Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation

Total $67850

Alder Creek M.S.
Total $200

• Library Art - Ray
  This grant includes a signed personalized print of Colin Thompson, raised relief maps that include Nevada, California and Lake Tahoe. As well as monies for framing and future art work. These items will be put on the walls of the library. - $200

Creekside Magnet
Total $1820

• Microscopes for Curriculum Enhancement -
  Purchase of ten Brock “Magiscope” Microscope, and prepared slides and Petri dishes to be used by the Kindergarten through 6th grade students. These microscopes will enhance the teaching of the scientific process and allow the students to explore the environment around them at a new level. - $1820

Glenshire Elementary
Total $14977

• Guitars for Glenshire Stars - Waters
  This grant is for fifteen student size guitars and cases, to be used in the classroom of the 3rd through 5th graders. Students will work in pairs to learn proper technique for chording, strumming and finger picking; with instruction from the music teacher - $2250
• Supplemental Math Program - Dailey
  This grant is to continue the development of the supplemental math program at Glenshire for students having difficulty with the State Standards, and for students who are accelerating in math. This grant includes the purchase of an Expansion kit for 50 students, Library for grades 3and 6. Learning cards for 3rd through 6th grades and a Scanner. - $6489
• Manipulatives for Math - Folsom
  This grant will help reinforce the state standards in math by purchasing math manipulatives for instruction for all grade levels - $1932
• Building Reading Skills in Primary Grades - Bower
  This project will extend the Accelerated Reading Program to include the primary grades. This grant request is for 15 Accelerated Reader Quiz Sets and two additional users. - $1500
• Hands on Workjobs for Kindergarten - La point
  This grant will fund science and math manipulatives and create hands on work jobs for the Kindergarten classes. - $1000
• Glenshire's literacy Manipulative - Woodard-Gross
  This grant request is to complete a previous awarded grant for a complete Literacy Library to service 300 students. This library of manipulatives includes materials to reach phonemic awareness, sound sorting, word building, high frequency words, spelling and other literacy tools. These learning kits will be housed together and be attainable to all teachers. - $1806

King's Beach Elementary
Total $7345

• Expository and Guided Reading Text - Anderson
  This grant provides for expository texts for read alouds and guided reading to accompany the GEMS science units. These books will be used as a means of enhancing the science concepts, teaching reading strategies and comprehension and promoting English Language development. An additional amount of $1000 is being asked for, for the Spanish Immersion Program. - $2200
• Enhancing State- Mandated Phonics with CELL Based lessons - McCartney
  This grant will purchase Phonics lesson books (in which lessons are incorporated within the CELL framework), Read Alouds, Poetry anthologies (which emphasize the phonics skill) and magnetic letters (used in the literacy center) teachers will be able to more effectively teach to the state standards for phonics in reading and spelling and in writing. - $3000
• Fith Grade Combination Locks - Bendock
  This grant request is to purchase a class set of thirty combination locks. This will enable fifth grade students to practice opening combination locks before entering middle school. This grant will alleviate one of the major anxieties that 5th graders feel entering middle school. The locks will be inventoried and shared with all the 5th graders. - $145
• Through Children's Eyes - Beaudry
  This grant request is to purchase LCD Multimedia Projector, digital camera, picture frames, disk storage and batteries for use by the 4th and 5th graders and staff. This grant will expose the students to the profession of photojournalism as a medium of documenting news events and the daily lives of children in the school. Students will be trained in digital camera use, present their ideas to an editor, and cover the new events. Slide shows and a yearly exhibit will be held to feature the top student photographers. - $2000

North Tahoe HS
Total $7012

• Audio Equipment, Books on CD and Tapes - Fletcher/ Whittemore
  The above equipment will be used for up to 150 students, in the ninth through twelfth grades, in the resource classes to help adapt the curriculum to help meet the goals and objectives of the students I.E.P. - $931
• Proofing Cabinet for Culinary Arts - Robertson
  Students in the Culinary/ Nutrition program (a vocational arts credit) cannot make products requiring fermentation period as the class time is too short. The acquisition of a proofing cabinet will reduce the time required for fermentation period and proofing stage. With this cabinet in place there is also a possibility of opening up an Advanced Baking and Pastry Class in the future. - $2502
• Calculators - McCready
  Grant is for 30 graphing calculators for Algebra II and Trigonometry. These calculators would be available for students to check out and use. - $3579

