Christine Sewell, Annie Lee, Dawn Goldman, Carol Johnson ~ $350 ~ Cupcake Wars
Jessica Stutz, Amy Johnson, Amy Brooks ~ $400 ~ Everything is Awesome Logo Club
Jennifer Gibson, Lisa Callis, Nikki Piercy ~ $158 ~ What’s the Weather?
Tena Sprau, Tracie Ghrist, Mary Aper, Mallory Hayes ~ $1,600 ~ Phenomenal First Grade Light and Sound
Annie Lee ~ $380 ~ Social Studies Mind Missions

Lyndra Webb, Carla Hansen, Heather Jones ~ $1,400 ~ Discovery Learning in the Classroom!

Michelle Brown, Collette England, Dawn Sheppelman, Susie Zink, Marissa Frietsch ~ $400 ~ SEEDS (Students Exploring Extraordinary Discoveries in Science) Garden Project

Ashleigh Tucek, Karen Mercer, Tom Triezenberg ~ $379 ~ Biking to Success
Ashleigh Tucek, Tom Triezenberg ~ $393 ~ Calm Bodies, Focused Minds
Karen Mercer, Natalie Shumaker, Ashleigh Tucek ~ $396 ~ Learning with Legos

Kelly Gallick ~ $370 ~ Pounding out the Pounds – Using Drums Alive in Physical Education

Rhett Felix, Annette Langellier ~ $200 ~ Mark Me Up!
Alycia Carroll ~ $392 ~ Express Yourself!

Leah Crews, Kissy Mercer ~ $1,500 ~ “Wrap Me Up, Spin Me Around, and Send Me Back to Class!”

Katharine Corley ~ $393 ~ “I’m Building! It’s Growing!”  Making Little Ideas Real
Annie McWilliams ~ $2,194 ~ EYE can communicate!

Len Childers, Karen Showalter ~ $400 ~ BUILDing my Social Skills

Kelly Mathy, Shinnosuka Sawada ~ $1,247 ~ Mental Math Calculation Power Japanese Abacus Instruction

Helen Brandon ~ $390 ~ Building Community with Chess

Katherine Brown ~ $1,278 ~ Bringing Literature to Life through Student Book Trailer & Blogs

Rachel Hughart, Kelly Reardon, Blair Broker, Katie Kindermann ~ $5,000 ~ Training Teachers on Transformative Methods and Techniques

Courtney Knowles, Chelsea Keyser, Barb Hartseil ~ $3,000 ~ One Author, One School: Reading and Writing with Roland Smith

Jamie Codron, Don Anderson, Paul Weltha, Steve Clapp, Kay Robbins, Mark Gardner ~ $4,998 ~ Find Your Own Fitness

Brad Bovenkerk ~ $400 ~ A Book by its Cover: Practical Publishing to Increase Writing Engagement
Meghan Hawkins ~ $1,500 ~ The Statecraft Simulation ~ Crafting a Perfect World

Devin Wilson, Vicki Kafer, Kim Rohlwing, Dave Lehr, April Schermann ~ $245 ~ Using Geoboards to Investigate Circles and solve crimes
Amanda Long ~ $250 ~ Ion: A Compound Building Game for Chemistry
Beth Smith ~ $352 ~ Random Acts of Art
Teri Wilson, Barb Bush, John Mackinson, Robert Scornavacco, Kevin Enderlin ~ $400 ~ Reaping What We Sow
April Schermann ~ $2,560 ~ Computer Science for All – Using Robots to Make Learning come to Life
Barb Bush, Teri Wilson, Paula Birsa, Vasthi Schwarz, Nicole Holiday, Jennifer Walls ~ $5,000 ~ Ready, or Not….Before It Comes

Joint Unit 5 and District 87

Tracy Hitchins, Jodi Hall ~ $2,900 ~ Big Brains Teach Little Bodies

Monies for this award are provided by the Shirk Family Foundation

Mike Jones, Michele Chon, Nicole Bounds, Jen Weaver, Anne Besler, Kristi Sutter, Ashley Schnittker  |  $10,000  |  STEM Read – Learn the Science, Live the Book

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” (Ben Franklin)

This project will provide an experience that allows students to love the book and live the science.  STEM Read blends science, technology, engineering, and math (a.k.a. S.T.E.M.) lessons to inspire readers to learn, play and explore.  Readers will enjoy the books on their own or in groups and then meet to explore the science behind the fiction through hands-on activities and games working in teams while competing against others for survival.  We will partner with NIU’s SmartSpace to develop three read events (two middle school and one elementary) open to all Bloomington/Normal students.  Writers and NIU staff will be brought in to work with the students and teachers.  Curriculum materials will be offered for free before and after the events for teachers and parents to support both STEM and reading; books will also be donated to libraries.

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