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Great Grants for the 2018-2019 school year!
Click here to view the grants awarded for the 2018-2019 school year. For details about each grant, click here to view a summary of each grant by school.
Seritage Growth Properties Grant: Be Somebody! on NBC news
Click here for a link to a news clip on NBC News featuring the Seritage Growth Properties Grant: Be Somebody! Students at Duffy Elementary school will experience "Be Somebody" with in-residence artist Rob Surette as he guides students through a speed painting show that floods kids' minds and hearts with awe, hope, beauty, love and self-empowerment. Mr. Surette will also work with students to create a mural in which every student will help create. Once completed, the mural will be framed and presented to Duffy in a school wide presentation.
Join board member Michael Schramm and amazing West Hartford educators in a new WHCTV news program, The Foundation Presents.... Click here for March 2018, January 2018, November 2017, October 2017, September 2017 Episode July 2017 Episode, June 2017 Episode, May 2017 Episode, April 2017 Episode.
Cricket Press Grant: Teaching on the Edge
Click here to view the amazing grant implemented by teacher, Kathy Hardesty, at Smith Stem Elementary School where students learned about the atmosphere by launching a meteorological balloon.
Dr. Robert and Gladys Dunn Grant: Enhancing Student Learning with Coral Reef Aquariums
Click here to view a video about what inspired Anthony Wasley to apply for a grant.
Message from Superintendent Tom Moore
Superintendent Tom Moore reflects on what makes the Foundation special to the West Hartford Public School System.
Click here to see what Sedgwick Middle School Library Media Specialist, Shannon McNeice, is planning for the students at Sedgwick Middle School with the grant, "Everyone can be a Maker!: drawing all students to a community makerspace!"
Special Initiative Grant, Producing 21st Century Citizens & Artists, awarded to Morley School for 2016-2017 school year
Producing 21st Century Citizens & Artists will establish a partnership with a sister school in Haiti promoting communication & collaborative learning via new technological enhancements. Morley students will authentically study diversity and culture in the world. Click Here to learn more about the exciting grant which will be implemented for the 2016-2017 school year.
Lessons bring students 80,000 ft into the Stratosphere!!!
Thanks to the Foundation's generous donors & the Smith PTO, the Dr. Karen List Grant: Up, Up & Away! is one example of the innovative, creative learning FWHPS brings to West Hartford Public School Teachers! Congratulations to Kathy Hardesty, Courney Jacklin, Melissa Behrens & Anthony Truss, the teachers who researched, wrote the grant and implemented this wonderful grant!
Click Here for an article in West Hartford Press, pg 7
Click Here for an article in We-Ha.com
Click here for a video images documenting the Great Balloon Chase in action on June 4, 2015
Click Here for an amazing, inspirational video created by the Smith STEM school teachers
Click Here for an article in The Hartford Courant
Click Here for an amazing, inspirational video created by the Smith STEM school teachers
Click Here for an article in The West Hartford News, pgs 1 & 11and featured in we-ha.com
Click Here for the article in West Hartford Press, pgs 7 & 9
Click Here for the NBC Connecticut News Report
Grants in Action
Click Here to learn more about the Thomas Ford Memorial Grant: Hip Hop Dimensions~An Experience in Dancing our Way to Building Teamwork at Duffy Elementary School.
Thanks to The Pauluk Family Grant: Launching Literacy through the Nutmeg Nominees, students at Webster Hill show their enthusiasm in being part of a book club.
Click Here to learn more about The Keck Family Grant: Shakespeare IS Company!! at Conard High School
Click here to purchase notecards created by West Hartford Public School Students to support the Teacher Grant Program.
Whiting Lane Grants in Action in the news - West Hartford Life, April 2014 pgs 4-5
Books and birds: Media Specialist Lee Gluck instructs inside and out