School: RSU21 District-wide Amount: $5,988.00  Applicant: Dr. Phillip Potenziano, Assistant Superintendent of Schools This grant for Professional Development enables multiple teachers and administrators to attend the Learning and the Brain Institute entitled “Creating Schools of the Future Now.” The focus of this training is to explore ways to use advances in brain and learning sciences such as Read the full article…

Schools: Sea Road School, Mildred L. Day and Kennebunkport Consolidated  Amount: $750.00  Applicant: Sheila Wells, Stem Coordinator The RSU21 Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival allows all district Fifth Graders and teachers to travel to the University of New England for a day long event including a mathematics festival, lunch, STEM demonstration, and exposure to a college Read the full article…

Schools: Mildred L. Day School  Amount: $1010.00  Applicants: Cathy Bansmer and Beverly Lowell, First Grade Teachers This grant will expand the Bee-bot introductory robotics program for M.L. Day first graders.  Bee-bots are small robots that the children can program to move. This is a hands-on approach to STEM learning, and writing algorithms. Children learn communication, Read the full article…

Schools: Sea Road School, Mildred L. Day and Kennebunkport Consolidated  Amount: $588.75  Applicant: Karen Bragdon This grant will fund two performances by the Boston Museum of Science for all of the RSU21 Fourth and Fifth Graders. The museum has designed traveling programs to support and enrich our present science curriculum. The program for grade 5 is Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunk Elementary, Sea Road School, Kennebunkport Consolidated, Mildred L Day, Middle School of the Kennebunks  Amount: $8000.00  Applicants: Dr. Phil Potenziano, Laurie Ellis, Tony Michaud, & Sandra Sharood The K-12 Music Teachers collaborated on this grant proposal and have decided on the following instrument needs: Laurie Ellis, MSK – Musser 1.5 Classic Chimes & Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated, Sea Road, Mildred Day, and MSK  Amount: $7,382.00  Applicant: Michelle Fortier-Oosterman, LCSW, Social Worker, SRS This event will support the transition to Middle School of the Kennebunks by enabling the fifth graders of RSU21 to visit the Browne Center at UNH. Trained facilitators will lead groups in interactive and cooperative games, low Read the full article…

Schools:  Entire RSU21 School District, K-12  Amount: $1,500.00  Applicant: Katie Hawes, Superintendent Jessica Meir, a female astronaut who was raised in Caribou, Maine will spend May 3rd in our district in a series of presentations. This program will support our S T E M initiatives, raise student aspirations, and offer a female role model in a STEM Read the full article…

Schools: Middle School of the Kennebunks, Kennebunk Elementary, Kennebunk Consolidated, Mildred Day, Sea Road  Amount: $17,534.00  Applicants:  Dr. Phil Potenziano and Sheila Wells,  Assistant Superintendent and STEM Coordinator  This grant will expand all RSU21 K-8 students’ exposure to robotics, with the integration of updated robotics within the core science curriculum. By updating equipment and materials in STEM / Robotics, the Read the full article…

Schools: Sea Road School, Kennebunk Elementary, Mildred Day, Kennebunkport Consolidated   Amount: $2,792.00 Applicant: Sheila Wells, RSU21 Technology Coordinator   3D Printers will be distributed to each of the four elementary aged schools in the RSU21 district. Students will be able to develop engineering and design skills, problem solving and visual perception. The process of designing Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunk Elementary, Mildred Day, Kennebunkport Consolidated    Amount: $10,000.00   Applicant: Katie Hawes, Superintendent The Education Foundation is pleased to provide funding for the River Tree Arts Festival for the District’s 4th and 5th graders. This event would be for all students in each grade level with visual and performing workshops in the morning, and Read the full article…

Schools:  Kennebunk Elementary, Mildred Day, Kennebunkport Consolidated   Amount: $4382.28   Name of Applicant: Joy Russo-RSU21 District Library. All RSU21 first grade students will read the book, ‘The Porcupine’s Promise, An encounter in the winter woods.’ Through this simple book narrative, young children will learn about survival, adaptation, and respectful human interactions with nature. Students will then experience Read the full article…

Schools: RSU21 District-Wide,  Amount: $736.00  Name of Applicant: Dr. Phil Potenziano,  Assistant Superintendent    RSU 21 would like to hold a district and  community book talk. Fifty copies of the book, Most Likely to Succeed.’ Preparing our Kids for the Innovative Era,  by Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith will be provided to school staff, and to Read the full article…

Schools:  Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Mildred L Day School, Sea Road School   Amount: $3,064.00  Name of Applicant: Sheila Wells, RSU21 STEM Coordinator.    In order to extend and enhance our engineering and robotics offerings at the elementary level, this grant will introduce Edison Robots to all grade 3 students in the district.  Approximately 200 third Read the full article…

