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Grant Recipients, 2009

In May 2009, $174,615.82 was awarded to Lake Travis ISD educators to fund creative classroom projects, educational programs, and basic needs.  The recipients are listed below.  Please join us in congratulating them and the students in their classes, as they will truly be the benefactors of these awards.

You can view slide shows of former years' grants in action by visiting the Photo Gallery


CHARACTER EDUCATION

Erika Garrett – All district elementary schools
Creating a Welcoming Environment for all Students through Disability Awareness Education
Books and materials to help students learn how to treat others with kindness, compassion, and understanding of our differences and similarities

Jill Escalante – Lake Travis High School
Community Service Recognition Project
Awarding participation by students in community service activities, thus promoting responsibility, accountability, and citizenship

FINE ARTS

Ryan O’Donoghue – Hudson Bend Middle School
Music Technology Initiative
Music software with applications to maximize practice effectiveness by providing feedback to students and flexible musical accompaniment, along with the ability for students to create, edit, print, and hear their own musical arrangements and compositions

Lynne Johnson – Lake Travis Middle School
Digital Camera for use in the Art Classroom
Camera to be used to photograph subject matter for drawing materials, to help aid students in understanding a particular principal in art, and to photograph student artwork as examples from which future students may learn

Cha Lakshmi Asokan – Hudson Bend Middle School
Campus and Community Beautification through the Visual Arts Display Materials
Matting and framing materials to display LTISD visual art throughout the community, including campuses, administration buildings, city halls, and local business venues, and for various art competitions
The Exploration of Glass Art and Implementation of the Glass Art Program
Exploring art history, elements and principles, and art production through the purchase of a kiln designed to fuse glass, allowing students to create three-dimensional art works of high quality and craftsmanship 

Anna Macias – Lake Travis High School
On the Roof and Everywhere: Lake Travis Fiddlers
Upgraded sound equipment for the Lake Travis Fiddlers district-wide music ensemble, to enhance their 20-30 performances per year throughout the Lake Travis Community

HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES

Kathy Austrian & 5th Grade Team – Serene Hills Elementary School
History Alive
Supplemental social studies program with strategies that actively engage students in the study of American history

Travis Butler – Lake Travis Middle School
Classroom Performance System
Engaging students in class material by creating an interactive learning environment, allowing teachers to see instant feedback and know whether to move on or continue teaching a concept

Shanda Ashton & Ginia Luker – Lake Travis High School
Social Studies E-Maps
Interactive electronic world maps viewable on a projection screen for entire class to see

MATHEMATICS

Esther Peckover – Lake Travis Elementary School
VersaTiles Math Lab
Math activities at several levels, combining the challenge of a puzzle with the practice of a workbook, teaching a variety of objectives and reinforcing skills

Tina Pena – Lake Travis Elementary School
Student Challenge Lab
Providing enriching and challenging hands-on “worksheet free” activities to all students who earn a lab pass from their teachers for hard work and outstanding completion of assignments in their classrooms

Charlotte Stensrud – Serene Hills Elementary School
Everyday Counts Calendar Math
Program using an interactive bulletin board, through which students are able to preview, practice, and review main objectives taught in the elementary math curriculum

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS

Nancy Baker – Lake Travis Elementary School
Essential Picture Sorts Kits
Kit featuring reproducible picture sorts with instructions, games, activities, and assessment sheets to aid in the learning of phonics and spelling related skills

Phyllis Hunter-Webb – Lake Travis Elementary School
Building Fluency through Reader’s Theater Themed Kits in Spanish
Folk tale, fairy tale, and fable kits with scripts translated into Spanish, encouraging students to practice fluency at their independent reading levels
“Time for Kids” Nonfiction Readers in Spanish
Leveled reading kits translated into Spanish, addressing the goal of increasing academic achievement for all students while closing the achievement gap between students

Kristen Raines – All district elementary schools
Phonological Awareness/Intervention
Full color Phonological Awareness Cards that teach students the pre-reading skills necessary for reading success

Esther Peckover & Gina Dodson – Lake Travis Elementary
VersaTiles for Building Skills in Comprehension and Vocabulary
Manipulative comprehension activities and resources to help students attain the skills required to become better readers
Building Fluency through Reader’s Theater Kits
Scripts written at multiple reading levels, helping to improve reading fluency and enhance listening skills, vocabulary development, decoding, comprehension, and oral speaking skills

Sarah Kinsey – Lake Travis Elementary
Read Along Listening Centers
CDs and literature to allow first graders to independently read along

Lacey Lester – Serene Hills Elementary
Reading Vocabulary/Comprehension Building Games and Mastering Math Games
Action packed games that give students a fun-filled way to develop comprehension and math skills

