Foundation for Saline Area Schools Grant Proposal History
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	2010 – Winter Grants Awarded
	Year	Season		Title	School	Description	Amount Awarded
	2010	Winter		Vernier Respiration Monitor Belts	High School	These 12 belts allow students to take more accurate data in their respiration unit	786
	2010	Winter		Enhancing the Computer Lab	Pleasant Ridge	Headsets for students to use in the PR computer lab for podcasts and SKYPE	839.70
	2010	Winter		Fundamental Elements of Story-Telling Using Film as Medium	High School	Purchase flip video cameras so students can create short video clips for his film and literature class.	640
	2010	Winter		Community Quilts for Weber-Blaess	Harvest, Pleasant Ridge, Woodland Meadows	One of "Images of America: Saline" for each 2nd grade classroom to support a community quilting project.	318
	2010	Winter		Digital "Flat Stanley" I Pod Touch Program	Pleasant Ridge	15 I Pod Touches and the accessories that go along with it so kids can go on a journey with this new technology	2585

2010	Winter		Book Flix Website to Support Literacy	Harvest	A literacy website that connects directly with their Smart Boards and support Harvest's literacy interventions			1099
2010	Winter		EMU Band Director in Saline	High School	Bring the EMU Director of Bands to Saline HS.  The cost would cover transportation and an honorarium.			600
2010	Winter		Fitness for Saline  MS Life Skills Program	Middle School	A Wii and Wii Fit for the Middle School Life Skills Program			397.94
2010	Winter		Story Telling at Houghton School	Houghton	Two storytelling room dividers and two storytelling kits to develop a rich activity center to promote early literacy skills.			596
2009 – Fall Grants Awarded
Year	Season		Title	School	Description	Number of Students		Amount Awarded
2009	Fall		Sound, Waves, and Light: Laser Show	Middle School	Hand held laser show kit. Students actively create waves using sound & light.	450		350
2009	Fall		Chemistry & Matter	Middle School	Improve students love of learning chemistry by adding a few demonstrations and hands on science material to the science collection.	450		232.88
2009	Fall		Hands on Science Investigation	Heritage	Materials to provide hands on science lab experience for 6^th graders. Lab include Chemical Weathering, Physical Weathering, and soil sample testing.	450		1508.79
2009	Fall		Read Music Better.	Heritage	Magic Staff Packs – wipe off slates with Treble and Base clef staves. Used to help students with warm up and practice activities. Improve note recognition.	450		392.74
2009	Fall		Electric Circuits & Literacy	Pleasant Ridge	Pleasant Ridge students design an alarm system using circuits related to several literature books that they will be reading throughout the year. Then, students go to Mr. Sartori’s high school electronic’s class to test their designs.  He will have materials on hand for the kids to try these designs out. show kit.	475		225
2009	Fall		Kagan Math White Boards	Middle School	Math department participated in Kagan training which engages students in differing learning styles.  During this training, the math teachers used individual whiteboards to enhance instruction.  These boards provided for 100% participation and immediate feedback. They would like to use whiteboards for their entire team at the Middle School..	450		756
2009	Fall		Recycled Papermaking	Pleasant Ridge	Provide classroom with 4 blenders and some screen to demonstrate the process of how paper is recycled. This would go hand and hand with the recycling program that students support.	60		60
2009	Fall		K’NEX Building Materials	WM, PR, HV	Provide students in QUEST class at Woodland Meadows, Harvest, and Pleasant Ridge with hands-on building opportunities and K’Nex.  K’Nex building sets are LEGO like pieces that allow students to create and explore. These building sets would deepen the understanding of the animal concepts and their life cycles for the students.	800		960
2009	Fall		Brain based Tools. HEARIT Amplification.	Houghton	Use brain based phonologic tools for focused auditory input to enhance classroom learning and expedite time spent in speech-language therapy.  HEARIT amplification tools amplify the natural sounds of speech and eliminate all interfering sounds with no distortion.	100		1757.80
2009	Fall		Stability Ball Chairs	Pleasant Ridge	Purchase 24 ball chairs to be used in four different classrooms (a 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th ,and special education room).  These chairs would provide for improved focus, concentration, etc. for students in these classrooms.	24		1030
2009	Fall		Physical Fitness – Special Needs Students	Young Adult/HS	Provide heart monitor watches to help students keep track of their physical fitness results. In addition, a Wii and Wii Fit to provide more engaging ways of getting his students active.			689.78
2009	Fall		Social Network Book Clubs	Middle School	Purchase over 300 novels to support social networking book clubs for Middle School students. These students would participate in book clubs where they write and discuss their novels through online book groups where they could share information with other students throughout the school. – Partially funded.	450		1200
