The Partnership Plan for Stillwater Area Public Schools

The Partnership Plan's mission is to connect The community and its resources to Stillwater Area Public Schools to support exceptional learning experiences for students. We accomplish this by providing enhanced programs and innovative activities to benefit students and teachers. We have three primary ways to distribute funds for this purpose. 1. Classroom grants - awarded to teachers with great ideas to make learning more meaningful and engaging for students. During The 2022-23 school year, The Partnership Plan allocated 40 classroom grants and 2 sponsorships totaling 55,875. 2. Big impact grants - these are on-going programs affecting large numbers of students. These can be in a specific grade and/ or across an entire school or multiple Schools. The Partnership Plan funded 15 of these types of projects over The 2022/23 school year totaling 151,860. These projects included all of our second year of grants towards The mental health initiative, stem projects, arts and theater projects, our continued support of The pathways program and more. 3. Miscellaneous - our work doesn't stop with The typical grant. We provide a small grant, that we call a new teacher grant, to every new teacher to our district to help them start up their classroom. In The 2022/23 school year, we awarded a total of 8,000 to 53 new teachers. We provided 5 scholarships in The 2022/23 school year: two teachers received a harcey walmar scholarship for continuing education (899) and we also awarded 5,000 in scholarships to graduating seniors. Finally, we honored 9 teachers with a 1,000 grant each, to give to The school of their choice within The district as recognition of their excellent service to The school district through Partnership awards (9,000). The Partnership Plan continues to be an effective an efficient organization, earning The guidestar silver seal of transparency again for 2023. There are three part-time staff, equaling 1.5 fte.