Highlights of ACSF in Vance Elementary

 

2012-2013 Awards

 

Anndrea Burns, Blair Johnston, Lisa Hash, Rockelle Hancock, Susan Hale, Scott Courtney-Smith, and Ian Wilkinson of Vance Elementary have been awarded $4,509 for Globalize Me. The primary goal of this project is to increase student knowledge of the Geography and Culture strands in the North Carolina Social Studies Essential Standards and to provide teachers with hands-on teaching tools targeting those strands. It will highlight the 21st century interdisciplinary theme of Global Awareness and reinforce the school’s Diversity theme. This team intends to reach all Kindergarten through 5th grade students and all teaching staff at Vance. The project will consist of a magnetic world map mural installed in the lobby of the school, a cultural research board accompanying the mural, and two large scale floor maps purchased for classroom checkout.

·         # of Students Impacted: 430

·         # of Teachers Impacted: 29

 

 

2011-2012 Awards

TAPAS Awards

Carrie Buchanan with artist Kenya Webster

Greta Ciesla with artist Ian Wilkinson

Kristin Doe with artist Carrie Wagner

Shannon Montgomery with artist David Novak

Kathryn Van Dyke with artist Ginger Huebner

Tonya Sweater, Holly Gregg, Kimberley Eggett, Victoria Angelotti, Mary Elston, Molly Peters, Jeri Lutz, & Kelly Schultz are ACS Fifth Grade teachers who will continue this year as 5th Grade Science Fellows with the leadership of Donalyn Small.  For the 2011-2012 school year they will develop assessments that build on  their work in the previous year.  Using this grant they will create lessons and adjust their pacing guide to accommodate to new science standards.  By creating an organized assessment method of current standards, they will be better prepared for teaching and assessing their students when the new essential standards are implemented. 

 

2010 - 2011 Awards

All 5 Elementary Schools are awarded $6,000 total for 5th Grade Science Fellows, a proposal written by Donalyn Small, Tomas Seijo, Tonya Sweater, Holly Gregg, Kimberly Eggett, Kelly Schultz, Molly Peters, Jerri Lutz and Victoria Angelotti. The Fellowship Team collaborated as a professional learning community to produce high quality, hands-on, guided inquiry-based science lessons that integrated math and literacy across the entire fifth grade science curriculum. Their students got dirty in Dupont Woods on field trips to the Muddy Sneakers program. Students built model cars to test out force and motion, and used the scientific method to investigate a hypothesis of their own creation and shared at the Student Inquiry Conference.
 
Vance Elementary School was awarded $3,897 for Global Education Action Plan, a proposal written by Anndrea Burns, Ashley Gregg and Blair Johnston. This Fellowship Team developed an action plan to deliver Global Education integrated across the core curriculum. The Team piloted the action plan in Kindergarten and 4th grade and students got hands-on access to cultures around the world. Students cooked, created art, debated, and collaborated while learning about global issues. 
 

Vance, Claxton & Jones Elementary Schools are all recipients of an Energy Education Grant for the Use Motion and Technological Design Science Kits written by Donalyn Small.  These kits will provide 5th graders with the tools they need for new science experiments.

A Micro-Grant was awarded to Nichole Accordino and Anndrea Burns for a Multicultural Cooking Toolkit.  This project will be a mobile cooking cart to allow students to cook and learn about food from other cultures.   

Vance Elementary is awarded an ACSF Innovation Grant for Tutoring for Promise--Implementing an After-School Tutoring Program for K-2, written by Ximena Del Corral Smith, Cynthia Calhoun and Cynthia Sellinger.  This program focuses on minimizing the achievement gap for students who are limited in English Proficiency.  Students will be paired with tutors and the program will work in conjunction with a 3-5 grade tutoring program already in place.

A TAPAS grant was awarded to Stacy Montana-Hipps for resident artist, Kenya Webster, and the West African Drumming project.  This project allows students to learn about African drumming and for some part of their heritage.  

 

2009 - 2010 Awards

All five elementary schools are awarded an ACSF Innovation gratin for Bringing Words to Life, a proposal written by Helga Graff, Chrystal Hendrix, Martha Hayes, Beverly McBrayer, and Linda Geer.  This program brings award-winning, African American, North Carolina, author Carol Boston Weatherford to hour-long assemblies for all third through fifth graders, for which the students will have read her books and will complete follow-up activities.

All five elementary schools are awarded an ACSF Innovation grant for Science Notebooks, a proposal written by Donalyn Small. This program will engage students in writing about science exploration.