Teacher/Parent Grant Recipients for 2024

The Beverly Education Foundation awarded 24 grants totaling $20,333 at last week’s Beverly Public School Committee meeting.   The grant funding will benefit students, teachers, and various educational programs at all levels and schools within the Beverly Public Schools.  The Foundation supports innovative Beverly educators who enhance teaching and learning in a 21st century global environment. Grant awards support a wide variety of curriculum-based educational topics and projects that benefit all students. Grants are for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year and were awarded to teachers for the following initiatives:

Photo: (from left to right) – Rachael Abell, Beverly School Committee President; Kate Twombly; Beverly Superintendent Sue Charochak; Natalie Pommersheim; Catherine Barrett; BEF President Doug Walker; Ann Gavin; Sarah Aiello; Michael Osborne; Lorinda Visnick, Beverly School Committee, Vice President; Andy Cooper & Beverly Mayor Michael Cahill.

2024 Grant Awards – $20,333 in funding awarded:

Beverly High School  

  • Robotics
  • Peabody Essex Museum AP Art

Beverly Middle School

  • Graphic Novel Update for the library
  • VEX Robotics

 All Elementary Schools & BMS

  • Hooray For Health

Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School

  • Number Sense Math
  • At Home Lively Letters

Centerville Elementary School

  • Fall Kindergarten Learning
  • Express Yourself
  • Decodable Text for Advanced Learners

Cove Elementary School

  • Eetchie Tool Kits
  • Math Resources
  • Change is Simple
  • Poetry Hill Program

Hannah Elementary School

  • Hannah Beautification Mural
  • Kindergarten Readiness
  • Rivers Rock Ecology Program

McKeown Preschool

  • SPUR Garden

North Beverly Elementary School

  • Decodable Text for Older Students
  • Social Emotional Books
  • Introduction to CPR/AED
  • Ukelele Program
  • Playground Communications
  • Steamroller Machine

 

The Beverly Foundation also disbursed $2,672.00 for Beverly High School’s 1 to 1 Learning Initiative for hardship cases and $11,000.00 from the Teaching and Learning 10 Year Cummings Foundation Grant for:

 Beverly High School

  • Robotics and Engineering Curriculum
  • Digital Divide Laptop Subsidies for the 1 to 1 Learning Initiative

Beverly Middle School

  • Nature’s Classroom

 

Additional disbursements from of the Cummings Foundation 10 Year Grant for this academic year were $16,000.00 for:

  •  Teacher Professional Development
  • Elementary School Programs and Initiatives

Beverly Middle School

  • Prusa Printers
  • Culturally Responsive Library

The Beverly Education Foundation is celebrating its 27th year of supporting public education in Beverly. The Foundation supports programmatic initiatives that provide enhanced educational opportunities for all Beverly public school students. Each Spring, grants are awarded to support innovative initiatives and programs in Beverly Public Schools.