May 27, 2011
Classroom Teachers Receive Grants
On May 25, Richland County Foundation presented Teacher Assistance Program (TAP) grants for the 2011-2012 school year to local teachers held at the Mansfield/Richland County Main Library. The grants were awarded for creative and innovative supplemental programs not covered by school funding.
The Teacher Assistance Program committee presented awards this year to seven Richland County school districts including:
CLEAR FORK VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
• Bellville Elementary School, Jennifer Campbell for “Fraction Action with Models and Games
• Butler Elementary School, Diane Brokaw for “Guided Play with Math Manipulative = Success!”
• Clear Fork High School, Stephan Shifley for “Metal Bending & Fabrication”
CRESTVIEW LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
• Crestview High School, Steve Sambroak for “The Leap Ahead Program”
LEXINGTON LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
• Central Elementary School, Edwina Finley for “Mad for Mythology”
• Eastern Elementary School, Marsha Haas for “ Language Arts Scrapbooks”
MANSFIELD CITY SCHOOLS
• Newman Elementary School, Maria Beal for “Nuts About Nature”
• Newman Elementary School, Sarah Schonauer for “Raising Reading through Reader’s Theatre”
• Newman Elementary School, Jamie Zellner for “Shake It Up with Manipulatives!”
• Newman Elementary School, Tonya Bishop for “Touching Our Way Into Math!”
• Sherman Elementary School, Kimberly Johnson for “Cooking in Kindergarten”
• Sherman Elementary School, Kathy Kranch for “Real Stuff – Nonficton Reading and Writing in Kindgergarten
• Sherman Elementary School, Annette M. Heil for “Math For All”
• Sherman Elementary School, Jessica Snyder for “Math Learning Centers”
• Woodland Elementary School, Susan Powers for “Improving Reading Skills Through Hands-On Fun”
• Woodland Elementary School, Dawn Williams for “Monarch Butterfly Garden”
• Woodland Elementary School, Christine Queen for “Improving Math Fluency Through Hands-On Fun”
• Woodland Elementary School, April Luedy for “Math Fluency Through Hands-On Partner Learning”
• Malabar Intermediate School, Anita Holloway for “Let Your Fingers Do the Counting”
• Malabar Intermediate School, Sandy Overholt for Unpuzzling Math Vocabulary”
• Malabar Intermediate School, Keli Henry for “Constructing Creative, Cooperative Learning”
• Mansfield Middle School, Diane Bowers for “Future Entrepreneurs of Ohio”
PLYMOUTH-SHILOH LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
• Shiloh Elementary School, Sheri Creveling for “Learning and Moving with GeoMotion Mats”
• Shiloh Elementary School, Robert Bast for “Fun with Math”
SHELBY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
• Central Intermediate School, Lynn Wechter for “B.E.A.R. (Be Excited About Reading)”
• Dowds Elementary School, Anne Finn for “The Big Fish Story”
• Dowds Elementary School, Kelly Greenwood for “Literacy Starts at Home”
• Dowds Elementary School, Carol Mullet for “Getting Technical About Our Learning!”
• Dowds Elementary School, Jami Thompson for “Rolling for Reading Success”
TEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
• Sandy Rissler for Fine Tuning Those Motor Skills”
The 2011 Teacher Assistance Program review committee members included: Charma Behnke (chair) Jan Beddard, Paula Brunn, Glenna Cannon, Suzanne Davis, Ellen Eckert, Yvette Givand, Debby Henry, Pamela J. Keith, Skip Malaska, Jason Murray, Annette Schutjer, W. Chandler Stevens, Larry VonBlon, and Betty Wells.
