Play it Forward Grant Information

Grants Recieved for my Classroom

EDUCATIONAL GRANT FOR CCSD TEACHERS

Advanced Technologies Academy "Play it Forward" Grant

A New Grant for Tecchers

A Grant for Teacher by a Teacher

This grant was set up by the A-Tech Board Game Club as a way to give back all those that supported us in our grant applications over the years.

The grant is a $500 seed grant to help teachers acquire games to do one or more of the following:

  1. Start a Board Game Club at a school
  2. Increase the Game inventory of a current club.
  3. Purchase games to help teach curriculum.

Special Thank you to those that have contributed to this grant:

WALMART, SAM'S CLUB, ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES ACADEMY & THE A-TECH BOARD GAME CLUB.

Application Deadline: TBA (Every Other Year)

Application: PDF format or in WORD format (Not open yet)

Winners of 2008 - 2009
School
Level
Info
(1) Lara Bouchard
A-Teach
High School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(2) Justin Graham
Las Vegas
High School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(3) Carol Holdengraber
Burkholder
Middle School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(4) Bryan Ozawa
Liberty
High School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(5) Michael Papushak
Laura Dearing
Elementary School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(6) Sara Pundsack-Tori
Bob Miller
Middle School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
 
Winners of 2009 - 2010
School
Level
Info
(1) Cheryl Winnemore
Eva Wolfe
Elementary School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(2) Suzanne Rust
Cadwallader
Middle School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(3) Mary Vriend / Sarah Courtney
Hyde Park
Middle School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(4) Percy Dervan
Palo Verde
High School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(5) Christie Le Beau
Kitty Ward
Elementary School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
       
Winners of 2011 - 2012
School
Level
Info
(1) Steve Isaak
Liberty
High School
Pictures, Game List, Comments
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
       

GRANTS RECEIVED FOR MY CLASSROOM

10/11 - Gear Up Grant $2500

Purchasing Activexpression Student Responders for my classroom. These are powerful tools concerning assessment. I look forward to using these in my classroom.

08/09 - Teacher to Teacher Grant $500

NCTM Annual Conference Presentation - This grant helped me to travel to Washington D.C to present at the National Mathematics Teacher Conference. The presentation focused on using games to teach deductive reasoning..

07/08 - Teacher to Teacher Grant $300

NCTM Annual Conference Presentation - This grant helped me to travel to Salt Lake City to present for the FIRST time at the National Mathematics Teacher Conference. The presentation focused on using games to teach mathematical concepts.

06/07 - Junior League of Las Vegas Education Grant $1250

Theme of Grant: Writing in Math & Presenting Math Concepts. This grant help to purchase many children's fictional math literature (The Greedy Triangle, The Number Devil, Sir Cumference and the Knight's of the Round Table, etc...). Student will read these and then create their own mathematical adventure. The other part of the grant purchased a document camera for student and group presentations.

05/06 - Clark County Educational Foundation (Teacher to Teacher) $400

Theme of Grant: Attending the NCTM Conference in St. Louis. This grant provided money to attend the NCTM annual conference.

05/06 - Clark County Educational Foundation (Express Grant) $500

Theme of Grant: Hands on Mathematics. This grant looked a number of hands on experiences for the geometry classroom and their benefit. Origami, paper folding, 3-D models and building cubes were purchased and used.

05/06 - Clark County Educational Foundation (Impact Grant) $3000

Theme of Grant: Thinking Inside the Box. This grant looked a using games to teach geometry. A number of non-typical american and german games were purchased to directly teach curricular objectives.

05/06 - NSEA Good Idea Grant $500

Theme of Grant: Thinking Inside the Box. This grant looked a using games to teach geometry. A number of non-typical american and german games were purchased to directly teach curricular objectives.

05/06 - Junior League of Las Vegas Education Grant $1000

Theme of Grant: Thinking Inside the Box. This grant looked a using games to teach geometry. A number of non-typical american and german games were purchased to directly teach curricular objectives.

05/06 - Coucilman Weekly Innovative Ideas Grant $500

Theme of Grant: Thinking Inside the Box. This grant looked a using games to teach geometry. A number of non-typical american and german games were purchased to directly teach curricular objectives.

04/05 - Clark County Magnet School Creative Concept Grant $5000

Theme of Grant: Supporting e-zgeometry.com. This grant provided money to purchase a high end server for e-zgeometry.com

04/05 - Clark County Educational Foundation (Teacher to Teacher) $500

Theme of Grant: Attending the NCTM Conference in San Antonio. This grant provided money to attend the NCTM annual conference.

04/05 - Clark County Educational Foundation (Express Grant) $500

Theme of Grant: Visualizing Geometry. This grant help to purchase a number of 3-D and 2-D teaching tools.