School

Teacher/Staff

Grant Title

    Amount Awarded

PRMS

Scott Pescott & Tricia Stolz

What’s That I Hear? Using Recording Equipment for Band, Orchestra and Choral Performance Groups to Evaluate, Reflect and Improve

 $1,496

VES

Sybil Haas,          Cami Harbert, Vanessa Behun,  Kelli Brenny &     Lori Beth Warnberg

Non-fiction Bookworms                             Classroom Sets of Periodicals

$750

CMSE

Janet Williamson

SOS- Surviving our Standardized Testing using Study Island, a Web Based Standards Mastery Program for Literacy Lab Students

$1,385

PRMS

Sarah Rother & Megan Gruis

WEB – Where Everyone Belongs:      An Orientation and Mentorship Program for Middle School Students

$670

BCE/VES    

Alison Jamar-Doty

Building Vocabulary, Building Community for English Language Learners

$500

PRMS

Amy Piotrowski, Heather Czechowicz, Laura Porter

Maximizing Reading Achievement for Middle School Students with Reading Disabilities

$800

JES

Gwen Valiant

i-touch, Therefore I Learn,                     A Mobile Learning Lab

$2,430

School

Teacher/Staff

Grant Title

Amount Awarded

PRMS

Scott Gazvoda

A Spark of Hope: Integrating Technology with an automated external defibrillator training module

$596

JES

Gwen Valiant            Karla Otterness         Katie Brown

WALK Club (We are Literate Kids) Walk and Read at Recess

$1,000

CHAN EL

Jean Ische

Art meets Geometry  –             
Kandisky Inspired Quilts

$291

CHS

Angie Gamades         Erica Bossert

Pride Biscuits – Dog Biscuit Business for Special Education Students

$1,575

KC

Sarah Kuipers

Kindergarten Literacy Backpacks

$500

CMSW

Michele Schnaare       Eric Swanhorst

Engineers Teaching Algebra – A Field Trip in the Classroom

$950

BCE

Mari Hart

English Language Learners      
Student Support Software

$750

CMSW CMSE PRMS

Eric Songer

Enhancing the Comprehensive Music Elective at the Mid-Level –         Music Technology

$1,000

CHS

Heidi Berbee             Emily Beltz

A View of the Isles video camera

$200

ECFE

Jean Breitenbucher

Flip Mino Camcorder – a Tool for Teacher Reflection/Collaboration and Parent Education

$260

CMSW CMSE  PRMS

Shannon Shimota      Scott Buschena       Bridget Borner           Beth Pehrson           Megan Gruis

WEB (Where Everyone Belongs)     6^th Grade Orientation and 8^th Grade Mentorship Program

$1,500

CMSW

Carol Scheffler      Venisha Bahr

Bridging the Reading Gap                 
i-pod Download for Struggling Readers

$550

VES

Angie Lawrence, Lori Beth Warnberg

Hands On-Math Equations in Eager Hands using Smart Boards

$400

CMSE

Leslie Geissler            Lisa Gearman

Lunch Bunch Book Club

$300

CMSW CMSE  PRMS

Ned Schuck            Heather Czechowicz Laura Potter

Maximizing Reading Achievement for Middle School Special Education Students with Reading Deficiencies

$3,000

CRE

Lisa Finkel, Jodi O’Brien, Leah McDonald Julie Westcott, Susan Grundeen, Maren Nelson, Lisa Buening

Language Arts Centers for Grades 1 and 2

$250

District 112 /DEC

Teresa Delgado

Parents in Action/Padres en Accion Program

$200

BCE

Kitty Millard              Edie Stearns              Nami Kunden-Kutsch

Picture Writing – Fostering Literacy

$500

School

Teacher/ Applicant

Grant Application Title

Amount Awarded

BCE

Claire Torrey

Listening to Learn – Listening Centers/Audio Books Grades 3-5

$500

PRMS

Scott Prescott

Tricia Stolz

Composer of the Month

$750

CMSE

Missy Kambeitz

History Day 8^th Grade – on site

Minnesota Historical Society Staff

$650

CHS

Brandice Kelzenberg

ELL Library for teens

$500

CMSE/

(CES)

Missy Kambeitz

Stephanie Deming

Little Buddy Books – Cross Grade

Mentoring to meet the Standards

$312

VES

Rona Mondel

et all

Interactive Student Response System

$1875

PRMS

Scott Gazvoda

Heart Rate Monitors

$1323

JES

Janelle Mandery

Yoga Calm - Kindergarten

$400

CMSE

Isis Eddy

Language Lab MP3 players

$1100

CHS

Arlene Borner

Tricia Leck

Youth Service Grants

for Students via Youth Commission

$1000

CMSW

CMSE

PRMS

Janet Aquino-Dantona

The Giraffe Heroes Program – Service Learning, Character Education, Prevention & Citizenship

$1297

School

Teacher/Staff

Title

Amount Awarded

District-wide

Arlene Borner
Tricia Leck

Youth Service Grants

$1000

Chaska High School

Lara Etnier

The Storytellers Project 

$970

Chaska High School

Chris Lenius, et al

Proficiencies II:  Assuring Long Term Academic Success for All Students in Science and Math

$1500

Chaska High School

Dan Ress

CHS Environmental Club Bag Project

$600

PRFC

Heather Reighard

Understanding Motion-Lego Crazy Action Contraptions

$1116

CMSW

Sarah Burnett
Jeanne LaMoore
Lucy LeMay

Movie Maker Support Equipment for National History Day:  A Research Project for social Studies Grade 8

$1500

CMSW

Rick Rogers

Magnetic Levitation

$2016

CMS

Barb Green
Mark Kuske

Read to Succeed

$2000

CMS/Clover Ridge Elem

Missy Kambeitz
Stephanie Deming

Cross Grade Mentoring to Meet the Standards:  Little Buddy Book

$1000

Bluff Creek
Elementary

Michelle Swenson

Work SMARTer, Not harder – Save a Tree with Technology

$1700

Kindergarten Center

Molly Wellner
Lindsey Rettmann

Kindergarten Language Academy (KLA) Literacy Link

$1000

School

Applicants

Title

Amount Awarded

PRFC

Kari Beckman

Technology Helping Students (PC Tablet Notebook)

$1,700

CHS

Robert Dahlin

James Crannell

Increasing Student Achievement by Creating Greater Relevance Through Science Testing Agency Simulation Project for High School Science Students 

$3,000

Chan
Elem

Janet Holler

The Sensory Motor Tool Box (Occupational Therapy)

$700

CMSW

Scott Gazvoda

Lessons From the Heart (PE Heart Monitors & Technology)

$600

Victoria
Elem

Jamie Weber

Lighthouse Publishing
(Student  Publishers)

$750

Kindergarten
Center

Lindsey Rettmann

ELL Equipped (Kindergarten)

$2,000

CHS

Lisa Ruedy-Decker

CHS Alternative Program (Co-Op) Interdisciplinary Holocaust Unit

$500

District- wide

Arlene Borner

Service Learning in District 112:  Equipping the Educator

$3,000

CMSW

Lucy LeMay

Robotics and Engineering Careers

$1,750

CMSW

Ned Shuck

Improving the Strategic Reading Abilities of Unique Learners

$2,000