project combines history, linguistics, geography, archeology, art and problem solving. Students one year will set up the archeological dig sites by making hieroglyphic tablets, and the students next year will solve the project by excavating the archeological dig site set up by the previous year’s students. #0307-10 Tracy Albert, May
Whitney Art Teacher Purchase headphones and microphones to use with free Photo Story 3 software, and existing school laptops. Students import their own pictures and music into a storyboard while narrating the story with their own voice. #0307-12 Karen Jaffe, Middle School North Drama Teacher Purchase two digital camcorders and cables to enable students to record their dramatic performances and edit them into short films. This equipment can also be integrated into literature and social studies curriculum to create movies for classroom projects. #0307-19 Mary Dooms, Middle
School South 7th Grade Teacher Students will create and operate a small business, integrating Lit, LA, math and social studies curriculum. Supplies needed include production and packaging materials and miscellaneous supplies. Specific needs will be identified when students determine what product their company will manufacture. #0307-21 Riley Broach, Middle School North Orchestra
Director Students will create a fully produced album with composed music – self-composed and peer-composed, throughout the year, with a finished product available to the public near the end of the school year. Students will produce, engineer, record, perform and analyze their own digital recording. #0307-35 Justine Repplinger, Lake
Zurich High School Math Teacher The wireless system connects the student’s TI graphing calculators to the teacher’s computer, allowing instant communication between the teacher and the individual student. Calculator entries from the entire class can be viewed simultaneously and feed back received from each student.
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Grants
& Projects An innovative approach to education requested and designed by a specific certified staff member to be implemented in their classroom/educational setting—but may be adaptable for other settings in the District in the future. A Project is: Impacts more than one classroom or
school, with the capability of impacting
as many District students as possible. |