
Outdoor Activities for Alternative Education Students
Outdoor activities for alternative education students who are in a one room building all day long.
Shelley Rychener/Katie Heikkila/Jessica Baese
Alternative Education High School
Students impacted:
15
$1,253.59
Funds:
Enhanced Music Experience for Students with Special Needs
The goal of this program is to allow full, active participation in a specially designed music program tailored to the developmental and physical capabilities of our students with special needs. Sessions focus on fostering communication skills ,meeting sensory integration needs and providing a sense of belonging.
Ashleigh Bunten/Kalli Nowitzke/Lindsey Babicki/Kimberly Samson
Bates, Wylie, Mill Creek, Dexter High School
Students impacted:
28
$7,290.00
Funds:
Advanced Biology – Zoology Detroit Zoo Field Trip
Detroit Zoo admission for four classes of Zoology from Dexter High School.
Lesley Tracy
Dexter High School
Students impacted:
132
$1595.00
Funds:
DHS Kiln Furniture Kit
New furniture for the DHS art department kiln is being requested to allow for student ceramic artwork to survive the firing (baking) process.
Roger Sprau
Dexter High School
Students impacted:
80
$500.99
Funds:
Supplementary Decodable Books
Express Readers with simple sentences, introducing phonics patterns in a systematic order. These decodable books begin with skills such as consonant-vowel-consonant words, blends, digraphs and vowel teams up to increasingly more complex multisyllabic words.
Megan Hendricks
Anchor
Students impacted:
150
$895.16
Funds:
Sensory Support
Special education staff requesting calming sensory seating option. This support will be used to support regulation and attention for special education students
Kim Evanski/Karly Smith/Anne Nakon
Beacon
Students impacted:
30
$237.98
Funds:
Gel Electrophoresis Systems
The purchase of electrophoresis equipment that will allow students of all abilities to examine DNA samples using cutting edge technology that permits them to pour the gels, load the gels, actually visualize the movement of the DNA in real-time, and then analyze the results all within one 90 minute block schedule class period.
Ruth Hamilton/Wilbur Tong/Dan Witte
Dexter High School
Students impacted:
80+
$2,500.00
Funds:
Classroom Library Books
Funding for classroom library books for high school students at the young adult level.
Alli Mattson (Barthol)
Dexter High School
Students impacted:
175
$300.00
Funds:
The Road to Regulation
The Zones of Regulation 2-book set and corresponding Tools To Try Cards will enhance the current Anchor and Beacon social and emotional learning initiatives. Currently, teachers in both buildings are implementing The Zones of Regulation language, strategies, and methodology in their classrooms.
Tricia Winder/Sarah Fisk
Anchor, Beacon
Students impacted:
742
$1,039.68
Funds:
SNAP Zoo Trip
Admission costs for 20 members of the high school SNAP Club to attend the Detroit Zoo. Allowing students to explore, build relationships and practice life skills in a community based setting.
Erica Ehinger
Dexter High School
Students impacted:
20
$600.00
Funds:
Brewing Independence
Funds to create a small coffee business run by Dexter High School High Needs Resource Room and Vocational Training Students that teaches job skills, financial literacy, and independence.
Mary Visel/Kimberly Samson
Dexter High School
Students impacted:
10
$450.00
Funds:
Digital Cameras
Digital DSLR Cameras for the new Digital Photography Class at Dexter High School. For Photography Students to learn the ins and outs of Digital Photography and its practical and artistic implementations in this ever changing technological world.
Krickett Chamberlain
Dexter High School
Students impacted:
60
$7,154.84
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