2009	Fall		ELL Support Materials	High School	Support materials to enhance the ELL (English Language Learners) program. Many students need more leveled text so they can function properly in the highly demanding Middle and High School classes– Partially funded.			400
2009	Fall		SMART Response System	Middle School	SMART Response System to interface with Smartboard. This system would allow students to answer questions that were created on the Smartboard by using a wireless hand-held device.	30		1713.33
2009 – Spring Grants Awarded
Year	Season		Title	School	Description	Number of Students		Amount Awarded
2009	Spring		ASIST Training	High School	Grant for a second Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training for two professionals and training materials. Continuing the mission of Saline Alive mission of educating as many community members as possible to the skills essential to intervene in a suicide or self-harm situation.			1600
2009	Spring		Tuners	Heritage, MS	Electronic tuners to aid in teaching 5^th, 6^th, and Middle School students how to tune their instruments. Electronic tuners visually show whether or not each string is in tune and in which direction it needs to go to get in tune. Not only will this encourage the students to be self learners it will increase instructional time.	450		2000
2009	Spring		Electronic Balances	Middle School	Giving students the opportunity to use practical, useful science equipment. Instead of talking about mass and weight we can showing and give opportunities to use balances themselves. This will give the students skills they will use in high school and college. Over 25 labs are listed with specific immediate uses.	900		2800
2009	Spring		Fasst Math	HV, PR, WM	Establishing fluency in basic math facts. Using interactive software and comprehensive teacher resources and individualized practice sheets, students gain automatic recall of basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. This will allow them to focus on higher learning math. Computer based instruction is automatically differentiated in customized daily sessions based on continuous assessments of students fluency.	450		2233
2009	Spring		Comprehension Toolkits	Pleasant Ridge	The Comprehension Toolkit provides a brilliant resource to answer the question – What is Comprehension and How Do We Teach It? Kits provide multifaceted ways to construct meaning. As kids approach each new text, they practice another dimension of the strategy, gaining confidence as the unit progresses. Teaching multiple strategies in an authentic environment improves comprehension.	125		4570
2009	Spring		Challenger Books – ELL	High School	Address needs of older teens who are ELL (English Language Learners). The eight level program integrates reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in a systematic approach that quickly allows the student to gain confidence and proficiently in English language skills.			185
2009	Spring		Smart Boards	Harvest	Smart Boards significantly increase a teacher’s ability to provide enrichment for advanced learners and reinforcement for struggling learners in an exciting and engaging way. Students will use this technology to improve their skills using open-source curriculum and increase achievement.	60		3100
2009	Spring		Music Station	Woodland Meadows	This grant is for a music station for the walking path at Woodland Meadows. The music station consists of 6 drums constructed of durable safe materials that can withstand the changing Michigan weather cycles. This station will allow students to socialize with each other regardless of their physical needs. Important peer interactions will take place. Students will be able to express themselves alongside their classmates despite any communication needs or barriers that may exist.	500		1875
2009	Spring		Senteo Interactive Response System	ALT, HS	Allows direct student feedback. The teacher creates questions and assessments through Senteo and students respond through individual remote. This will provide instant feedback and will highlight areas of strength and weakness.	30		1650
2009	Spring		Amazon Kindle	ALT, HS	Extend access of Alternative High School to reading. Will also help those who are limited readers. The Kindle is a wireless reader than can hold 1500 books. Features dictionary look up, 6 font sizes, a place to take notes and mark annotations and automatically saves spot where reader left off. Many classics are available free. Also, includes text-to-speech capability.			1000
2008 – Fall Grants Awarded
Year	Season		Title	School	Description	Number of Students		Amount Awarded
2008	Fall		Life Cycle of a Bird – Egg to Egg	Woodland Meadows	Setup incubator in classroom. Students witness egg hatch, transfer to brooder, baby chick growing to adults quail, and quail laying egg of it’s own.	250		476.87
2008	Fall		Patriot Program	Heritage	Promote civil responsibility and the students’ role as an active citizen. Fifth graders will be challenged to ten specific requirements. Ends with Awards breakfast and celebration with local government officials.	200		688.50
2008	Fall		MS Drama Club	Middle School	Develop middle school drama club to help promote student interest in and access to theater.	300		1000
