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: 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: 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…
School: Sea Road School and Kennebunkport Consolidated Amount: $960.00 Applicants: Sheila Wells and Ann Stockbridge, STEM Coordinator & STEM Ed Tech Speedometry ‘Hot Wheels’ play-based lessons use the 5E Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate). The lessons develop a conceptual understanding of potential and kinetic energy, measurement, how to represent data with charts, 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…
School: Kennebunkport Consolidated School Amount: $100.00 Applicant: Tara Travis, Special Education In an effort to reinforce independent reading outside of the school day, students will track their minutes of reading and report to the resource room. For every 20 minutes they log, their car moves along a race track. When the student crosses the finish line, 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: 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…
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…
Schools: Sea Road School; Middle School of the Kennebunks Date: May 2015 Amount: $2,130 After placing second at the state robotics meet in Augusta, this group of students from Sea Road School and Middle School of the Kennebunks was invited to participate in the First Robotics Open Africa Championship in Johannesburg in May. They were also invited 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…
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: Sea Road School Date: School Year 2014-15 Amount: $1328.10 Standing desks will be purchased for use at Sea Road School, one per classroom, to accommodate children with different learning styles.
Date: Spring 2013 Amount: $3,088.90 Robotics equipment is purchased to expand the program in place at Sea Road School. Robotics provides hands on learning in science, technology, engineering, math and literacy education. Grade 4 held a robotics exhibition in Spring 2013. Grade 5 will explore renewable energy during the 2013-2014 school year.
Date: Spring 2013 Amount: $620 The Boston Museum of Science has designed traveling programs for schools that support the learning goals of the Science Frameworks for Maine’s public schools. Fifth graders at Sea Road School will participate in “Motion: Forces and Work” and “Electromagnetism”. Fourth graders will partake in “Cryogenics: States of Matter”.
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…
Schools: All elementary schools in RSU21 Date: Fall 2011 Amount: $15,825.00 Twenty-five classrooms in the elementary schools in RSU21 are getting stability balls, which are proven to improve posture and focus of children in the classroom.
Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Kennebunk Elementary School, Mildred L. Day School, Sea Road School Date: Spring 2011 Total: $3,200 Mobile carts outfitted with supplies allow students to cook in their classrooms. Students grow produce in school gardens and can enjoy healthy foods while learning math, reading, geography and life skills. This program aligns with Read the full article…
School: Sea Road School Date: Spring 2011 Total: $$1,160 Sea Road School 4th and 5th graders view and participate in presentations by the Boston Museum of Science on various topics associated with the learning goals of the Science Frameworks for Maine schools.
Date: Winter 2011 Amount: $899 Two classrooms at Sea Road School get stability balls. Stability balls have been a great success at Kennebunk Elementary School.
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: $1,740 Sea Road School students will see Museum of Science programs in Motion, Electromagnetism, Cryogenics and Animal Adaptations.