Congratulations
to the Meyer Teacher Initiative Grants winners for 2006-2007: Renée
Stacey's team at North Eugene High, Marilyn Williams' team at Kennedy
Middle, Cindy Hinton's team at Holt Elementary, Debbie McLeod's team
at Crest Drive Elementary, and David Adee's team at Harris Elementary--for
grants totalling more than $25,000 to implement exciting and worthwhile
projects for kids.
Congratulations
are also due to Tom Henry and Merri Steele who received $19,998 from
the Oregon Department of Education to support the "New
Teacher Mentoring Program";
Congratulations
to Tim Rochholz and John Wayland at Kelly who received $5,000 from
the Metlife BridgeBuilder Program to fund the "Kelly Summer
Camp" transition activity.
The
district also had four winners of grants from the Chintimini Fund: "5th
Grade Outdoor School" at Crest Drive for $2,000, "Keyboard/Claymation
Lab" at Eastside for $4,643, "Multi-media Publishing Club" at
Edison for $3,000 and "Let's Make it Safe" at Yujin Gakuen
for $4,780, all enrichment/TAG projects for students.