Education Grant Recipients – 2010
 Chris Carraway | Howell Care Ctr |
Promethean (Smart) board as a teaching aid for medically fragile/developmentally disabled children that live at our residential facility. Ages Pre-Kindergarten to 4th grade. Here they are exposed to every content area (Mathematics, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science). Will help increase student’s attention to lesson, gain new skills through hands-on, and build knowledge in the content areas of language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. |
 Jayne Fisher | Creekside Elementary |
Developmental Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Other Health Impaired or Severe and Emotional Disabilities. Reading Fundations kits for Levels K-2 but in the kits only one of each item for reading groups of 5-6 children. Kits make the reading program more hands-on and individualized to each of the student’s special needs for communication, vision, cognitive, motor and social/emotional disabilities. |
 Ellen Moore | HB Sugg Elem |
Provide simple nonfiction texts to reinforce skills in English/language arts, math, science, and social studies for Exceptional Children in Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Scholastic produces two classroom magazines, Scholastic News-Grade 1 and Let’s Find Out, which can fulfill this goal. These high interest weekly issues provide a wealth of information about the student’s world, help vocabulary, practice in phonics and comprehension skills, and application of math skills to real life situations. Scholastic also provides online editions for differentiated reading levels, videos which activate prior knowledge and prepare the student for reading, and mini-vocabulary slide shows which introduce new vocabulary. Big Books, which can be laminated and used in classroom libraries for years to come, are also included. Low cost and highly useful! |
 Rhonda Phipps | Wahl-Coates Elem |
Motor delays, verbal communication disabilities, some visually impaired, cognitively impaired. Pair objects and pictures with words to either look at or touch. Planning on using objects paired with popular children’s literature to increase vocabulary and practice communication skills. Able to choose an object that is requested, make choices between objects and simply become familiar with the objects to increase vocabulary. Also allow parents to check out these materials to use at home with their children. Funding will allow big books and the objects to represent the stories to carry out this project. |
 Charles Lowman & Elizabeth StrathernPitt County HUGS Program |
H.U.G.S. is a component of EC Preschool Services. program consists of four classrooms with 24-32 children, ages 3-5 years who have autism and related spectrum disorders. Plan to provide educational resources to support activities of daily living, community integration, increased awareness of individualized strengths, interests, and needs. The equipment and supplies will be available to all students on-site, and used within the context of their daily schedule. The project will provide opportunities to confront their challenges, develop a greater confidence through conquering fears within a secure environment. |
 Wesley Trump | Sam D Bundy |
Intellectually Disabled Moderate benefit from high interest/ low vocabulary readers to practice their increasing reading skills to their parents. funding for two sources of “at home” reading materials. “Keep Books” from OSU have repetition, large print and fit smaller hands. We Are Authors! books made right here in class teachers take pictures of the students involved in special activities such as science experiments, class picnics, cooking activities, etc. Together as a class choose pictures for books and everyone helps formulate the story that goes along with the pictures. The students cannot seem to wait to take these home and read them to their parents. With an additional class camera, the students themselves would be able to learn to take pictures of activities in our classroom and download them to use in our class books. In order to make these books last, we laminate the pages before we send them home to be used over and over again. |
 Bobbie Wood | Benson Elem |
K-4 cross-categorical exceptional children’s classroom. Students have different needs and learn differently. Plan to reinforce the concepts they have learned with hands-on access, visual representation, and technology. Integrating Leapster 2’s into center activities. It would also increase motivation in my learners, allowing my students a different way to view and explore concepts and skills we have learned and will be learning. Able to work independently in centers while applying critical thinking and problem solving skills through the use of the software programs purchased for these devices. |