What is the Andrews ISD Education Foundation?
The Andrews ISD Education Foundation is a nonprofit corporation (501)(C)(3) chartered in April, 2000 whose mission is to provide quality Educational opportunities in order that all students may become successful and productive citizens. The Foundation operates independently of the Andrews independent School District for the purpose of: facilitating student achievement and skill development, recognizing and promoting staff excellence, encouraging involvement from individuals, businesses and civic organizations in the community.
	Who administers the Foundation?
A volunteer Board of Directors with representative community membership governs the Foundation as it seeks funds and sets policy according to its bylaws. The Board of Directors is a legal entity separate from Andrews ISD which cooperates with the district to enhance and enrich the educational opportunities of students and teachers of the school district.
	Why was the Foundation established?
The vision of the founders of the Andrews ISD Educational Foundation was to develop an organization with great possibilities for enhancing and enriching the educational experiences of both students and faculty of Andrews ISD. In order to realize this vision, the founders created a permanent endowment by collecting tax-deductible gifts. The interest from the endowment will be used to provide solid monetary support for educational programs and opportunities beyond the budget of Andrews ISD.
	What are the goals of the Foundations?
Encourage all students to work toward reaching their highest potential. Attract, support and recognize teachers for innovative efforts and exemplary teaching. Build public awareness and confidence in Andrews schools. Involve the community in assuring a quality education for the leaders and works of tomorrow.
	What are the Foundation's Program priorities?
Innovative Teaching Grants - Encourage and reward innovative and creative approaches for instruction which support the accomplishment of the program objectives. Staff Development Grants - Provide financial assistance to district staff for the purpose of improving teaching skills through summer institutes, workshops, and/or enrichment seminars. Curriculum Enhancement Grants - Provide funding for special programs for curriculum enhancement at all levels.
	Who benefits from the Foundation's programs?
Students...as thoughts are stimulated. Teachers...as creative ideas are encouraged. Community...for the quality of life and economic growth resulting from increased educational excellence.
By investing in our children, the Andrews ISD Education Foundation is investing in the future of our schools, community, and society.
How can I help? By Supporting: Your support may come from contributions of cash, annual pledges, memorial gifts, real estate, stocks, planned giving, or other gifts in-kind. By Participating: The Foundation welcomes the intangible and invaluable gifts of your time and service. Your contribution to the Andrews Education Foundation will be gratefully received and carefully appropriated to provide education opportunities for the students of Andrews ISD. Simply print the form below, and return with your tax-deductible contribution. Thank you! Pledge Card

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Andrews Education Foundation

Innovative Instructional Grant Program

Cycle 1, Fall 2000

Cycle
1 Awards Total: 18 grants
$36,975.00

Cumulative Awards Total: 18
grants $36,975.00

Creation Station

Barbara Armstrong

All campuses, $4,955

Teachers will create a "Creation Station" in order to facilitate the
development of child-specific curriculum overlays, picture instruction sheets,
books, journals, posters, and communication devices for use with special
education and speech students.



Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition

Landy Perkins

High School, $330

High School Social Studies teachers will incorporate monthly issues of the Wall
Street Journal into classroom instruction of economics. The WSJ Classroom
Edition is aligned with the National Standards for Economics and the TEKS and
will provide students with practical and meaningful information and activities
related to economics.

Learning in a Flash and
Digital Photography

Louis Fleming, Deborah Wheeler

High School, $$4,600

Art students and Web Mastery students at AHS will combine their efforts to
create cross-curriculum projects. Web Mastery students will use
"Flash" software to create computer-generated animations and enhanced
websites. Art students will use digital cameras and software to augment their
artwork.

Graphing Calculator
Upgrade

Jeff Miller

Middle School, $1000

The middle school math department will purchase a class set of TI 83 graphing
calculators for use with advanced math student.

Project ALERT

Terry Irwin

Middle School, $1,100

AMS Science teachers will participate in professional development opportunities
related to professional development opportunities related to Project ALERT and
then incorporate the project into their drug awareness units. Project ALERT is a
substance abuse prevention curriculum specifically developed for students in
grades 6, 7, and 8 that focuses on preventing teenage non-users from
experimenting with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and preventing teenage
experimenters from becoming regular users.

