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Your Eagle News is Here! U.S. Eagle Newsletter – Q4 2020
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US Eagle Awards enrichEd® Classroom Grants
There's no denying it: school is different this year. And unfortunately, many classrooms do not have the supplies needed to help keep kids – or the staff taking care of them – safe. To help, we've dedicated this year's enrichEd® program to meet that demand.
US Eagle's internal philanthropy committee reviewed 56 applications and selected 10 schools to receive the $1,000 Classroom Grant. Selections were based on need, the number of students served, and geographic diversity.
Congratulations to our 2020 enrichEd® Classroom Grant recipients, located throughout Bernalillo, Cibola, San Juan, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Torrance, and Valencia county: - Leah Dolan, Corrales Elementary School – Good CLEAN Fun!
- Heather Fritts, Dolores Gonzales Elementary School – Math Leads to Success
- Randy Grillo, Mandela International Magnet School – Swivel for Hybrid Learning and Professional Development
- Lisa Hawkins, Esperanza Elementary School – Esperanza Kindergarten Team
- Colton Jackson, Heights Middle School – Music Speakers and Voice Amplification
- Bryant Johnson, Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School – Wacom Acquisition
- Cheryl Kennedy, Milagro Middle School – Microbial Fuel Cell Project
- Kristin Leeson, Moriarty Elementary School – MES Safe Recess Project
- Celeste Perea, Horizon Academy West – Home Gardening / STEM Learning
- Monica Walker, Vista Grande Elementary School – 4th Grade Math Tools
Many of the grants are helping to fund unique learning experiences and enable more effective learning environments. We’ve highlighted a few below to illustrate the diversity of approaches.
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Horizon Academy West, in Albuquerque, received the enrichEd grant for the second year. In 2019 their Kindergarten class received funding to create an outdoor Kindergarten learning space. The garden allows allowed the class to be hands-on with STEM activities, planting vegetables and flowers, learning responsibility and the natural process of growing their own food. Like many other schools, Horizon Academy West switched to a remote learning model in 2020 due to the pandemic. To make the same STEM experience available this year, Celeste Perea with Horizon Academy West, submitted a grant request to fund planting materials that will be a part of STEM and gardening kits for the students to use during online learning. The class also needed seating and shade to give students the ability to be out in the garden and have appropriate seating space for them to social distance. Other resources needed for the outside area include hand sanitizers, wipes, face masks, shields, and personal gardening kits with individual garden tools for each student enabling an enriching and safe environment.
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Milagro Middle School, in Santa Fe, has been studying alternative fuel sources, including solar, wind, fuel cells, and magnets. The grant allows them to purchase 23-25 MudWatt Microbial Fuel Cell Kits for each enrichment and science student to participate in a collaborative, hands-on science experiment in a virtual setting. These kits allow students to individually locate an interesting sample area and personally decide what "from the fridge" they can add to the mix. Students will document the contents of their MudWatt and contribute to a class chart as they track and compare the growth of their MudWatt's power and bacteria population. Students will participate in class discussions and write a reflective summary of their personal and class findings. MudWatts can be cleaned and redistributed for the next class to use, and could become an annual project in the classroom.
Mandela International Magnet School, in Santa Fe, requested funds for a SWIVL C5 and five microphones. These cameras and microphones enable teachers to teach in person, film themselves, and capture student voice for effective remote learning. Furthermore, as a Harvard Project Zero Cultures of Thinking School that values students' voices, this set will be used to film best practices of Making Thinking Visible and will be displayed on their website. This grant impacts all 298 students at Mandela International Magnet School.
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Esperanza Elementary, in Farmington, needed funds for an online reading program to help their students with reading fluency, and to purchase materials they can utilize at home to have hands-on activities, giving them a break from the computer screen. The grant affects 70 students at the school.
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Heights Middle School, in Farmington, requested funds for improved instructional voice amplification for their band classroom. Currently, the band classroom consists of two non-functional speakers with no capability for voice amplification to assist during COVID-19 instructions. Instructing behind a mask and face shield in a large setting is challenging for all students to effectively receive vocal instruction. The grant helps Heights Middle School fund two speakers and a wireless microphone set-up to amplify the teacher's voice in the classroom so all students can equally receive instruction while using COVID-19 measures and guidelines. This impacts 400 music students at Heights Middle School.
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