2008	Fall		Interactive Reading Books	Houghton	Beginning readers manipulate pictures and words while learning to associate pictures with words. Addresses skill level appropriate activities that facilitate language, reading and writing development.	200		695.20
2008	Fall		Hands on Math	Houghton	Numicon Math Kits use a multi-sensory approach to support students who have difficulty learning number concepts. Seven key ideas are addressed: pattern, order, counting, moving beyond counting, place value, addition, and subtraction.	200		357.25
2008	Fall		Cross Grade Collaboration of Writing and Illustration.	Heritage & Houghton	Lucy Calkins Writing Workshop encourages writing personal narratives. Heritage students create, write, and illustrate original works and publish and share them with Houghton students as part of SAS Fine Arts Festival.	120		600
2008	Fall		Leaping to Literacy Brain Gym	Houghton	Mini-trampoline, sensory bean bags, and other items to incorporate movement into speech-language and literacy lessons.	150		347.68
2008	Fall		Reader’s Theatre	HV, PR, WM	Reading Theatre scripts are color coded include folktales, fantasy, biographies, non-fiction and holiday based writing. These scripts allow students to easily read according to their guided reading level. They peak students enthusiasm and interest in all types of reading.	400		1775.16
2008	Fall		ELMO Doc Camera	High School	Proposal will improve student confidence and skill in composition courses. Students are readily exposed to various format and structures, increased frequency of writing and response, detailed peer, personal, and instructor revision, and close analysis of student and published works.	100		692
2008	Fall		Fashion Design	High School	Purchase of sewing machines to bring technology and creativity into the sewing curriculum of the LME department. These machine will also support Fashion Design and those pursuing this area.	30		960
2008	Fall		You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me	MS/HS	Dr. Fowlin addresses the topics of race, discrimination, violence prevention, bullying and personal identity. This assembly will reinforce the Health curriculum and Social Studies curriculum. Dr. Fowlin has the ability to make students realize others’ sensitivity to differences. Furthermore, students will leave the presentation with a deeper understanding of others’ difference as well as their own.	1700		2000
2008	Fall		SISS	Heritage	Social Skills Improvement System is an evidence-based, multi-tiered assessment and intervention system to help educators assist students to develop, improve, and maintain critical social skills.	30		860
2008	Fall		High Interest Novels	Middle School	High interest novels for students reading below grade level. Orca Soundings series use simple vocabulary and short sentences combined with lots of authentic dialog and engrossing subject matter, making them ideal for high-interest, low-reading collections.	100		620
2008	Fall		Playaway Audiobooks	Middle School	Allow struggling readers at the Middle School to read the same book titles as their peers are reading. Students just press play and start listening immediately – there is no need for a separate player, it comes with earbuds and a battery. Grant will help break current barriers many struggling readers have when choosing books.	150		500
2008	Fall		Get Set for Writing	Houghton	“Handwriting without Tears” project includes several manipulative materials that encourage young students to learn pre-writing/writing skills by providing a fun, hands on approach to developing fine motor skills. Will build finger dexterity, hand strength, pencil grasp, hand dominance, fine motor manipulation, and hand/eye coordination skills, all while developing a joy of writing.	50		500
2008	Fall		Bucket Fillers	Woodland Meadows	Bucket Fillers is an organization dedicated to improving lives. Carol McCloud, “the bucket lady”, will come and do an assembly on self esteem. The program has several goals including: teaching students to express love, respect, and appreciation to others; help children become other-centered rather than self-centered; help express feelings (good/bad) in a healthy manner; help understand where feelings originate and how to protect their feelings from being hurt; and establish a framework for more constructive words and actions and less bullying.	150		500
2008	Fall		Buster the School Bus	Transportation	BUSTER is an outstanding tool for teaching the important lessons of school bus safety. Buster is a fully animated remote-controlled school bus. He can blink, wink, and move his eyes, with a very warm friendly smile. Busters helps kids follow these major rules: get to bus stop early, keep back 10 feet, eyeballing the driver and never walk behind the bus, wait in single file, no hanging objects on backpacks, look both ways – twice, what to do when strangers are at your bus stop.	3800		4500
2008 – Spring Grants Awarded
Year	Season		Title	School	Description	Number of Students		Amount Awarded
2008	Spring		Recycling Safety and Labeling	Heritage	Teaching and building materials to establish recycling efforts.	60		500
2008	Spring		Improving Student Engagement	High School	Teaching materials to entice student interest in reading.	450		999
