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Town of Bethel
Bethel Public Schools

 
Funded Projects

The following grants have been submitted and preliminarily approved by the grant committee.  These grants have met the criteria set forth by the grant committee and are deemed worthy of approval.

 

TEACHER

SCHOOL

BRIEF GRANT DESCRIPTION

PROPOSED AMOUNT REQUESTED

AMOUNT GRANTED

12/2007

Rod Doble

Bethel Middle School

Implementing music technology in the area of arranging/composition/film-scoring with students in grades 6-12

$1000.00

$1000.00

12/2007 Emma Anderson and Emily Albin Bethel High School Pre-school program $832.00 $832.00

12/2007

Kara Dolan and Karen Wilson

Circle of Friends

“Say Cheese Please!” Children will use disposable cameras to take pictures that they will in turn use to orally discuss, write about, and make a book to practice beginning reading skills. 

$450.00

$450.00

12/2007

Joseph Sencen

Bethel High School

Chemistry students will assist students from the ASD to design and build 5 different pieces of science equipment.

$2676.00
(teacher has funding for the additional monies)

$2000.00

12/2007

MaryAnn Kellogg

Berry/Rockwell Gifted/Talented/
Enrichment K-5

“To have Soil or Not to Have Soil-That Is the Question” Using Aerogardens, 2nd graders across both schools will experience growing plants without soil. 

$1025.00

$1025.00

12/2007

Casey Regan

Rockwell School

Utilizing digital cameras, students will take pictures to then use as springboards for authentic literacy experiments.

$2000.00

$2000.00

12/2007

Maureen DeBlois

 

Berry/Rockwell/
Johnson

Implementing technology in the area of music to evaluate and assess student performance and link to further learning

$3000.00

$3000.00

Spring 2008

Christin Morgatto and Marc Kenney

 

Bethel High School

 

Shakespeare Experience- Bringing Shakespeare’s MacBeth to the stage for 10th graders to experience an authentic model for learning. 

$900.00

$900.00

5/2008

Pat Costentino

Bethel High School

DIRT program- Raising drug and alcohol awareness for 9-12 grade

$2700.00

$2700.00

5/2008

Sr. Anne McCarthy

St. Mary’s School

Signature Project

$1950.00

$1950.00

6/2008

Derek Mureham, etc…

Bethel Middle School

PhysTech program

$10,000

$10,000

9/2008

Jeff Moscovitz and Liz Curtis

Johnson School

Senteo interactive response system- Handheld technological devices that interact with SmartBoard/teacher to allow students to respond/provide feedback immediately. 

$1649.00

$1649.00

9/2008

Pat Costentino

Bethel High School

Names Can Really Hurt Us- To facilitate school climate that promotes tolerance and respect at BHS and decrease bullying incidents

$4000.00

$4000.00

10/2008

Shannon Robinson

Berry School

SMARTboard in school media center to be utilize cutting edge, interactive technology with K-3 students

$1700.00

$1700.00

10/2008

Kari Leonard

Berry School

SMARTboard in 2nd grade classroom to utilize cutting edge, interactive technology with 2nd grade students with a focus on curricula writing

$4152.00
**Awarded amount determined by data/quote gathered by district technology educator

$2500.00

10/2008

MaryAnn Kellogg

Berry School

Connect with Connecticut- Work with the Connecticut Historical Society to teach all 3rd grade students at Berry and Rockwell schools Connecticut history

$2226.81

$2226.81