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Dave Ramsey is a financial guru in the industry. He created a curriculum targeted towards high school students, which teaches them financial literacy in an interactive, applicable format using real life examples.

I would like to obtain an educators set of KEVA planks to benefit student learning in several academic content areas as well as student attributes highlighted in our districts Learner Profile. Students will be presented with challenges and activities that will fit the needs and varying abilities of all. KEVA planks will serve to enhance educational and social/ emotional concepts through hands-on, authentic, and student led innovations, which also lends itself to kinesthetics and visual concepts of varying levels of complexity.

10 SHS Writing Center students collaborated on an evaluation and overall progress of our center activities over the past year. They identified 2 main areas of improvement and innovation: Intergenerational/Community Partnerships and our Online and Asynchronous Feedback Process. The research and findings of both groups will be presented at the annual Secondary Schools Writing Center Association conference in Virginia in March 2020.

Students from financially challenged homes need tutoring help that their families’ budgets cannot support. With these funds and in collaboration with Saline Area Social Service, we will arrange for them to be tutored twice weekly by professional tutors from Great Lakes Educational Group in the subject or subjects where they are struggling. Since some students may also lack transportation beyond the school bus, we will also arrange for transportation home if tutoring takes place after school hours.

The Red Glasses Movement moved Woodland Meadows and the Saline community big time last year, and I would like to continue the momentum by purchasing more glasses for our school community. My goal this year is for these glasses to be passed on by our students and shared with someone else who is demonstrating Living Boldly and Loving Big. This year, I want the focus to be on Passing It On! I want to encourage the students to continue wearing their glasses and be inspired to do acts of kindness for others, and then to observe what others are doing to spread kindness regardless of typical boundaries.

Students from financially challenged homes confronting serious mental health issues need professional services that their families’ budgets cannot support. In partnership with Saline Area Social Service, we will arrange for four students to work individually with qualified mental health professionals for 10 weeks. Since the students are also likely to lack transportation apart from the school bus, we will arrange for their travel to the providers’ offices in Ann Arbor and back to the students’ homes after their appointments.

The purchase of a O2 Grow electrolysis unit to generate nano-oxygen to improve yield and quality of tomatoes and other fruiting vegetables grown by Agriculture students to supply the Culinary Arts Program Students

Students will play “To the Beat of the Drum” during music therapy sessions. Exploring their imagination through song, rhythm, and tune while building communication through verbal and nonverbal expressions. “To the Beat of the Drum” will allow students to express their creative and communicative sides in a diverse environment for all. The rhythmic component of music is organizing to students with sensory processing differences which enables them to feel calm and open for learning and communication.

This design challenge will require students to collaborate, research and think critically to solve a problem. The hovercraft will serve as the control in this scientific challenge. Students must research, design, and build a way to steer the hovercraft. They will be able to test out and improve their design to, in the end, steer their craft through an obstacle course.

This grant involves obtaining and using the largest 12.9 inch iPad Pro with small groups of students to address communication objectives included in their individual education programs (IEPs) as well as in the Student Profile on the SAS Compass. The large screen will facilitate joint reference and shared attention and focus when viewing and creating videos and stories, utilizing learning applications, and facilitating communication with AAC and/or articulation drill apps.