Jan 4, 2024 | Grants, Our Stories
At Canyon Ridge Elementary, Stacey Gleinser, the school librarian, recognized the need to make reading more accessible for all students. She aimed to create a collection of books that would allow every student to experience the joy of reading and excitement. To...
Jan 4, 2024 | Grants, Our Stories
Michele Saenz, a Pre-K teacher, had a brilliant idea of taking the interactive workstations from the classroom and extending them outdoors. Thanks to the NEEF grant of $2,266.8, Michele and other volunteers could purchase materials, play equipment, and paint the...
Jan 4, 2024 | Grants, Our Stories
Your donations to NEEF have significantly contributed to Bush Middle School, enabling the construction of a top-notch audio/video production and post-production studio named the Edison Lab. The Technology Applications teacher, Mercer Comander, shared that the $2,000...
Dec 6, 2023 | Grants, Our Stories
At Oak Meadow Elementary School, GT Teacher, Mary Koudelka is using virtual reality to teach. “We are taking what the students are learning off the page and into the VR headsets to solidify what they are learning about … and they can conceptually see it and physically...
Dec 6, 2023 | Grants, Our Stories
Leslie Rosas, a 3rd grade bilingual teacher who won Teacher of the Year in the Elementary School category, shared her experience with Classroom Transformations, saying, “Classroom Transformations has been an awesome experience. Thanks to the Grant, we now have access...
Dec 6, 2023 | Grants, Our Stories
The Castle Hills grant for the STEAM Lab is in full swing. With the Sphero Bots and iPads that they code with, students are gaining programming skills, engineering, and problem-solving. K-5 Steam teacher, Hannah Norman describes the engineering process, “We ask, what...