The Alamo Heights School Foundation recently awarded 39 grants totaling $150,000 to teachers in the Alamo Heights Independent School District.
“The AHSF’s Grants to Educators Prize Posse is the most exciting time of our year,” says AHSF board president Tiffany Mills. “Our board of directors and community volunteers work very hard to raise these necessary funds all year long. This is their opportunity to see in person just how meaningful these funds are to teachers and students.”
Grants include $10,000 to the AHHS rocketry program; $10,000 split between all AHISD libraries for e-books: $10,000 for the AHHS math department for iPads; $10,000 for SMART boards for AHJS social studies classes; $7,800 for aquatic research materials for AHHS biology students; $7,900 for Istation, a computer-based reading program at Howard, Cambridge and Woodridge; over $5,000 for AHHS for materials to study radiation and nuclear chemistry; $5,000 for Macbooks at Howard to complete the computer lab; over $2,000 for AHJS for iPads for individualized instruction for students with dyslexia; over $5,000 for Google Chromebooks for fifth-graders at Cambridge; over $2,500 for a Spanish audio library at Cambridge; over $2,000 for mobile lab tables for Woodridge science teachers; and much more.
“The Howard teachers are absolutely thrilled with the generous donation from the AHSF,” says Howard Early Childhood Center principal Stephanie Kershner. “This donation provides our teachers with the additional resources to design meaningful and relevant learning experiences for our students.”
The Grants to Educators program awards AHISD teacher applicants with funds that enable and encourage them to be more innovative in their approach to teaching. The program was established in 1998 to encourage teachers to motivate and inspire their students by developing an activity or approach outside the normal curriculum and teaching patterns.
The AHSF raises money to support academic excellence in AHISD. The funds raised help ensure that AHISD remains one of the best school districts in the state. Through strategic planning, AHSF and AHISD address evolving educational trends while anticipating future critical needs. Last year, the foundation awarded $100,000 in Grants to Educators in AHISD. For more information, visit www.ahschoolfoundation.org.
