Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation (2000)
This grant is for the development and implementation of a Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation program at Roosevelt School. The funds will be used to train a core of teachers in this process, all teachers in the school, and ultimately the students that will be peer mediators.
Math Start Series (2000)
This project will focus on student, parent, and staff education in the following ways: using math books to enhance student learning, helping integrate math into everyday life, demonstrating the link between literature and math, developing reading and language arts skills, such as comprehension and critical learning.
Promote Academic Goal of Reading (2001)
The purpose of this project is to plan and implement student, parent and staff education as it relates to Reading. The grant will fund presentations and other forms of teacher and parent in-service.
Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation (2001)
This grant is for the continued development and implementation of a Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation program at Roosevelt School. The funds will be used for guest speakers and other school assemblies focused on this issue.
Learning Respect and Responsibility from a Real Life Hero (2001)
This grant will bring a New York City firefighter to visit both Roosevelt and Field Schools. In addition to helping the students learn about respect and responsibility, students will learn about fire safety.
Self-Esteem Books (2001)
This grant will fund the purchase of books and materials to help students learn about diversity, building self-esteem and problem solving. Sets will be available for teachers in the primary grade levels.
Creating a Culture of Civil Behavior (2005)
Speaker SuEllen Fried has spoken extensively and co-authored two books on bullying prevention. She presented to Roosevelt's students, Roosevelt's staff and district-wide lunch supervisors. In addition an interactive district-wide parents presentation was held.
"Think Time" Math Problem Solving Manipulatives (2005)
Manipulatives used during Wednesday "Think Time" - children solve academic and non-academic problems.
The Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test (2005)
An assessment tool designed to identify children who have insufficient phonemic awareness, which is a key predictor of how well children will learn to read in the early years of school.
Fourth Grade Level Book Room (2005)
In a joint effort with PTO, Books and CD-ROMs purchased to enhance the literature collection, exposing all fourth graders to a variety of genres of literature.
Summer Reading Drive (2006)
This grant will support an intense summer reading initiative for 2nd and 3rd graders. The program utilizes a driving metaphor intended to capture the students' attention, create a cohesive theme for activities and help to make a meaningful connection. The concept is to have students as drivers in the "reading drive" and then similar metaphors are used to make comprehension captivating and fun.
Fluency Farm (2008)
A ready made, child friendly, means to enhance oral reading and fluency. It is a research based interactive tool for building the critical skill set necessary for bridging decoding and comprehension. Students take frequent "field trips" to the fluency farm repeatedly reading the same text in an increasingly fluent, more automatic, manner.
Document Camera (2008)
Funds from this grant will be used to purchase document cameras. These cameras allow teachers to share student work and learning examples immediately with their classroom and will replace and surpass the overhead projector.
IPods in the Classroom (2009)
Creating podcast of students demonstrating reading comprehension strategies while reading selected text aloud. These recordings will support assessment of the student's skill mastery. Teachers will also learn how to use iPods and other technology to support small group instructions in reading and assessment of student progress. Intermediate grade students will record oral reading to demonstrate their ability to apply reading comprehension strategies. These recordings will create an authentic product that will be used in the Primary grade classrooms. Completed recordings will become podcasts that will be loaded on a website where they can be assessed by parents.
