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Saline Area Schools is dedicated to developing 21st-century learners who can collaborate, think critically, communicate, and be creative. Students who have difficulty reading, who have a challenge with focus, who can’t see, and are English language learners have a difficult time keeping up in school. When collaboration and being self-directed is expected to occur and reading is involved the challenge is magnified tenfold. Capti Voice is the award-winning reading tool that will dramatically reduce this imbalance.

We are requesting funds to purchase large television monitors in order to display critical education materials for our PE classes, as well as our studentsÛª heart rates while they are exercising. This would coincide with our new Polar Heart Rate monitors that the students are wearing during physical education classes. With these monitors, the teachers can display all of the information from each student and entire classes at the same time, similar to the current set up at Pleasant Ridge. The district has put a lot of time and finances into these monitors, and without a way to display the information, we cannot use them to their full capacity as an educational tool.

We want to teach our students that they can make a difference in the world. The program allows us to cycle 740 fourth and fifth grade Heritage students through an assembly line to produce food for starving children. The goal is for the students help reduce the number of hungry children in the USA, to feed starving children throughout the world and feel good about doing it.

This request is for a 3-year rollover grant for $10,500 each year (followed by subsequent grant requests in 2019/20, and 2020/21) to fund the implementation of The Leader in Me at Woodland Meadows Elementary School. The Leader in Me is Stephen CoveyÛªs whole school transformation process. It teaches twenty-first century leadership and life skills to students and creates a culture of student empowerment based on the idea that every child can be a leader.

The purchase of a class set of snowshoes would allow all 3 of our elementary schools to take turns providing an outdoor winter physical education unit for our students. This would expand our curriculum as well as connect with our heart rate monitors and our goal to make connections between lifelong activities and healthy lifestyles.

Funding will support the travel and training of 6 SHS Writing Center consultants at the National Conference of the Secondary Schools Writing Centers Association. These students will then return to SHS to implement and share ideas, practices, tools, and activities with our full consultant staff and all of the students through the SHS Writing Center.