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Remote Learning Studios

SERF awarded funding to the district to establish 12 remote learning studios which will be used to support the hybrid and remote learning models. The grant will fund a mix of online subscriptions and teacher technology. Hardware (document and web cameras, microphones, monitors and Chromebooks) will improve video and audio quality. Subscriptions will support students sharing and creating work products and teachers delivering robust remote content.

App-Enabled Robots

Look out – robots are coming to Haynes ! A proposal for app-enabled robots was approved with the goal of fostering creativity through discovery, play, and to add to students’ foundation for computer science skills. The Sphere Mini Education kit includes 16 clear robotic balls with gyroscopes, accelerometers, and LED lights, as well as bumpers, mini traffic cones, bowling pins, construction sets, and activity cards to spark students’ engagement and imaginations as they pract

Know Your School

At Noyes , there will be some very busy students coordinating a “Know Your School Scavenger Hunt” for all the kids to play! The in-house, customized scavenger hunt will give practice to the youngest students in map-reading and team building skills as they explore all kinds of areas in and around their own school. They will gain familiarity with the space and the people within. Students in the middle grades will gain practice in using compasses as they follow orienteering cl

3D Printer

At Loring , an application for (3) 3D printers was approved and will complement the school’s brand new Learning Studio. With the 3D printers, all students at Loring will have access to opportunities such as designing and creating interactive maps, creating mock-ups of buildings and structures, creating new musical instruments or new tools, sculpting animal representations to study their adaptations, making reusable signs for the school, and so much more. With students being

Library of Things

“Libraries of Things” are popping up all around the world, and one is coming to Nixon soon! One young applicant suggested a Library of Things for Nixon as a way to encourage learning – “to introduce kids to something they’ve never done before or have always wanted to try but didn’t have the tools.” Nixon’s Library of Things provides objects to explore new areas of interest and learn new skills. Among the objects to check out you might find a ukulele, a microscope, a tel

Catch the Wind for Energy

This grant will fund materials for this 4th grade project-based learning experience which integrates science, engineering, math, writing and social-emotional learning. Students will ultimately design blades for a wind turbine capable of generating electrical energy.

Curtis Gaga Pit

At Curtis , three students submitted grants for a portable Gaga Ball Pit to add a fun, engaging, and inclusive option to students’ outdoor recess and indoor P.E. time. Gaga is a fast paced, high energy social activity played in an octagonal pit. Considered a kinder version of dodge ball, the game is played with a soft foam ball, and combines the skills of dodging, striking, running, and jumping, while trying to hit opponents with a ball below the knees. Players need to keep

Noyes Recess Games

Noyes students hard at play! They’re busy socializing (and building, turn-taking, collaborating, and problem solving).

LED Grow Lights

LS Science students put a new set of LED Grow Lights to use as they nurture seedlings for rainbow chard, Bibb lettuce, Gourmet lettuce, kale, basil, and arugula.

Adaptive Handbells

In this adaptive middle school music class, playing handbell is a great way to foster students’ development of rhythmic skills, physical coordination, listening skills and music reading.

Supplemental Decodable Texts for Emergent Readers

These supplemental texts to the reading curriculum are sequenced to progressively incorporate words that are consistent with the letter–sound relationships that emergent readers are learning.