2008	Spring		Interactive Read Alouds	Harvest	Purchase read aloud booklets for early elementary students	60		135
2008	Spring		AP Spanish Language	High School	Create a mobile lab for first ever AP Spanish Program	60		1700
2007 – Fall Grants Awarded
Year	Season		Title	School	Description	Number of Students		Amount Awarded
2007	Fall		National Marketing Competition	High School	Enable students to attend national marketing conference.	12		275
2007	Fall		KIDS – program material	Harvest	Teaching tools for elementary children	60		450
2007	Fall		Little Red Riding Hood	Harvest	Stage materials to play production.	60		135
2007	Fall		High School College Prep Awareness	High School	Purchase materials regarding college selection process/finance aid	450		400
2007	Fall		Middle School Education	Middle School	Support Middle School educator statewide meeting	250		2500
2007	Fall		Exercise Physiology	High School	Purchase exercise equipment to establish exercise physiology.	60		7835
2007	Fall		Pond Life	High School	Purchase lab materials to monitor pond life	120		1271
2007 – Spring Grants Awarded
Year	Season		Title	School	Description	Number of Students		Amount Awarded
2007	Spring		Recycling Safety and Labeling	Heritage	Teaching and building materials to establish recycling efforts.	60		500
2007	Spring		Improving Student Engagement	High School	Teaching materials to entice student interest in reading.	450		999
2007	Spring		Interactive Read Alouds	Harvest	Purchase read aloud booklets for early elementary students	60		135
2007	Spring		AP Spanish Language	High School	Create a mobile lab for first ever AP Spanish Program	60		1700
2006 - Spring
Year	Season	#	Title	School	Description	Amount Requested	Status	Amount Awarded
2006	Spring	1	History Alive - Improving Adolescent Literacy Through "Considerate Text"	Middle School	Request to purchase History Alive textbooks which are formatted as "considerate text". Textbook content is formatted such that columns are removed and all information regarding one topic appears on one page. The textbook comes with maps, graphs, charts, and photographs that relate directly to the reading. Budget is for 60 copies.	3,176	Rejected	-
2006	Spring	2	Get Involved - Activities That Teach	High School	Request to purchase materials for the newly-updated ninth grade reproductive health curriculum. Curriculum topics include (1) developing an awareness of the characteristics of a positive and healthy relationship, (2) identifying sexually transmitted infections, (3) increasing awareness of the consequences and risks involved with sexual activity. Materials to support this instruction were developed by Su Nottingham. Budget is for various classroom sexuality education kits.	420	Accepted	420
2006	Spring	3	Enriching Literacy At Home and School	Houghton	Project to make literaracy take-home packs available to parents with ideas and activities they could do with their student at home. Each pack includes books, games, puzzles, activity cards, and comprehension questions focused on a particular topic. Topics include school, fairy tales, sea life, insects, careers, and space. Each pack may be taken home by a student for a few days, and then returned for another student to borrow. Budget includes $195 for an Alphabet Reader big book, $357 for six copies of Alphabet Reader student books, $10 for an Alphabet Reader CD, and $125 for five early literarcy packs.	791	Accepted	791
2006	Spring	4	Dr. Richard Lapchick Presentation: Towards a More Inclusive School Community Presentation	High School	Presentation by Richard Lapchick, professor at the University of Central Florida, to promote a more inclusive school community, gain an appreciation to work for social justice, and foster a willingness to appreciate differences in a school community. There will be two one-hour presentations to high school students and teachers.	1,500	Rejected	-
2006	Spring	5	GAMEPLAN: Interactive Music Enrichment	HA, HO, PR, & WM	Project to use stimulating visuals and interactive manipulatives that facilitate comprehension of musical concepts in the elementary school music classroom. The materials are called GAMEPLAN and include a box of charts and visuals, interactive music displays, and teaching guides. Budget includes $2,805 for three sets of the materials and $100 for shipping.	2,905	Accepted	2,905
2006	Spring	6	New Heights for "At-Risk" Readers	Houghton	Project to provide both fiction and nonfiction reading materials on tape to accelerate comprehension, fluency, and reading achievement for struggling readers. New Heights - Blast Off! Is a reading program that includes twenty books on tape that are equivalent to beginning reading levels. Budget includes $675 for books, tapes, and teacher guide, $55 for cassette player, and $68 for shipping.	798	Accepted	798
2006	Spring	7	Lindamood Phoneme Sequence Program (LIPS)	Harvest	Request to purchase The Lindamood Phoneme* Sequencing Program (LiPS) to assist both special education and general students with in reading, spelling, and speech. The program helps students focus on how the lips, tongue, and mouth produce the sounds that they hear. Budget includes $298 for LiPS and $159 for the LiPS Magnetic Kit. * The smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the 'm' of mat and the 'b' of bat.	457	Accepted	457
