Drawing to Digitize introduces students to the world of digital art, providing drawing tablets for hands-on creativity and covering elements of art, design principles, and 3D aspects. These skills can lay the foundation for potential careers in the arts and technology world! 

Students will learn through a dynamic, innovative, and engaging learning environment with seven sessions where they will solve real-world problems with things like wheels to navigate Mars, weather stations, and geology stations. Learning will also integrate math, reading, writing, and social studies to give students a real-world view from all perspectives.

What started as a club is now an elective, and the grant will expand the class with all new cameras, tripods, and more to create announcements and monthly newsletters, aid in yearbook creation, and amplify school stories, fostering creativity, critical thinking, and digital literacy.

This grant will allow for two or more contests per year where students will dive into friendly spelling contests, forming teams with varied reading levels to become lovers of reading. 

Hive Productions elevates visual and performing arts opportunities, expanding their wheelchair dance productions and introducing audio/video technology. Students can create unique multimedia content with a mobile studio, supporting the school’s mission to build community and empower individuality. 

Sensory Obstacles & Improvements aims to create engaging horseback riding services with trails and activities for students with significant medical, physical, and/or cognitive special needs to boost physical and cognitive growth. There will be trail obstacles and sensory items like painted ground poles, a noodle curtain for kids to walk through, a Ring Toss game, and more. These obstacles help students improve balance, hand-eye coordination, core strength, attention, memory, emotional well-being, and executive functioning.

Project Get Jazz Shoes brings students in dance class the same level of dance training as in a dance studio with new jazz shoes that are standard in the industry.

This grant bridges the gap for non-English speaking students, providing earbuds for real-time translation and fostering a diverse and inclusive educational experience!

Amplifying Literacy expands the school’s audiobook collection, currently limited to grade 3-5 reading levels, to a collection with middle school reading levels. This caters to various literary preferences and support for all students, including second-language learners and struggling readers.

Classrooms will transform into engaging journeys to help students achieve their highest potential. An example is having students travel around the world to different countries, stamping passports along the way to reinforce topics, or a Mission Possible STAAR Review, reviewing the content they learned throughout the year.

Night at the Campus Museum turns Caldwell’s school projects and art into captivating exhibits, integrating arts, core content, and cultural displays. The project could include hosting field trips from other schools to experience their creations. 

The Student Market Place grant will provide updated display units for diverse studio arts, from event posters to delicate jewelry, allowing additional gallery space, wider art options, and more robust public displays.

Building Thinking Classrooms promotes group collaboration, standing workspaces, and whiteboard problem-solving to enhance mathematical thinking through the use of free-standing whiteboards for an interactive learning experience!

Students will weave together academic lessons/skills and foster social-emotional learning through the art of crochet.

Project Podcast allows students to create instructional sound recordings, enhancing their learning through real-life experiences. These recordings serve as assessments and scientific experiments and enable students to conduct interviews, cover current events, and more. 

Box Cars & One-Eyed Jacks introduces engaging manipulatives to help students understand and retain math concepts using physical objects, driving hands-on learning for a solid foundation! 

Exploring Science Kits will increase engagement in the science curriculum with multiple kits like Mysterious Matter, Energy Sticks, STEM Force and Motion, ReGrow, Sun-Earth-Moon Model, and Life Cycles Toys.

Secret Stories enhances printed word recognition in early reading. Engaging stories, sound posters, and phonics songs supplement teaching, aiding the whole group, a small group, and homework sessions. A great way to boost academic growth and success!

Project Fine Arts Revival is a three-part grant for Ramey Elementary that brings safe LED stage lighting to the school’s cafetorium, introduces a top-notch sound system for performances, and finally adds a stage projector for immersive experiences.

Thirst for Knowledge brings two new water bottle filling stations to Ramey Elementary, promoting healthy habits and ensuring students have the refreshing fuel they need to thrive in their academic journey!

It transforms classrooms into engaging spaces! Classroom Transformation Stations empower teachers with 15 kits to create temporary immersive, theme-based learning experiences for all grades, boosting engagement through hands-on and sensory learning.

FBLA I’m Possible: Tools for Success covers the cost of conducting a hands-on leadership retreat in January 2024 with a leadership expert to train the officers in leading FBLA.

In Biology...We Like to Move It! transforms biology class with hand-made models, manipulatives, toys, and games to make learning fun, motivating, and engaging. Activities and tasks target vocabulary building and concepts for each unit.

RAID Boxes are physical, hands-on boxes with locks, and teachers can create various engaging activities for students to “break into” them. The RAID Boxes are designed with four key elements in mind: RTI, Assess, Instruct, Differentiate.  

The Drone Rangers grant empowers ROTC students to explore the Principles of IT, AV Production, and drone technology. With ten drones and a curriculum for 20 students, they'll learn coding, flight control, video production, and participating in TryDrones competitions.

Making Math Come Alive with Manipulatives aims to enhance kindergarten math learning using engaging tools like Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks. These manipulatives build a strong foundation, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills.