REACH 2016-2017 Grants Awarded

The REACH Foundation has funded over $150,000 to RCSD in Grants and Scholarships since 1998. On the evening of  December 13, 2016 we presented our 2015 Grant Recipients at the Board of Education meeting. Criteria for a REACH Grant is ‘innovative educational programming’ and once again our teachers knocked it out of the park. These initiatives are above and beyond their day-to-day classroom responsibilities and we thank them for sharing their enthusiasm and creativity with our children.

The following is a listing of all the innovative educational programs that were awarded a REACH Grant:

Suffern Middle School

• Digital Drawing Tablet Exploration (Blake)
• Fidget Rings, Balance Boards, Fidget Toys (Boehning)
• Teaching Ecological Awareness and Ecoliteracy Using Aeroponic Indoor Tower Garden (Braut & Passudetti)
• Pendulum Painting (Wickes)

RP Connor

• Dash and Dot Robots (Bean)
• Math Enrichment (Brain)
• Roller Coaster Project and Science Lab Table (Conley & Stuhar)

Montebello

• The Mindful Cave (Cancro)
• Dash and Dot Creative Project Based Learning (Cerny)
• GoPiGo Reuse Recycle Lego (Cerny)
• Learning Using Multiple Modalities (Digga)
• Culture Box Puerto Rico (Duke)
• Roller Coaster Engineering (Tanis)
• Carry Me Cubes (Tanis)
• Digital Voice Recorders for English Language Learners (Wojehowski)

Sloatsburg

• Coding Through Robots (McKiernan)
• Classroom Flexibility (Pallogudis)
• Culture Box Puerto Rick (Duke)

Viola

• Google Expeditions (Butler)
• Tinkering and Engineering with Robots (Hammond)
• Hot Marimba – Xylophone (Zobel)