2006	Spring	8	Fluency Tools Improve Reading Comprehension	Pleasant Ridge	Project to promote fluent reading through practice, hearing a model of fluent reading, and using meaningful literature. Students will listen to leveled audio books, practice reading the same texts, and then record and listen to themselves reading the texts. Budget includes $625 for five voice recorders, $375 for five cassette recorders, $125 for five noise-reduction carousels, $120 for cassette tapes, $240 for batteries, $125 for a battery recharger, and $1,320 for twenty books and tapes.	2,930	Rejected	-
2006	Spring	9	Guided Reading Books for At-Risk/Beginning Readers	Pleasant Ridge	Request to purchase books for early emergent readers to actively teach early behaviors that are crucial to the learning to process text. The books will improve the variety of texts available to students so that they learn to flexibly process text. Budget includes $160 for six Early Emergent 1 titles, $160 for six Emergent 1 titles, and $140 for six Emergent 2 titles.	460	Rejected	-
2006	Spring	10	AP Experience: The Tempest	High School	Request to purchase tickets and transportation to take AP English students to see The Tempest performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. Students will complete and in-depth study of the play, will engage in a college-level lecture series held at the University of Michigan, see the play, and then write a formal analysis of the play and their experience.	715	Accepted	550
2006	Spring	11	Immigration to Saline and Michigan	High School	Request to print booklet used in Michigan History classes. The booklet compares immigration to Saline and Michigan from 1850 to 1910. Booklet content has been updated from its first edition in 1985. A high school graphics art student will format the text and pictures for a class project. Budget is for 150 copies of the booklet.	115	Accepted	115
2006	Spring	12	Promotional Bulletin Boards and Showcase	High School	Request to purchase bulletin boards and a showcase for use by high school marketing students. The boards will promote the school store and DECA events. Students will research designs and messages to effectively market store merchandise. Budget includes $1,200 for the boards and $2,000 for the showcase.	3,200	Rejected	-
2006	Spring	13	Geography Alive - Improving Adolescent Literacy Through "Considerate Text"	Middle School	Request to purchase Geography Alive textbooks which are formatted as "considerate text". Textbook content is formatted such that columns are removed and all information regarding one topic appears on one page. The textbook comes with maps, graphs, charts, and photographs that relate directly to the reading. Budget is for 35 copies.	2,117	Rejected	-
2006	Spring	14	Six String Symphony - Guitar is for Everyone	High School	Project to teach beginning guitar to high school students. Students will learn at least 16 different chords, accompaniment, basic music theory, traditional music notation, guitar tablature notation, and different musical styles. Budget includes $2,500 for twenty guitars, $500 for twenty guitar cases, and $200 for guitar supplies.	3,200	Accepted	1,600
2006 - Fall
Year	Season	#	Title	School	Description	Amount Requested	Status	Amount Awarded
2006	Fall	1	Little Red Riding Hood Play	Harvest	Project for second-graders to produce and perform Little Red Riding Hood. Each student will have a part in the play, sing songs, help create props and backgrounds, and be on stage for the entire performance. Play rehearsal will begin in January 2007 and performances will in March 2007. Budget includes $234 for costumes and $131 for set supplies.	365	Accepted	365
2006	Fall	2	Buddies Teaching Reading Comprehension	Heritage	Project to have Heritage School students "buddy" with Woodland Meadows students to teach reading skills using picture books. Every 2-3 weeks, Heritage students will travel to Woodland Meadows to work with their assigned buddy. Prior to each meeting, Heritage students will learn, practice, and prepare to teach a reading skill. Picture books required by the project are needed throughout the year so it will be difficult to rely on the Heritage media center. Budget is for 65 picture books.	975	Accepted	500
2006	Fall	3	Classroom Speed Stacking - The Need for Speed	Heritage	Project to enhance the physical fitness of students through an indoor classroom activity called speed stacking. Speed stacking is an individual and team sport where participants stack and unstack 12 specially designed cups in pre-determined sequences. The project was begun last year with the help of a Foundation grant that funded 30 speed stacking sets. This request supports classroom-, school-, and district-wide tournaments. Budget is $700 for 30 timer mats and $89 for a tournament display.	789	Accepted	450
2006	Fall	4	KIDS (Kindness is Downright Special)	Harvest	Visit the Saline Evangelical Home once per month for activities including bingo, dancing, singing, poetry, crafts, reading, and acting. Budget is for bus transportation.	550	Accepted	550
