Heritage School Grants Awarded
- Mindfulness & Yoga Parent and Child Program: training of the program facilitator as well as the materials (2019)
- Lego WeDo 2.0: funding to help implement new science standards in the classroom (2019)
- Hands-On Equations: Bringing Algebraic Thinking to Life!: students will be exposed to a pilot program to assist all, including the least mathematically confident students and find success (2018)
- Using Stability Balls to Enhance Focus: stability ball chairs to increase levels of student attention, decreased levels of hyperactivity and increased time on task (2016)
- After School STEAM with Little Bits: Little Bit Workshop Sets (electronic building blocks will be used during classroom during the day & after-school STEAM workshops (2016)
- One School & One Book: copies of “Charlotte’s Web” for all incoming 2nd graders, as well and next year’s 3rd and 4th graders, and 30 teacher unit guides. The school-wide reading initiative over the summer includes weekly summer read-a-louds offered with teachers; comprehension tie-ins upon return to school in September; and provides a connective school-wide bond on the first day of school (2015)
- African Arts in Education Residency: display of actual African art for students to view and touch and week-long residency by Crocodile Music to provide instruction and presentations of African drumming and dancing, culminating with a district-wide concert. (2015)
- Afternoon at the Wax Museum program: biographies and presentation boards for students in need, period costumes, props, etc. to enhance 4th grade biography project (2014)
- Seeds of Success Program: supplies to grow plants utilizing renovated greenhouse and newly built raised gardening beds (Eagle Scout project) to integrate art and science related to flowers and vegetables (2014)
- Side-by-Side Child/Parent Paired Writing Project: a teacher book club giving professionals the opportunity to discuss the 6+1 traits of writing and how to best implement them in individual classrooms; followed by a student/parent interactive writing project about topics such as respect, friendship, and conflict resolution (2013)
- Visual Arts Studio Environment: individual art work stations as part of transforming space in the school’s atrium to enhance student learning and inspire individual creativity (2011)
- Leveled Reading Room: a collection of leveled books to support instruction across the curriculum at each grade level (2011)