(Nov. 26, 2015) The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) honored Maryland Lower Shore schools and educators with $59,968 in grants through the Foundation’s 2015 Education Award Grants Program.
Education awards are made annually in conjunction with National Education Week through a competitive process to public and private schools on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. Grants are made to those schools that have developed innovative programs to be particularly beneficial to their students and communities.
“This awards program is the Community Foundation’s principle vehicle for recognizing and rewarding those schools that are engaged in making a particularly creative contribution to the education of our children,” said Erica Joseph, CFES president. “These awards highlight truly remarkable things our dedicated teachers and school administrators are accomplishing.”
The following programs in Worcester County received Education Award Grants for 2015 during ceremonies held at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s Nonprofit Support Center in Salisbury:
• Cedar Chapel Special School to support the Communicating Social-Emotional Through Writing project.
• Worcester County Board of Education to support building Next Generation Science Standards into curriculum.
• Pocomoke High School to purchase iPads for use in the Advanced Placement Pathway program.
• Worcester County Board of Education to support a middle school male mentoring project aimed at closing the achievement gap.
Education awards are made annually in conjunction with National Education Week through a competitive process to public and private schools on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. Grants are made to those schools that have developed innovative programs to be particularly beneficial to their students and communities.
“This awards program is the Community Foundation’s principle vehicle for recognizing and rewarding those schools that are engaged in making a particularly creative contribution to the education of our children,” said Erica Joseph, CFES president. “These awards highlight truly remarkable things our dedicated teachers and school administrators are accomplishing.”
The following programs in Worcester County received Education Award Grants for 2015 during ceremonies held at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s Nonprofit Support Center in Salisbury:
• Cedar Chapel Special School to support the Communicating Social-Emotional Through Writing project.
• Worcester County Board of Education to support building Next Generation Science Standards into curriculum.
• Pocomoke High School to purchase iPads for use in the Advanced Placement Pathway program.
• Worcester County Board of Education to support a middle school male mentoring project aimed at closing the achievement gap.