SPRING 2025
$260,809 | 26 Grants
DISTRICT $67,260 / 2 GRANTS
Expansion of Panorama: A View of the Whole Child | $50,500
Panorama offers a comprehensive, actionable view of every student, allowing staff the ability to leverage this information to provide support for individual needs and progress within a unified system.
Applicant(s):
John Ciferni
Eric Fontes
Jenna Colineri
Amy Sweeney
School(s):
District
Grade/Area:
Staff
Kindergarten – 12th
Teaching with Dignity | $16,760
This grant would provide funding for a Dignity Consultant to conduct professional learning with the district administrators and supervisors, provide professional learning for Washington school faculty and provide a parent information event for the parents district-wide.
Applicant(s):
Crystal Marr
Lauren Banker
School(s):
District
Grade/Area:
Staff
Grades: Kindergarten –12
PRIMARY CENTERS $17,245/ 2 Grants
Adaptive Climbing Rock Wall | $8,325
The Adaptive Rock Climbing Wall at WPC will provide a safe, inclusive, and engaging space for Summit's preschool and kindergarten special education students to enhance motor skills, sensory processing, emotional regulation, and social development through interactive, therapeutic play.
Applicant(s):
Angela Seavy
Ann Cutalo
School(s):
Wilson Primary Center
Grade/Area:
​Pre - Kindergarten
Kindergarten
Multi-Sensory Reading Tool Kits | $8,920
This grant will allow educators to put into practice and apply research from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which indicates that multisensory teaching techniques are the most effective method for teaching young children to read, especially those with reading difficulties; this funding will prove especially beneficial for children with dyslexia or other learning challenges who may struggle with traditional reading methods.
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Applicant(s):
Anne Paris
School(s):
Jefferson Primary Center
Wilson Primary Center
Grade/Area:
Kindergarten
PRIMARY CENTERS + ELEMENTARY $14,608 / 2 Grants
Bringing Math to Life: Engaging Elementary Students Through Hands-On Experiences | $3,408
This project will provide all K-5 teachers, Learning Workshop teachers, Special Education teachers, and the two LLD teachers at the primary centers with targeted math materials to support skill reinforcement through engaging, hands-on math centers.
Applicant(s):
Dena Leslie
School(s):
Jefferson Primary Center
Wilson Primary Center
All Elementary Schools
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Grade/Area:
Staff
Grades: 1-5
Kindergarten
Music Therapy | $11,200
Jamminí Jenn Music Therapy services integrates music therapy into special education at Wilson Primary Center and Jefferson Elementary School to enhance students' communication, socialization, behavior, and emotional regulation, promoting their holistic development and supporting individualized learning objectives within a fun, engaging, and inclusive environment.
Applicant(s):
Michaela Reynolds
Angela Seavy
Daniela Szalanczi
Erin Vaccaro
Ann Cutalo
School(s):
Wilson Primary Center
Jefferson Elementary
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Grade/Area:
Grades:1–5
Pre - Kindergarten
Kindergarten
ELEMENTARY $44,372 / 10 Grants
Let's Play Learn (LPL) Sonday Systems Winsor Learning | $8,223
Let's Play Learn (LPL) is a comprehensive program that targets the foundational literacy skills needed to promote the development of reading and spelling, using the Orton-Gillingham approach with a gradual release model.
Applicant(s):
Debbie Yendrick
School(s):
All Elementary Schools
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 1-5
Imagine Sonday System - Sonday System 2 Readers - 3 Complete Sets | $2,723
Sonday System 2 Stories help students practice accurate, fluent decoding, which leads to increased comprehension.
Applicant(s):
Debbie Yendrick
School(s):
All Elementary Schools
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 1-5
Wonderful Wonderbooks! | $3,067
This grant will equip and empower second-grade students with the feeling of autonomy and responsibility in their reading, thus cultivating a love of reading within each learner. Simultaneously, this resource will strengthen studentsí fluency, sight word recognition, comprehension, decoding, vocabulary knowledge, phonological and phonemic awareness skills.
Applicant(s):
Katherine Melilli
Olivia Podsiebierski
Carmela Valles
Alex Sullivan
School(s):
Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 1-5
Ukuleles in Action: Fostering Creativity and Community through Music | $2,555
This program provides elementary music teachers in the Summit Public Schools with ukuleles to enhance music education and foster creativity and inclusivity.
Applicant(s):
Rachel Lapinski
Colleen Schoderbek
Diane Silvester
School(s):
All Elementary Schools
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 1-5
Tricky Chopsticks - Author Visit | $1,875
Author Sylvia Chen will provide two STEAM Programs for each school. In this program, the author will read Tricky Chopsticks followed by Q&A time.
Applicant(s):
Shea Williams
Kristen Shuman
Cindy Abramov
Meredith Warmington
School(s):
Jefferson Primary Center
Jefferson Elementary
Washington Elementary
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 1-5
​Kindergarten
A Place for Everything, and Everything in its Place | $2,599
Purchase of bins, sorters, and other supplies to aid in classroom organization, creating an ordered space for teaching and learning.