Classroom Materials for
Title I Math Department

Pam Haynes

Middle School, $940

The Title I Math Department at AMS focuses on working with students who have not
been successful in passing the math portion of the TAAS test. Students will be
provided with supplementary textbooks designed for students who are experiencing
difficulty with math and teaching material such as calculators

Enhanced Teaching
Techniques

Roland Rose, $592

The AMS Art Department will purchase a video camera and supplies that will
enable students, with the support of their teacher, to develop instructional
videos illustrating the step-by-step processes involved in creating products

Connecting the Computer
to the Classroom Via Tview Converters

Beth Penley

Clearfork, $4,787

Clearfork Elementary school will purchase and install Tview converters to each
television in each classroom in order to connect them to classroom computers.
Anything pulled up on the computer screen can be displayed on the television,
allowing whole group instruction to take place.

Accelerated Math and
Star Math Software Program

Bette Stringfellow

Clearfork, $5,000

Third grade teachers at Clearfork Elementary will purchase the Accelerated Math
Program and implement it to supplement to the existing math program.

Science Enrichment for
Grade Three

Dedria Ballew

Devonian, $624

Devonian Elementary third grade teachers will purchase a Modular Schience Center
and Inclined Elementary Microscopes and slides in order to develop Science
Centers within the classroom setting.

Science Enrichment for
Grade Four

Kelli Turnacliff

Devonian, $800

Devonian Elementary fourth grade teachers will purchase a Ken-a-Vision
Microprojector that allows for up to 400x magnification of microscope slides by
projecting the images on a screen.

Science Enrichment for
Grade Five: Up Close and Personal

Lois Ketcham, Teri Rhodes

Devonian, $2699

Devonian Elementary fifth grade teachers will purchase equipment to enrich the
fifth grade science program by developing Science Centers within the classroom
setting. Ten student microscopes and sets of prepared slides will be purchased
along with the Harcourt Brace Materials Kit for Earth Science, Life Science, and
Physical Science for grade five.

Listen Up

Patricia Rex, Lana Levins

San Andres, $1,632

San Andres Elementary will purchase tape recorders and headsets in order to
establish a listening library for their students and families.

The Wheels on the Bus

Andi Mason

San Andres, $752

The purpose of this project is to expose San Andres first graders to new and
different experiences by allowing them to take one field trip each six weeks of
the school year.

The Captain’s Log
Personal Trainer

Holly Kidd, Marcheta Key,
Vondell Brinson

San Andres, $2.345

San Andres Elementary will purchase The Captain’s Log Computer Program and
related materials that focus on the enhancement of self-esteem and self-control,
eye-hand coordination, concentration, attention, and memory. Students with
learning disabilities, attention disorders, and auditory processing disorders
will learn methods designed to help them concentrate, develop listening skills,
think before acting, and process information more quickly through use of the
program.

Love and Logic Parenting

Holly Kidd

San Andres, $1000

San Andres Elementary will offer classes and opportunities designed to provide
parents with parenting skills needed to become more effective parents and become
more involved in their child’s education.

Sing, Spell, Read, and
Write

Shannon Sullivan, Kathy Leonard

Underwood, $3,450

Underwood first grade teachers will purchase the Sing, Spell, Read, and Write
Program designed to allow students to actively participate in the learning
process by looking, listening, singing, echoing, and moving. Related interactive
charts and games will support the attainment of phonemic awareness, letter
recognition, sequencing, spelling, and grammar by the students.

Current Events
Investigation

Deborah King

Underwood, $369

Underwood fifth grade teachers will purchase Time for Kids and News Bowl Weekly
periodicals for their classrooms in order to create interest in and knowledge of
current events. Students will be encouraged to read non-fiction materials, build
vocabulary and critical thinking skills, promote good citizenship, and increase
in visual literacy with maps, charts, and graphs.

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Andrews Education
Foundation

Innovative Instructional Grant Program

Cycle 2, Spring 2001

Cycle 2 Awards Total: 10
grants $ 26,213.00

Cumulative Awards Total: 28
grants $
63,188.00

Clearfork Physical
Fitness Station

Susan Waldmann and Mike Wilkins

Clearfork Elementary, $4,965

The Andrews Education Foundation will fund new playground equipment at Clearfork
Elementary which will increase the physical activity of all students.



