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TeacherGrants
One of the central purposes of the Byng Excellence in Education Foundation is to support and improve the quality of education at Byng Public Schools. BEEF is able to offer support through the distribution of classroom grants directly to district teachers. These grants allow teachers to implement new and innovative ideas in their classrooms.
2023-2024
BEEF Grant Recipients
Multi-Campus Grant
Laura Smith: Consumables for Musical Consumption – this grant will provide students consumables needed (reeds, valve oil, slide oil, sticks, mallets) to allow students to have a proper working instruments. The students look forward to showing off that they have successfully learned music as a result of having all of the necessary resources at the concert performances in December and May – all are invited to check it out!
Byng High School
Kellye Griffin: Staging Success: Investing in Acting, Stagecraft, and Forensics Education – this grant will provide a new class curriculum for Byng Drama that is specifically crafted to introduce students to current acting methods, contemporary stagecraft designs, and advanced speech and debate techniques. These textbooks could enable our students to delve into the most recent trends in theatre arts. All are invited to attend Byng Drama Showcases to see these students in action!
Byng Junior High
Carla Husband, Tammy Johnson and Sharon Shurley: Blooket: Gaming to Success – this collaborative effort will provide an interactive educational platform, for 7th graders at Byng Junior. Blooket is an engaging and innovative tool that promotes active learning, collaboration, and critical thinking.
Kristen Finley: Byng Pirate Murals: Arrrtistic Expression at its Finest! – this grant will provide additional paint and paint supplies that the Byng Art students will use to continue the Pirate and underwater hallway murals extending throughout the rest of the junior high, high school, and beyond!
Francis Elementary
Erin Jones: Hands on Learning - this project will provide the special education mild lab classroom with visual and tactile learning experiences and tools for current students and students to come.
Homer Elementary
Rachel Barnes: Vocabulary: Building a Bridge to Comprehension - this funding will provide items that can help teachers and students with vocabulary. Resources include highly rated books that explain the science behind reading comprehension and the role vocabulary plays along with interactive games and activities for easy prep vocabulary knowledge practice.
Gracie Nail: Operation Occupation - this project allows Pre-K students to explore future occupations through a thematic hands-on learning experience where students make believe they are grownups and helpers in our community. This funding will support this Spring’s unit on pets! The class will learn how to take care of pets, hear from a local veterinarian, and construct their own dramatic play center into a Veterinarian Clinic.
Byng Elementary
Gena Barret: “Uke” can do it!– this grant will provide the class a complete set of Ukuleles. Students use the Essential Elements curriculum for Ukuleles that encourages working together as a class and individually to complete this course. Starting with basic notes names, how to hold the instrument, and basic chords building skills throughout the year the students will grow to be able to read music, tune their instrument, and play songs they know and love.
Emily Denney: Reading is its own reward! – this grant will help procure funds to purchase Byng Elementary, an Inchy Book vending machine to support teachers with behavior goals, academic goals, and teacher/student morale. The Inchy Book Vending Machine is being implemented in elementary schools across the nation with raving success in the areas of behavior improvement and even test score improvement.
Amber Fowler: The Gaming Project – the gaming project is simple; provide fun, game-like options that enhance students' communication, collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking skills, during inside recess (and for special days like 100 day, and National play day). Funding will be used to purchase a variety of games for students to choose from. This is an ongoing project that will be used year after year.
Brenda Roberts: Would you like to play a game? – this grant will help provide board games that are Oklahoma standard-based to help with learning as well as social and emotional well-being. These games enable the students to communicate and learn to play with each other. The games and activities will create an environment for all students to have fun, hands-on experiences and encourage group play while building on their educational skills.
Ellen Sweatt: Building Background Knowledge with Oklahoma History - the goal of this program will be to bring a museum exhibit/experience to the students through Oklahoma History Center Traveling Trunks! Each trunk contains lesson plans, hands-on activities, and three-dimensional artifacts for the students to handle, and reading materials.
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