Projects & Grants
Trying to Make the Classroom Better...At Least a Little
Projects
I always have a few projects cooking, in varying states of completion. Click on an item below to learn more.
- Science Literacy Project - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (Grant Funded)
This is a project funded by a grant awarded to me by the Science Teacher Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. The grant was used to purchase the book Napoleon's Buttons for use to promote cross-curricular competencies in chemistry classes. This project addresses multiple learning styles and multiple intelligences, and allows students whose strengths lie in the arts to shine in their chemistry class.
- Mastery Grading - Standards-Referenced Grading, Hybridized
Since first beginning my graduate studies, I've been interested in the concepts of standards-based and standards-referenced grading. After a couple of years of making notes and reading up on specifics, I decided to create a standards-referenced system for use in my own classes. This page details my efforts to integrate standards-referenced grading into a traditionally points-based (0-100%) class rank system, and includes all of the associated documents and rubrics I have since developed and put into practice. This is a SERIOUS work in progress, so bear with me.
Grants
This is a list of the grants I for which I have applied. The funding organization is noted in parentheses, and the funding status follows in boldface.
- Wireless, Paperless, Limitless - One-to-One tablet Computers in the Classroom (CHEF) - (Pending)
This grant project intends to give Kindle Fire tablet devices to two sections of students on a one-to-one basis, to experiemtn with a near-paperless environment and several other web-connected strategies. If anyone has any experience with a project of this kind, please drop me a line - I could use as many ideas as I can get!
- Original Grant Proposal (pdf)
- "The Literacy Book Club" - Teaching Teachers to Use Reading & Writing to Advance Student Achievement (NEA Foundation) - FLUSHED - Can't Win 'Em All
Educating and working with other educators on the importance of reading and writing in the content areas remains a top priority in my praxis. If anyone out there reads this proposal and is interested in funding this grant (or knows someone or some organization who might be interested), please shoot me a quick note with the info.
- Original Grant Proposal (pdf)
- Using Generational Talent to Enhance Classroom Praxis (CHEF) - AWARDED 7/2011
- A New Kind of Science Experiment - Reading and Writing in the Science Classroom with Napoleon's Buttons (Penn STI) - AWARDED 10/2010
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