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Education
Below are recent grants made to Education organizations through the Foundation's competitve grantmaking program. To view current trends and projects as reported by Education organizations, visit the Education Field Notes page.
Community Children's Project
Climbing the Readiness Ladder
$4,250
The Community Children's Project works with local children in order to prepare them to enter Kindergarten. The CCP staff finds that without support, adults may struggle with their inability to prepare children for Kindergarten. This project will bring trained facilitators to our community to offer skill-specific professional development for early childhood teachers. Workshop services will be open to all early childhood teachers in the community. Parent services, curricular development and evaluation will be offered to CCP clients. (2007)
The Learning Center
Vision Screening Camera
$13,705
When vision impairment goes undiagnosed in young children the results can be significant; preventing the child from reaching appropriate developmental milestones or even significantly impacting lifelong learning. To ensure that any vision problems are caught early, The Learning Center conducts
vision screenings as part of their developmental screening program. This screening program is offered at no cost to every child, birth through age five in our community. In order to provide the highest level of vision screening possible, the Learning Center is purchasing a new Sure Sight autorefractor and training its staff to use the new machine. A grant from the Community Foundation will provide higher-level vision screenings for over 375 Teton County children every year. (2008)
Bridging the Language Barrier
$6,000
The Learning Center provides our community with translation of program and child development materials in order to communicate with Spanish speaking families. The Learning Center staff fing that as the number of non-English speaking families with young children in the community increases, the need to communicate with these parents becomes a challenge that all early childhood providers must face. Working with the Community Children's Project, this project will translate documents such as enrollment materials, parent committee meeting agendas, newsletters and monthly child development articles. (2007)
pARTners
Integrated Arts Curriculm
$6,000
PARTners is implementing a series of curriculum-linked projects for students in Kindergarten to 12th grade. The pARTners group finds that schools provide students with a more meaningful education when they take advantage of community resources. This project will provide a way for community organizations to contribute to meaningful learning in the schools. Grant funds will be used to match a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund. (2007)
Teton Literacy Program
Combating Summer Learning Loss
$2,150
The Teton Literacy Project provides our community with summer workshops designed to assist students while public school is not in session. The Teton Literacy Program staff find that children who are behind academically at the end of the school year typically regress during the summer. While all parents want to help their children to excel in school, it is not always easy for parents to tell if their children are on track or if they are doing the right things to help their child's progress. This workshop will provide direct and indirect performance interventions for students and parents. The intent of the workshop is to equip students and parents with the skills, knowledge, tools, cognitive support and incentives necessary for closing the reading gap by the end of the summer. (2007)
Comprehensive Assessment
$4,521
The Teton Literacy Program is creating a comprehensive assessment system for English language learners in their adult program. In order to offer the best possible instruction to assist learners in meeting their language goals, Teton Literacy program staff must be able to accurately determine students' functional abilities and levels in speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Information gathered by the current assessments provides a limited picture of students' skills and needs. This project will provide an assessment system including the Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey kits for determining reading and writing skills and two laptop computers to administer the BEST Plus computerized oral assessment. (2007)
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