Education Foundation awards $28,000 in grants

The Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation last week announced it is awarding $28,279 in teacher grants to nine schools this year.

The Foundation Grants program is designed to encourage, facilitate, recognize, and reward innovative and creative instructional approaches to the accomplishment of classroom program objectives, the Foundation stated in a news release. “The idea is to provide additional funds for those projects not covered by conventional funding.”

Here are the grant winners:

Arts Academy at Bella Vista

$2,772

Project: “O Fair New Mexico”

Teachers: Angela O’Daniel, Jessica Hadley, Mackenzie Shaw, Donna Woods, & Julie De La O

Cameo Elementary

$3,100

Project: “Brick Math”

Teachers: Emily Clark & Anita Fite

CHS Freshman Academy

$5,000

Project: “Ballet Folklorico”

Teachers: Adriano Quiroz & Joelle Lucas

I-Academy

$1,000

Project: “Bridging the Gap”

Teacher: Kayna Puckett

Los Ninos

$5,000

Project: “Social-Emotional Implementation & Coaching”

Teacher: Michelle Ontiveros

Marshall Sixth-Grade Academy

$1,000

Project: “The Stone Age: Pre-History Day”

Teacher: Ann Elizondo

Mesa Elementary

$5,000

Project: “Engage & Interact”

Teacher (principal): Tori Blair

Parkview Elementary

$4,407

Project: “Lightspeed-Feedback”

Teachers: Jana Fields, Geralyn Boydstun, Teresa Segovia

Yucca Middle School

$1,000

Project: “Freeze Our Food, Not Our Future”

Teacher: Nicole Olson