Connecting the Computer to the Classroom

Lisa Little and Lana Leggett Devonian Elementary, $4,285

Devonian Elementary School will purchase and install TView converters to each
television in each classroom in order to connect them to classroom computers.

How Government Works in a Democracy

Charlie Griffin, Kathy Lebby, Carol Vaughn, Felder Hogan, and Mark Burgen
Andrews Middle School, $2,557

Televisions and necessary adaptors will enable the teacher to hook the computer
up to the television so that all students will have a better view of the screen
as they engage in activities such as watching the Texas Legislature in session.



Guitars in the Classroom

Joni Reese Underwood Elementary, $3,715

The grant will be used to purchase a set of guitars for use in K-5 music classes
at Underwood Elementary.

If Life Gives You Scraps, Make Scrapbooks!

Patricia Rex San Andres Elementary, $996

This project will combine technology with literacy as teachers and volunteers
work with second grade children at San Andres to create a memory book
documenting second grade in the new millennium.

South Plains Foreign Language Festival Participation

Mary Hiland, Andrews High School, $913

This project will provide Andrews High School students the opportunity to
participate in the South Plains Foreign Language Festival where they will
demonstrate their language abilities on a larger scale.

Where in America Was the Louisiana Purchase?

Hilary Haygood San Andres Elementary, $847

Funds from the education foundation will be used to purchase historical maps for
a fifth grade classroom at San Andres in order to promote better understand the
influence that geography had on the westward expansion of America.

Quizdom

Tom Ratliff, Keryn Herbold, Shannon Lambert, Vlinda Link, Beth Penley Clearfork
Elementary, $4,729

Implementing Quizdom into the curriculum of second and fourth grades at
Clearfork Elementary will keep students actively involved in the learning
process while allowing computers to be utilized by the entire class.

TAAS Target Practice for Math

Clearfork First and Second Grade Teams Clearfork Elementary, $616

Clearfork first and second grade teachers will purchase TAAS Target Practice for
Math bulletin board materials designed to establish and reinforce strong
mathematical concepts.

The Listening Program

Michelle Richardson, Jeanette Morren, and Donna Wallace Clearfork
Elementary, $2,590

Clearfork Elementary special education teachers will purchase several
brain-based programs designed to improve auditory processing skills, memory, and
sensory skills of students with a variety of difficulties.

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EF-Grant3

Andrews Education
Foundation

Innovative Instructional Grant Program

Cycle 3, Fall 2001

Cycle 3 Awards Total: 7 grants $
14,191.00

Cumulative Awards Total: 35
grants $
77,379.00

Robolab System: Tools for
Learning

John Aceves/Middle School Special Education

Andrews Middle School $2,844

Through the use of Robolab
Starter System products, special education students at Andrews Middle School
will experience hands-on learning in science.

Little Scientists

Linda Marquez and Underwood Teachers

Underwood Elementary $1,960



All students at Underwood Elementary will benefit from science equipment
tailored to each science unit of study.

Boomwhackers Across San
Andres

Celeste Berta

San Andres Elementary $934



San Andres Elementary Music will begin using "Boomwhacker" tuned
percussion tubes to aid in the development of music theory, note reading, melody
and style.

Looking to the Digital
Stars

Charles Hemann and Rick Day/AMS Science

Andrews Middle School $4,581

The innovative program
called "Looking to the Digital Stars" will allow the Andrews Middle
School Planetarium to gain faster and more sophisticated computer technology for
presentations.



Scientists Who Changed the World

Underwood Elementary Fourth and Fifth Grade Teachers

Underwood Elementary $1,125

Fourth and fifth grade
students at Underwood Elementary will attend a Famous Scientists Dramatic
Program presented by the National Theater of the Performing Arts in Odessa,
Texas.

Increase Number Sense

Judy Scarbrough and San Andres Fifth Grade Teachers

San Andres Elementary $1,661



San Andres Elementary School will purchase calculators for interested students
to use in preparation for math contests held in Midland and Brownfield.

One, Two, Skip a Few,
Ninety-nine, One Hundred

San Andres First Grade Teachers

San Andres Elementary $1,086

This grant will allow San Andres first
graders to have hands-on practice with many math concepts by providing
manipulatives such as counters, clocks and thermometers for each student.

