Date: Fall 2010 Amount: $3,000 Five RSU#21 staff members attended the semi-annual Learning and the Brain Conference in Boston. The theme of this session was “No Brain Left Behind: Improving Teaching, Testing and Treatment.” The neuroscience of learning was explored along with strategies to improve teaching, learning and memory. Interventions for struggling students were Read the full article…
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $2,097 K through 5 students learn Spanish phrases through signs in classrooms paired with recorded messages that provide correct pronunciation.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $450.00 Kennebunkport Consolidated School counselor will attend the conference for the American School Counselor Association.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $2,097 K through 5 students will learn Spanish phrases through signs in classrooms paired with recorded messages that provide correct pronunciation.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $1,740 Sea Road School students will see Museum of Science programs in Motion, Electromagnetism, Cryogenics and Animal Adaptations.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $2,247 Kennebunk High School students can take part in career and college exploratory activities, including testing and tours at area colleges.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $9,750 Middle School of the Kennebunks and Kennebunk High School students and staff will have access to downloadable books supporting curriculum.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $3540 Kennebunk Elementary School 1st Graders/Multiage students will use Movin’ Sits in their classrooms. The wedge-shaped seats sit on students’ chairs and allow them to have better posture and focus in the classroom.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $1200 Elementary students who excel in math will have an accelerated on-line math program to challenge them in mathematical concepts, abstract reasoning and computations.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $663 Some of the transportation costs for the Chinatown field trip for 7th graders studying China will be funded.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $300 MSK will pilot an after-school Science Club for students interested in additional science exploration.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $3,000 The band room will receive a Retrofit Unify LCD projector to allow the music teacher to better apply techniques and approaches discovered at a Learning and Brain Conference.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $1,500 Middle School of the Kennebunks students immerse themselves in a French or Spanish marketplace to test their language skills.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $11,900.00 Fifth graders from RSU #21 went to Heartwood College of Art to receive training in varied art media ranging from photography and pastels to jewelry and paper making.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $11,900.00 Fifth graders from RSU #21 went to Heartwood College of Art to receive training in varied art media ranging from photography and pastels to jewelry and paper making.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $11,900.00 Fifth graders from RSU #21 went to Heartwood College of Art to receive training in varied art media ranging from photography and pastels to jewelry and paper making.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $900.00 Fourth– and fifth-grade instructors received the digital component of the “Science Companion” curriculum kits, allowing them to integrate six units of study with existing interactive whiteboards.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $900.00 Fourth– and fifth-grade instructors received the digital component of the “Science Companion” curriculum kits, allowing them to integrate six units of study with existing interactive whiteboards.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $900.00 Fourth– and fifth-grade instructors received the digital component of the “Science Companion” curriculum kits, allowing them to integrate six units of study with existing interactive whiteboards.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $900.00 Mildred L. Day students are introduced to GPS technology and geocaching during physical education classes with funding for purchasing GPS units and geocaching supplies.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $1,260.00 K–5 Macintosh computer labs received software that helps children learn keyboarding in a fun way; the software allows the tracking of student progress as well.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $1,260.00 K–5 Macintosh computer labs received software that helps children learn keyboarding in a fun way; the software allows the tracking of student progress as well.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $1,260.00 K–5 Macintosh computer labs received software that helps children learn keyboarding in a fun way; the software allows the tracking of student progress as well.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $6,075.00 Third-grade students identified as being at risk of not meeting New England Comprehensive Assessment Program standards attended school for ten half-days in August to work on math and literacy.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $6,075.00 Third-grade students identified as being at risk of not meeting New England Comprehensive Assessment Program standards attended school for ten half-days in August to work on math and literacy.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $6,075.00 Third-grade students identified as being at risk of not meeting New England Comprehensive Assessment Program standards attended school for ten half-days in August to work on math and literacy.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $9,750.00 Kennebunk High School students and staff have access to downloadable books supporting curriculum.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $588.00 Forty RSU#21 staff attended a Gatekeepers’ Workshop for suicide prevention to learn protocol for handling students with suicidal thoughts.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $2,275.00 Three Kennebunk Elementary School teachers received training in the Responsive Classroom approach, which focuses on creating a positive learning environment through social and behavioral skill development.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $2,688.00 Kennebunkport Consolidated School teachers attended the Literacy for All conference to learn new literacy strategies.