Category: Grant History

Nick Amiccucci and Dennis Harrington, BH-BL High School “When Students attend Guitar Club, they will have an opportunity to engage in positive interactions with teachers in a non-academic setting.  The teacher advisors (at this point Nick Amiccucci, Special Ed, Chris Reach, English, Dennis Harrington, English and Jim Owen BOCES Social Worker) will have an opportunity…

Cathleen Buff, Charlton Heights Received funds to purchase an I-Pad to create listening centers for students to strengthen their Language Arts skills. By taking advantage of digital technology, Mrs. Buff will be able to easily store, share, and create read-alongs. Grant: $588   Sabine Erickson, BH-BL High School Math Department Funds were used to purchase…

Marie DiCristofaro and Peter North, O’Rourke Middle School The funds were used to purchase an Elmo Teacher’s Tool TT-02RX Document Cameras to provide, in part, opportunities in the sixth grade classrooms class rooms to design small laboratory demonstrations for the students. Grant: $580 Susan Karandy and Cindy King, Pashley Elementary The funds were used to purchase…

Jessica Clark and Robin Ferendzo, BH-BL High School students Received funds for materials to enhance the pre-school program at the high school as part of the Child Psychology Course. Grant: $207   Derrick Tusang, BH-BL High School student Received monies for video equipment for the school in order to film sporting events, plays, concerts, meetings…

Maureen Bitley and Marge Rizzo, O’Rourke Middle School The  funds were used to purchase books in Playaway format. The entire book is loaded on an MP3 device. The speed of the narrator’s voice can be adjusted. Grant: $500   John Capano, Marge Rizzo, and Susan Schultz, O’Rourke Middle School and BH-BL High School Grant funds…

David Besozzi, BH-BL High School Social Studies Department The funds purchased an Apple Macintosh Mac-mini hardware and ScreenFlow 1.5 Software for Apple Macintosh which allows existing instructional materials to be enhanced and re-designed for web-based instruction. Grant: $698   Kirk Buell and Paul Ried, O’Rourke Middle School The funds were used to restore the pond…

Jennifer Adams and Mark Kowalski, BH-BL Green Club The funds will be used to purchase paper-recycling containers for each room and office in the high school.  The club will work with T.A. Predel and Company, Inc. of Schenectady to pick up the paper and the company will pay the club a dividend.  These bins are…

David Besozzi, BH-BL High School Social Studies Department The funds purchased an Apple Macintosh Mac-mini hardware and ScreenFlow 1.5 Software for Apple Macintosh which allows existing instructional materials to be enhanced and re-designed for web-based instruction. Grant: $698   Kirk Buell and Paul Ried, O’Rourke Middle School The funds were used to restore the pond…

Bretton Adams, Stevens Elementary 5 Kodak Easy Share digital cameras with internal memory were purchased for fifth grade special education students to use in the documentation of the people, places, and things that are important to them. These photos will be used to create a hard copy book about the student and their life, potentially…

Jennifer Adams, BH-BL High School Science Department An introductory disarticulated skeleton and six “Sherlock Bones” kits (partial skeletons for forensics analysis labs).  Forensics is a new elective science course being offered in the fall.  The labs help students develop skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Grant: $1,992   Juliann DellaRocco, BH-BL High School Transition…