North Tahoe M.S.
Total $2710

• EASY Beginner Series and Community Essentials ESL Curriculum - Sayegh
  EASY (English Academic Success for You) is a multimedia curriculum that uses video and interactive CD-ROMs to teach community life skills and English Language Development. EASY is a standards based ESL program designed for Beginners thru Intermediate Learners. The program includes reproducible worksheets and tests to access student learning. These materials would be kept in the Library and would be available to all NTMS and NTHS students and teachers. - $2710

Sierra Mountain M.S.
Total $10251

• Electronic Balances - Eppolito
  Electronic Balances will supplement the current “plastic balances with weights”. Electronic balances are more accurate and allow for milligram readability, producing a more accurate measurement. - $500
• Media Literacy - Bacon
  This grant would enable a Media Literacy Exploratory Class that would be offered to the sixth grade level. - $300
• Low Wind Equipment Aquisition Matching Funds Request - Humphreys
  This grant will be supplemental to funds received to purchase new instruments. This grant will provide matching funds to increase the buying power, specifically to purchase low wind instruments. This acquisition will increase the opportunities for students to participate in the bands and to balance the bands. - $7000
• Laboratory Hot Plates - Eppolito
  This would fund the 7th grade science dept. with an additional hot plate per class; totaling two hot plates per class. The plates are also used at the yearly Renaissance Faire cooking class. - $975
• Middle School Math Center - August-Evans
  This mobile mathematics fun center will be a collection of games and literature that compliment and enhance the math standards taught at the sixth through eight grade students. This mobile teaching cart will be accessible to all teachers throughout the entire school year. - $738
• Middle School Math Fun Center - August-Evans
  This mobile mathematics fun center will be a collection of games and literature that compliment and enhance the math standards taught at the sixth through eight grade students. This mobile teaching cart will be accessible to all teachers throughout the entire school year. - $738

Tahoe Lake/Rideout
Total $1490

• Sound System for the Little Auditorium - Hardy
  This grant will provide a complete sound system for the auditorium. This would allow the students to be heard by the audience. - $1490

Truckee Elementary
Total $12348

• Ceramic Klin Replacement - Teller
  Because there is basic aging deterioration to the refractory lining of the kiln there are no options except to replace the kiln. The project contemplated is simply to replace the well used but geriatric kiln and the accessories that are associated with the replacement. The kiln proposed is the current version of the kiln now in use and has a 45 year life span. - $6979
• Maps - Theis
  This grant would provide eight sets of four layer pull down maps (a combination of physical and political maps of California, The United States, and The World) three pull down maps of California (Political Maps), and one globe ball with cradle showing ocean currents. These maps will be installed in twelve classrooms - $5169
• Accelerated Reader Library - Patrick
  This grant will supply one third of the books needed for the test sets already purchased for reading levels 2.5 and up, for the accelerated reader (AR) program. This grant would also include two additional test sets for the younger readers. These AR books will be grouped together in the Library so all teachers will have access to these books. - $200

Truckee HS
Total $9697

• Power Stations for P.E./ Weights - Shaeffer
  Funding for four Power Station exercise equipment platforms as the existing lifting equipment has gotten to the point of being non-repairable. Students in all the physical education classes and athletic teams totaling 400-600 students yearly use this equipment. - $5985
• Sound Solution - Robertson
  This grant will provide Audio Literature (books on tape) for the required reading of mainstream English 9th -12th grade classes. English as Second Language students will have audio versions of books in order to supplement their understanding. - $663
• Marine Aquarium and Organisms - Tallant
  This grant would provide updated equipment to an existing 100 gallon salt water tank in this teacher’s classroom. - $1000
• Hands on History and Geography - Whitten
  This grant would supply materials to supplement textbooks with hands on maps and atlases for students in the special day classes and in the special education classes. - $611
• The Joy of Reading - Gordon
  This grant would purchase high-interest reading materials for silent, sustained reading (SSR) and to enhance basic reading skills, foster expressive language skills and to promote effective writing through reading in Ms.Gordon’s classroom. - $300
• Portable Spotlight - Collins
  This grant will purchase a portable spotlight for use of any production on the Truckee Elementary School’s Stage, including grade level performances or community events. - $1138