2002-2003 MINI-GRANT WINNERS

Trish Serafin, Brian Fisher, Jon Hilpert, Scarsdale Middle School ($1000)
Title: Connecting Kids
Purpose: To connect 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Butler House English students through a variety of multi-grade reading, writing, speaking and listening activities in order to develop strong intra-House relationships.

Ken Holvig, Scarsdale Middle School, Jerry Crisci, Scarsdale Schools Technology Coordinator ($1000)
Title: Collaboration Through Web-Based Video Services: See You, See Me
Purpose: To implement a video conferencing system for use by teachers in the classroom, and to research the curriculum applications of this new technology.

Patricia Hurley, Edgewood/Greenacres/ Heathcote Schools ($250)
Title: Developing a Low Brass Section in Elementary Schools
Purpose: To promote low brass as an essential component of balanced elementary school band in order to encourage beginning low brass players.

Constance Shelengian, Scarsdale Middle School ($1000)
Title: Engaging Eighth Grade Exploring Music Students Through Guitar Studies
Purpose: To integrate guitar into the American Music course for eighth graders, and to offer students a performance outlet for musical expression in addition to the large instrumental and choral groups.

Tracy Edlitz, David Besancon, Kevin Fittinghoff, Sarah Berger, Debbie Heyman,
Fox Meadow School ($1000)
Title: Fox Meadow Literary and Art Journal
Purpose: To produce an interdisciplinary student anthology that integrates creative writing and watercolor painting so that students understand the creative process and the relationships that connect a variety of artistic forms.

Laura Chess, Seely Place/Greenville Schools, Monica Grey, Rayna Shapiro, Seely Place, Susan Byrne, Jennifer D’Amico, Greenville School ($1000)
Title: Handwriting Curriculum - A Primary Essential Necessity
Purpose: To demonstrate the impact of a uniform, structured handwriting curriculum on improving students’ handwriting skills in the primary grades.

Theresa Amelio, Betty McAlpine, Mindy Hartkopf, Gay Reetz, Greenacres School ($1000)
Title: Learning from Literature
Purpose: To integrate Writer’s Notebook techniques in the classroom by developing a series of mini-lessons and by building a library of fifth grade classroom resources to support the Writer’s Workshop process.

Janey Markon, Sue Schwartz, Quaker Ridge School ($1000)
Title: Literature as the Model
Purpose: To continue the Writer’s Workshop and the use of a Writer’s Notebook as a model of good writing techniques by expanding the selection of poetry and picture books available to students and teachers in the classroom.

Janie Fitzgerald, Denise Monda, Scarsdale Middle School ($610)
Title: The Poetry Book Cafe
Purpose: To highlight the natural relationship between poetic expression in English and artistic expression in art through the writing of poetry and the creating of illustrations by students that mirror the moods of the poems in order to encourage interdisciplinary studies of the arts and literature.

Kathleen Fox, Patrisha Bronzell, Seely Place School ($1000)
Title: Poetry in Motion Using iMovie
Purpose: To use iMovie as a way of having students create, publish, perform, and record their own poems as well as those of established poets in order to reinforce the study of poetry and language.

Constance Shelengian, Scarsdale Middle School ($500)
Title: A Sound Idea for Middle School Classroom Musicians
Purpose: To build a library that updates listening resources for the seventh and eighth grade Exploring Music classes that reflects current tastes and trends in musical genres.

Judy Famellette, Science Helping Teacher ($1000)
Title: Using iMovie to Enhance Science Instruction
Purpose: To use iMovie technology to record elementary science teachers and students engaged in hands-on inquiry activities in order to share best practices.

Christine Amoriello, Beverly Kissel, Sue Machover, Laurel Wright, Patrisha Bronzell, Seely Place School ($1000)
Title: Visual Literacy, Connecting Narrative and Film
Purpose: To enlarge on the visual literacy exposure third grade classes have had at the Jacob Burns Film Center, students will examine literature, scriptwriting, and film in order to understand and appreciate a variety of visual and literary expressions.

Steve Walsh, Scarsdale Middle School ($500)
Title: A Window to the History of Mathematics for the Middle
Purpose: To reinforce the history of mathematics in the curriculum by creating a library of comprehensive Internet-based materials compiled from various sources and adapted for middle level learners in order to make accessible the rich history of mathematics.