2001 GRANTS AWARDED: $60,018

$2,000
Reading Together at Sandburg
Sandburg Elementary School

A parent-education program that targets families with at-risk kindergarten and first grade children, for a series of 7 workshops on effective techniques for supporting early literacy.

$1,810
Rock and Read at Home
Glendale Elementary School

Uses video technology, books to begin a home library, and activity packets to share, with parents, effective techniques for preparing young children to read. Focuses on families in poverty.

$1,500
Rock and Read at Home
Stephens Elementary School

Parent of at-risk kindergartners will receive a videotape of their child, which includes three segments modeling strategies for engaging chidlren in literacy activities, and 7 books for their home library.

$9,950
Lillith Computer Project
District Wide Middle School Students

Mentoring for middle school students to gain and expand skills in computer technology. Open to all students, but activities are designed primarily to engage girls. District-wide, with new sites to be opened at Sherman and Blackhawk Middle Schools. Partnership with UW-Madison.

$10,000
Do-IT Information Technology Academy
District Wide High School Students

A 4-year pre-college technology access and training program for minority and disadvantaged students. Participants are selected at the end of 8th grade for participation throughout high school. Funds will support mentoring and case managing activities for 30 students. Partnership with UW-Madison.

$5,070
Empowering Families of Color
Franklin and Randall Elementary School

A series of dinner meetings for Southeast Asian, Latino and African-American famillies, designed to empower parents of color to participate more fully in their children's education. Parent meetings, a curriculum for children and joint parent-child activities are planned.

$3,900
African-American History and Culture
Jefferson Middle School

A consultant will work with the sixth grade teachers and students in developing two classes per month focused on historical and cultural information about the African-American experience in American society.

$9,260
Baseline Study of Fallow Field Adjacent to School
Forest Spring Harbor Middle School

This project will support the work of 240 students at Spring Harbor Environmental Magnet Middle School, in establishing a baseline record on 100 recently acquired acres of farmland adjacent to the School Forest and monitoring changes to the ecosystems of the site, as they are restored.

$3,000
Simply Wright
Elvehjem Elementary & District-wide Project

Support for printing and distribution of a book using the concepts of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture to teach the Standards for Visual Arts of the 4th grade curriculum. The book will be distributed to all Madison elementary schools, in conjunction with staff development for art teachers and 4th grade teachers.

$6,150
Grow Our Own Principals
District-wide

Plans for future school leadership by providing an authentic leadership experience through a year-long internship, under the supervision of master principals from several schools. This project, in collaboration with the UW-Madison, offers on-the-job experience, portfolio development, action research and university credit.

$2,000
Memorial Neighborhoods Block Council Mini-Grants
Memorial High School

In cooperation with the Edgewood College Center for Democracy in Action, the Memorial Neighborhoods, A Smaller Learning Communities initiative, will provide mini-grants of $100 each to Neighborhood Block Councils, service-oriented student government units. The mini-grants will serve as "seed money" for community-building activies, events, and projects.

$2,000
Emergency School Nurse Fund
District-wide

These funds are used by school nurses throughout the district as "last resort" funding for children who have specific health needs that are not covered by insurance.

$2,128
Science Olympiad
West High School

Madison West High School has one of the most successful science Olympiad teams in the country. A generous anonymous donor helped to fund their expenses using the Foundation as a vehicle for making the gift.

$1,250
Rob Hetzel Special Professional Development
O'Keeffe Middle School

Bob and Carroll Heiderman used a portion of the fund they have established for a special professional development opportunity for Rob Hetzel, an 8th grade teacher at O'Keeffe Middle School.

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