INTERVENTION CENTRAL
Kay Schulze wrote a grant where each student in the 8th grade at ILMS has received a year-long online subscription to IXL.  This is a program designed to challenge every student to master the skills that are taught within the classroom.  Each week students are assigned online questions to practice and try to master that align with that week’s standards.  The students are provided with immediate feedback from the website if they are unable to master a concept.  The online reports that are generated from the website aide the teachers in deciding which students to meet with independently for remediation.

PREPARING FOR OGT
The Bellefontaine High School grant, written by Christine Galvin, was used to purchase a license to Study Island.  They are using it to help remediate students that have already taken the OGT and did not pass the first time and also to prepare the current sophomores for the upcoming test in March.  They are using the software as part of their extra help period tutoring schedule and all sophomores will have accessed and used the software before the March testing.

The Ties That Bind
Joy Badenhop wrote a grant for the Discovery Center that was used to purchase of the Conscious Discipline Books.  It has allowed the staff to participate in an ongoing book study with credit available through Ashland University regarding positive discipline.  The book study has help unify their discipline practices and assisted teachers in articulating their philosophy.  A Parent Education Event is scheduled for February 23  at which time they will share discipline strategies for in the home. Three parent
education events are held throughout the year. 

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
Riverside Elementary used their building wide grant, written by Mason Bryan, to allow the students to gain a hands on connection through a unique experience of meeting a published author and learn what it takes to take an idea and convert it to a published book.  The students also created their own books and displayed them at a Family Night.  The author chosen was Cindy Terry from the West Liberty area.  She visited the school for two days and also attended the evening literacy event.

THE CYCLE OF LIFe

Nancy McGuire received the Milroy Foundation Grant.  They will be studying the life cycles of various creatures, chicks, frogs, and butterflies.  They are used the grant funds to purchase an incubator to hatch chicks.  Students will discuss their development daily and hope for a successful hatch.  They will compare this to the life cycles of the butterfly, which they will also hatch and to that of the frog.