The Education Foundation Awards $100,000 to BCPS Schools
For 21st Century Instructional Initiative Grants
For six years, The Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools, Inc. has offered schools the opportunity to apply for up to $2,000 to support instructional projects each school year. Projects must address an identified need(s) that is aligned with BCPS goals for academics, and key actions as stated in the BCPS Blueprint 2.0: Our Way Forward and the School Progress Plans. Recipients awarded project funds will be based on the project’s anticipated contribution to essential knowledge and skills students must have to be successful in life and employment in the 21st Century.
Grant proposals must address at least one of the following instructional focused 21st Century themes:
- Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
- Environmental Literacy
- Arts and Culture
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
- Health Literacy
- Civic Literacy
- Global Awareness
The following are the names and the titles of the 2015-2016 recipients of the 21st Century Instructional Initiative Grants:
| Catonsville High School – My American Identity: Fieldtrip as Argument |
| Chesapeake High School, Deep Creek Elementary School, Deep Creek Middle schools, Stemmers Run Middle School, Sandalwood Elementary School, Middleborough Elementary School, Deep Creek Elementary School and Mars Estates Elementary School –
Chesapeake Arts Festival |
| Battle Grove Elementary School – The North Point Village Pollinator Garden |
| Westowne Elementary School – STEM Electricity Unit |
| Arbutus Elementary School – ACE’s Math Games |
| Southwest Academy Magnet – Young Men of Honor Leadership Program |
| Essex Elementary School – Engaging Minds |
| Woodlawn High School – Community Art Show |
| Pikesville Middle School – Rockin’ Out at Pikesville Middle! |
| Hawthorne Elementary School – Robots Rocks |
| Loch Raven Tech Academy – North Bay Adventure |
| Southwest Academy Magnet – Woman Instructing and Nurturing Girls in STEM |
| Sussex ES – Sussex Singers |
| Prettyboy Elementary School – Building Learner Centered Environments with PBL and UDL |
| Martin Boulevard Elementary School – STEM Fair Spectacular |
| Southwest Academy Magnet – i-Station Making Our Future |
| Ridge Ruxton School – Song Writing |
| Padonia International Elementary School – Mighty Girls and Good Guys Reading Club |
| Shady Spring Elementary School – Guys with Ties, Girls with Pearls |
| Sussex ES – Bucket Band |
| Dundalk Middle School – North Bay |
| Warren Elementary School – One Warren, One Book |
| Chatsworth School – Embracing the Individual, Creating a Whole: Mosaics |
| Middleborough Elementary School – Junior Achievement Biz Town |
| Woodholme Elementary School – 3D Innovations through DI |
| Bedford Elementary School – Bedford’s BEE Healthy Fitness Club |
| Lyons Mill Elementary School – Junior Achievement’s Biz Town Field Trip |
| Randallstown Elementary School – The Village Bully Musical |
| Franklin Middle School – Student-Centered STEM Learning through Makerspace Implementation in a Library Media Center |
| Southwest Academy Magnet – Get Global |
| Dundalk High School Broadcasting |
| Seneca Elementary School – Makerspace: Galaxy Bot |
| Holabird STEM – National Aquarium Aqua Partner’s 4th and 5th Grade |
| Edgemere Elementary School – Building Bluejay FIRST LEGO League Expansion |
| Grange Elementary School – Family Fitness Fun Night |
| Halstead Academy – Fostering Creative Writing Through the Arts |
| Woodbridge Elementary School – STEM Career Club |
| Randallstown High School – Unified Jazz Ensemble |
| Sparrows Point Middle School – Building Learning to Life Series |
| Middle River Middle School – North Bay |
| Office of Visual Arts – BCPS Inaugural Film Expo 2016 |
| Winfield Elementary School – Winfield 30-30 Program |
| Perry Hall Elementary School – Closing our Reading Gap |
| Arbutus Middle School – After-School STEM Club |
| Dulaney High School – Genius Hour |
| Winand Elementary School – 2016 Family STEM Night |
| Hawthorne Elementary School – Family Fitness Fun Night |
| Woodlawn High School – Future Business Leaders |
| Orems Elementary School – Animal Adventures |
| Pleasant Plains Elementary School – Environmental Literacy at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center |
| Gunpowder Elementary School – Growing Gunpowder’s Garden |
| General John Stricker Middle School – North Bay |
| Lansdowne Elementary School – Lego Robotics Club
Upon completion of the grant implementation, each school will complete a detailed grant summary and will be honored at the Foundation’s Appreciation Breakfast, Celebrating Excellence, on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at the Padonia Park Club. |