| School |
Amount |
Spending Plan |
Description |
| Parker Road Preschool |
$181 |
"Handwriting without Tears" materails |
This program will be used to support beginning
writing skills for PreK students. The purchase will
supplement existing materials and student workbooks
piloted this year.
|
| Beal School |
$392 |
Boardmaker software |
Boardmaker communication software is used for both
special education assistive technology and for general
teacher use to produce pictures to enhance student
communications.
|
| Coolidge School |
$392 |
Listening centers for new core program |
The funding will support the purchase of headphones and
CD players so that students can listen to pre-recorded
literature from the new Rigby core reading program.
|
| Floral Street School |
$730 |
Listening centers for new core program |
See above.
|
| Walter J Paton School |
$358 |
Listening centers for new core program |
See above.
|
| Spring St. School |
$376 |
Two digital cameras for classroom use |
The digital cameras are used by teachers and students
to document projects, support science lessons, and
support presentations.
|
| Sherwood Middle School |
$946 |
"clicker" technology for student response |
This technology eanbles all students in a class to
respond to teacher questions by selecting a number on a
personal response device ("clicker"). The resulst are
displayed/projected in a graph form on a computer or screen.
This tool serves as a good check for student understanding and
supports active engagement of all students. One system will
be purchased and piloted at each middle school.
|
| Oak Middle School |
$934 |
"clicker" technology for student response |
See Above.
|
| Shrewsbury High School |
$1630 |
LCD projector, DBD players for classroom user |
The three projectors will be used by English and social
studeis teachers to display video and other input from
the Internet and CD/DVD players. The DVD players will
replace four obsolete videocassette recorders.
|
| Total |
$5896 |
