AGRICULTURE
Clint Love & Tara Simpson – Lake Travis High School
Grooming
Grooming and
shearing equipment to allow students to prepare the animals they
have raised for showing
Hog Trailer
Funding toward the purchase of
a hog trailer, which will allow teachers and students to transport
their animals safely to show
FINE ARTS
Amber Forgey – Lake Travis High School
Tools for Higher Level
Learning in Observation
Plastic drawing heads to enhance drawing skills of students
at all levels of artistic ability
Abigail Payne, Erika Garrett, Christine Bartosh, Amanda Rule &
Michelle Webb – Lake Travis High School
A Little More Room to
Breathe
Materials for an on-campus facility to store school district dance
wear, sound equipment, props, costumes, and supplies
HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES
Sarah Figer & Aileen Winzer – Bee Cave Elementary School
Social Studies Alive!
Series of instructional practices that allow students of all
abilities to experience key social studies concepts
MATHEMATICS
Amelia Hicks & 3rd Grade Team – Lake Travis Elementary
School
Measurement with Meaning
Visual and engaging learning center materials to help
students with the basic measurement concepts of point of origin,
unit, and partition
Layla Ramirez – Lake Travis Elementary School
Kamico Game
Gallery Series
Eye-catching, colorful boards and game pieces
that relieve
students' test-taking anxieties by practicing curriculum standards
in a fun and engaging way
Becky Thorp & 4th Grade Team – Lake Travis Elementary
School
Math Matters
Small group activities and materials to present information
in a more visual, real world manner
Alison Connelly, Emily Nading & Rose Gonzales – Serene Hills
Elementary School
Study Island
Program that allows students to learn at their own pace based
on the TEKS in which they need support
Emily Nading & Rose Gonzales – Serene Hills Elementary School
Everyday Math
Research-based program that presents mathematics as a thinking
process rather than merely skills mastery and memorization
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS
Caitlin Hooker – Lake Pointe Elementary School
Cover One Binding Machine
Machine to help extend the life of new textbooks and repair
those in need rather than paying for replacements
Davina Angeli & 4th Grade Team – Lake Travis Elementary
School
Novels in the Hands of Every Student
Class sets of novels, putting relevant literature that is
engaging, challenging, and inspirational in the hands of every
student
Nancy Baker – Lake Travis Elementary School
Read Naturally
Masters Edition
Stories allowing students to read along with a recording of a
fluent reader and then practice the story until they are able to
read it at a predetermined goal rate, building student confidence
and fluency
Debbie Dolmanet & 4th Grade Team – Lake Travis Elementary
School
Tic-Tac-That Vocabulary for the Differentiated Mind
Kits containing over 390 instant language activities at
multiple levels of learning
Lyndsey Hines & Elizabeth Magee – Lake Travis Elementary School
Reading in the Digital Age for Young Learners
Read-Along books to assist students with print awareness,
word recognition, increased vocabulary, pronunciation, and the
improvement of listening and comprehension skills
Aurora Kramer & 3rd Grade Team – Lake Travis Elementary
School
Listening While Reading
Providing a listening center that creates a differentiated
educational setting, engaging students in supported reading and
allowing them to read at a comfortable pace
Marla Retano – Lake Travis Elementary School
Write-In Readers
Work texts to help students learn the weekly core skills and
vocabulary, keeping students interacting with text and focusing on
comprehension
Judy Stewart – Lake Travis Elementary School
Tag Reading System
System targeting specific reading skills that are taught and
assessed in Kindergarten, providing a fun, multisensory, and
increasingly independent reading experience
Stephanie Williams – Lake Travis Elementary School
Listen and
Learn
A variety
of fiction and nonfiction book sets with accompanying CDs that
motivate and excite students at various reading levels to enjoy
reading
Carol Womack – Lake Travis Elementary School
High Tech Reading
Classroom Kindles with ten popular titles, allowing students
to highlight, annotate passages, and use the built in dictionary to
clarify meanings of words
Dyan Milam & Carol Nelson – Serene Hills Elementary School
Off
the Floor
Materials for the shelving and distribution of classroom textbooks
SCIENCE
Cha Asokan, Caryn Jannasch & Sammy Seidenberger – Hudson Bend Middle
School
Outdoor Learning Garden Seating
Seating for the outdoor learning garden, funded earlier by
LTEF and focusing on the science of nature; students were involved
in landscape design, budgeting, planning, problem solving, and
construction
Leigh Ann Kenyon – Hudson Bend Middle School
Plate Tectonic Model
Simulator, tank and pump, which will allow students to study
major sea floor topographic features and plate tectonic concepts
such as continental drift, faulting which causes earthquakes, and
sea floor spreading
Stephanie Cardarella and Heather Anderson – all 5 district
elementary schools
Robotics...The Primary Way!
Entry-level robotics platform allowing students to create
LEGO models featuring working motors and sensors that are
programmable
Denise Demco and Stacy Ford – Lake Travis Elementary School
What Is That Eye See?
Microslides and viewers to give students an additional
visual, beyond what they are reading in a textbook, of fossils,
minerals, and how rocks are formed
Anna Moreno and Deana Locklear – Lake Travis Elementary School
Victorious Versa-Tiles
Independent, motivating activity books with hands-on
self-correcting answer cases, helping students to master key science
concepts about life, physical, and Earth sciences
Barbara Patterson & 1st Grade Team – Lake Travis
Elementary School
Hands On Science
Directional compasses, primary rock collections, and working
Solar system models to aide students in exploring and understanding
essential science topics
TECHNOLOGY
Carl McLendon – Lake Travis High School
Portable HD Video
Broadcasting Studio
Facility to produce, distribute, and archive video content of live
events, district news, staff development, public service
announcements, and feature stories to facilitate communication
within the district and the Lake Travis community
Kerri Newton – Lake
Travis Elementary School
Learning and Listening: A new look at digital centers
Wireless headphones for use with SMART Board technology, giving
students the opportunity to utilize the boards not only during
teaching times but also during student-directed centers
SMART Board Technology Fund
SMART Board technology allows teachers to bring more collaboration
and interactivity into the classroom. And, because the products are
easy to use, teachers can quickly incorporate them into their
teaching to transform learning and increase student engagement.
Through donations from the community, LTEF is supporting SMART Board
Technology in our school district with $58,423.14 in funding.
LTEF also allocated contingency grant funding
for unforeseen needs at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year.
