For the 2016-2017 school year, the Foundation awarded $30.031 for 33 grants which included: Dancing Classrooms ballroom dancing enrichment program for fifth-graders, science and math resources, field trips, digital cameras, online curriculum, reimbursement and cost reduction for ACT and Advanced Placement exams, and more.
Affton Early Childhood:
- Jan Lee & Michelle Pelizzaro, Parents As Teachers, PALS Playing & Learning Sessions
Mesnier Primary School:
- Jeniffer Ackerman & Jen nifer Edgar , Library, Aeroponics Tower Garden
- Jennifer Conkw right, Kindergarten, Mentor Text & Storybooks for Reader’s/Writer’s Workshop
- Selm a Delic, Kindergarten, Incorporating a Wireless Document Camera within Learning Centers
- Cheryl Ladd, Kindergarten, Customized Learning through Customized Instruction
- Janet Peistrup , Title I Reading Specialist, Reading Intervention Materials
- Nicole Perkins, First Grade, Guided Math & Journals
- Tonya Potter, First Grade, STEM Bins & Guided Math
Gotsch Intermediate School:
- Jacqueline Beyer, Jennifer Molsbee, Ellen Birkedal & Jenny Stark, Fifth Grade, Music & PE, Dancing Classrooms
- Kim Blankenship, Reading Specialist, Lower Level Picture Books
- Rachel Eaton , Fifth Grade, Design Space Tools
- Melissa Mendoza, Third Grade, STEM Bins
- Laura Pezzani, SAIL, Saturday Parent-Child STEAM Morning
- Kara Sanders, Fifth Grade, Scope This Out
Rogers Middle School:
- Colette Book, Seventh Grade, Affton Reads! Book Club
- Valerie Brinkman, Coordinator of 1:1 Programming, Video Broadcasts Using the Green Room
- Natalie Kilgore, Health, Adventures in Medicines and Science
- Alison Nixon, Seventh Grade, History Alive - The United States through Industrialism
Affton High School:
- Marilyn Allen & Mary Giunta, Career & Technical Education Coordinator & College Counselor, ACT Work Keys Assessment
- Jane Bohn & Heather Mayfield, School Counselors, Dual Credit Tuition Assistance
- Chris Boley, Math, AP Statistics Exam Relief
- Laurie Free & Max Mittler, Science, AP Exam Cost Reduction
- Paula Gyllenborg, Modern Language, National French Exam
- Brian Jennings, English, To AP or Not to AP
- Brian Jennings & Colleen Malone, Film Production, Can You Hear Me Now?
- Matthew O’Brien, Modern Language, Pre-AP: Preparation Materials for AP Spanish
- Daniel Polokonis, Math, AP Calculus AB & AP Calculus BC Exam Cost Reduction
- Judith Rethwisch, Theater, Opportunities for Future Learning
- Michelle Rocco, Art, Art Department Digital Camera
- Mandy Smith & Rob Uthoff, Social Studies, Jefferson City Field Trip Transportation
