Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation

Total $51337

Alder Creek M.S.
Total $5946

• Smart Boards for Library Media Center - Ray
  This grant will enhance the Library Media Center with the purchase of 2 wall mounted wireless Smartboards. The Smart board can "maximize classroom effectiveness, enhance lessons, and create a record to be shared by all students." - $3595
• Success Class Library - Stephens
  This grant would fund resources needed for the Success Class, which is part of the Exploratory Wheel. The goal is to empower students to take responsibility for their own learning in not only academics but also adolescent issues. - $891
• Individual White Boards - Stephens
  This grant would provide students with individual white boards to use during instruction. - $1460

Creekside Magnet
Total $1715

• Greenhouse for Curriculum Enhancement - Mohler
  The grant is to purchase a greenhouse and accessories to enhance the science curriculum and other plant growing related activities. Additionally, this project helps to foster environmental stewardship for all those involved, as well as enhance partnerships between schools involved with BMP projects. - $1715

Donner Trail
Total $734

• Yuba River Restoration Project - Reed
  The Donner Trail River restoration project is an on going effort to restore the riparian habitat to its natural state. The soil behind Donner Trail School was contaminated by a diesel spill then “cleaned.” As a result of this, the soil became sterile and unable to support any native vegetation. Students, kindergarten through fifth grade, will continue the effort to restore native habitat and study the health of the Yuba River’s riparian environment. The curriculum is standards-based. - $734

Glenshire Elementary
Total $9092

• Expanded Reading Materials for 1st –5th Grades - Dion
  This project will reinforce and enhance the language skills being taught in the Reading Intervention program at Glenshire Elementary. The project will cross over to all curricular areas as well as building on life skills. Reading is the foundation to learning. - $710
• Supplemental Math Program - Dailey
  The grant is to have full implementation in 3rd – 5th grade of the supplemental math program, Accelerated Math. One impediment is the need to have a scanner and printer in every classroom. This grant would solve this problem. - $6450
• "Think it by Hand" Math Grant - Folsom
  This grant will help reinforce the state standards in math by purchasing math manipulatives for instruction for all grade levels. - $1932

King's Beach Elementary
Total $831

• Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum - Fahrner
  Second Step is a series of curriculum kits designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and increase their level of social competence. It does this by teaching skills in empathy, impulse control and anger management. The Second Step series includes curricula for preschool through 9th grades. - $831

North Tahoe HS
Total $1700

• Reference Materials for Special Education Program - Fletcher/ Whittemore
  This grant is to fund reference materials at resource materials for special education programs at NTHS to enhance regular education curriculum. - $700
• Music Department Request for Stage Lighting - Krauss
  Grant request for music stand lighting for stage performances in school auditorium. The lights would be used by band students, choir and many other groups including drama, festivals, and arts within the school. - $1000

North Tahoe M.S.
Total $7000

• Minimum Day Electives - Curry
  This grant would fund 29-weeks of minimum day programming through the Boys & Girls Club and Tahoe City PUD. Programming includes Power Hour homework, BOTT Technology Lab, Art Programs, Sports. - $7000

Tahoe Lake Elementary
Total $4726

• Tahoe Lake’s Literacy Manipulative Library - Bourke
  Grant is to build a library of teaching tools to differentiate language arts instruction found in the Reading /Language Arts Framework for California. These literacy activities will provide individualized instruction in phonemic awareness, sound sorting, phonics, word building, high frequency words, spelling, sentence building, story writing and comprehension. - $3196
• Digital Cameras in the Classroom - Bushway-Verkler
  Digital cameras in the classroom will enhance many different projects that are part of the daily activities at Tahoe Lake School. Students and teachers will be able to meet the needs of tying academic and technology standards into projects. - $1530

Truckee Elementary
Total $5290

• Truckee Elementary School Yard Project - All Teachers
  Truckee Elementary’s vision for an environmental learning center is to create a natural area that is sustainable and aesthetically pleasing where students and community partners can develop a personal stewardship for their environment. The site will provide hands on opportunities to apply integrated environmentally based curriculum that engages learners in real world projects requiring a high level of critical skills - $5290

Truckee HS
Total $14303

• Into the Classics - Robertson
  The English Department at THS agrees that when ESL students have been exposed to the literature before it is presented in the mainstream classes, students are more successful. A new set of abridged books to allow every child to have their own copy. - $1200
• A Step Ahead: Technology for English Language Learners - Robertson
  Grant request is for a printer and ink in order to work with students one-on-one for English Language Learners' development. - $150
• 35MM Camera - Robertson
  Grant request is to provide an inexpensive but fully functional 35MM camera to students wanted to take Photography at Truckee High but who are unable to afford or obtain a working camera. - $900
• Science – Hands-on/Visual Life Skills - Whitten
  Grant is to fund materials to supplement textbooks with hands on materials and visual aids (transparencies) for the special education class. - $769
• Bird Specimen Taxidermy - Tallant
  The grant request would fund real specimens to refer to for observation during classroom lessons. Currently she has several deceased birds stored in a freezer for instructional use, the funds would have them sent to a taxidermist for processing and mounting. - $1200
• CPO Physics Equipment - Lowder
  The grant funds would replace a current Calculator Based Laboratory (CBL) system with an upgraded CPO Timer II system. With the upgrades, students will be able to truly learn through inquiry-based activities. - $5071
• Special Education – Resource Curriculum Development - Smith
  Grant will provide students with special needs opportunities to use a variety of high interest reading materials. Many students have difficulty in the area of reading comprehension and/or fluency. The materials purchased with grant funds will utilize skill development in reading. - $500
• Community Based Instruction, CBI - Marchi
  Special Day Class students need special software to make computers easily accessible and use friendly. They need to develop typing, spelling, fine motor, speech and computer skills. - $546
• Interactive Sympodium and Projector - Kirschner
  This grant is to purchase a video projector and Sympodium for daily use, enhancing the science classroom. They Sympodium is a desktop interface, allowing the presenter to write on the computer screen. - $3967