One of the most successful activities for the Forney Education Foundation is the Adopt-a-Grant Program that was introduced last year. It was so well received by the many grant sponsors that the Foundation quadrupled our goal!
The question might be how can you adopt a grant and make a difference in students’ academic lives. First, though, you might want to understand how the grant request process works. The dedicated professional educators in Forney ISD do research about innovative ideas that can help their students do better in the classroom. Teachers submit their grants to the campus principal for their approval and then it moves on up to the administrative personnel in charge of that area. After that, the grants are sent on to the Grant Committee, who open the grants up to the public for Adopt-a Grant. Through this program, the public gets first pick of projects and can select a grant between November 9-20.
The Grant Committee is always excited to read through all the different grant applications. Sometimes it is something as simple as whiteboards in math classrooms that allow students to work on a difficult problem as a team. Or it can be an autopsy mannequin for the health science pathway, or a blood pressure mannequin arm to help students learn to take accurate readings and become certified to measure hypertension. Grants have enabled welding students to create awardwinning barbecue smokers and then sell them to fund their future projects. And grants have covered classroom sets of young adult fiction for middle school English rooms so students don’t have to source the required reading themselves.
Be on the lookout for the signs going up at all the campuses to remind you that the Adopt-a-Grant program is open to YOU. Or go to www.forneyisdfoundation.org and see how you can participate this year.
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