BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for November 2022
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BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for November 2022
Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Thanks to our generous donors Beaverton Education Foundation has awarded $38,338, funding 23 classroom projects so far for the 2022-23 academic year.
Hit the right note with Ukuleles for AHS
Aloha High School
Students Served: 160
Recipient: Andrew Thompson
Award: $2,500
Funding provided in part by the BEF Band Together initiative, the Go Warriors! Opportunity Fund and the Aloha High School PTO/Booster Club
The priceless gift of music is available to more students in our community thanks to your support for a classroom set of ukuleles for the Music Studio Program at Aloha High School. Funding was made possible for instrument storage, stands, seating and eight “baritone” ukuleles, which are larger than typical ukuleles and easier to play for students with larger hands.
Make OBOB Possible at Whitford
Whitford Middle School
Students Served: 50
Recipient: Chris Miller
Award: $800
Funding provided in part by the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund. In recognition of the importance and need for academic excellence and opportunity for all students, the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund provides funds to support literacy-based Classroom Innovation Awards like this one.
Whitford Middle School will participate in the Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) contest, thanks to your support to purchase the required books in English and Spanish. Participation in the OBOB contest is a great way to help build enthusiasm for reading.
Reading Foundations in FLEX
FLEX Online School
Students Served: 19
Recipient: Paula Dell
Award: $663
Funding provided in part by the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund. In recognition of the importance and need for academic excellence and opportunity for all students, the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund provides funds to support literacy-based Classroom Innovation Awards like this one.
FLEX Online’s youngest learners are being introduced to reading in a way that goes beyond the screen. Book boxes offer virtual students an experience similar to their peers in physical classrooms, while also giving valuable hands-on resources to use during class and beyond. Our generous community’s support also funded access to assessment programs that aid in key reading interventions.
Science Discovery Classroom
Aloha Huber Park K-8 School
Students Served: 65
Recipient: Kaydi Taylor
Award: $1,530
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Aloha Huber Park students can now be a part of eye-catching demonstrations and hands-on labs where they get to discover the STEAM concepts first hand. Funds from their Science Discovery Classroom project were used to purchase supplies to demonstrate thermal energy and so much more.
National Parks Non-Fiction Road Trip!
Montclair Elementary School
Students Served: 52
Recipient: Gabi Shirley, Lisa Sacconaghi & Kyle Piper Smyer
Award: $1,015
Thanks to your support, Montclair Elementary School students will experience a unique non-fiction reading unit based around a National Parks road trip of the Western United States. Funding from their recent Beaverton’s Choice project purchased maps, books, postcards and more that will expose students to new writing techniques, math, geography and earth science curriculum.
Build Engagement with Day of the Dead Project Supplies
Whitford Middle School
Students Served: 135
Recipient: Adela Vejo
Award: $250
Your support funded art and classroom supplies to help Whitford Middle School students envision, design and build their own ofrenda for Day of the Dead. Hands-on learning is a great way to increase student engagement and skill and Whitford now has glue sticks, tissue paper, scissors and much more that will be used for future classroom projects.
Sensory Supports for the Resource Room
Beaver Acres Elementary School
Students Served: 75
Recipients: Amy Rooney, Heidi Lindner & Molly Kershaw
Award: $350
Our community’s support will help Beaver Acres Elementary students learn to control their emotions, focus on tasks and calm themselves when feeling frustrated. Funds from the school’s recent Beaverton’s Choice project will fund sensory support items like sensory tubes, mindful mazes, bubble timers, sensory foam and bean bag chairs.
Journals for Thriving Third-Graders!
Bethany Elementary School
Students Served: 80
Recipient: Erin Gettling, Sara Schmitt & Amy Sheehan
Award: $1,400
Funding provided in part by the Bethany School PTO
All third graders at Bethany Elementary will build confidence, resilience and kindness with specially-designed, Big Life Journals thanks to your support. Using these journals, students will respond to daily prompts and complete activities that foster a growth mindset, resilience, confidence, gratitude and kindness.
New Books = Success for All at William Walker
William Walker Elementary School
Students Served: 580
Recipient: Rosanne Freer
Award: $3,900
Funding provided in part by The Anne Kelly Ofstun Tubby Fund values the importance and need for academic excellence and opportunity for all students and provides financial assistance to support projects like yours through its annual review process. The Ofstun Tubby family recognized the value of books in homes as a key component of student success. Congratulations on receiving this support from the community and this named fund administered by Beaverton Education Foundation.
Wow! Thanks to our generous community, William Walker Elementary hosted its first book fair in over a decade and it was a tremendous success. With donations from the Anne Kelly Ofstun Tubby Fund, the William Walker PTC and you, funding was available for each student to choose their own book, providing foundational learning tools at home for all.
Create an Art Space for All the Raiders!
Highland Park Middle School
Students Served: 750
Recipient: Skylar Chapman
Award: $1,205
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Highland Park Middle School can offer its students a Maker Space dedicated to the exploration of their creativity through art thanks to our community’s support of their recent Beaverton’s Choice project. The new space will inspire young minds and be filled with looming products, various clays, sculpting tools, pens, markers, paints, paper, beads, sewing materials, light tables and so much more.
Comparative Anatomy
Conestoga Middle School
Students Served: 280
Recipient: Sean Weidert, Heather Neumeier & Jennifer Lakeman
Award: $1,815
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Your support is helping 270+ 8th graders at Conestoga Middle School examine similarities and differences between various organisms and understand how the body works with necessary lab materials. Students really enjoy hands-on projects and the lab work helps students experience a unique component of their evolution unit.
Motivating our Mountaineers!
Mountain View Middle School
Students Served: 930
Recipient: Ann Kennedy
Award: $1,200
Mountain View Middle School P.R.I.D.E. (Personal Responsibility, Respect, Integrity, Determination and Embracing Community) is soaring thanks to community support for high-interest items in the school’s Joy Center. Items will be used to acknowledge students’ hard work and positive behaviors and are one way Mountain View is building a positive community among staff and students after a hard year back from COVID.
Make Modern a Maker Space!
Whitford Middle School
Students Served: 900
Recipient: Tim Livingston & Kristen Wood
Award: $5,000
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Whitford Middle School’s updated Maker Space has come to life thanks to our generous community. Funds from their Beaverton’s Choice project will purchase new maker space items that will help students gain design and production skills through opportunities to create original 3D printed items, graphics for t-shirts and other apparel and experience with circuit boards and processors.
Climbing to the Challenge
Errol Hassell Elementary
Students Served: 350
Recipient: Brent Van Volkinburg
Award: $3,529
Funding provided in part by the BEF PE + Play initiative and the Errol Hassell PTO
Thanks to your support, students at Errol Hassell Elementary now have the opportunity to use the school’s climbing ropes and cargo net safely. The funding of Brent Van Vokinburg’s recent Beaverton’s Choice project for safety mats will give students memorable climbing experiences and increased opportunities to develop muscular strength and endurance.
Connect, Inform + Prepare Fifth Graders with Weekly News
Bethany Elementary School
# of Students Served: 78
Recipient: Brad Stewart, Wendy Courogen & John Plunkett
Award: $2,684
Funding provided in part by the Bethany School PTO
Our community’s support will connect 5th grade students at Bethany Elementary to the world around them through individual subscriptions to The Week Junior. By introducing a steady flow of current events into our classroom, our students will be better informed and better prepared for the bigger conversations we hope to have around rights, responsibility and community.
