Carlisle Middle School Wins Grant!

I have to brag for just a quick moment. I had the chance to join Sara Grieme (8th grade Literacy teacher), Dr. Schlueter, and Dr. Lane on Friday to accept a grant from Century Link and IASB that we won this year. Sara Grieme was our lead grant writer and the project lead and did an amazing job on this year's grant. This was our 3rd year trying for the grant and we used feedback from previous years to make our grant proposal even better this year. Now the fun part....spending the money and putting our plan into action. Our plan is to use the money to purchase netbooks and Skype softward and hardware to allow our 8th grade literacy students to not just study a topic and present it to the class, but to Skype back and forth with an expert on that topic to work collaboratively to make the presentation even better and even more meaningful. We will have some steps to finalize and we will likely learn as we go on some things, but we are excited to add more technology to our curriculum to make the learning experience much more enhanced for our students. It is always a good way to end the year....by being excited for the next year!