2007 Hardscrabble Fund Grants Awards

School Description                                            Award
Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School To provide teachers with access to multiple copies of decodable texts to use in small-group instruction. $2,152.65
Beverly High School To develop more audiovisual resources to improve the engineering curriculum. $4,300.00
Briscoe Middle School For the purchase of a Smartboard for the Academic Support Classroom. $2,500.00
Brickett Elementary School To purchase literature books and manipulatives  to support the 'Together with Parents in Math' program. $1,400.00
Brickett Elementary School To purchace the literature books which support the 'Together with Parents in Reading' program. $1,400.00
Ingalls Elementary School To provide print and nonprint materials for the school and library. $5,000.00
Lynn English High School To replace durable equipment and samples in the Chemistry and Earth Science Departments. $4,670.13
Lynn English High School To purchase a SMART Board for the Math Computer Lab $4,977.50
Lynn English High School To purchase a SMART Board 600i series interactive whiteboard for the Chemistry classroom  $4,957.50
Lynn English High School To purchase equipment needed to create five mobile carts with projectors and laptops $4,508.96
Lynn English High School To purchase the TI- Navigator 32 User System $4,195.00
Lynn English High School To provide two math classrooms with a set of TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculators $5,000.00
Lynn English High School To purchase age-appropriate literature and support an after school book club and literary workshop for Limited English Proficiency students  $4,988.50
MAST School To extend the 'Positive Paths' project to younger students with a goal to instill an interest in academics and planning $1,800.00
Capt. William G. Shoemaker School To increase the fiction collection in the library, create a community of readers, and support the libray media specialist at two professional  workshops $4,906.00
Lynn Classical High School To purchase updated science equipment including stereomicroscopes and related materials $5,000.00
Lynn Classical High School To purchase four classroom collections of new young adult literature for ESL students $5,000.00
L. H. Coffin School To support the gardening project at the L.H. Coffin School and the Gerry School which will link to the current science curriculum and will provide hands-on learning experiences $1,500.00
Marblehead High School To equip two classrooms with a set of TI-84 Graphing Calculators and to provide teacher training on implementing the new technologies into Integrated Mathematics I and II $4,429.80
Marblehead Public School To provide materials and software needed to offer a new elective course in Robotics including LEGO MINDSTORMS and to offer training to a Marblehead teacher $4,400.00
Marblehead Public School To provide all classroom teachers, Grades 1-6, with the opportunity to attend a professional development program on  differentiation of instruction using the Everyday Mathematics Program

$4,425.00
Village School To provide all classroom teachers in grades 1-6 with an opportunity to attend a  workshop on the Six Plus One Traits of Writing on August 28, 2007 $4,498.14
Bates Elementary School To purchase an annual subscription to 'Study Island' for all children in grades 3-5 and training for teachers and facilitators $1,630.00
Bentley School To purchase an annual subscription to 'Study Island' for all children in grades 3-5 and training for teachers and facilitators $1,630.00
Carlton Elementary School To purchase MIDI keyboards and speakers for the computer lab $4,398.00
Collins Middle School To purchase a wind tunnel tester and other supplies needed to create CO2 cars to support student understanding of the Engineering Design Process $3,809.94
Collins Middle School To purchase a TI-Navigator system and software and laptop to support the eighth grade math curriculum $3,800.00
Collins Middle School To provide an advanced level of Robotics to eighth grade students using the new Lego Mindstorm Educational Curriculum $4,856.00
Salem High School To purcahse a SMARTboard and projector for the AP student as mentors project $2,800.00
Swampscott Middle School To support the Lesson Study Project to improve instructional practice in the middle school $6,000.00
Swampscott School District To develop inquiry-based marine science curriculum units for grades K-5 $5,000.00