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EF-Grant4

Andrews Education
Foundation

Innovative Instructional Grant Program

Cycle 4, Spring 2002

Cycle 4 Awards Total: 7 grants $
19,171.00

Cumulative Awards Total: 42
grants $
96,550.00

Manipulating the
Essentials in Reading and Math

Underwood Elementary School Group

Underwood $3,619

Manipulating the Essentials in Reading
and Math is a program that will use Versa-Tiles to reinforce reading and math
skills. All students at Underwood Elementary will benefit from this grant
because Versa-Tiles are hands-on manipulatives that are easily adaptable for
individual needs.

Adaptive Assistive
Technology Loan Library

Holly Kidd and Renay Moss

San Andres Elementary $3,906

The Adaptive Assistive Technology Loan
Library will be a bank of equipment that can be used for evaluation and training
to determine appropriate devices for a specific Special Education student.
Special Education teachers, Speech Therapist, and Diagnostician will be able to
show the student how to properly use each device and determine the
appropriateness of the device for the student.

Voiced Accelerated Reader
Quizzes

Kindergarten, First, Second, and Special Education Teachers

Clearfork Elementary $500

This grant will provide AR tests that
are read orally on the computer to early readers. The tests are read by a
professional narrator at a slow pace, and questions and answers can be repeated.
The voiced AR quizzes will help in the transition of beginning and struggling
readers to independent readers.

Science and Art: a la
carte

Patricia Rex and Raenelle Mitchell

San Andres Elementary $1,647

Through the integration of science and
art, students at San Andres Elementary will become more keenly aware of the
principles that underlie nature. By cross-referencing the science and art
curriculum TEKS and planning integrated hands-on activities, these teachers will
go beyond traditional methods to enable their students to investigate, create,
and understand.

Time Travel to Bardville

Judy Crawford

Andrews Middle School $910

Through participation in a
workshop/tour/presentation of a Shakespearean play at the Globe Theater of the
Southwest in Odessa, advanced middle school language arts students will be
exposed to the cultural world of drama. Students will travel to Odessa to gain
insight into many aspects of the theater and will then analyze their discoveries
in class activities.Rib-It

Rib-It Read It Read It

Roxy Brown and Jan Harter

San Andres Elementary Kindergarten $3,589

The Leap Frog Literacy Center will
benefit Kindergarten students by allowing them to experience stimulating
multi-sensory learning. By hearing specific letters and words and being required
to sound out decodable words, students will become better readers by learning
the difficult concept of blending to sound out words.

The Listening Program Training
Module

Elementary Special Education

All Elementary Schools $5,000

The Listening Program is an auditory
re-training program that is designed to improve auditory processing skills,
attention span, and articulation in students who have difficulties in these
areas. This grant will enable AISD teachers already familiar with the program to
train teachers from other districts, as well as AISD teachers, in the use of the
Listening Program.

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EF-Grant5

Andrews Education
Foundation

Innovative
Instructional Grant Program

Cycle 5, Fall 2002

Cycle 5 Awards Total: 11 Grants $28,746

Cumulative Awards Total : 53 Grants $125,296.00

Let the Legacy Begin…San Andres Math and Science Academic
Teams

Judy Scarbrough, Rita Holder, Raenelle Mitchell, Rita Bagley

$1,000 San Andres Elementary

San Andres Elementary will be able to enter and participate in the science
portion of the UIL competition that they have previously only been able to enter
in mathematics. San Andres students have been very successful in UIL math
competitions over the past few years, and this grant will expand the challenge
to include science. Students will compete in three tournaments and one
state-qualifying tournament.



Trouble-Free Vertical/Horizontal Science TAKS

Linda Lawrence, Terry Irwin, Jackie Willis, Pam McDonald,Deborah King,
Carol Lee, Lois Ketcham

$5,000 All campuses

The new state assessment, the TAKS test, will include the testing of student
knowledge and skills in the area of science. A team of elementary, middle
school, and high school teachers will select inquiry method laboratory lessons
using specific TEKS for each grade level. This grant will provide funds to
purchase laboratory materials necessary to conduct the experiments.

Research Skills and Presentations for the 21^st
Century- HyperStudio

Kathy Thomas, Charlie Simpson, Lori Yarbro, Cindy Tochterman, Gail
Wilcox, Sharon Coles, Mary Hiland, Deann Miller

$4,024 AHS English Department

AHS English Department will use grant monies to provide instruction to
sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the usage of HyperStudio, a multimedia
software presentation program. Students will be taught to research and develop
report presentations in multimedia format, which will prepare them for college
and corporate expectations.

