2011-2012 Recipients
Aronstein, Robert: Central Park $400
To have a guest artist to work with the jazz band.
Beninati, Diane: Paige $506.00
She wants to take 3 kindegarten classes (60 students) to Adirondack Animal Land. The money would be for the bus and admissions.
Campbell, Erin: Central Park. $145.71
She wants to purchase Reader’s Theater Folk Tales to be used during Literacy Workshop for 2nd graders.
Crawford, Susan: Mont Pleasant $150.00
The Study Travel Club will use the money for scholarships for students who cannot pay for the 8th grade trip to DC. Students create power points and write essays.
David, Lisa: Pleasant Valley $292.93
To buy materials for students to use in creating samplers and quilts.
Demarco, Dana: Keane $278.02
To buy card sets and nursery rhyme books to match the felt board sets for use with the 3 kindergarten classes in the building.
Farina, James: MLK Magnet $875.00
He wants to purchase clock movements to facilitate the design & construction of wall clocks as a student project. They will produce 125 clocks
Gaboury, Roger: SHS $448.54
He wants to buy copies of 2 books to provide to members of a new student leadership group of 12th graders from his English classes: The Freedom Writers Diary and the Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference.
Galarneau, Jill: Yates $561.96
She wants to buy assistive seating and visual timers for classroom and therapy setting, as well as other locations.
Gleman, Joanne: Yates School $600.00
The funds will be used to offset the cost of busing for a field trip to the New York Aquarium for all fourth graders at Yates.
Gundrum, Louise: Sch. H.S. $300.00
To help with busses and tickets for 120 students for a production of Ain’t I a Woman at SUNY
Mei Zheng: Mont Pleasant. $300.00
To help 35 Students take a field trip to NYC Chinatown and the Museum of Chinese Americans.
Metzold, Barton: CPIMS $1,114
He will buy a voice recorder, a video recorder, and 8 sets of U.S. by Joy Hakim to be used in his differentiated instruction program.
O’Brien, Bernadette: Sch. HS $500.00
It will pay for a bus & lunch for 35 Edison school students to tour RPI.
Owens, Christine: Oneida MS $587.62
She wants to buy 4 Calculator robots with supplementary tools. They will be used with her grade 8 math students for studying angles, equations, function rules, graphs,etc.
Rourke, Rachel: Keane Elem $296.34
She wants to buy Hi/Lo interest books for her 6th grade students reading at 3rd & 4th grade levels. She will create a book club which will meet weekly to discuss the books and meet with guest speakers
Schaefer, Molly et. al.: Sch. HS $500
Yes No To help students take a 90 minute authentic Quebecois cooking class at Loblaws Angus in Montreal.
Vecchione, Trish et.al.: Howe Early Childhood $1725.37
They want to buy guided reading book sets for the building book room. The materials will be used with 190 students to provide individualized and differentiated reading.
Whitcher, Alyssa: SCH. HWS $550
She wants to buy a sound system for Friday’s Morning Muse programs.
