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Kelly Butcher, right, talks Thursday about how she and Tracy Meinzer will use funds from a mini grant at Garden City High School after being awarded the grant by the Garden City Public Schools Foundation.
Kelly Butcher, right, talks Thursday about how she and Tracy Meinzer will use funds from a mini grant at Garden City High School after being awarded the grant by the Garden City Public Schools Foundation.
Several local teachers received min-grants Thursday designed to help them enhance instruction in their classrooms
Teachers who received mini-grants included Skyler Lightner, Jennie Wilson Elementary School; Dawni Lunzmann, Kenneth Henderson Middle School; Alicia Simpson, Garden City High School; Tracy Meinzer and Kelly Butcher, GCHS; and Tara Boaldin, Jennie Barker Elementary School.
The Garden City Public Schools Foundation Grant Squad presented the awards in surprise celebrations in teachersa classrooms.
The foundation received 16 grant applications from staff around the school district. The applications are read and judged by the Garden City Public Schools Foundation committee.
Lightner, ESL Interventionist at Jennie Wilson, will use the grant to purchase the Six Minute Solution program to help increase reading fluency for students. The goal would be to help engage students to increase their reading ability and help them present their research and views in class.
Meinzer and Butcher, English Language Arts teachers at GCHS, will use the grant to provide a scholarship to motivate students with their top projects that they create for an upcoming Human Rights Expo at the school. This will help aid in communication efforts of students to convey their ideas, motivate students to present their research findings and engage students to learn from each other.
The foundation was founded in 2004 and is a nonprofit organization that offers the opportunity to enhance the learning environment, increase the effectiveness of instruction and help strengthen and broaden ties between the schools and community.
