• Making a Difference
  • About U-46 EF
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The U-46 Educational Foundation thanks YOU for your help in funding these important grants.

  • 1.
    • Author Vibes Only
    • Blank books for ELL students to write/illustrate their own books to be displayed in the school library
    • Diana Bribiesca
    • Highland Elementary School
  • 2.
    • School Design Improvement
    • Mural for Central Schools Program
    • Natalie Matsuda
    • Central School Program
  • 3.
    • FVR Spanish Library Books
    • Books in foreign languages for World Languages classes
    • Aimee Petlak
    • South Elgin High School
  • 4.
    • Modeling With Hands On Science
    • Familiar materials, such as cereal, compressed air, and dry ice to bring lessons about particles and matters to life and allow students additional opportunities to complete investigations and model what they are seeing at the molecular level.
    • Michelle Rossi
    • Abbott Middle School
  • 5.
    • Climate and Culture Community Outreach
    • Meetings with parents to help them navigate school resources and culture. Funding would go towards books.
    • Rudy Fausto
    • Streamwood High School
  • 6.
    • Visual Support for ELL Students in Physical Education
    • Push up mats, diagrams, and charts with pictures and visual cues to help ELL students have good form when participating in gym class.
    • James Romano
    • Huff Elementary School
  • 7.
    • Elgin High School Esports Team
    • Funding to provide gaming equipment and games for Elgin High School Esports Team
    • James Keathley
    • Elgin High School
  • 8.
    • Best Start Parent Education Series at Illinois Park
    • 10 week parenting workshops
    • Kim Kowall
    • Illinois Park Early Learning Center
  • 9.
    • Creating Engagement Classroom Environment
    • Flexible/comfortable seating for 2 self-contained classrooms (i.e. a couch or group work area)
    • Natalie Matsuda
    • Central School Program
  • 10.
    • Sensory Paths and Learning Risers
    • Vinyl sensory pathways for hallways and math facts for stair risers.
    • Mary Slowinski
    • Sycamore Trails Elementary School
  • 11.
    • Bring a Book to Life
    • Elem students are brought to Larkin HS to watch Larkin students dance in a performance based off a book the younger students read.
    • Margaret Palmer
    • Larkin High School and visiting elementary school students
  • 12.
    • Craftivity Club
    • an after-school club where students will engage in hands-on craft projects and activities
    • Jennifer Collins
    • Tefft Middle School
  • 13.
    • Plants are the same - but they are different.
    • Plant-based science project for kindergarteners
    • Kim Deering
    • Prairieview Elementary School
  • 14.
    • McKinley volleyball program
    • After school volleyball program for 4th-6th graders
    • Arika Rhodes
    • McKinley Elementary School
  • 15.
    • Improving Reading and Writing with Nonfiction Children's Books
    • Six guide texts on the Five types of Nonfiction for teachers, plus 132 new nonfiction books for the school library
    • Michelle Baldwin
    • Ronald O'Neil Elementary School
  • 16.
    • STEAM at the FOX
    • Ozobot coding robots, Snap Circuits, and ELEGOO Smart Robot Cars for a school-based STEAM lab
    • Laurie McCann
    • Fox Meadow Elementary School
  • 17.
    • Getting Ready For Kindergarten Calendars
    • Sponsor calendars for parents with daily activities that help prepare pre-K children for kindergarten
    • Amber Peters
    • Elgin Partnership for Early Learning (EPEL)
  • 18.
    • Family Literacy Night
    • Family literacy night to celebrate the completion of a school-wide reading event using Read to Them and One Book, One School.
    • Otter Creek Family Engagement Committee
    • Otter Creek Elementary School
  • 19.
    • TalentFest 2022
    • District-wide talent show
    • Jeff Grosser
    • All U-46 high schools
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