The Oasis Lagging Skills Project: ADHD and Anger Management

Dover Middle School Oasis Teachers Robin Eich and Dr.Barb Lynch have been awarded a SEED grant to purchase workbooks to incorporate Psychologist Ross Greene’s Collaborative and proactive solutions (CPS) to help build skill development in managing the Oasis students in grades 5-8 with ADHD and anger management issues.

Woodman Park School Makerspace Lab

SEED has Woodman Park School teaching team of Kelly Gennett and Crystal Lisbon, in cooperation with Dr. Michael Briggs a grant to create a maker space at Woodman Park School. The elective special available to the entire school will provide hands-on, creative ways to encourage students to design, experiment, build and invent.The maker space lab will provide a critical space to house a volume of engineering, creative, and inquiring based tools and projects for all students to participate in.

STEAM Projects K-4

SEED has awarded Garrison School Teachers Nancy Colarusso and Deanna Bird with a STEM Projects K-4 grant. This grant will introduce four new STEM projects combining elements of art and STEM principles and improving STEM to STEAM. The projects are making lanterns with kindergarten and first grade, creating ecosystem murals with the second grade, kite making with the third grade, and coding a website with the fourth grade.

Movement in the Classroom

Dover Middle School Teacher Lisa Dillingham was awarded a SEED grant to purchase 30 wiggle cushions. These inflatable seat cushions will allow students the sensory movement and prevent students from sitting for extended periods of time. Studies show that students who can move more improve their learning.

Seeing Science More Clearly with a Document Camera

Dover High School Teacher Amy Poirier was awarded a $500 grant to purchase a document camera for biology classrooms. This valuable tool will enable students to share work, conduct demonstrations, and show teachers thought process.

School and Home Reading Partnership

SEED has awarded longtime Woodman Park School Teacher Sharon Shea a $1,000 grant to provide all first-grade students with a take-home book bag filled with quality at level reading.  This grant will improve reading comprehension skills among first graders and build an early collaboration between schools and families.

Mayhem Through Poetry

Dover Middle School Teacher Kimberly Conrad has been awarded a $6,000 grant to bring the nationally acclaimed work of the Mayhem Poets to Dover! This grant will include an in-house performance from the writers, along with an intensive writing workshop for the students. An incredible opportunity expected to occur in April 2017, during National Poetry Month.

Teacher Growth Mindset+ Student Growth Mindset+ Best Practices+Number Talks= Increases Student Engagement and Achievement in Mathematics

Based on the work from Jo Boaler which helped shift the way we teach mathematics.  Patty Driscoll, Karen Berg, and Stephanie DeMatteo were awarded a $2,193 SEED grant to provide 16 teachers and administrators high-quality mathematics professional development with a focus on Common Core math.

Flat Stanley Global Classroom Skype Project

Kelly Gennett and Maria Frangione will use the traditional practice of “Flat Stanley” to promote letter writing and hands-on mapping skills by adding a digital aspect to the Woodman Park School social studies program. To build the students digital literacy and communication skills, the grant provides for the purchase of a webcam and microphone to enable the classroom to communicate with a 7th grade English class in Madrid Spain.

Duplo and Lego Projects for STEM Based Activities

Garrison Elementary School Teachers Rima Sawyer and Rachel Hill have been awarded a grant to purchase Duplo, and Lego sets to foster innate learning in students and encourage reasoning, processing,  and problem-solving skills.

Come Together To Breakout!

SEED has awarded the Dover Middle School Wentworth Team of Kelly Daynard, Patricia Mulqueen, Lisa Nash, and Mark Holt-Shannon a grant to purchase four “breakout boxes.” These boxes provide games and teaching methods to deliver content to promote critical thinking, complex problem solving, and teamwork. This will also have an element of training staff to promote a climate and culture of kinesthetic learning.

Woodman Park School Proposals Receive Funding

A Spring SEED scholarship will be funding the opportunity for Kelly Gennett, a Woodman Park teacher, to attend a UNH graduate level course called Integrating Technology in the Classroom. After completing this course, Gennett will use her newly acquired skills to integrate Digital Storytelling into her classroom and into her summer enrichment camp, Camp BEYOND, held at WPS each summer. Additionally, SEED will provide scholarships for five under-priviledge students to attend Camp BEYOND.

Jill Frederickson, another Woodman Park School colleague, was awarded SEED support for the third annual Ellis Island Experience, a district wide initiative.

Engaging and Achieving in Mathematics

SEED will provide funding for 15 Dover School District educators to attend Jo Boaler’s Growth Mindset to Increase Student Engagement and Achievement in Mathematics, a professional development course providing teachers new strategies to engage students in mathematics content.

Hands On Learning at the Seacoast Science Center

A SEED grant will make it possible for Nancy Colarusso’s STEM students to learn about ecosystems and inter-tidal animals with hands on learning at the Seacoast Science Center.

Teaching Algebra in a New Way

Patricia Mulqueen and Katherine Schulten received funding to purchase licenses of Dragon Box 12+, a mathematics application that explores algebraic concepts and reasoning through play and practice.

Kindle Fires in the Classroom

Garrison Elementary School teachers Emily Piller and Sarah Croteau received funding to purchase Kindle Fires for their  classrooms. Emily Piller, a music teacher, will use the Kindle Fires to help her students to discover music in an innovative way. Sarah Croteau will use the Kindle Fires in her physical education classes which will allow her students to connect with fitness trackers and analyze their activity.

Anxious Kids and Anxious Parents: A Presentation

The Dover Middle School Guidance Department will be putting on a two hour research-based presentation on Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: Seven ways to Stop the Worry Cycle.This presentation, which is open to all Dover School and the surrounding community, will showcase the work of nationally renowned anxiety speaker, author and therapist, Lynn Lyons.

Rube-Goldbags

Allison Friend-Gray of Dover Middle School received funding to purchase Rube-Goldbags from Rube Goldberg, Inc. a not-for-profit company created to continue the legacy of the great American author, engineer, and inventor. The purchase, which aligns with Next Generation Science Standards and underscores SEED’s commitment to STEM education, will be used in her fifth grade class.

Professional Development Program for Dover Middle School Educators

5 Dover Middle School Educators will attend a professional development program offered by the Landmark School in Beverly, MA. “Cutting-Edge Strategies to Improve Executive Function Skills in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Aged Students” will train the educators and help them launch an executive function training pilot program at DMS.