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Imagine Grant Recipients
  
Some Former Imagine Grant Recipients: Mary Mills on the Iditarod Trail ('05), Lindsay Allessandrini and Suzanne Lyons in Honduras ('06), and Cynthia King with ZCHS forensic science students ('07).
2011 Grant Winners
The Zionsville Education Foundation (ZEF) Board of Directors selected three projects to receive their annual "Imagine" grants for professional development. This year’s recipients are speech therapist Audrey Csikos, elementary music teachers Rebecca Hampton and Julia Graham and Union Elementary teacher Sara Hunter.
The total of the grants awarded is approximately $7,966.
Csikos' grant will allow four speech therapists to attend the Assistive Technology conference in Illinois later this year. The conference will allow the speech therapy department to learn new ways to reach children with communication disorders and help these children become functional social communicators through the use of technology. "Our children will be able to verbally participate in classroom activities, conversations with peers, and family conversations through the use of assistive technology that we will learn more about at the amazing conference," said Csikos.
Hampton and Graham will attend the National Orff Schulwerk Association Professional Development Conference in Philadelphia. The conference provides the music teachers with the opportunity to receive updated research-based strategies and "kid-tested" materials, as well as learn from other music educators. They will choose from more than 150 course offerings during the 4-day national conference.
Hunter's award allows her to attend the International Society for Technology in Education 2012 Conference. Hunter has passionately integrated relevant technology into her classroom this year and hopes to acquire even more technology applications to share with her school and the whole ZCS community.
2008 Imagine Grant Recipients
The Zionsville Education Foundation (ZEF) is pleased to announce the 2008 Imagine Grant recipients. ZEF now awards three $3000 Imagine Grants annually for professional development initiatives to Zionsville Community School teachers who have a minimum of three years teaching experience. Congratulations to this year's awardees!
The first award goes to Libby Rease of Zionsville West Middle School for her grant entitled "Perils of a Pop Bottle. Where Does it Come from? Where does it go?". The second award goes to Zionsville Middle School educators, Sean Conner, Derek Grimm, Chris Kern, Mitzi Macaluso, Chase Mears, Monica Plantan for their grant entitled, "ZMS Educators Go Above and Beyond". The third award goes to Amanda Vanderbur of Zionsville Community High School for her grant entitled, "Getting PSYCHED about PSYCHOLOGY!".
2007 Imagine Grant Recipients
The Zionsville Education Foundation (ZEF) is pleased to announce the 2007 Imagine Grant recipients. ZEF awards two $1,500 Imagine Grants annually for professional development initiatives to Zionsville Community School teachers who have a minimum of three years teaching experience.
The first $1,500 award goes to Cynthia King of Zionsville Community High School for her grant titled "Learning Forensic Science from the Experts". In the summer of 2008, Ms.King plans to attend the Henry Lee Institute for a five day forensic science workshop presented by one of the premier forensic scientists in the business.
The next $1,500 grant was awarded to Tonya Taylor of Pleasant View Upper Elementary School for her grant titled "Promoting Literacy through Research, Education and Advocacy". Ms. Taylor will attend the International Dyslexia Association Annual Conference where she will gain knowledge of cutting edge research delivered by leaders in the literacy community.
2006 Imagine Grant Recipients
The first $1,500 grant was awarded to Leslie Frobig, Stonegate Elementary School, for her grant titled "Leadership in Literacy." Ms. Frobig will attend a two-day conference for literacy leaders with the intent to return to Stonegate prepared to lead in-house professional development and to support teachers as they implement new teaching strategies with the development of a Professional Literacy Room.
The next $1,500 grant was awarded to Suzanne Lyons (ZWMS) and Lindsay Alessandrini (ZCHS) for their grant titled "Lugares Diferentes, Corazones Iguales: A Partnership with Rural Honduran Schools." Ms. Lyons and Ms. Alessandrini will journey to the rural areas south of Tegucigalpa, Honduras to mentor teachers in struggling schools in an effort to increase student learning and achievement while they renew their own commitment to teaching and learning. (Pictures above).
The third $1,500 grant was awarded to Janet Rummel, Pleasant View Elementary School, for her grant titled "Valuing the Whole Child: Embracing a Global Vision." Ms. Rummel will attend the 2007 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Annual Conference. She will share cutting edge information regarding learning and teaching, leadership and organizational development, and policy and advocacy with her ZCS colleagues.
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