2007-2008 MINI-GRANT WINNERS

1. Title: Spotlight on the Environment and Its Watersheds
Purpose: To develop a sixth grade interdisciplinary unit of environmental studies focusing on Hudson Valley wetlands and culminating in a “Spotlight on the Environment” program.
Recipients: Christie Browne-Sibrizzi, Janie Fitzgerald, Kerry Kraft, Bob Saya
Scarsdale Middle School
$1000

2. Title: Depictions of Women in Medieval Celtic Art
Purpose: To study and photograph medieval manuscripts, including the Book of Kells, at Trinity College for the purpose of documenting depictions of the religious and secular roles of women in Celtic art to be included in the AT Art History curriculum.
Recipient: Beth Colleary
Scarsdale High School
$800

3. Title: Math Differentiation in the 21st Century
Purpose: To advance differentiated instruction in the mathematics class-room through the development of instructional techniques and the technologies that support them, including SmartBoard and interactive response/quizzing systems.
Recipients: Jeanne Conlin and Joanne Harris
Scarsdale Middle School
$1000

4. Title: On the Inside / On the Outside
Purpose: To engage eighth grade students in a cross-house poetry writ-ing project developing the themes of empathy, emotion, iden-tity, fear and accomplishment and culminating in a Poetry Slam to take place during April, National Poetry Month.
Recipients: Kathleen Connon and Patricia Serafin
Scarsdale Middle School
$1000

5. Title: A Visual History of the Quaker Ridge School Library 2007
Purpose: To document the 2007-2008 Quaker Ridge library construction project in a volume of photographs and children’s writings that will also serve as a sequel to a four-volume set containing similar artifacts of the 1973-74 Quaker Ridge library construction.
Recipient: Jeannette Johnson
Quaker Ridge School
$1000

6. Title: Black History Month Project
Purpose: To enrich the fifth grade Black History biography project through the use of Romare Bearden’s techniques of transform-ing photographs into collages.
Recipients: Kimberly Kilcoyne, Team Leader, Sandy Capuano, Pat D’Agostino, Kathleen Fox, Jennifer, Page, Mary Raciborski
Seely Place School
$1000


7. Title: Music as Part of a Balanced Literacy Classroom
Purpose: To apply a multisensory approach to teaching phonemic aware-ness by reinforcing Balanced Literacy lessons through music.
Recipient Nicole Meyer
Quaker Ridge School
$950

8. Title: The Camera Obscura and the Videoconference
Purpose To expand research capabilities in science through the use of videoconferencing in a library–based unit exploring the works of Ibn al-Haytham, medieval Islamic physicist, the “father” of modern optics and creator of the first life-sized camera ob-scura.
Recipients: Martha Nicholson and Sharon Waskow
Scarsdale Middle School
$1000

9. Title: Middle School-High School Socialization Project
Purpose: To structure experiences that foster receptive and expressive language use by students in Middle School and High School special class programs through Autism Awareness Club activi-ties.
Recipients: Dori Rosamond
Scarsdale Middle School
Stephen Mounkhall and Adam Singer
Scarsdale High School
$500