BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for January 2022

BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for January 2022

Thursday, February 17th, 2022

Thanks to our generous donors Beaverton Education Foundation has awarded $61,987, funding 41 classroom projects for the 2021-22 academic year.

Help Scholls Heights Knights build community!

Scholls Heights Elementary School
Students Served: 599
Recipient: Betty Skundrick
Award: $1,010

Voice amplifiers are helping Scholls Heights students overcome hearing obstacles and build important community connections. Thanks to a successful Beaverton’s Choice project, students can clearly hear their entire class, while also adhering to COVID masking and distance protocols during circle time.

SCC Sensory Strategy Tools

Conestoga Middle School
Recipient: Cory Coleman
Award: $300

Conestoga Middle School students in the Social Communication Center are using small earplug devices to engage in learning activities with increased comfort and confidence. Thanks to a recent Beaverton’s Choice award, students can use these discreate devices to filter out ambient noise, helping neurodivergent students attend general education classes and engage in group work without interruptions caused by overwhelming sensory issues. 

Specialized Program Wellness Center!

Aloha High School
Students Served: 52
Recipient: Hilda Washburn
Award: $2,135

Funding provided by the Go Warriors! AHS Opportunity Fund and Aloha Booster Club PTO

Thanks to funds raised through Beaverton’s Choice, The Go Warriors! Aloha High School Endowment and Opportunity Fund and the Aloha Booster Club PTO, Hilda Washburn will transform her traditional classroom into a relaxed Wellness Center, equipped with sensory calming items students can use to access and regulate feelings. Hilda’s 50+ students have learning disabilities that make it difficult to manage big emotions – now they will finally have an environment that helps them be their best.

Future Authors!

Elmonica Elementary School
Students Served: 150
Recipient: Abigail Anderson, Matthew Brown, Alison Hower, Annie Lee, Megan Stauffer, Alicia Sypher and Anna Terrell-Maharg
Award: $756

Elmonica Elementary 4th and 5th grade students have increased opportunities to participate in writing thanks to a phenomenal new learning tool made possible by Beaverton’s Choice funding. Regardless of proficiency level, students can now create high-quality writing projects that they are proud of, which encourages them to write even more!

Help Support School Clubs at FLEX Online

FLEX Online School
Students Served: 250
Recipient: Sarah Langton
Award: $500

FLEX Online students have increased opportunities to socialize and create crucial peer and educator connections through virtualafter school clubs, thanks to Beaverton’s Choice funding. Clubs focus on identified student interests including baking, space, chess and poetry, with many more to come.

Art & Science, the perfect compliment

Five Oaks Middle School
Students Served: 930
Recipient: Wynter Jones
Award: $2,640

Five Oaks Middle School students will truly flourish thanks to generous Beaverton’s Choice donor support to provide equitable access to artistic opportunities for hands-on, creative experiences that complement the incredible science studies already taking place.

SHS Library Wellness Corner

Sunset High School
Students Served: 2000
Recipient: Colette Cassinelli
Award: $1,381

The Sunset High School library will be able to offer students an inviting and comforting space to recharge and relax amid pandemic pressures in their new Wellness Corner. Thanks to Beaverton’s Choice funds, the Wellness Corner will featuring a collection of specialized books and magazines, comfortable seating and headphones to add respite for their hard-working students.

Show Me How – AAC Modeling Devices

Special Education Classrooms
Students Served: 182
Recipient: Catherine Sementelli
Amount Awarded: $3,500

Funding provided by the Hoover Family Foundation.

Students with speech or language impairments can learn in real time now that educators across the District can model communication techniques on their own devices, thanks to Beaverton’s Choice donors and the Hoover Family Foundation. This is a game changer that allows for greater and faster communicative success and lets students retain their independence, since they no longer have to give their main source of communication to staff for instruction modeling.

Thanks to your generous contributions, the dollars raised are enabling enrichment programs in Beaverton schools that otherwise would not be possible. For current programs, and to begin your application, please visit Beaverton’s Choice, Beaverton Education Foundation’s online resource that brings community and classrooms together.