EEK! There’s a Mouse!

Andi Mason, Darla Moore, Rita Holder, Rita Bagley, Raenelle Mitchell

$1,965 San Andres Elementary First and Fifth Grades

First and fifth graders at San Andres will team up in this innovative
approach to teaching Science and Language Arts. Students will learn about owls
through literature purchased with grant funds and then be able to participate in
the scientific method of problem solving by studying owl pellets. The
culminating activity of the project will be a field trip to the Sibley Nature
Center.

With an Altitude

Robert Jennings, Kristi Nance, Tommy Dittberner

$4,011 AHS Science and Math

With an Altitude is a cross-curriculum project utilizing science, math,
and industrial technology at the high school level. Students will study rocketry
through hands-on learning experiences designed to guide them through the stages
of conceptualizing, building, and launching real bottle rockets.

Mountain Language

Devi Bruton, Sherry Corbin, Beth Penley, Bette Stringfellow, Tom Ratliff,Teri
Simpson, Karen Hunt

$1,583 Clearfork Elementary- All grades



Mountain Language is a colorful, year-round, and reusable bulletin board
system that serves to supplement the Language Arts curriculum already in place.
The system allows the teacher to review and preview grade level concepts on a
daily basis for ten to fifteen minutes.

Fitness for Life

Vickie Gardner, Penny Bane, Mike Waldmann

$3,951 AHS PE Department

Fitness for Life is a project which will take a very personal approach to
educating, training and motivating students to take responsibility for their
personal health and fitness. The students involved in the Physical Education
program at AHS are those students who do not participate in athletics. Materials
purchased with this grant will provide them with practical experience in
successfully developing, implementing, and tracking their own fitness program.
The long range benefits of the program include providing students with a
blueprint for use in their future fitness endeavors.

Texas, Our Texas

Joni Reese, Celeste Berta, David Corley, Robbie Bass

$1,500 All elementary music teachers



Elementary students will be provided a unique opportunity to add to their
knowledge of Texas history when they attend a live musical theater production of
TEXAS. The performance will underscore the social studies curriculum in
grades four and five and instructional time following the performance will
enhance and clarify the students’ understanding of the play.

WebQuest

Charlie Griffin, Carol Vaughn, Felder Hogan, Noel Pando

$3,790 AMS Social Studies Department

The success of an AEF grant previously awarded to this group of AMS Social
Studies teachers is evident as they requested additional technology to support
the original Internet hook-up project. The AMS Social Studies Department will
purchase two Dukane projectors for shared use which will enable teachers to
project magnified documents onto a wide screen for easy class viewing.

Artsense Art Basic Series

Tina Hardarson

$1,000 Underwood Art

The Artsense Basic Art Series of video demonstrations and accompanying
projects will motivate students to explore their own creativity while learning
about art elements and principles of design.

Who in the Zoo But You?

Terry Garner, Penny Moore, Sheri Burgen

$922 San Andres Third Grade

In order to bring educational literature into the homes of each third grade
student at San Andres, teachers will purchase monthly subscriptions of Zoo
Books Magazine for their students. The magazines will be read at school
together and then sent home with the students in order for them to share the
fun, challenging, and informative magazine with their families.

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EF-Grant6

Andrews Education
Foundation Grants

Innovative Instructional Grant Program

Cycle 6, February 17, 2003

Cycle 6 Awards Total
9 Grants $16,333.00

Cumulative Awards Total
62 Grants $141,629.00

Adopt a Grandparent


Brenda Yarbrough, Tracy
Gilbreath, Rita Foster

$3,755 Underwood Elementary

Underwood Elementary will provide an
avenue for the students and teachers to incorporate character education into
their lives. In addition to reading about the six pillars of character
represented in the CharacterCounts! Program adopted by AISD, the students will
apply what they read about by communicating and interacting with residents of
the Andrews Nursing Home. Compassion, valuing others and caring will be evidence
of the success of this project.

