2023 Funded Grants

Kristina Alfonso & Ashley Chennault - OSUE, grades 4, 10, 11 & 12

Provides an opportunity for students to participate in a collaborative learning experience with high school aquaculture students

Lexie Antonini - Oak Park, grades 2&3

Provides a puppet theater for her Connections class

Colleen Barr & Carrie LaBatte - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides T184 Plus calculators for Algebra students

Meredith Blades - Oak Park, kindergarten

Provides books and learning center materials for her classroom

Stephanie Box & Stephanie Holley - Pecan Park, kindergarten

Provides books and stuffed animals for students to introduce the Accelerated Reading program

Tiersa Boney - Pecan Park, grades 1&2

Provides multisensory centers used to help students learn to read before entering a state tested grade level

Ania Branch - OSUE, grade 6

Provides bouncy bands for desks, 2 rolling computer tables, and a U-shaped whiteboard table

Jim Brennan - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides a program and materials for students in the entrepreneurship program to create models and prototypes of their products

Shanna Britt - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides looms for students to learn the art of weaving

Bryan Butler - OSHS, grades 10-12

Provides freshwater clams for the Aquaculture CTE class

Alyssa Burton & Beth LaFrance - Oak Park, PK special education

Provides updated playground equipment

Kori Chavis & Susannah Gregg - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides Meta Quest Virtual Reality headsets for her classroom

Ashley Chennault - OSUE, grade 4

Provides students with much-needed hands-on instant access to STEM items in the classroom

Macy Chism & Olivia Smith - OSMS, grade 8

Provides 2-3 milkweed flowerbeds to attract butterflies, along with gardening tools, and memorial plaques, to create a garden for students to visit during their Holocaust unit of study

Leslie Christman - OSUE, grades 4&5

Provides a complete classroom set of glockenspiels

Dawn Coleman - OSUE, grades 4-6

Provides funding for a project to raise awareness on the importance of keeping our playground and school free of litter

Tracy Conerly - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides handheld and lavalier microphones for the Greyhound Television broadcast journalism class

Angela Cook - OSUE, grade 6

Provides a class set of 3D pens for her Connections class

Deanna Cossey & Ariana Roberts - Oak Park, grade 1

Provides an enclosed outdoor display for student artwork

Amanda Cothern & Jennifer Hooper - Magnolia Park, grade 2

Provides printed and online versions of Scholastic News and Science Spin magazines to students

Lindsay Daley - OSMS, grade 7

Provides math manipulatives to target 7th grade geometry standards

Maya Dudte - Oak Park, kindergarten

Provides a color-changing light table, as well as language arts, math, and science center materials

Sara Dunnaway - Oak Park, grades 2&3

Provides various types of flexible seating and a table for her classroom

Brooke Dykes & Michelle McCardle - Oak Park, grades 2&3

Provides materials for students to create their own book movie trailers and book reviews

Lisa Fortenberry - E.H. Keys, grades 4-12

Provides online and visual coding instructional materials

Angela Freeman - Magnolia Park, grade 2

Provides STEM activities and indoor recess games

Susannah Gregg - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides additional resources for the coffee cart at the school store

Stefanie Holley & Stephanie Box - Pecan Park, kindergarten

Provides building blocks to help build fine motor skills and creativity in her students

Melanie Howell - Oak Park, grades K-3

Provides a supplemental intervention program curriculum for English language learners

Leigh Hughes & Sarah Gennarelli - OSUE, grade 6

Provides materials to transform classrooms for special review days

Allison Jones - Oak Park, grade 1

Provides an acorn-to-sapling program for the outdoor classroom

Christy Landrum & Erin Carr - OSUE, grade 5

Provides materials to help students conceptualize the solar system

Chelsea Lennep - Pecan Park, grade 3

Provides various reading comprehension game sets and center materials to enhance the language arts program

Mary Lentz - Pecan Park, grade 3

Provides a variety of math games sets, center materials, and hands-on math resources that enhance the math program in 3rd grade

Daneen Menke - OSMS, grades 7&8

Provides materials to build and install bat habitats to learn how to collect and analyze data, as well as the importance of bats to our environment

Amanda Methven - Oak Park, grades 1-3

Provides touchscreen chromebooks for her special education students

Jacie Meyers - OSHS, grades 10-12

Provides two mirrorless DSLR cameras for the yearbook staff

Teresa Moore - Oak Park, grade 3

Provides materials for an outdoor garden that includes plants, ladybugs, and caterpillars

Britany Oliphant - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides materials for student artists to create websites showcasing their work

Christopher Permenter - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides microphones, transmitters, headsets, and stage sound equipment for theater students

Melissa Remel - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides art equipment and tools for art students

Maci Reynolds - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides standing desks for her classroom

Leslie Roberson - E.H. Keys, grades 4-6

Provides e-book readers for students in her classroom

Timothy Sayers - Oak Park, grades K-3

Provides scooters, hurdles, and sit-n-hop balls for his PE classes

Malissa Sellers - Magnolia Park, grades K-3

Provides materials beneficial for small group instruction in English

Lauren Sexton - Pecan Park, grades 2&3

Provides 6 iPads and 6 cases for her students to be able to use her Quest Headsets for virtual field trips

Rebecca Sisco - OSUE, grades 4-6

Provides Language Power Kits including lessons, activities, and resources for the classroom

Destinie Skinner - Magnolia Park, grades K-3

Provides a classroom post office to teach children persuasive, narrative, and informative letter writing

Olivia Smith & Mary Chism - OSMS, grades 7&8

Provides projectors, speakers, and tools for an engaging classroom environment

Melanie Thomas - OSHS, grades 9-12

Provides a sensory space for her classroom

Melissa Vick - Oak Park, grade 3

Provides a broad range of book selections for her classroom

Jackie Warrick - OSMS, grades 7&8

Provides fun math games that directly meet 7th and 8th grade standards