2005-2006 MINI-GRANT WINNERS

Kim Assatly, Ann Henry, Susan Luft, Robin Sanders, Jan Schorr, Leslie Wander, William Yang – Fox Meadow School - $1000
Title: Leveling the Reading Field: Creating and Preparing a School Book Room
Purpose: To support K-3 teachers in establishing a guided reading curriculum and pedagogy based on the matching of readers with high-quality books.

Christi Browne-Sibrizzi, Janie Fitzgerald, Kerry Kraft, Bob Saya – Scarsdale Middle
School - $1000
Title: Medieval Town Fair
Purpose: To design and implement an interdisciplinary curriculum unit immers-ing students in the study of the Middle Ages and culminating in a Me-dieval town role-play activity.

Kristen Calderola, Patty Dempsey – Quaker Ridge School - $800
Title: Developing Small Motor Skills for Primary Students
Purpose: To develop classroom activities and strategies to strengthen the fine motor skills of primary-grade students.

Nancy Collins, Trish Serafin - Scarsdale Middle School - $1000
Title: Butler Bookshelf
Purpose: To implement an interdisciplinary civil rights project through literature,
film, art, and music using Carol Tomlinson’s approach to differentiation of instruction.

Celia Cuk, Chris Reali - Scarsdale Middle School - $1000
Title: Exploring World Culture Through Drumming
Purpose: To incorporate the cultures of Latin America, Africa, and the Carib-bean into the Middle School music program through the World Music Drumming curriculum.

Denise DelBalzo – Scarsdale Middle School - $1000
Title: Exploring Identity Through Oral History
Purpose: To engage students in their own version of StoryCorps through the
use of iPod technology and voice recorders to interview parents and
grandparents.

Elisa Draper, Sue Schwartz, Judy Shemtob – Quaker Ridge - $1000
Title: School Gardening
Purpose: To combine elements of plant study, ecology, and nutrition by build-ing garden beds where students will plant and care for a vegetable garden.

Susan Goodman, Christina Mazza – Scarsdale District, Greenacres School - $500
Title: Newsletter for Special Education, Preschool-2
Purpose: To create an informative newsletter for parents of preschool-grade 2
children with special needs to reinforce school goals and activities.

Kelley Hamm, Gwen Johnson, Sue Peppers – Scarsdale High School - $1000
Title: Human Rights Day – Scarsdale High School
Purpose: To develop a daylong teach-in designed to raise student awareness
of human rights and of efforts by individuals and groups to support
the extension of human rights throughout the world.

Kenneth Holvig - Scarsdale Middle School - $1000
Title: Creating a Video Archive
Purpose: To design and deploy a method of capturing and preserving the inno-
vative activities, new teaching methods, and curriculum projects
inspired by STI courses and implemented by classroom teachers.

Barbara Horowitz, Pat Kuschman – Greenville School - $600
Title: What Makes a Family? A Literature Study
Purpose: To implement a literature-based curriculum exploring the themes of
family structure and the role of the family in children’s lives.

Nick Lieto, Chris Reali – Scarsdale Middle School - $1000
Title: Developing Music Literacy: Musical Understanding Increases
Classroom Success
Purpose: To strengthen music literacy in the Middle School band program by
incorporating a method book and a sight-reading book into music
instruction.

Pat McCallion, Kathy Stevenson – Greenville School - $1000
Title: Studentreasures as Mentor Texts
Purpose: To compile picture books authored by Greenville students to serve as
mentor texts in Writer’s Workshop.

Seely Place Assembly Committee – Seely Place School - $800
Title: Caring Citizen Assembly Programs
Purpose: To develop an assembly program with integrated curriculum materials to enhance the school community as a safe, caring, and positive place.

Jeannette Stockton – Edgemont High School - $1000
Title: Stone Carving
Purpose: To develop a stone-carving sculpture elective for high school students using stone donated to the school by an Edgemont community sculptor.