What is the Education EDGE? The Education EDGE is you. Your donations to the edge
provide financial support beyond the district's budget through grants for
fine arts, athletics, and classroom mini grants. Education EDGE has really helped my
classroom by buying the kiln because the kiln isn't something you can just go out
and buy. It does cost thousands and thousands of dollars. The kiln also
helped with the experience; they got to see firsthand how it starts as a powder
turning into a liquid and then once we put it into the kiln, how it takes all of
the liquid out of it and created a cup or a plate. Education EDGE really helped
my middle school students get this experience because I don't think they
would have this opportunity in all schools and I really appreciate that
there's a program out there like this that can help them create an art piece
that will last them a lifetime. We have had issues with our scoreboards on our
sports fields where they were kind of dated and they were having trouble. And I
reached out to the education edge to help us with the funding to put a new
scoreboard out at our soccer field and football field out there. With the funds
used from education edge that allowed us to purchase a new scoreboard, place it
out there and now every time I turn the on switch it comes on and it has yet to
fail on us. It's been awesome; our kids are enjoying it, our coaches are enjoying
it, our fans are enjoying it. Because they actually know the score, how much time is
left in games. And it also can be used in areas like the PE department if they
want to run timers out there for PE and things like that. A scoreboard first of
all, they're not cheap. They're in the thousands of dollars just to purchase
one. And then also there's a cost to have them installed.
So the Education EDGE, with the funds that they gave us allowed us to actually
undertake that process and use them funds to be able to follow through and
put the school board out on the hook for our kids to use. I'm going to be getting
a set of Chromebooks for my classroom so I can start implementing Google
classroom. it's going to lend itself to really, I think another level of
collaboration that without the Chromebooks we're not really able to
accomplish right now and so my kids are gonna start collaborating on essays, on
editing essays in a way that they really weren't able to before, practice
submitting assignments electronically because really once they leave high
school, whether it's college or career they're gonna be expected to know how to
use technology. So we're just gonna start practicing some of those strategies so
that they can be better prepared for the future. Something that I have realized in
my few years of teaching is that when we provide students with the technology and
the resources to be successful they really reach another potential that
maybe they hadn't been able to in previous years. Education EDGE mini
grants funded ten projects during the 2018 calendar year. The EDGE supports
innovative and replicable mini grant projects that support the district's
multi tier system of supports initiative. In addition to those grants Koch
classroom mini grants funded six projects in 2018. Koch mini grants are
limited to science, technology, engineering and math, or business
entrepreneurship classroom projects that are aligned with the district's MTSS
initiative. Koch mini grants are funded by the Fred and Mary Koch foundation. The
Koch grant is gonna allow us to get our solar panels up on our roof as well as
finish up our aquaponics system. We want to be able to get our plants going a
little bit easier. Especially growing our starter plants before we transport them
into the beds. And so with an aquaponic system that's able to filter out any of
the waste from our fish that we plan to have in our pond- we're planning to have
tilapia and koi, we will be able to use the water that gets filtered through and
pulls all the nutrients from the fish waste. And that's just really good stuff
that helps the plants get started a lot easier. Just a lot of fun opportunities
to get to work with green energy and see how much energy it creates and being
able to use all the power that's going to generate. We'll be able to, you know
play a radio turn lights on in and there and stuff, so I think it'll be a lot of
fun. In my classroom we're using vex robotics controllers in
order to create student engagement. That way a kid can move their fingers on the
remote control and see the robot happen right away. It is crucial that we have
vex robotics controllers in order to compete at the state and local levels,
and even nationally. We can record ourselves and post it on YouTube with a
timer and be able to compete without even having to travel to another school.
Without a grant this could not happen here. We are limited on our funds and
they are used directly for certain projects. This grant is going to allow us
to compete at the local and state level with other schools in our community and
other schools outside of our community within and without USD 259. This is
the 14th year that the Education EDGE has helped Wichita Public Schools
students and classrooms. The EDGE has now distributed over 1.2 eight million
dollars for mini grants, fine arts, and athletics. Over 600 USD 259 employees and
retirees, as well as several community donors make one-time gifts or automatic
payroll donations last year, and 100% of the donations to the EDGE stay in the
Wichita Public Schools. Thank you for your support.
Thank you Education EDGE for supporting our school and getting this Kiln, we
really appreciate it. We do everything for the students. They
don't really see us write the grants. They don't understand how much time it
takes to make sure that everything is great for their classroom, but when they
show up in here we have a positive experience because we have the top of the line
materials because of the Koch and the Education EDGE grants.
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