Vicki Thweatt – Bee Cave Elementary
Hands-On Reading
Hands-on activities allowing students to self-select, complete, correct, and record their accomplishments, motivating them to work at higher levels and accomplish more

Marilyn DuVon, Krista Eaton & Susan Mitchell – Lake Travis Middle School
World of Words
Enhancing vocabulary through a new transformational study of words offering the teaching of roots and affixes, presented as a system of thinking and a way of building, analyzing, spelling, pronouncing, using, and choosing words

Amy Handy, Tara Rehrig & Hillary Reyes – Lake Travis High School
Photostory 3: Telling Our Stories
Classroom headsets/microphones to allow students to record and revise voice-over narrations for presentations created through the Photostory 3 program

Sandra Tuck – Bee Cave Elementary School
Building a Rigby Literacy Classroom
Program helping students develop literacy skills and strategies, and providing teachers with assessment tools for sound evaluations, planned instruction, monitoring of progress, and meeting accountability standards  

Stephanie Williams – Lake Travis Elementary School
Making Connections
Project to supplement and enhance science, social studies, and language arts instruction through the use of literature

Marni Christmas – Serene Hills Elementary School
Phonics Readers
Primary Phonics decodable readers which allow students to apply their newly-acquired phonics skills with connected text, building the crucial elements of automaticity and fluency

Natalie Becker – Lake Travis Elementary School
Loving Literature
Literature in a wide variety of genres and styles to encourage each student’s growth as a reader

Erika Garrett – Serene Hills Elementary School
Targeting Individual Students’ Needs for Reading and Math through Fun Games and Daily Review
Frog Publication materials providing opportunities for students at different ability levels to participate together in the same game while allowing teachers to target individual students’ needs in the areas of reading and math

Coleen Serfoss – Lake Travis Elementary School
SRA Reading Lab Grade 5
A diverse collection of topics to meet a wide range of reading levels for students, focusing on building strong reading and comprehension skills while sparking student interest and inspiring students to get the most from each assignment

Mary Senn – Lake Travis Elementary School
Leveled Literacy Intervention
Over 300 high-quality leveled books and associated materials designed to prevent literacy difficulties and supplement literacy instruction for students who experience difficulty in the early grades

Carol Nelson – All district elementary schools
Interactive Phonics
GeoSafari Phonics Pad to engage beginning and emergent readers of all ages and motivate them to practice the reading skills they are learning in school

SCIENCE

Sherry Kanak – Bee Cave Elementary School
Geocaching
High tech scavenger hunt combining orienteering and treasure hunting using GPS units for lessons on satellites, latitude and longitude, mapping, distance, problem solving, and collaboration

Cliff Ellis & Stacey Carter – Lake Travis High School
K’NEX DNA, Replication and Transcription Set
Building block pieces that students will use to construct DNA segments, providing an understanding of the complex concepts of DNA replication, transcription, and translation

Esther Peckover – Lake Travis Elementary
VersaTiles Science Labs
Multi-level labs focusing on life, earth, and physical sciences, scientific investigation, and more, with high interest text and interesting manipulatives that allow students to work independently at their own pace

Mary Carnes – All district elementary schools
Loose in the Lab
Innovative, hands-on science laboratory experiences for students, presented in a humorous, kid-friendly format

Gwen Zambito & 4th Grade Team – Lake Travis Elementary School
Science Labs
Interactive science kits providing students the proper materials to practice scientific investigations and the scientific method

Wendy Shanafelt – Lake Travis Elementary School
Hands-On Learning with Science Kits
Hands-on lessons and activities to make the science curriculum more exciting, involved, and rigorous for the students and help them to develop critical thinking while exploring and learning

Sarah Cummings – All district elementary schools
Engineering is Elementary
Research-based, standards-based, and classroom-tested curriculum that integrates engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary science topics

Peter Brunet – Lake Travis High School
Using Probeware to Integrate Math and Science
Scientific probe equipment for field and classroom use, providing students accessibility to advanced technology and improving analytical skills

TECHNOLOGY

Carl McLendon – Lake Travis High School
Green Screen Studio for Video Production & Photography
State-of-the-art chroma key video/photography studio which will provide necessary tools for the production of video and photo projects in core curriculum classes, fine arts, technology, and ESL classes, as well as district-wide and community-based projects that will provide students with real world experience

Moselle Domingue, Elizabeth Stearns & Peter Brunet – Lake Travis High School
Student Response Systems
Teaching system that allows students to respond individually to multiple choice questions and short answers via remote control devices, resulting in better daily participation and greater growth for all students