2006	Fall	5	Recycling Facility Field Trip	Heritage	Project to take 5th graders on a tour of Clean Tech, the world's fifth largest plastics recycler located in Dundee, Michigan. Students will tour the facility to learn how recycled plastics are sorted and processed for reuse. The tour will take place in November and will last about one-half day. Budget is for bus transportation.	250	Accepted	250
2006	Fall	6	Human Muscle Models	High School	Request to purchase human body muscle models for use in Anatomy & Physiology, Twentieth Century Health, and Human Physiology classes. The models will provide a hands-on learning experience for students. They will enable students to more easily identify where specific muscles are located, where they start and end, and how they relate to other muscles. Budget is for ten human body muscle models.	1,000	Accepted	1,000
2006	Fall	7	Beyond the Hype: Deconstructing Toxic Messages of Masculinity and Femininity in the Media	Middle School	Presentation by Jean Kilbourne, national speaker on gender and media issues, will present an interactive lecture that empowers students, teachers, and community leaders to actively critique and understand powerful advertising and influential portrayals of young men and women on popular sitcoms. The presentation will take place in Spring 2007 and will welcome secondary students, educators, community leaders, and university students. Budget is for speaker honorarium.	1,500	Rejected	-
2006	Fall	8	We're All Eyes	Pleasant Ridge	Project to dissect sheep eyes enabling second-grade students to see the inner workings of the eye. University of Michigan staff will come to assist the students. They will supply rubber gloves, dissecting tools, and antiseptic rinse for the eyes. Prior to the dissections, students will learn parts of the eye, how the eye works, and study a model of the eye. Budget is for sheep eyes.	150	Accepted	150
2005 - Spring
Year	Season	#	Title	School	Description	Amount Requested	Status	Amount Awarded
2005	Spring	1	Saline "Senior" Prom	High School	Project to host a "senior" prom for Brecon Village residents. The event will enable students to learn the history and music of another generation. Students will decorate the Brecon Village dining area, entertain the residents, and have dinner with them. The event, scheduled for April 28 , involves members of the student council, the jazz band, a choir, and the National Honor Society.	2,135	Accepted	1,135
2005	Spring	2	SRA Early Intervention of Reading	Harvest	Project to increase the reading level of special education students. Project will use materials that help students in phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, word recognition and spelling, fluency, and comprehension. Budget is for teacher materials.	597	Accepted	597
2005	Spring	3	Bringing Plasma Cam Cutting to Saline Area High School	High School	Request to purchase a PlasmaCam cutting machine for use by industrial arts students. The machine enables complex shapes to be cut on sheet and plate steel. It would streamline the current paper pattern approach used and would replace the current outdated optical cutter. Related materials would be funded by the South and West Washtenaw Consortium.	9,990	Accepted	9,990
2005	Spring	4	Helping History Come Alive	Middle School	Request to purchase teacher resource kits that enhance learning of history. The kits include materials that enable students to reenact historical events with background music and visuals. The kits also include photographs, maps, documents, graphs, and timelines. Budget is for four kits.	2,900	Accepted	2,900
2005	Spring	5	CD Players for Heritage School Music Program	Heritage	Request to purchase CD players for use by students to hear examples of musical styles, ensembles, and eras. Student method books now include CDs for use in class for drill and individual accompaniment. Budget is for six CD players.	780	Accepted	260
2005	Spring	6	Tough Guise	Middle School	Project to instruct young men and women on what is means to be a "real man." Materials to be used in the project, developed by sociologist Jackson Katz, attempt to combat poor representations of manhood from coaches and the media. Budget is for a teaching kit with video.	150	Accepted	150
2005 - Fall
Year	Season	#	Title	School	Description	Amount Requested	Status	Amount Awarded
2005	Fall	1	Building Simple Electromagnetic Speakers from Household Items	Middle School	Project to have each student build an electromagnetic speaker from household items. Students will learn about the science of sound and how sound waves and vibrations transfer energy. The speaker will produce a sound of 80 decibels. Budget is for enough materials (plastic cups, lids, straws, magnets, magnet wire, washers, screws, nuts, cardboard, terminal connectors, carpet tape, speaker wire) for 120 speakers.	500	Accepted	500
2005	Fall	2	KIDS (Kindness is Downright Special)	Harvest	Visit the Saline Evangelical Home once per month for activities including bingo, dancing, singing, poetry, crafts, reading, and acting. Budget is for bus transportation.	350	Accepted	350
2005	Fall	3	Classroom Speed Stacking	Heritage	Project to enhance the physical fitness of students through an indoor classroom activity called speed stacking. Speed stacking is an individual and team sport where participants stack and unstack 12 specially designed cups in pre-determined sequences. Budget is for 30 speed stacking sets.	569	Accepted	569
