BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for December 2022
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BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for December 2022
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Thanks to our generous donors Beaverton Education Foundation has awarded $59,479, funding 34 classroom projects so far for the 2022-23 academic year.
Calming Skills for Success
Elmonica Elementary School
Students Served: 30
Recipient: Megan Stauffer
Award: $1,200
Funding provided in part by the Elmonica Elementary PTO
Elmonica Elementary 5th graders are taking full advantage of new music, coloring and drawing resources to self-regulate while at school thanks to our generous community’s support for Megan Stauffer’s recent Beaverton’s Choice project. Funding purchased valuable supplies and access to age-appropriate music, drawing and coloring apps that students identified were useful calming strategies.
Bring Coding to Life
Barnes Elementary School
Students Served: 261
Recipient: Megan Simpson
Award: $1,470
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Barnes Elementary 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students are growing their coding skills thanks to your support for enhanced computer resources, called Micro:bits. Next generation units enable even more learning opportunities and valuable practice using advanced language, cooperation, problem solving, flexibility and perseverance.
All Eyes on Learning
McKinley Elementary School
Students Served: 25
Recipient: Jessica Stephens
Award: $574
McKinley Elementary first graders are more involved with interactive writing thanks to your support for Jessica Stephens’ recent Beaverton’s Choice project, All Eyes on Learning. First graders learn well when they sit at the carpet and are close to educators teaching the lesson. The new easel brings short and sweet lessons closer to the students’ eye level, providing better access and increased engagement with lessons being taught.
Expand STEAM Learning for the Knights
Scholls Heights Elementary School
Students Served: 650
Recipient: Brianna Cristea
Award: $6,355
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative and the Scholls Heights PTO
All 650 students at Scholls Heights Elementary have access to classroom iPads that will last for years to come. These devices open opportunities to begin typing practice, use Apple Classroom, record videos and conduct interviews for the school paper. Students can also explore filmmaking, use programs like Lego Education, Scratch Dot & Dash and Sphero.
Fidgets for Focus
Kinnaman Elementary School
Students Served: 491
Recipients: Cassandra Moore & Emma Allevato
Award: $800
More Kinnaman Elementary teachers have individual boxes of fidgets for their classroom, thanks to our community’s generosity. Fidgets provide students movement and stimulation that helps to focus, regulate emotions and be successful learners.
Cross Curricular Collaboration in 3D
International School of Beaverton (ISB)
Students Served: 162
Recipients: Ian Bricken, Tim Forgione, Alysoun Lowe & Shaphan Thomas
Award: $2,487
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
ISB’s seventh grade English and Math classes are using 3D printing math lessons to create game pieces for their latest English assignment, thanks to funding for a 3D printer. Your generous support helps students combine disciplines to work on this hands-on project and will keep the collaboration going for years to come.
Unlock the Secrets of Sounds in the English Language!
William Walker Elementary School
Students Served: 280
Recipients: Rich Feely & Rosanne Freer
Award: $1,590
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.
William Walker’s youngest learners now have access to dedicated classroom materials that help students read in English. Our community’s generosity is helping students anchor their new literacy knowledge with the help of additional sets of Secret Story Flashcards, Tactile Letter Cards and Alphabet Sound Tubs.
Support Sensory Bins for our Terra Linda Kinders!
Terra Linda Elementary School
Students Served: 35
Recipients: Sarah Gooding & Kelsey Kirkpatrick
Award: $2,000
Your generous support funded sensory bins filled with tools to help Terra Linda kindergarteners improve fine motor skills, calm busy minds and grow. Providing opportunities for children to actively use their senses as they explore their world through ‘sensory play’ is crucial to brain development and helps children as they make sense of the world around them.
Automation Exploration
Tumwater Middle School
Students Served: 180
Recipient: Ben Lloyd
Award: $2,500
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Tumwater Middle School can now offer an automation module to help 8th-grade students prepare for the future workplace, thanks to funding from their successful Beaverton’s Choice Project, Automation Exploration. The module teaches students to design automation that will approximate real-life career tasks and highlights the complexity of the ever-evolving future workplace.
Amplify Meadow Park Technology Students Voice and Vision
Meadow Park Middle School
Students Served: 50
Recipients: Jim Gent & Annette Noratli
Award: $2,000
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Meadow Park Middle School can transform their temporary audio and video production lab into a permanent space that students can use for years to come. Technology students will have access to dedicated monitors, microphones and teleprompter rigs that will also be shared with the Fine Arts department.
Spark Creativity with Flexible Library Seating
Sunset High School
Students Served: 2000
Recipient: Colette Cassinelli
Award: $165
The new collaborative and performance space at Sunset High School’s library will feature flexible seating options for students and staff who want to gather, collaborate and support each other. Thanks to our generous community, movable benches and chairs will better accommodate small group work, club meetings and open poetry mic sessions.
