Four Winners in First Wave of Qwest Foundation's $100,000 Teachers and Technology Grants to Support Arizona Teachers and Innovative Uses of Technology.Innovative Teachers Honored at State Meeting TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Qwest Foundation and the Arizona Technology in Education Alliance (AzTEA) today announced the first wave of teachers to be awarded grants in the Foundation's $100,000 Teachers and Technology program. Teachers are awarded grants for innovative use of technology in the classroom. The grants, which range in amounts from $7,900 to $9,917, were awarded to four different educators in four different Arizona school districts. "Qwest is committed to making a positive difference in the communities where customers live and work, and we are proud to invest in Arizona teachers and children," said Pat Quinn
John Brian Patrick "Pat" Quinn (born January 29, 1943, in Hamilton, Ontario), , Qwest president for Arizona. "We're excited at the depth and creativity displayed in this first group of grant submissions. It made the judging extremely difficult." The purpose of the Qwest Foundation grant program is to recognize Arizona k-12 public school teachers who are using technology in the classroom in new and innovative ways to improve student performance, increase an awareness of how teachers are using technology in the classroom, and model best practices with technology integration improving student achievement. Funds are awarded twice throughout the AzTEA Year-Long Conference Strand: Jan. 26, 2008, (SAzTEA Conference) and Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. in Tempe during the "Microcomputers in Education Conference" on Mar. 11, 2008. For the second wave of awards granted in March, applications must be postmarked by February 15, 2008. Application information is available on AzTEA's Web site at www.aztea.org. "It is heartening heart·en tr.v. heart·ened, heart·en·ing, heart·ens To give strength, courage, or hope to; encourage. See Synonyms at encourage. Adj. 1. to know that innovative teaching methods are found in every corner of the state," said AzTEA president Chris Johnson Chris Johnson may refer to: In sports:
2008 1st Round Qwest Recipients Names: Patti Hulet and Mary Rozum-Pratto District: Gilbert Public Schools Gilbert Public Schools (GPS), previously known as Gilbert Unified School District (GUSD), is a school district based in Gilbert, Arizona, United States. GPS covers most of Gilbert and parts of Mesa and Chandler. School: Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
Project Name: "Playa Butterfly Garden For the garden hobby, see .  This article or section contains information about an unreleased video game. -- Awakening a Living
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Project Description: The Playa Butterfly Garden will create a living laboratory for our k-6 students to gain an understanding of and appreciation for the ecosystem. It will include a variety of interdisciplinary, standards-based lessons across all grade levels. Our plan is to create and nurture an environment of exploration and discovery where all students and teachers can develop new skills and cultivate a life-long connection with nature. We hope to increase students' achievement and develop stewardship responsibilities while strengthening our school spirit. Technology will be the key thread that intertwines our learning. Our Playa Butterfly Virtual Classroom will co-develop with the garden and provide a place to share our project's progress while collaborating with our community of learners. Grant: $8,280 Name: Laurie Burrell District: Amphitheater School District School: Richard B. Wilson K-8 Project Name: "Bats, Bridges and Biosphere biosphere, irregularly shaped envelope of the earth's air, water, and land encompassing the heights and depths at which living things exist. The biosphere is a closed and self-regulating system (see ecology), sustained by grand-scale cycles of energy and of 3" Project Description: Our project will open up three after school elementary science clubs at disadvantaged sister schools near Wilson K-8. These schools include Harelson, Donaldson and Walker Elementary. The Bats, Bridges and Biosphere 3 project invites six elementary schools in the Sonoran Desert to conduct a cross-border endangered Sonoran Bat migration and climate study. We will partner with the Desert Museum, Kartchner Caverns, Colossal Cave, Arizona State Game and Fish, the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. , Biosphere 2, one school from Kyrene School District in Phoenix, four schools in Amphitheater School District and a school in Hermosillo, Mexico. Students will "harness the collective intelligence" of the Internet to compare students' live data on our wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. and consult with our expert partners to address the following issues: Are bats roosting under bridges in Tucson; Is the pollination pollination, transfer of pollen from the male reproductive organ (stamen or staminate cone) to the female reproductive organ (pistil or pistillate cone) of the same or of another flower or cone. of the endangered Saguaro saguaro: see cactus. saguaro Large, candelabra-shaped, branched cactus (Cereus giganteus, or Carnegiea gigantea) native to Mexico, Arizona, and California. Slow-growing at first, mature saguaros may eventually reach 50 ft (15 m) in height. cacti impacted by global warming; What are future scientists and conservationist doing to reverse the decline of our bat population; How can we increase the pollination of the endangered Saguaro; and, dispel myths about Sonoran bats. Grant: $9,809.36 Name: Robyn Rice District: Maricopa Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. School: Maricopa Wells Middle School Project Name: "Utilities Planning for Mini Cities" Project Description: The students will use a SmartBoard to create a miniature city that is built to scale. The city will be constructed from cardboard and glue. Then, the students will use the SmartBoard to create a vertex-edge graph to determine the most cost-effective route to supply their city with water. Grant: $9,917.62 Name: Sheri Marlin District: Tucson Unified School District Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the largest school district of Tucson, Arizona in terms of enrollment. As of 2006 TUSD has more than 60,000 students and approximately 3,700 faculty members. School: Borton Primary Magnet School Project Name: "Language Learning Live" Project Description: Learning Language Live will create a portable language learning lab made up of laptop computers, digital cameras, digital voice recorders and projection capability for use with multiple groups of students learning English. Daily access to technology will allow for unprecedented frequency and accuracy of student assessment. Progress toward the English Language Learner standards defined by the state will be monitored using learner artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. created by students in programs such as Photo Story III, Movie Maker and Inspiration and will be reviewed tri-weekly by teams of teachers to determine progress toward achievement of state standards. Learning Language Live will make language learning technologies available to students on demand in multiple locations throughout the school. Grant: $7,907 About the Qwest Foundation: The Qwest Foundation's core principle is that investing in people and communities provides lasting value for the future. The Qwest Foundation awards grants to community-based programs that generate high-impact and measurable results, focusing on pre-K through grade 12 education. The Qwest Foundation's philosophy is to help build strong communities through investing in people and the places where they live and work. For more information, contact www.qwest.com/foundation. |
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