Cardio drumming is a growing phenomenon that is making its way into the classroom. Music teachers are using yoga balls to drum, bounce, and further engage students in the music-making process. This grant would provide Pleasant Ridge the chance to incorporate yoga balls into music instruction, including cardio drumming, musical movement, and more.
Capti Voice
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.
Kindness Rocks outdoor work space
Our project involves remodeling the area in front of the main offices of the high school into a multipurpose area that everyone, if deemed okay by the administration, can use during lunch or class periods as an area to relax or complete school work. Not only would this be a beautiful area for students to relax, but teachers could also use it as an area to sign out for their classes to do work in a different environment. The remodeling would involve resurfacing the area with wood chips, of which we have a lot of already, so the upkeep wouldnÛªt be strenuous, putting in outdoor lawn furniture to make the area more comfortable for students, and finally, a few tables so that eating lunch or working is easier. As an added bonus, more students would be exposed to the Kindness Rocks area outside of the school, therefore making them more aware of the initiative we are trying to create within the high school.
Visible Heart-Health in Physical Education
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.
The Leader in Me
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.
Classroom Calculators
We are in need of a classroom set of calculators. Students are encouraged to have their own, but that is not always possible for families. Also, 8th graders may forget their personal calculator at home and need one for that day’s class period.
Secondary Schools Writing Association National Conference
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.