2005	Fall	4	Stories to Share About Students with Special Needs	Houghton	Project to educate young students about other students with special needs through classroom mini-lessons using picture books. The lessons will discuss students with vision, hearing, speech, and mobility impairments, attention deficit disorder, and other developmental disabilities. Budget is for several books covering the various disabilities.	500	Accepted	150
2005	Fall	5	Students as Storytellers	Pleasant Ridge	Project to train elementary-school students on the art of storytelling using professional storyteller Debra Christian. Storytelling can enhance imagination, listening, and speaking skills. The professional storyteller will conduct training sessions with the Pleasant Ridge media specialist and students from two classrooms. The media specialist will then train students in all other classrooms. Teachers will be encouraged to provide storytelling opportunities in their classrooms. Budget includes $1,350 for three half-day training sessions, and $300 for storytelling books and tapes.	1,650	Accepted	1,650
2005	Fall	6	Turn Up the Volume	Middle School	Request to purchase sound amplification systems for Saline Middle School classrooms. Students spend up to 45% of their time engaged in listening activities. The systems will enable students to hear information better and will result in better comprehension and understanding. Each system includes a wireless microphone. Budget is for 15 voice enhancement systems.	15,125	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	7	Lindamood Phoneme Sequence Program	Harvest	Request to purchase The Lindamood Phoneme* Sequencing Program (LiPS) to assist both special education and general students with in reading, spelling, and speech. The program helps students focus on how the lips, tongue, and mouth produce the sounds that they hear. Budget includes $298 for LiPS and $159 for the LiPS Magnetic Kit. * The smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the 'm' of mat and the 'b' of bat.	457	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	8	Promoting Academic Integrity	High School	Request to purchase subscription to Internet service that verifies the authorship of students' written work. Students electronically submit their work to the service and the service checks it for plagiarism. The work is compared with billions of pages, including published books and journals and other submitted works, and an originality report generated. Budget includes $400 for a one-year subscription, and $1,800 for student licenses.	2,200	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	9	Early Childhood Readers	Harvest	Request to purchase subscription to Internet service enabling books to be printed by the subscriber. 1,500 titles for all reading levels are available through the service. The titles will be downloaded, copied, and distributed to students. The service also has printable teacher materials to teach reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. Budget includes $400 for five one-year subscriptions and $200 for paper.	600	Accepted	400
2005	Fall	10	Kinder Keyboards for Kids	Houghton	Request to purchase computer keyboard overlays to facilitate keyboarding by kindergarten, first grade, and special education students. The overlays add lower case letters to keys so that younger students can more easily identify them. Budget is for 94 keyboard overlays.	1,400	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	11	Fluency Tools Improve Reading Comprehension	Pleasant Ridge	Project to promote reading comprehension through 'fluency' centers. Fluency centers will be created in each third grade classroom. Students will use the centers to listen to book readings, and record their readings of the same book. Budget includes $625 for 25 voice recorders, $375 for five cassette players, $125 for five noise reduction carousels, $119 for blank cassettes, $240 for AA rechargeable batteries, $125 for five battery chargers, and $1,320 for audio-assisted books.	2,930	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	12	Equal Resources for All	Harvest	Request for a general donation to expand the collection of books at Harvest Elementary. The donation will help alleviate the difference in the amount of books between Harvest and older schools, Woodland Meadows Elementary and Pleasant Ridge Elementary.	1,500	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	13	First Response Team/Safe School Procedures	Middle School	Request to purchase emergency safety equipment to better equip a First Response Team and to facilitate communication between the principal and the Team. Budget includes $350 for ten two-way radios, $85 for ten flashlights, $100 for ten CPR masks, $100 for ten backpacks, $120 for ten First Aid kits, $20 for ten whistles, and $100 for ten emergency identification vests.	875	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	14	The Theory of Singing	High School	Project to initiate a music theory class at the high school. Students will work towards a deeper understanding of the various building blocks of music including melody, harmony, rhythm, meter, texture, and form. Students will complete compositional assignments using a computer, music keyboard, and music software. Budget includes $880 for 40 copies of text Basic Music Theory, and $210 for three copies of text The Practice of Harmony.	1,090	Accepted	1,090
