Beverly Education Foundation Awards $12K In Grants

Beverly MA

15 June, 2022

3:09 PM

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BEVERLY, MA — The Beverly Education Foundation awarded more than $12,000 in grants to a dozen curriculum-based topics and projects that benefit students across the district. The Foundation's mission over its 25-year history is to support the "wonderfully creative ideas of Beverly educators, which enhance the teaching and learning in a 21st-century global environment." Grants are for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year and were awarded to teachers for the following initiatives: Beverly High School 1:1 Learning Initiative Digital Divide Subsidy to provide subsidies for laptops forBeverly High School students who are caught in the digital divide. No Pain, No Gain Cognition & Wellness for a collaboration between the Library and Wellness Department whereby cardiovascular and balance training equipment will be placed in the library for students to enhance students' physical, social, and cognitive wellness and ability. College Prep & Essay Seminar to hold Saturday college seminars for BHS seniors to provide additional support in the challenging essay writing and college application process including differentiated instruction adapted to students' needs. Beverly Middle School Beverly 3DP, to increase access to 3D printing benefitting Beverly Middle School students in engineering design, mathematics, and science by being able to better visualize, interpret, and solve problems. Ayers Elementary School Promoting Literacy Development Through Decodable Readers to provide highly engaging decodable texts so our youngest learners may apply their knowledge of letters, patterns and sound to learn to decode words to read. Cove Elementary School Yoda's Cove School Pet Project to promote improvement in a student's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive functioning using animal-assisted therapy and two very cute guinea pigs called Yoda and Panda. Breakout EDU, to provide an immersive learning games platform where students will learn to collaborate effectively using clues and creative solving solutions to breakout. Decodable Text for Striving Older Readers, to provide decodable texts to expose and reinforce the most common words in English to at-risk, ELL, struggling readers, and special ed populations. Let Them Play! to provide Cove Kindergarteners hands-on manipulatives and tools to foster opportunities for increasing social and emotional understanding through play as well as connections to the academic curriculum. Hannah Elementary School Diversifying Representation in Character Art to broaden the diversity of the characters on the Hannah Library walls to better reflect the student body, the broader Hannah community, and the world in which we live. North Beverly Elementary School Skills for Success Book Collection to fund a collection of books that will enrich student learning while also encompassing mental health, coping, responsible decision-making, and relationship building. Go here for more information or to make a donation to support public education in Beverly. (Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)