Foundation awards $34K in fall grants to city schools’ teachers

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 WAW Admin Coplin, DCSF, Demopolis, foundation, grants

Fall grants awarded by the Demopolis City Schools Foundation to teachers in all four city schools this month totaled $34,317.14.

“Our teachers are innovative and continue to look for ways that support the core of our mission- encouraging excellence- as evident from the applications they submitted,” said Ashley Coplin, Foundation executive director.

“I want to thank our Grants Committee for their hard work in reviewing our applications. Additionally, I want to thank our donors for their continued support,” she continued. “Through Foundation grants, our students are getting access to modern technology and unique learning experiences.”

Dale Foster’s class at U.S. Jones Elementary received a grant for Orff mallet instruments.

The DCSF is an independent nonprofit established in 1993 to encourage private charitable support of the Demopolis public school system. Governed by a 33-member Board of Directors, the Foundation has provided more than $1.3 million in classroom grants since its inception.

Demopolis High School

$1,683.20 to Stacy Dawson for rocket kits.
$2,000 to Lisa Lawrence for books and project.
$3230 to Caitlyn White for students to learn the relationship between fish and food.
$1,019.70 to Connie Boutwell for a classroom set of graphics tablets to accompany Chromebooks so that my economics students can draw graphs on my interactive slide presentations.
$15,200 to Kelly Gandy and Mike Duran for TryDrones/LocoRobo curriculum and participation.

Demopolis Middle School

New books are coming to the U.S. Jones library through a DCSF grant to librarian Emily Windham.

$2,427.24 to Addy Card for materials to be used in the various math classroom throughout DMS that will promote higher order thinking and “out of the box” reasoning to solve problems.
$2,000 to Ginger Godwin to purchase items for supporting unplugged focus to learning and reading in the library.
$1,079.40 to Julie Foster for a set of graphic novels which are a retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

U.S. Jones Elementary

$2,389.95 to Dale Foster for Orff mallet instruments.
$2,000 to Emily Windham to purchase new books for the library.

Melissa Reid, who teaches students in the self-contained classroom at WES, received a grant for work binders.

Westside

$472.72 to Melissa Reid to make adaptive reading, math, and morning work binders for the students in the self-contained classroom at Westside.
$814.96 to Dale Foster to purchase Orff mallet instruments.

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