2005	Fall	15	The Magic Flute for 2	Heritage & HS	Project to combine high school and fifth grade students in the study of the music and libretto of The Magic Flute written by Wolfgang Mozart. The students will be formed into small groups to develop scenes from The Magic Flute that have both dialog and music. Budget includes $19.95 for Mozart's Magic Flute: The Magical Game CD, $27 for The Magic Flute DVD, $75 for The Magic Flute book and CD, $78.75 for 35 copies of the Papagena duet, $122.50 for 35 copies of the Die Zauberflote scene, $200 for various instruments, costumes, and props, and $100 for guest artist Alice Pierce.	624	Accepted	623
2005	Fall	16	R5 Productions - Diversity Day - Grades 9-12	High School	Project to have national motivational touring group R5 Productions perform their message of tolerance to high school students. The group will host two assemblies. They will then meet with various student groups including FCCLA, DECA, NHS, SADD, Student Council, and sports captains. The project goal is to encourage students to look beyond what they thought they knew about certain people and see what makes each of us unique.	1,000	Accepted	1,000
2005	Fall	17	R5 Productions - Diversity Day - Grades 6-8	Heritage & MS	Project to have national motivational touring group R5 Productions perform their message of tolerance to middle school and sixth grade students. The group will host one or two assemblies. They will then meet with various student groups including FCCLA, STAND, Student Council, sports captains, and Leadership. The project goal is to encourage students to look beyond what they thought they knew about certain people and see what makes each of us unique.	2,000	Accepted	2,000
2005	Fall	19	Golf for the Little Ones	Houghton	Request to purchase golf equipment to introduce the youngest students to the game of golf. Students will learn how to grip a club, address the ball, and chip and putt. Budget is for two sets of clubs including irons and putters, six putting targets, four chipping targets, 16 chipping mats, 320 golf balls, and four storage cases.	3,704	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	21	Power of the Press Campaign	High School	Request for help in the purchase of a two-color offset printing press. The press will be used by students in the Graphic Communications and Visual Imaging Technology programs. Students will be able to design and produce meaningful and useful printed products. Funding for the press will also come from the South and West Washtenaw Consortium.	29,000	Accepted	1,000
2005	Fall	22	Strategies and Tools that Facilitate Success with Nonfiction Reading/Language Comprehension	Heritage	Project to enhance reading skills of at-risk students using science and social studies books at their instructional reading level. Budget includes $200 for reading comprehension kits and $400 for nonfiction books.	600	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	23	Math Carnival - Making Math Fun	Houghton	Project to provide students and their families with materials to practice and develop math skills at home. The first portion of the project is a Math Carnival consisting of nine stations. As students visit the nine stations, they play the math game there and build a math kit to take home to their families. The kit contains instructions and materials needed practice math at home. Budget includes $161 for take-home math kits and $246 for math carnival materials and fees.	407	Accepted	407
2005	Fall	24	For the Love of Sewing	High School	Request to purchase an embroidery machine for a Needle Arts course at the high school. Students will design artwork and use the machine to apply it to clothing. Budget is for one machine.	3,174	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	25	Woodland Meadows Music Improvisation Initiative	Woodland Meadows	Request to purchase percussion instruments and notation software to facilitate improvisation instruction. Budget includes $255 for software, $300 for three instrument stands, $525 for a alto xylophone, $324 for mallets, $456 for mallet holders, $232 for rosewood claves and wood blocks, and $144 for shipping.	2,236	Rejected	-
2005	Fall	26	Helping Social Studies Come Alive	Middle School	Project to enable students to reenact historical events with background music and visuals, as well as analyze events by interpreting photos, maps, primary documents, graphs, and timelines. The materials come in teacher resource kits that enhance learning of history. Budget is for four kits.	2,900	Accepted	1,450
2005	Fall	27	Generations Project	Middle School	Project to hold a day-long intergenerational workshop led by two genealogy experts. The workshop will focus on intergenerational interviewing, genealogical research, and connections between public and family history. Budget is for the services of the two experts.	1,950	Rejected	- </