CONGRATULATIONS TO GRANT WINNERS:
Kindergarten
Brandy Sallee, kindergarten teacher, grant for Story Retelling Kits
Nelson-Wilks-Herron Elementary
Sarah Rosa, first-grade teacher, Horse Tails Literacy Project
Christy King, first grade, Math
Beth Kratochvil, second grade, Science Surrounds Us
Tiffany Stone, first grade, Literacy with a Twist
Jenny Goings, first grade, The “Write” Stuff
Cheryl Human, first and second grade, Pebble Go to Research for Emergent Readers!
Mary Ellen Kressin, second grade, outdoor classroom
Guy Berry College and Career Academy
Marjorie Rosenkotter, fifth and sixth grade, grant from Literature Listening Ears
Pinkston Middle School
Amanda Tulgetske, sixth grade, Conflicts: Blasts from the Past through Novel Studies
Toni Hamby, sixth grade, Bare Books Across the Curriculum
Denise Lauerman, seventh grade, Pinkston Promise Speaker Series —Hall of Honor Teacher Grant
Mylet Trotter, sixth grade, Experience is the Best Teacher
Edward Jamnicky, sixth grade, Seeing and Hearing is Believing
LaDonna Franks, sixth grade, Apps in the Math Classroom
Michele McWilliams, principal, Sir Newton In a Box
Brittany Avery, sixth grade, WHY, WHY, WHY?
Jennifer Drewry, seventh grade, Creating 21st Century Learners through Application of Technology
—TLC Bank, Bank of the Ozarks
Karyn Jones, seventh grade, Creating 21st Century Learners through Application of Technology
—First Community Bank, Nosari Home Mortgage
Vonya Schaufler, sixth grade, Learning through Projects
Mountain Home Junior High
Marjorie Jones, eighth and ninth grade, Getting the Best Shot for Education —Integrity First, Arvest
Susan Gatewood, eighth and ninth grade, Electricity Investigations and supplies
Orene Traylor, ninth grade, Digital Learning Comes to the Child-Development Class
Mountain Home High School
Diana Branham, 11th and 12th grade, Digital Communications IV —Patty Marioun Teacher Grant
Christy Lawrence, 10th through 12th grade, Project Outbreak
Karla Bouck, Bio Rad Inquiry Based Laboratories: Bacterial Transformation
John Bouck, 11th and 12th grade, Data Collection Tools for Physics Program
Kindergarten
Brandy Sallee, kindergarten teacher, grant for Story Retelling Kits
Nelson-Wilks-Herron Elementary
Sarah Rosa, first-grade teacher, Horse Tails Literacy Project
Christy King, first grade, Math
Beth Kratochvil, second grade, Science Surrounds Us
Tiffany Stone, first grade, Literacy with a Twist
Jenny Goings, first grade, The “Write” Stuff
Cheryl Human, first and second grade, Pebble Go to Research for Emergent Readers!
Mary Ellen Kressin, second grade, outdoor classroom
Guy Berry College and Career Academy
Marjorie Rosenkotter, fifth and sixth grade, grant from Literature Listening Ears
Pinkston Middle School
Amanda Tulgetske, sixth grade, Conflicts: Blasts from the Past through Novel Studies
Toni Hamby, sixth grade, Bare Books Across the Curriculum
Denise Lauerman, seventh grade, Pinkston Promise Speaker Series —Hall of Honor Teacher Grant
Mylet Trotter, sixth grade, Experience is the Best Teacher
Edward Jamnicky, sixth grade, Seeing and Hearing is Believing
LaDonna Franks, sixth grade, Apps in the Math Classroom
Michele McWilliams, principal, Sir Newton In a Box
Brittany Avery, sixth grade, WHY, WHY, WHY?
Jennifer Drewry, seventh grade, Creating 21st Century Learners through Application of Technology
—TLC Bank, Bank of the Ozarks
Karyn Jones, seventh grade, Creating 21st Century Learners through Application of Technology
—First Community Bank, Nosari Home Mortgage
Vonya Schaufler, sixth grade, Learning through Projects
Mountain Home Junior High
Marjorie Jones, eighth and ninth grade, Getting the Best Shot for Education —Integrity First, Arvest
Susan Gatewood, eighth and ninth grade, Electricity Investigations and supplies
Orene Traylor, ninth grade, Digital Learning Comes to the Child-Development Class
Mountain Home High School
Diana Branham, 11th and 12th grade, Digital Communications IV —Patty Marioun Teacher Grant
Christy Lawrence, 10th through 12th grade, Project Outbreak
Karla Bouck, Bio Rad Inquiry Based Laboratories: Bacterial Transformation
John Bouck, 11th and 12th grade, Data Collection Tools for Physics Program
FLYOVER GRANTED TAKE OFF
MHEF FOUNDATION AWARDS OVER $30K TO DISTRICT TEACHERS
"Cowbells and cheers echoed through the halls of Mountain Home School District as a boisterous group of young people and adults paraded through them Tuesday. The eruption of sound had a purpose as it preceded the handing out of grant award letters to teachers throughout the system as part of the Mountain Home Education Foundation Flyover.
