for their continued support of our Teacher Classroom Grant Program.

Each year the Community Education Foundation provides a grant opportunity for teachers in the Council Bluffs Community Schools.

These grants offer teachers the opportunity to implement creative and innovative projects that enhance the classroom curriculum, especially in the areas of math and literacy.

Your gift to the classroom grant program will be designated for use by teachers and other school personnel. Classroom grant are awarded in the amount of $250 or $500.

If you would like to donate to this annual fund, please contact Butch Lecuona for more information.

Congratulations to the 2010 Classroom Grant Recipients!

This year’s grant recipients were:

*Jason Larson from AL for:

“Organic Gardening Club” project.

Grant award $500.00.

*Sandy Leaders, Charissa Haney, & Deb Hall from TJ for: “Sounds of Learning”

Grant award $275.00.

*Gail Kenkel from Bloomer for:

“Exercise Ball Chairs”

Grant award $230.00.

*Jennifer Pearce, Erin Eckholt and Judy Heithoff from Edison for:

“Getting Carried Away With Reading and Writing”

Grant award $500.00.

*Gkoa King from Edison Elementary for:

 “Using Recorded Lessons as a Teaching Tool”

Grant award $212.00.

*Sara Query from Edison and Gunn Elementary for

“Carnegie Hall’s Communities LinkUP!”  

Grant award $500.00.

*Vanessa Forristall from Franklin Elementary for

“Service Empowers!”

Grant award $150.00.

*Paul Schenchinger from Franklin Elementary for

“Author Studies”

Grant award $500.00.

*Lea Brandenburg from Rue Elementary for

“Cozy Readers”

Grant award $250.00.

*Danielle Philmon from Gunn Elementary for

“School to Home Literacy Bag”

Grant award $500.00.

*Erin Schoening from Gunn Elementary for

“iTouch in First Grade”

Grant award $500.00.

*Jane Conaway from Hoover & College View Elementary for

 “Building Partnerships with Parents through Early Connections”

Grant award $500.00.

*Doug Thompson, Jacque Craig, & Sheila Pike from Hoover Elementary for

“Building a Literate Environment”

Grant award $500.00.

*Sue Eymann from Hoover/Washington Elementary for

“Love and Logic for Parents”  

Grant award $250.00.

*Rebecca Hubbard from Washington/Hoover Elementary for

“LinkUP! With recorders”

Grant award $400.00.

*Nichole McIntosh from Kirn Middle School for

“Literature Circles in the Middle School”

Grant award $500.00.

*Jennifer Kvammen from Kanesville Alternative Learning Center for“Video Math”

Grant Award $450.00

*Joan Von Tersch-Crampton from Roosevelt Elementary for

“We Are Preschoolers and We Are Readers!

Grant Award $500.00

*Sindy Kafka from Roosevelt Elementary for

“I-Pod Touch Kindergarten Teacher”

Grant award $500.00

*Nancy Rutherford from Roosevelt Elementary for

“Building Vocabulary with Books”

Grant award $500.00

*Nancy Rutherford from Roosevelt Elementary for

“Little Hands LOVE Big Books”

Grant award $500.00

*Sara Dressel and Mary Kramer from Walnut Grove and Roosevelt Elementary for

 “You’ll Flip Just Watching Me Read” S

Grant award $300.00

*Rhonda Leffler from Rue Elementary for

“Rue Robotologists”

Grant award $500.00

*Jill Brandeburg, Marina Sawatzke from Rue Elementary for

 “Intervention Big Book Library”

Grant award $500.00

*Jen Turnbull from Walnut Grove for

“Preschool Pals”

Grant award $220.00

Total Classroom Grant awards this year totaled $10,237.00 serving 2,311 students in the Council Bluffs Community School District.

2010

Classroom Grants

The Community Education Foundation (CEF) is pleased to announce this year’s Classroom Grant recipients. Each year, the CEF solicits grant applications for Classroom Grants from the Council Bluffs Community School District.

This year, the CEF received twenty-five (25) applications from teachers requesting a total of $10,237.00 in funding for classroom projects.

We are excited to be able to fund all twenty-five (25) grant applications this year. The grants are competitive and made available to teachers to provide innovative classroom projects for students of the district that are not funded by the district.

Grant applications were reviewed by a four (4) member Review Team who made the decision to fund all twenty-five (25) projects that will serve 2,311 students in the district for a total of $10,237.00.

Grant presentations were made Tuesday night, November 23, 2010, at the Council Bluffs Community School Board meeting held at the Education Service Center Building.