Category - Funded Projects

Granted: Funding to purchase five sets, to be housed at each of Northborough’s schools, of five cultural reference guides and materials pertaining to English Language Learners. Summary Description:  Northborough has been enriched by a growing number of linguistically and culturally diverse families moving into our community.  This project will make research-based materials available to all[…]

Granted: Funding to purchase 1 Avermedia CP 135 document camera. Summary Description:   Almost 300 students taking French at Melican Middle School will benefit from the purchase of a document camera.  It will enhance sharing students’ creations and promote collaboration on a daily basis

Granted: Funding for 4 iPads, covers and applications. Summary Description:  Through the use of iPads, students in grades 1-3 at Peaslee Elementary will further develop their literacy skills by using content specific and open ended apps.  Students will be able to share their learning through slide shows, podcasts and student made books.

Granted: 1 Vernier LabQuest and 1 Vernier SpectroVis Plus Summary Description: The Vernier LabQuest and Spectrovis are scientific data acquisition devices that can be used in the high school classroom.  Many classes at Algonquin Regional High School will benefit from using this equipment in various Biotechnology, AP Chemistry, AP Biology and General Chemistry lab investigations.  

Granted: 4 Livescribe smartpen starter packs, 8 Livescribe single subject spiral notebooks, ink cartridges and smartpen apps to be used by students with specific learning disabilities. Summary Description: Through the use of smartpen technology, students at Algonquin Regional High School who struggle with written expression can demonstrate their learning in the same way as those[…]

Granted: Professional materials, vocabulary/sentence level games, and electronic resources which will provide exposure to Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary words. Summary Description: In a Word: Explicit and Exploratory Vocabulary Instruction provides Lincoln Street School’s fifth grade team with an opportunity to differentiate vocabulary instruction through the use of games, center-based activities, peer collaboration, and professional/teacher[…]

Granted: 15 copies of the novel Never Fall Down and one copy of the DVD The Flute Player to be used by Algonquin Regional High School students and community members. Summary Description:  Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick has been selected as the 2013 summer reading novel for “One School, One Community, One Book”.  Algonquin[…]

Granted: Funding for new books, for approximately 80 classrooms, to be used by community members to read on Community Reading Day. Summary Description: Northborough Reads Together – Community Reading Day 2013, will bring all of our students pre-K through 8th grade together to celebrate literacy in a distinctive manner as guest readers from the town,[…]

Granted: Funding to purchase complete sets of language and vocabulary materials to be borrowed by students and families. Summary Description: The materials will be used as a meaningful home/school activity to build communication skills in reading, writing and speaking.

Granted: Funding to purchase headphones and splitters to be used in the U.S. History II classes. Summary Description: Students will enhance their interaction with primary sources in U.S. History II through the purchase of 30 headphone sets and six multi-headphone splitters. These items will allow students to listen to songs, watch clips of historical films,[…]