Schools:  Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Mildred L Day School, Sea Road School   Amount: $1,500  Name of Applicant: Sheila Wells, RSU 21 STEM coordinator.    The Julia Robinson Math Festival is a celebration of math.  The event features mathematical challenges, puzzles and other activities in a non-competitive setting.  Once again this event will be hosted by Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School, ML Day School, Sea Road School  Amount: $590.00 Boston Museum of Science educators will present one presentation for each grade level. Grade 5 will experience “Weather: Wind, Water and Temperature” which demonstrates how atmospheric phenomena interact with each other to create the weather we experience every day.  Students watch a hot Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School; Mildred L. Day School; Sea Road School  School Year: 2015-2016  Amount: $9,258 All 4th and 5th grade students in the district will participate in this two-day visual and performing arts festival hosted by Sea Road School and conducted by River Tree Arts.  Students will have the opportunity to participate in 2 Read the full article…

School: Kennebunk Elementary School; Kennebunkport Consolidate School; Mildred L. Day School  School Year: 2015 – 2016 Amount: $1,500 Each of the 10 Kindergarten classes in the district will receive a weekly-30-minute yoga class for six weeks. Mindfulness and meditation have been shown to have a positive impact on readiness to learn.  Yoga increases self-awareness of energy Read the full article…

Schools:  Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Mildred L Day School, Sea Road School  Amount: $1,500  The Julia Robinson Math Festival is a celebration of math that includes all fifth graders in RSU 21.  The event features mathematical challenges, puzzles and other activities in a non-competitive setting.  Once again this event will be hosted by UNE and will Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Middle School of the Kennebunks, Mildred L Day School, Sea Road School. Amount: $16,500. Twenty five instruments will be purchased to give students in grades 4-8 the opportunity to experience playing an instrument in the school band. This grant will positively impact the band program from grades 4-12 as more students become members of Read the full article…

School: Mildred L. Day School  Date: Spring 2015  Amount: $621.05 This grant will allow for the creation of a semi-permanent Storybook Walk at Mildred L. Day School. This walk will be used by the students and staff at Mildred L. Day School to address deficiencies in phonetic and literacy skills for incoming kindergarteners and cultivate a Read the full article…

School:  Kennebunk Elementary School, Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Mildred L. Day School, Sea Road School, Middle School of the Kennebunks, Kennebunk High School  Date:  Spring 2015  Amount:  $3442  Six teachers representing elementary, middle, and high school will attend and improve their math instruction for students. Information will be shared with other teachers during content area / Read the full article…

School:  Mildred L. Day School Date:  School Year 2014-2015 Amount:  $786.88 Mildred L. Day School will be working with Graves Library and Kennebunk Free Library to create a preschool story time that would provide positive literacy based experiences for the preschool-aged children of Arundel. This program will start in January and the librarians from Kennebunk Read the full article…

Schools:  Sea Road School, Kennebunkport Consolidated School, ML Day School Date:  School Year 2014-2015 Amount: $590.00  RSU21 fourth and fifth grade students will attend the Boston Museum of Science’s traveling program at Sea Road School. The programs support and enrich the present science curriculum. Grade 5 will experience“Electromagnetism” which correlates with the energy unit and the grade 4 program,“Cryogenics: States Read the full article…

School:  Kennebunk Elementary School,  Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Mildred L. Day School, Sea Road School Date:  School Year 2014-2015 Amount:  $6484.50 All RSU21 elementary schools will implement Keyboarding Without Tears which teaches pre-keyboarding, keyboarding, general computer readiness, digital literacy and digital citizenship.

School:  Mildred L. Day School Date:  School Year 2013-2014 Amount:  $2000 Musical instruments are purchased for children at Mildred L. Day School, so the students can form a band using music written with different parts and harmony.  

Schools: Mildred L. Day and Kennebunkport Consolidated Schools Date: Spring 2014 Amount: $3939.70 Sport Stacking is hands-on participation, and students are engaged and motivated while performing the activity.  Sport Stacking first appeared in southern California in the 80s.  Children work alone or in groups to stack cups in a pattern and are timed while doing Read the full article…

Schools:  Kennebunkport Consolidated, Kennebunk Elementary, Mildred L. Day, Sea Road Schools Date: Winter/Spring 2014 Amount: $8712 Teachers at Consolidated, Kennebunk Elementary, Mildred L. Day and Sea Road Schools will receive training on robotics kits and use in classroom.  2nd grade classroom at KCS will receive a classroom robotics set.  KCS, MLD and KES will all Read the full article…

Date: Spring 2013 Amount: $3,876 Literacy Kits purchased and distributed to kindergarteners at KES, MLD, and KCS.  The Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Arundel Literacy for ME Collaborative, made up of librarians and educators along with the United Way, designed the kits as a tool to enrich language development and learning in the home.  Each kit came with Read the full article…

Date: Fall 2012 Amount: $4,000.00 All RSU 21 5th graders will attend Julia Robinson Math Festival at University of New England with help from Mathematical Sciences Research Institute professionals.  The festival is a non-competitive event featuring math challenges and puzzles that require creativity and persistence to solve.  5th grade teachers, math teachers from MSK and Read the full article…