Summit Educational Foundation Announces Spring 2026 Grants Over $232,000 Awarded to Summit Public School

The Summit Educational Foundation (SEF) is pleased to announce our grant awards for the 2026 spring grant cycle. The Foundation approved funding for 28 grants across the district totaling over $232,000 to support the district’s new goals in content areas of safety and wellness, culture of belonging, and project-based learning. Highlights of approved grants include:

District, Primary Centers & Elementary Schools

• Provide Reading and Writing Strategies Companion Charts, and strategy books for all second-grade classrooms. $2,995

• Purchase three professional video cameras and accessories to modernize mobile production capabilities, strengthen music, theater and broadcasting programs. $13,833

• Fund developmentally appropriate preschool-sized chairs and adaptive seating to create a safe, supportive learning environment for students in the Preschool Disabilities classroom at WPC. $2,959

• Continuation of Jammin’ Jenn Music Therapy Services at WPC, integrating music therapy into special education to enhance students’ communication, socialization and emotional regulation. $11,200

• Provide bean bag chair seating and calm space materials for classroom reset areas at Washington. $3,775

• Create a sensory room designed to support students who experience sensory processing challenges, anxiety, emotional dysregulation and other barriers to learning at Franklin. $7,533

• Fund Responsive Classroom’s Stop Disruptive Behavior professional development workshop to strengthen proactive classroom management at Jefferson. $8,365

• Provide district wide Learning Workshop teachers with a math intervention curriculum that addresses small group support in key numeracy and computation skills for each grade level. $28,700.

• Fund UFLI-aligned decodable reading collections for multilingual learners at Brayton. $5,437

• Refresh first grade classroom libraries at Washington School with newer, engaging fiction and nonfiction books. $1,975

• Provide funding to bring authors Adam Gidwitz and Jerry Pollata to Jefferson and JPC. $6,500

• Purchase of noise cancelling headphones for Franklin second grade classrooms. $2,331

• Fund Living Voices, a multimedia performance that brings history to life through live acting, film and archival images at Jefferson. $1,800

• Fund phase two rollout of our Ukuleles in Action initiative to provide elementary music teachers in Summit with ukuleles to enhance music education. $10,456

Middle School & High School

• Provide two teacher stipends to serve as advisors for LCJSMS’s Multicultural Night. $5,000

• Fund the launch of a new VEX IQ Robotics Club with the purchase of competition kits, teacher training and a stipend for the LCJSMS club advisor. $5,476

• Provide funding for parent and student presentations by James Stroker, focusing on building grit, perseverance, community and resilience at LCJSMS. $1,500

• Support the pilot of SchoolAI Classroom Pro, an AI-powered platform that helps teachers manage classrooms, create focused learning spaces and support personalized instruction at LCJSMS. $2,500

• Fund an after-school dance program for dancers of all skill levels at LCJSMS. $2,650

• Expand the LCJSMS ceramics program by adding pottery wheels, materials and storage so more students can progress from hand-building to wheel thrown pottery. $34,136

• Purchase a wireless microphone system for the LCJSMS band room so teachers can provide real-time feedback during rehearsals and better support students who need hearing accommodations. $2,641

• Purchase Vex Robotics kits for two sections of the new SHS Robotics course. $23,204

• Provide funding for a student assembly at SHS focused on resilience, self-acceptance and strategies for navigating adolescence and academic pressures. $5,000

• Purchase of Epson SureColor P7370 printer to expand Digital Art learning at SHS. $3,195

• Replacement of an outdated kiln in the SHS ceramics studio to provide safer, more reliable firing capabilities. $33,759

• Bring Raku artists to SHS for a Raku firing and demonstration. $4,000