Math Their Way Manipulatives

Lori Carroll, Devi Bruton,
Patricia Redwine

$580 Clearfork

The focus of this grant is to put math
in the hands of students as well as in their heads. The patterns of mathematics
will become clearer to students as they explore mathematical concepts using
manipulatives. Research and experience have proven that manipulatives are
essential in order to advance students from the concrete level of reasoning to
the abstract level because they allow the student to construct their own meaning
of the concepts. Following the use of manipulatives in lessons, students will be
better equipped to succeed on paper and pencil problems.

Drawing from the Past to Create the
Future

Patricia Rex and Terry
Garner

$1,901 San Andres Elementary

Social studies and art curricula will
be integrated in this innovative approach to teaching. Success of this type
integration has been documented through previously awarded grants to these
teachers at San Andres. Students will use paint made from natural materials such
as dirt while studying the historical value of art. They will create models of a
storyteller from the Pueblo culture using model magic clay. Rather than
experiencing art solely for art’s sake, these projects will provide students
with an opportunity to make connections between art and themselves as they learn
about themselves in light of the past, the present and the future.

Math Discoveries with Dominoes

Michelle Sawyer and Kelleye
Morgan

$423 Underwood Elementary Second Grade

Math Discoveries with Dominoes supports
instruction designed to develop mathematical foundations and problem solving
skills which are essential to the education of students. Manipulatives will be
purchased that will enable students to visualize and think mathematically in
depth rather than superficially. Moving from concrete knowledge into abstract
knowledge of math concepts will be easier for the students because they have
"seen" and experienced the concepts at work through the use of
manipulatives.



The VERY Hungry Caterpillar

Andi Mason and Darla Moore

$1,629 San Andres First Grade

First grade teachers at San Andres will
provide an innovative learning experience by creating a unit that allows the
students to observe the life cycle of a butterfly. The unit integrates science
and reading curricula effectively through the purchase of class sets of The
Very Hungry Caterpillar book for the students to read and the purchase of
caterpillars for the students to investigate and observe during their unusual
life cycle.

Movement and Music

Michelle Richardson

$1,000 Clearfork Elementary

Michelle Richardson has written a
curriculum program that addresses the needs of students in the Preschool Program
for Children with Disabilities (PPCD) classes at Clearfork Elementary. The
innovative curriculum incorporates movement and music to improve the
coordination and movement capabilities of these students. Equipment designed to
specifically meet the needs of the PPCD children will be purchased with grant
funds. The curriculum will be bound and made available for other districts to
replicate.

Perfect Copy

Devi Bruton, Beth Penley, Bette Stringfellow, Tom Ratliff, Teri Simpson

$3,247 Clearfork Elementary Campus

All grade levels (1-5) at Clearfork
will benefit from Perfect Copy, a cutting edge in-context editing software
program that uses real-world applications to enhance the language skills of
students. Daily editing practice is done on original articles and adaptations of
timeless literature. Grammar, punctuation, and usage skills will be targeted in
daily 10-minute computer lessons and feedback will be immediate. Teachers will
assess progress of students in a timely and effective manner.

Cultural Travel to the Theater

Judy Crawford

$810 Andrews Middle School



The study of Shakespearean literature, followed up with the experience of
live theater, will provide students with the experiences necessary for them to
make connections that lead to higher-order thinking through analyzing,
synthesizing and evaluating the experiences.

Through participation in a
workshop/tour/presentation of a Shakespearean play at the Globe Theater of the
Southwest in Odessa, advanced middle school language arts students will be
exposed to the cultural world of drama. Students will travel to Odessa to gain
insights into many aspects of the theater and will then explore and make meaning
of their discoveries through class activities.

21^st Century Projector

Bennett Kimbell and Jamie
Purcell

$3,088 AHS Social Studies Department

The curriculum in all AHS Social
Studies classes will be enhanced through the use of a portable SVGA projector.
Textbooks adopted by the district come with CDs and DVDs that facilitate student
learning by providing visual images related to the curriculum. With the SVGA
projector, students will be able to remain at their desks and see the images
projected onto a large screen rather than trying to crowd around one small
computer screen.




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EF-Grant7

Andrews Education
Foundation Grants

Innovative Instructional Grant Program

Cycle 7, Spring 2004



Cycle
7 Awards Total
5
Grants $14,951.00

Cumulative Awards Total 67 Grants
$156,580.00

All Campus Art Department Pug Mill

Wheeler, Roberson, Leeper, Redwine, Hardarson and Tompkins

All Campuses, $4,276

Andrews ISD has an outstanding art program and is fortunate to
be able to offer pottery/ceramics as an integral part of the curriculum at all
levels. The Andrews Education Foundation will fund the purchase of a pug mill
which will be used to recycle clay from pottery projects and to wedge clay in
order to make it suitable for use. The pug mill will benefit all campuses- all
students in elementary school and all art students in middle and high school.

