Teacher Innovative Grants
The Clear Creek Education Foundation SurPrize Patrol supplies teachers with grant money to implement innovative programs for the coming school year. Since the Foundation’s inception in 1992, more than $800,000 in innovative teacher grants has been disbursed district-wide. The Foundation develops ongoing activities and projects that involve the entire community to build a broad base of funding and support. Tax deductible contributions include funds derived from planned giving, endowment gifts, matched giving and restricted or allocated gifts, as well as in-kind gifts. Funds provided by the Foundation directly benefit students in the Clear Creek Independent School District.
Past Grant Recipients Share Their Successes
Mad Scientists of Clear Creek High School |
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| These are photos of the Clear Creek High School Ready, Set, Teach! students who are involved in the CCEF MAD SCIENTIST GRANT. | |
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The students are gaining a
better understanding of Elementary Science from Mrs. Audrey
Soto's 5th graders as the younger students teach the future
teachers a lesson on Worms.
The RST students will then
create MAD SCIENTIST KITS to use in their internships this
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One of the grants I wrote and received was for Distance Learning. This involves my class connecting live with experts from around the world using our TV’s and video conference equipment. One of the experts I choose to connect with this year was the Challenger Learning Center in Brownsburg, Indiana. As a culmination to our non fiction writing unit, my first grade students had to research the planets and few other space features and share their knowledge during a reader’s theatre type connection. We traveled to each planet and learned from our fellow classmates, and our expert in Indiana, all about the planets. The kids had so much fun as they learned this new information.
As a fun way to remember the event, I used the green screen equipment I used from another grant I was awarded to take some pictures of my kids as if they were in space. I then printed the pictures out and sent them home with each student. Below is a slideshow of the pictures I took. They are truly “out of this world!”
Brandy Magdos
First Grade Teacher
P.H. Greene Elementary
http://magdos.wikispaces.com/

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The foundation funded a grant for Clear View
High School that allowed the school to become a WeatherBug
weather center. The real-time weather system allows
teachers to integrate math, science and geography lessons
by utilizing live data from the world's largest weather
network. Click the image above to view the current station
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I thought you might be interested to see how the Innovative Grant monies are benefiting our students here at Creek High School. Our students have taken control of one of the Goldstone's Deep Space radio telescopes three times to record radio signals from Jupiter and quasars. By Monday we will have added two more telescope runs of two more quasars. All data is sent to NASA JPL scientists for inclusion in their data bases. This has been an awesome experience and opportunity for our students to participate in actual solar system and deep space research. Because of our participation, we have been invited to participate in teleconferences with the Principal Investigators at JPL. The impact of this program has not yet been realized, but I am confident that as the word gets out it will come to its full potential as a teaching tool. Kathy Cloud « top
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2010 TIGs
2010 Teacher Innovative Grant Application
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| 2010 Clear Creek Education Teacher Grant winners: |
Bauerschlag Elementary
Heard Any Great Books Lately
Ladonna Littlejohn
Clear Brook High
Room To Grow
Cheryl Wendling
Clear Creek High
Integrating, Motivating and Devolping Curiosity
Martha Bosworth
Clear Creek High
Technology at the Fingertips of Students: Students Get Smart with a
Smart Table
Amanda Plsek
Clear Creek High
Chess and Go: Teaching Strategy, Patience, Empathy, and Agression
Kevin Fleming
Clear Creek Intermediate
Have you heard any good books lately
Diane D Whited
Clear Lake High
So YOU Want to Teach a Class
Elizabeth Scully
Creekside Intermediate
Party With a Purpose
Erika Bondy
Creekside Intermediate
Improving Visual Literacy through the use of innovative, interactive
video
Debra Carr
Falcon Pass Elementary
FPE-TV Channel
Veronica Walker
Goforth Elementary
Brightwell's Bistro - "Pay it Forward Julia M Brightwell
Greene Elementary
Inquiring Minds Want to Know Carmen Quiocho
Greene Elementary
Virtual Learning 10
Virginia A Gamache
Hall Elementary
JoAnne Fifield
Hyde Elementary Education City, Baby Carrie A Mushinski
Ross Elementary
How To Attract Butterflies To YOUR SCHOOL
Ellen Hutto
Sandra Mossman Elementary
All Aboard the... SMART TABLE
Kimberly Foley
Space Center Intermediate
The Eyes Have It
Clay Barnett
Weber Elementary
Students as Scientist
Nancy O Watson
Westbrook Intermediate
Sharing and Comparing with the TI-Navigator
Mathew Bartley
Westbrook Intermediate
In the Footsteps of Cabeza de Vaca: Discovering Texas History
through Primary Source
Jacqueline A Graham
The Impact of TIGs
Read from students and teachers about the impact of grants funded by the foundation:
Goforth Elementary
Westbrook
Intermediate


