Classrooms
With the funds from SFEEF, Guidance Counselor Lee Cleveland plans to write and publish a guidance a handbook containing useful information for students and parents as they navigate successfully through high school.
SFEEF Sandy Cooke, Guidance Counselor Lee Cleveland, Principal Beverly Spondike and SFEEF Sheren LeBlanc
First I would like to thank SFEEF for my grant. It has made teaching fun for me and my students. I received a smartboard, LCD projector and Elmo (digital presenter).
Mrs. Grant, a fellow first grade teacher and I have taken our new reading series and put each daily lesson on the smartboard software program that comes with the board. The lessons we have created are both educational and interactive. Students come up to the board throughout the lesson and manipulate spelling words, correct sentences and use the different drawing tools on the board. Our students are actively involved in each lesson and remain attentive while waiting for a chance to work on the smartboard.
I recently told another teacher that I don’t know what I would do without my smartboard. It has improved my teaching skills and become the most important tool in my classroom. Thank you again for giving me this opportunity!!
Julie Wolfe
Rockwell teacher Julie Wolfe with students Russ Ansley and Sophia Koolman at the smart board purchased with SFEEF Teacher Grant Funds.
Spanish Fort Education Enrichment Foundation awarded Anita Mattern of Rockwell a teacher grant to obtain a document camera, headphones and microphone. The document camera allows a variety of objects including print materials to be displayed through an LCD projector. The headphones and microphones allow students to record themselves reading aloud and then listen to their recordings. The students respond positively when technology is incorporated in lessons.
Anita Mattern believes “the technology acquired through the provision of the SFEEF grant will enhance our classroom educational environment for years to come.”
RES Robbie Owen, Anita Mattern, Lily Morris and SFEEF Sandy Cooke with Tim Pierce
New children’s books for the school library at Spanish Fort Elementary were purchased with grant money awarded to Katie Winn and Melanie Davis. The books were specifically chosen to be used by the entire faculty as tools in writing instruction. They illustrate to students how great writers use one or more of the six traits of writing; ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
SFES Becky Comer, Katie Winn, Melanie Davis and SFEEF Sandy Cooke
