2018 Recipients

Teacher grant info:  Award total – $17,729

We received workshop participation and Grant applications from every
campus and were able to approve every grant application we received.

Atlanta Primary School

• Katherine Stubbs
• Fum, Fum, Fum, – Bring on Dancing Drum
• $2,100
• This is a workshop that engages students in learning musical concepts through an interactive percussion based event that embraces character lessons. It in a great visual and performing arts, music education with responsibilities of citizenship, language arts, social science, physical education, and character development. This is an inter-active, hands-on adventure with rhythms, songs, and dancing that puts them on a path to become an honorable and compassionate.

Atlanta Elementary School

• Lifelong Learners
• $4,710
• Sending 3 teachers, along with a “lead teacher” paid for by the AES budget to Confratute (a research based professional development conference focused on enrichment learning and high engagement to meet the needs of all students. BEST program was implemented from this conference) in Connecticut.

Atlanta Elementary School

• Outstanding Outdoor Opportunities
• $2,037
• Reconstruction of the Gazebo and reinventing it as an outdoor classroom for outdoor curriculum to enhance creativity and the overall learning experience for our students. Community wide project: local businesses have donated items for the project including shingles, the Ag Dept has agreed to help with various parts of the project alongside many parents of students that attend AES.

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Atlanta Middle School

• Breaking Into Learning
• $995
• Toolboxes and variations of locks creates an “escape room” concept with a lockbox by completing subject related tasks to get deeper in to the lockbox. It addresses the common difficulty students have in science connecting a written question with reality.

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​Atlanta High School

• See It, Believe It, Achieve It!
• $4,806
• Virtual Reality Goggles Will proved critical thinking activities and team building challenges to connect educations its internal motivation and make classroom time more efficient for disadvantaged students that may lack real world experiences which effects their motivation and ability to make connections.

​Atlanta High School

• AT&T (Algebra Today &Tomorrow) Stadium Tour – Freshmen Class
• $2,090
• This experience will impress upon students the importance of math education and opportunities for employment in the future. Students will be given a project outline. They have been hired as a new member of the Dallas Cowboys market research analysis team and are given the task of creating a detailed report of the current national market conditions for Jerry Jones. Students will work in small groups to examine press releases, statistics, and other primary sources in order to analyze the data and prepare the report. In mid-May the students will spend a day touring the stadium.