Through June 2000

Lilja School
Funding for materials for “Words Their Way:” a program focused on the study of phonics, vocabulary and spelling instructions.

Lilja School
Funding for materials and a consultant on the “TERC Investigations Program”: a mathematics program focused on content, teaching approaches, models and materials and children’s thinking.

Bennett Hemenway School
Funding for a consultant and workshop on using technology on the Elementary Computer Lab:intergrating technology into curriculum, internet access, e-mail systems, word processing and use of other software.

Kennedy Middle School
Funding for participation in the Bureau of Education and Research seminar entitled “Enhancing Instruction in your Foreign Language Classroom,” which will focus on effective communication through interactive learner-centered activities.

Natick High School
Funding for materials and a consultant for a workshop & training for the Natick High School Peer Leader Program regarding sexual harassment issues and related legal mandates from the Title IX Advocacy legislation.

Natick High School
Funding for participation in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference. This conference offers an opportunity to share ideas with colleagues from across the globe and includes new curriculum materials, research on teaching and learning of math, and math technology programs.

Johnson School
For the purchase of materials for the TERC Math Program, to assist four teachers in further training other teachers in the building on the use of this experiential, hands-on math program.

Kennedy Middle School
Funding for participation in the Bureau of Education & Research conference on using the internet as an effective science teaching tool.

Kennedy Middle School
Funding for participation in the Bureau of Education & Research Conference on using the internet to enhance foreign education instruction.

Natick High School
Funding for participation at an educational technology conference.

Natick High School North Star program
Funding for participation at the National Institute on Legal Issues of Educating Individuals with Disabilities.