“I am very excited to have won a grant,” said Amanda Tulgetske, a sixth-grade teacher at Pinkston Middle School. “I am going to be able to purchase classroom sets of books for our students next year.”
The group of cheerleaders, administrators, student council members, community members and Foundation board members traveled to each of the district’s schools to hand out the grant award letters to teachers. The festive group traveled by bus to the district’s seven schools. Once they arrived, they went to each of the winning teachers’ classrooms, giving them their letters and shooting a photo. This is the fifth year that the Mountain Home Education Foundation has done the Flyover to hand out grant letters to teachers.
“This is our annual Foundation Flyover, where we give all the money out that we’ve earned through the year,” MHEF Director Mollie Morgan said. “Today we’re awarding more than $30,000 worth of teacher grants.”
A committee keeps the results secret from the potential winners after going through the grant requests that teachers submitted during the year. The committee decides the best way to spend the money, which is contributed by the community.
“The teachers are thrilled to get these grants,” Morgan said. “It gives them freedom to try new projects without having everyone scrutinize them. The principals do approve the projects before they start, but the teachers get to create them and step out on a limb.”
When the teachers fill out their applications, they are asked to name the grants themselves. Thirty-four grants were awarded this year by the Flyover group, which was unannounced and unexpected in each classroom.
“We put in a request for an outdoor classroom that we could use for science activities and special presentations,” said Mary Ellen Kressin, a second-grade teacher at Nelson-Wilks-Herron Elementary School.
The foundation was created in 2003 and originally dealt with scholarships.
In 2006, the foundation started awarding grants to teachers to enrich their classrooms.
“We are so fortunate to have the MHEF,” Pinkston Middle School Principal Michele McWilliams said. “Everything they do for our teachers just goes above and beyond to enrich those classrooms and the learning for the kids.”
According to the MHEF’s website, its mission is to “generate and distribute resources to the Mountain Home, Arkansas School District to enrich, maintain and expand programs needed to meet the district’s stated mission of excellence in education.”
The organization aims to provide funding for programs and activities which are underfunded or not funded at all by the usual operating budget.
It also seeks to expand the community’s involvement in the Mountain Home educational system."
-Joseph Price, The Baxter Bulletin, May 28, 2014
“I am very excited to have won a grant,” said Amanda Tulgetske, a sixth-grade teacher at Pinkston Middle School. “I am going to be able to purchase classroom sets of books for our students next year.”
The group of cheerleaders, administrators, student council members, community members and Foundation board members traveled to each of the district’s schools to hand out the grant award letters to teachers. The festive group traveled by bus to the district’s seven schools. Once they arrived, they went to each of the winning teachers’ classrooms, giving them their letters and shooting a photo. This is the fifth year that the Mountain Home Education Foundation has done the Flyover to hand out grant letters to teachers.
“This is our annual Foundation Flyover, where we give all the money out that we’ve earned through the year,” MHEF Director Mollie Morgan said. “Today we’re awarding more than $30,000 worth of teacher grants.”
A committee keeps the results secret from the potential winners after going through the grant requests that teachers submitted during the year. The committee decides the best way to spend the money, which is contributed by the community.
“The teachers are thrilled to get these grants,” Morgan said. “It gives them freedom to try new projects without having everyone scrutinize them. The principals do approve the projects before they start, but the teachers get to create them and step out on a limb.”
When the teachers fill out their applications, they are asked to name the grants themselves. Thirty-four grants were awarded this year by the Flyover group, which was unannounced and unexpected in each classroom.
“We put in a request for an outdoor classroom that we could use for science activities and special presentations,” said Mary Ellen Kressin, a second-grade teacher at Nelson-Wilks-Herron Elementary School.
The foundation was created in 2003 and originally dealt with scholarships.
In 2006, the foundation started awarding grants to teachers to enrich their classrooms.
“We are so fortunate to have the MHEF,” Pinkston Middle School Principal Michele McWilliams said. “Everything they do for our teachers just goes above and beyond to enrich those classrooms and the learning for the kids.”
According to the MHEF’s website, its mission is to “generate and distribute resources to the Mountain Home, Arkansas School District to enrich, maintain and expand programs needed to meet the district’s stated mission of excellence in education.”
The organization aims to provide funding for programs and activities which are underfunded or not funded at all by the usual operating budget.
It also seeks to expand the community’s involvement in the Mountain Home educational system."
-Joseph Price, The Baxter Bulletin, May 28, 2014