Educators from 19 SBISD campuses awarded Mini-Grant stipends

Educators from 19 separate Spring Branch ISD campuses were named winners recently in the 25th annual J. Landon Short Mini-Grant program. In all, winning educators shared more than $16,700 in awards.

The award program is named in memory of founding SBISD Partners in Education Advisory Board member Landon Short. Endowment funding was provided by The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation to launch the program.

The Spring Branch Education Foundation and district partners Nexen and First Community Credit Union provided funding for this year’s program. The competitive awards are designed to support teachers and innovation in SBISD.

More than 60 applications were submitted during this year’s competition. All applications were reviewed in a blind judging process by two or more review panel members. Many community members and SBISD staff served as judges.

Highlights of this year’s competition:

• 19 separate campuses are represented among the Mini-Grant Winners (See chart below)
• 10 winning grants were submitted by teams of teachers
• 16 grants were issued for projects in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Nine grants were issued for Literacy related projects
• Three grants were issued in General Education areas
• Two grants fund campus Health & Wellness projects
• Single grants were issued in both the Fine Arts and Career & Technical Education areas

Please join SBISD in congratulating the following teachers:

2014 SBEF J. Landon Short Mini-Grant Winners
Applicant	Co-Applicant(s)	Campus	Project Title
Jacob Barton		Cornerstone Academy	The Hour of Code
Kandi Bartling		Cornerstone Academy	Now You See It!
Maureen Ucles	Jamie Vendetti, Maria Sagredo, and Eduardo de La Paz with Consultation from Karen Justl	Edgewood Elementary	The Digital Literacy Club
Maureen Johnson	Alicia Doffing, Eric Becker	Memorial High School	Hands on Ionic Bonding and IMFs
Kayman McIver	Mark Miller, Anna Helm	Memorial Middle School	Owl Pellets
Allison Kohtz		Memorial Middle School	Breakfast on Mars
John Markert		Northbrook High School	Singing Beyond the High School Classroom!
Sabrina Lay		Nottingham Elementary	Mathematic Super Powers
Annie Mitchell		Nottingham Elementary	Heroes Among Us
Omayra Hernandez		Panda Path	Amazing Insects
Theresa Schwab Trevino	Stacye Foster	Rummel Creek Elementary	Programming and Robotics
Kristian Lenderman		Shadow Oaks Elementary	edMosphere - Using Socio-emotional Information to Improve Teaching and Learning
Assael Guzman	Jasmine Gutierrez, Luis Gonzalez, Linda Savcic	Sherwood Elementary	STEM Lab: A Place Where Curiosity Grows
Melissa Ramirez		Sherwood Elementary	Making Connections to Make Lasting Impressions: Parent/Child Books Clubs at SWE
Andrea Stallworth		Spring Forest Middle School	Middle School Statistics and Infographics
Donna Ward		Spring Forest Middle School	Blended Learning Classroom
Kaitlyn Schwartz		Spring Woods High School	Increased Literacy through Writing
Robin Kohler		Spring Woods High School	Increasing Literacy in Science
Jamie Flint		Spring Woods High School	Visualizing and Talking Chemistry
Shawn Mustain		Spring Woods High School	You can do THAT! with DNA?
Joseph Maurer		Spring Woods Middle School	Graphing Explorations
Suzan Lynch		Stratford High School	Shoot Sports Photos Like a Pro
Betty Franklin		The Guthrie Center	Rolling with Hair Rollers
Greissy Lara		Treasure Forest Elementary	Imagination Comes to Life: Bringing Writing Back
Katie O’Brien	Samantha Winkelman	Westchester Academy	Catapulting Candy
Jim Isleib	Seda Dawson	Westchester Academy	Westchester Pocket Prairie
Ann King		Westchester Academy	100 Mile Challenge
Kristin Thompson	Rachel Rose, Vanya Dimitrova, Jeremy Reese	Westchester Academy	No Child Left Indoors
Hector Gonzalez		Westwood Elementary	Water Rockets Applied Science
Joanne Lim	WWE 5th grade team 14-15	Westwood Elementary	Girls in Engineering
Penne Irvin		Westwood Elementary	Ludic Reading Library
Cathy Roth		Woodview Elementary	Bridging a Generation Gap through Reading: A WVE Parent/Child Book Club