Applicant(s):
Robert Gannon
Lillian Dawes
School(s):
Brayton Elementary
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Grade/Area:
Grade: 2
Starting the Day with Creativity and Engagement: STEAM Bins for Morning and Indoor Recess | $1,080
This grant will support the implementation of STEAM-inspired morning bins that will offer students a purposeful way to start their day and that can also be used for unstructured, exploratory play during indoor recess and enrichment times.
Applicant(s):
Chelsea Simao
Christina Inghilterra
Chris Miller
School(s):
Brayton Elementary
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Grade/Area:
Grade: 3
Nuvo jFlutes | $2,917
This grant seeks to provide our beginner flutists with an instrument that is designed to promote the most success in the first year of playing.
Applicant(s):
Jessica Morley
Michael Gleason
School(s):
All Elementary Schools
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 4 & 5
Theatre Technology Resources to Support Elementary Performing Arts | $6,375
This project aims to enhance the elementary performing arts program by providing resources for students interested in backstage roles during events, fostering their skills in technical theater and event production.
Applicant(s):
Karen Forgione
School(s):
All Elementary Schools
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 4 & 5
Adjustable Desks and Seating for Student Productivity and Well-Being | $12,958
This grant will support student well-being and productivity by allowing students to sit or stand throughout the school day while simultaneously upgrading the overall classroom environment.
Applicant(s):
Norah Mallaney
Kristin Doehner
School(s):
Washington Elementary
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Grade/Area:
Grade: 5
MIDDLE SCHOOL $63,993 | 5 GRANTS
Coding and Robotics Kits | $5,864
This grant will enable us to broaden our robotics and coding topics to offer VEX IQ robotics to more students and enrich our program with Micro:bits to incorporate AI and machine learning.
Applicant(s):
Lisa Genua
School(s):
LCJ Summit Middle School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 6-8
Multicultural Night Club | $5,000
This is a club for students who wish to showcase their culture and heritage to school members and the extended Summit community.
Applicant(s):
Melissa Sarracino
Hannah Gallagher-Luca
School(s):
LCJ Summit Middle School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 6-8
LCJSMS Science Olympiad | $5,934
Science Olympiad is a STEM based competition based on events that students study throughout the year with a chance to compete with other schools locally and nationally.
Applicant(s):
Kimberly Stephens
School(s):
LCJ Summit Middle School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 6-8
Middle School STEAM Enhancement | $42,840
This grant will support the purchase of furniture and specialized prototyping equipment to complete the transformation of LCJSMS Innovation Lab 124 into a Makerspace and Innovation Lab 229 into a Video Production Studio.
Applicant(s):
John Ciferni
Karen Forgione
School(s):
LCJ Summit Middle School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 6-8
CO2 Dragster Elevated Raceway for Testing in the Innovative Design Challenge Elective | $4,355 This grant request is for the funding to purchase an elevated track for testing CO2 powered dragsters that the students make during their study of aerodynamics, in the Grade 8 Innovative Design Challenge elective.
Applicant(s):
William R Rohrbach
School(s):
LCJ Summit Middle School
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Grade/Area:
Grade: 8
MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL $18,920 / 1 Grants
Extending Formative License to Enhance Instruction, Assessment, and Data-Driven Practice | $18,920
We are seeking funding to extend our license for Formative to support effective instruction and assessment practices and enhance student engagement in middle and high school classrooms.
Applicant(s):
Carrie Odgers Lax
Nicole Finnegan
School(s):
LCJ Summit Middle School
Summit High School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 6-12
HIGH SCHOOL $34,411 | 4 GRANTS
Empowering ML Students Through Rosetta Stone Immersive Language Learning | $3,945
We are seeking funding for a one-year license for Rosetta Stone's comprehensive language learning platform to accelerate English acquisition for Summit's diverse immigrant student population (up to 65 students) at the high school level.
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Applicant(s):
Stephanie Gleason
School(s):
Summit High School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 9-12
Biotechnology Research Program | $18,191
The Biotechnology Research Program will incorporate the Waskman Student Scholars Program (RU) and Barcoding Life's Matrix Program, which will bring Biotechnology Research opportunities to students at Summit High School
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Applicant(s):
Madelaine Travaille
Stacy Grimaldi
School(s):
Summit High School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 9-12
GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Program | $2,275
The GLOBE Program is a science and education program that focuses on advancing Earth systems science through data collection and analysis.
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Applicant(s):
Madelaine Travaille
School(s):
Summit High School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 9-12
College Counseling Professional Development | $10,000
Professional development opportunities to enhance college counseling expertise, increase networking opportunities with higher ed colleagues, and promote recognition of Summit High School to post-secondary institutions.
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Applicant(s):
Alison Grill
Laura Kaplan
School(s):
Summit High School
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Grade/Area:
Grades: 9-12