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The grants listed below demonstrate our
Foundation's mission to improving the quality of education
for students in Alabama, Georgia and Florida:
Girls
Engaged in Mathematics &
Science
Entity:
University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Amount:
$341,000
Date: Feb 2008
Description: By initially targeting girls in Alabama, the project
seeks to add approximately 250 lesson plans (that are
aligned to the Alabama Course of Study) in the areas of Math
& Science to Alabama’s award-winning education web
portal, ALEX
(the Alabama
Learning Exchange).
Rotary
Dictionary Program
Entity: Dothan Rotary
Club
Amount: $80,500
Date: Feb 2008
Description: Project provides dictionaries to every third-grader in public schools
throughout the southern half ofAlabama (31
counties).
Science
Adventures Educational Project
Entity: McWane Science Center Amount:
$52,000
Date: Feb 2008
Description: Program is designed
to provide science educational resources through instruction
both in the classroom and at the McWane Science Center for
students in Alabama’s Black Belt
Counties.
Post
Secondary Special Education Transition
Workshops
Entity: Horizons
School
Amount: $100,000
Date: Feb 2008
Description: This is a series of
workshops designed to extend information and support to the
special education professionals in public schools in the
area of transition to adulthood for students with special
needs. The
workshops will target professionals in Alabama and in its
neighboring states.
Superintendets' Key Leaders
Network
Entity: A+ Education
Foundation
Amount: $81,630
Date: Feb 2008
Description: The goal of this Network is to engage approximately
25 forward-thinking superintendents throughout Alabama in an
ongoing forum about strategies to improve teaching and
learning in their schools. The dialogue will be
administered through the Alabama Best Practices
Center
.
Coaching for
Results
Entity: A+ Education
Foundation Amount: $100,100
Date: Feb 2008
Description: The
program proposes to help instructional district-level staff
in two major school districts in Alabama become effective
continuous improvement coaches for schools in their
district. The
objective is to encourage district office staff, principals
and teachers, particularly in lower-performing schools, to
collaborate in a more productive manner to more effectively
meet students’ needs.
Increasing Student Capacity for
Success
Entity: Miles College
Amount: $330,000
Date: Feb 2008
Description: The program seeks to increase the retention of incoming
freshmen for this Birmingham, Alabama
university.
Preludes Music Enrichment & Strings
Class
Entity: The
Mobile Symphony
Amount: $20,000
Date: Feb 2008
Description: Program provides an extra semester of a weekly music
class inside the classroom at 3 public elementary schools
and a public high school in Mobile, Alabama through its Preludes Class for grades 1-2 and its
Strings Class
for
grades 3-5.
Improving Grades 6-12 Mathematics Education in East
Alabama Using Technology
Entity: Auburn University
Amount: $304,975
Date: Jul 2007
Description: Project will provide technological tools and training
to teachers in 15 school districts in East Alabama to
improve mathematics instruction. The project is part
of an overall initiative in East Alabama for Mathematics
instruction known as TEAM-Math
.
New
Teacher Mentoring Program
Entity: Jefferson County Public Education
Fdn. Amount: $267,100
Date: Jul 2007
Description: Program seeks to
reduce new teacher turnover by establishing a Mentoring
Program for new teachers in all 12 school systems and their
202 public schools located within Jefferson County in
Birmingham, Alabama.
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