Grants
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010
One of the goals of the Foundation is to provide grants that give teachers an opportunity to put innovative ideas into practice that would not otherwise be possible through the district's normal operating budget. Grants are effective because they put funds directly into the classroom. The Foundation provides annual grants to as many requests as the current funding level allows.
The Education Foundation relies on the generous support of individuals, families, organizations, and businesses to provide the funding required for these grants. Money is raised during our annual golf outing and is supplemented with earnings from the endowment fund.
Awarded for the 2008 - 2009 school year:
$1150 to Davenport Kindergarten for materials to construct 165 Kindergarten Readiness Bags. The bags are provided to the parents at the March pre-registration. The materials include a variety of age appropriate educational activities that parents can explore with their children prior to the beginning of the school year.
$1750 to Davenport First Grade to purchase reading books for each of the seven classrooms. Davenport is piloting a new reading program called Guided Reading and Silent Sustained Reading (SSR). The addition of these books will provide more variety of reading materials in each room at each students reading level.
$800 to Kingston Elementary Second Grade for eight combination DVD/VCR players. These players will provide a technology bridge enabling teachers to present older but relevant material along with the newer material.
$1700 to Genoa Elementary Fourth Grade for an advanced visual projection system. The system will include an Elmo digital presenter, a NEC projector and a presentation cart. The Elmo digital Presenter is an innovative teaching tool that promotes sharing student responses, which in turn forces each learner into an interactive engaged learner.
$700 to Genoa Elementary Fifth Grade for an Elmo digital presenter.
$394 to Genoa Elementary Speech and Language for a Canon Flash Memory Digital Camcorder. Research has shown that video is a powerful tool to use for student feedback and self evaluation and the camcorder will help facilitate this type of instruction.
$1400 to Genoa-Kingston Middle School for two Elmo digital presenters.
$1700 to Genoa-Kingston High School Biology for an advanced visual projection system. The system will include an Elmo digital presenter, a NEC projector and a presentation cart. This system will help biology students grasp the size of items such as cells, chromosomes, organelles, villi of the small intestine and so on. This would greatly improve student comprehension in many areas of the science curriculum where the concepts seem to be a bit abstract.
$250 to Genoa-Kingston High School Business Department for a digital camera. The camera will be used for the Desktop Publishing, Multimedia, and Web Design classes.
$4200 to Genoa-Kingston High School for a Smart Board. The SmartBoard, projector, laptop computer, and presentation cart would be a mobile unit for classroom use primarily in the 200 wing of the high school making it available to the Family & Consumer Sciences, Business, Science, and Fine Arts Departments.
$1890 to Genoa-Kingston High School Drama Departments for five wireless headset microphones. The wireless microphones are designed for stage performance and will bolster the technical capabilities of the Genoa-Kingston Auditorium, as well as maximize the theater experience of performer and audience member alike.
$1900 to Genoa-Kingston High School Industrial Technology Department for Computer-aided design software. Solidworks 3-D for Advanced Drafting, Design, and Production is becoming the standard for many colleges, universities, and professionals. This license for 20 stations will add capability and is also compatible with the departments existing 2-D AutoCad software.