Grants awarded by SEPTA in 2007/08
for the 2008/09 school year
On April 17th SEPTA awarded grants
to
teachers and staff to enhance the learning
and educational experiences of children
with special needs. In all just over
$4000.00 in grant funding will be disbursed
for the next school year. SEPTA extends its
appreciation to the grantees for their high
level of dedication, creativity and innovation.
We are confident these grants will
benefit many students and are proud to be
able to provide this support to our staff.
Congratulations to the following district
staff who are SEPTA grant recipients for
2008-2009 school year:
Central:
Stephanie Saia , Susan Herron and Charna
Cwiebel, are reading teachers receiving
three grants to support reading ‘visualizing
and verbalizing’ and an alternative reading
assessment program to improve understanding
of literacy development in lower
and upper elementary grades.
Chatsworth:
Noreen Yeh (3rd grade) and Rachel Morse
(Special Ed) are receiving a grant to support
acquisition of the ‘Touch Math’ program
Touch Math is the leading multisensory
teaching approach that bridges
manipulation and memorization. It will
compliment the TERC math program used
in the district.
Ana Vidal-Montes and Mary Diffley (ESL)
are grant recipients to support Literacy
Workshops for parents of bilingual kindergarten
students.
SEPTA AWARDS GRANTS FOR 2008-09 SCHOOL YEAR
Angela Fazzolari and Susanna Franco
(Speech) are being provided a grant to
obtain and develop adaptive materials for
the special needs population.
Jaime Perrotta (Special Ed) received a grant
for the ‘New Heights’ reading program to
enhance struggling readers’ fluency and
phrasing (Resource Room)
Joanna Levande, Ellen Katz, Lynn Dearwester,
Susan Longo, and Kathy Rie (Pre K )
are awarded a grant for materials in support
of the continuation of their project “Creating
and enhancing materials to encourage
literacy in Pre-K“.
Patrice Schwartz, Rebekah Ward, Christine
Portanova, Bernadette Marrion, George
Hebron and Linda Finn (Kindergarten teachers)
are receiving a grant to obtain supplies
to support development of fine motor skills
and sensory integration.
Jesse Dancy-Smith (Grade 7 Social Studies)
is awarded a grant to enhance audio visual
equipment used in the “History Alive!”,
program for unconventional learners.
Shalini Sudarsanan and Susan Chester-
(Grade 6 Social Studies and Mathematics) received
a grant to purchase Battleship games
for their project “Linking Battleship to the
Global Grid and Coordinate Plane”