MasterSolution: Vision

Kent Reese, Bette Tucker and Louis Fleming

Andrews High School, $3,255



AHS teachers who teach in the technology lab will receive funds to purchase
MasterSolutions, a software program designed to track individual student
progress and monitor individual student activity on the computer. The program
will enable the teacher to display demonstrations on each computer
simultaneously and remotely control student computers in order to insure that
each student has the opportunity to achieve their highest level of success.

Incredible Tutor

All Fourth Grade Teachers

Underwood Elementary, $2,088

The purpose of this grant is to purchase a computer tutorial
program that contains TEKS-aligned and TAKS-formatted lessons in reading,
writing and math for 22 computers. The entire fourth grade campus will benefit
from Incredible Tutor’s individualized instruction, immediate feedback, and
motivational exercises resulting in higher TAKS scores.

Adopt a Grandparent

Brenda Yarbrough, Tracy Gilbreath, Rita Foster

Underwood Elementary, $1,085

The Andrews Education Foundation will provide an avenue for
Underwood students and teachers to continue to incorporate character education
into their lives. Students will apply what they learn about in the
CharacterCounts Program by communicating and interacting with residents of the
Andrews Nursing Home. Compassion, valuing others and caring will be evidence of
the success of this project. Evidence of the success of this grant last spring
was so conclusive that the Foundation voted to fund a smaller amount to continue
the program.

Make Every Minute Count

Andi Mason and All First Grade Teachers

Clearfork Elementary, $4,247

The purpose of this project is to build essential skills through
the enhancement and enrichment of the curriculum. Three classroom learning and
activity centers- one each of Language, Math and Science- will be purchased for
each first grade classroom. Each child will be able to work at the centers at
appropriate times throughout the day and at their own pace, enabling the
teachers to MAKE EVERY MINUTE COUNT!

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EF-Grant8

Andrews Education
Foundation Grants

Cycle 8, September 10,
2004



Cycle 8 Awards Total
24 Grants $23,302

Cumulative Awards
Total 91 Total Grants $ 156,580.00

Calculator Based Lab Ranger

James Barton

$1,000 AMS

Middle School Algebra students will benefit from the purchase of a Calculator
Based Laboratory – the TI CBR-Ranger – as they collect data on walking,
bouncing balls, and other activities involving motion. After applying algebraic
formulas to the data and calculating work with pencil and paper, students will
be able to evaluate the data with the CBR and compare the results.

Reading Rods

All First Grade Teachers

$3,647 Clearfork

First grade students will be able to "reel in" literacy skills with
hands-on manipulatives designed to facilitate reading competency. Individual
letter tiles, letter group tiles, pictures and activity boards and charts will
be purchased for all first graders at Clearfork.

Career Orientation and Photography

Dedria Ballew and Lana Leggett

$1,500 Devonian

Career Orientation will be the focus of third graders as they investigate the
community and learn about the working world. Students will photograph adults on
the job, focusing on the place of work, tools and equipment, goods/services
produced, and how school subjects relate to the job. Students will then write up
the information and use the pictures to enhance their writing.

Character Education Through Physical Education

Wes Coles

$900 San Andres

With this grant, the San Andres Physical Education Department will purchase
Character Education-specific PE equipment. The new PE equipment will have the
words Character Counts printed on each piece of equipment as well as the
words Respect, Integrity, Honesty, Sportsmanship, Pride and Tolerance and the
definitions of those words.

Hand-ling Science Weather Unit

Raenelle Mitchell, Terry Irwin, Rita Holder, Susan Day

$2,224 San Andres

Fifth grade Science teachers will purchase and share science equipment for a
weather unit and safety goggles. This project will ensure that students are able
to participate in hands-on investigations as they become more aware of everyday
science.

Walking for Health - Pedometers

Debbie Weaver, Jill Allen, Chris Grissom, and Loli Minatra

$3,169 All Campuses

Teaching healthy lifestyles will be the focus of the project empowering AISD
staff to model behavior that is good for your health. The school nurses will
purchase pedometers and implement a walking program for staff members. Logs will
be kept and a map of miles will be developed as teachers show students what
living healthily is all about.

