Program areas at Chatham Education Foundation
Creating collaborative & engaging world language classrooms (cms) this grant establishes collaborative and engaging world language spaces, using desks with dry erase surfaces, a new literacy center, and the establishment of comfortable reading spaces. These enhancements will enable students to collaborate, immerse themselves in the target language, and explore authentic resources.
Increasing students' decoding skills with fundations geodes readable books this grant expands the fundation word study program by purchasing a library of "readable" books that enables kindergarten students to practice what they are learning during world study and enhancing fluency and comprehension skills that are necessary for strong readers. These decodable books align with other portions of the curriculum, are written and illustrated by a variety of authors and illustrators, and focus on diverse topics and include multicultural characters.
Coding with marty: interdisciplinary robotics initiative (laf) this grant allows for the purchase of a class set of marty robots, which was used on a trial basis by the library/media and design & technology classes during the spring of 2022. The class set will allow each student to engage in hands-on, project-based learning and will bring to life the current computer science curriculum through physical humanoid robotic devices. The robots would specifically be used in library classes during the annual hour of code and during the humanoid robots and coding unit in d & t classes. Marty also connects the current design & technology curriculum to real-life careers, particularly in stem focused areas and will help prepare students for the robust stem course offerings at cms.
The Foundation provided funding for a number of other initiatives which allowed the organization to fulfil its mission of supporting educational excellence in the school district of the chathams. These other initiatives consist of the following grants: -k-12 district art show 10,600 -leveraging laser engraving capabilities in engineering & architectural design 10,550 -collaborative desks 9,486 -flexible seating 1,745 -musical exploration of faures requiem 3,514 -building student autonomy through reading and surrondings 3,375 -district choral festival 2,279 -storyworks:enriching fiction & non fiction texts 708 -building fact fluency 603 -enginering happiness 300 total 43,160