GT Newsletter

Rita Holder

$1,000 San Andres

and

News Hounds GT Unit

Brenda Yarbrough

$769 Underwood

Underwood and San Andres will both implement news writing units with their
gifted and high achieving students. The state mandates that gifted students be
served in specific ways to meet their educational needs, and in the highly
motivational atmosphere of news, teachers will cater instruction to meet those
needs. Newsletters will be written and published by the students on both
campuses.

Markerboard Mania

All First Grade Teachers

$4,468 Clearfork

Markerboard Mania is a new and innovative system that provides "Goof
Proof" dry erase and magnetic surfaces for student response in the
classroom. The Foundation will purchase 23 Student Combo Packs which include
nontoxic ultra-low odor markers, lined magnetic marker boards, and magnetic
letters for each student/class.

Hey Diddle, Diddle, Fit as a Fiddle

Patricia Rex and Anna Salcido

$1,702 Peter Pan PreK at Underwood

PreK students have different physical, social and cognitive needs that older
children and will benefit from the purchase of portable playground equipment for
Peter Pan. The students will learn through movement and "whole body"
experiences as the teachers work to encourage fitness and tackle childhood
obesity.

Power of Poetry

Hilary Haygood and Raenelle Mitchell

$1,380 San Andres

The use of poetry in the classroom increases student vocabulary, stimulates
higher-level thinking, gives substance to abstract concepts, and nourishes the
imagination. San Andres fifth-graders will benefit from the purchase of current
and classic books of poetry for children as teachers implement a poetry unit
into the curriculum. Students will collect personal poetry anthologies
throughout the year and bind them in notebooks.

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math

Terri Rhodes, Teri Simpson, Susan Day, Raenelle Mitchell

$1,543 San Andres

Cards and dice will be implemented into the math program at San Andres in an
effort to increase students’ mathematic skills and problem-solving abilities.
Rather than only using pencil and paper to learn and practice math, the students
will use hands-on activities proven successful in the study of math.

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EF-Grant9

Andrews Education Foundation Grants Proposed
for Award

Cycle 9, January 18, 2005

Cycle 9 Awards Total
11
Grants $45,829

Cumulative Awards Total
102
Total Grants $202,409.00

Pat Mora, Poet

Haygood, Hogan, Corley, etc.

$7,000 San Andres

Pat Mora, established book author and poet, will visit Andrews and present a
writer’s workshop to students and teachers related to poetry.

English in a Flash

All Bilingual Teachers

$7,461

English in a Flash will be purchased for use with bilingual students. The
program exposes students to vocabulary through multiple repetitions of words and
phrases.

Bring Learning "Infocus"

Underwood Teachers

$942 Underwood

A multimedia projector will be purchased for Underwood, which will be used to
deliver information in visual form.

Granbuddies

Yarbrough, Gilbreath, Foster, etc.

$1,406 Underwood

Memorials for Sonny Tom provided the continuation of the Granbuddies program.

Greenhouse

Aceves, Thornburg, Heronema

$4,950 AMS

Middle School at-risk students will benefit from the acquisition
of a greenhouse.

Digging for Dinosaurs

Day and Hemann"

$1,300 AMS

This grant will provide camping and digging supplies and equipment for middle
school science field trip.

Computer Maintenance Class Equipment

Mark Risenhoover

$5,250 AHS

The computer building class at the high school will be able to purchase parts
and materials for computers.

Interactive Whiteboard for Math

Martin, Waldrip, etc.

$5,920 AHS

High school math teachers will purchase an interactive whiteboard and
projector to enhance lessons.

CSI:Andrews

Gardner, Gardner, Ellett

$5,000 AHS

High School Science students will benefit from the purchase of 25 forensic
laboratory experiments.

Looking into the Future

Cindy Tochterman

$1,600 AHS

High School students will improve their presentation and public relations
skills as they implement the use of a video projector into their projects.

Forever Vigilant Surveillance

Rhodes, Leach, Bane

$5,000 AHS

Security cameras will be purchased to provide constant video surveillance to
areas around the high school. (Actual amount requested was $12,224. Foundation
will fund $5,000 to get the project started)

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