The Education Foundation of Sarasota County

Education Foundation of Sarasota County, Inc.
1960 Landings Blvd. 
Sarasota, FL 34231
 
Phone: 941-927-0965 • Fax: 941-927-3034               

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Providing the Extra Edge of Excellence
for the Children
in Sarasota County Public Schools

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Laura_Breeze@sarasota.k12.fl.us
Advancement Director
Grants and Awards Scholarships Programs History

EDUCATION FOUNDATION of Sarasota County, Inc.
William G. Selby and Marie Selby Foundation

2006-07 SELBY BUILDING  BLOCKS FOR SUCCESS GRANT PROGRAM
WINNING TEACHERS BY SCHOOL

Name

School Name

Project Title

Sheila Fuller

Alta Vista Elementary School

Visual Literacy: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Pam Brewer

Ashton Elementary School

Mission Possible: Making Learning Fun

Rita Spada

Ashton Elementary School

How Does Our Kinder-Garden Grow?

Donna McGarry

Ashton Elementary School

Enterprising Entrepreneurs

Kelly Phillips

Ashton Elementary School

Learning to Love Literacy

Deborah Herbert

Bay Haven Basics Plus

Building a Sculpture Unit…From the Museum UP!

Greg Nielsen

Booker Middle School

How Do We Really Sound?

Angela Hartvigsen

Booker Middle School

Note-Reading Our Way to Harmony

Jennifer Nzeza

Booker Middle School

Doorway to Chinese Culture and History

Debbie Alvis

Booker Middle School

Making the Curriculum Simmer

Lynda Emigh

Brentwood Elementary School

Building a Vocabulary for Writing Through Literature

Kristi Jarvis & Kelly Ayrault

Brentwood Elementary School

Keep on Reading

Jean Weber

Brookside Middle School

Learning to Read Naturally!

Jessica Timmons

Brookside Middle School

The Chemistry of Tie Dye

Ron Zimmerman

Cranberry Elementary School

Refurbished Computers for Cranberry Elementary Students

Rita Wetsman

Cyesis Teen Parent Program

Vote for Learning and FCAT Success

Diana Braucher & Nicole Favreau

Englewood Elementary School

A Star is Born!

* Lois Collins

Englewood Elementary School

Math in 3-D

Karen West

Fruitville Elementary School

Let Me Hear Your Voice

Ann Gillies

Fruitville Elementary School

WARNING: Keep Hands Outside the Vehicle at all Times!
-Motivating Students with Autism to Engage in Literacy Activities

DeeDee Rice

Fruitville Elementary School

Meet the Author

Brenda Barnes

Fruitville Elementary School

Homework is Fun and Educational!

Diane Rodriguez

Fruitville Elementary School

Game Makers Tournament of Science

*** Loan Nguyen

Fruitville Elementary School

Reaching for Rigor and Relevance

Jeanne Troiano

Garden Elementary School

Differentiated Dishes and Gourmet Goodies

Diane Andrew

Garden/Taylor Ranch/Pine View

Help Me MOVE So I Can Sit Still and LEARN!

Linda Huber

Glenallen Elementary School

Reading Superheroes

Lisa Blevins

Glenallen Elementary School

Parents as Literacy Supports (P.A.L.S.)

Amy Baker & Lori Robinson

Glenallen Elementary School

Extreme Reading Station Renovation

Susan Nations

Gocio Elementary School

Double Dip: Immediate Intensive Reading Intervention/Enrichment

Sandy Waite

Gocio Elementary School

The Comprehension Toolkit

 

2005-06 SELBY BUILDING  BLOCKS FOR SUCCESS GRANT PROGRAM
WINNING TEACHERS BY SCHOOL
Made possible through the generosity of a grant award 
to the Education Foundation of Sarasota County 
from the William G. Selby and Marie Selby Foundation

Name

School Name Project Title
Betsy Asheim-Dean Alta Vista Elementary School Intergenerational Literacy Program
Kelly Phillips Ashton Elementary School Station Celebration
Marilyn Sloan Ashton Elementary School Read Aloud to Build Vocabulary and Comprehension
Lois Blackway & Tracy Bakich Bay Haven Basics Plus School My name is NOT "Dolly"!!!
Marti Parker Bay Haven Basics Plus School DRUMS! Diversity, Respect, Unity, and Musical Success!
David W. Fortner, Sr. Booker Middle School Motivation is the Key to Success
Angela Hartvigsen Booker Middle School Exploring Cultures Through Strings
Jessica Linnert Booker Middle School Author Study - EL Konigsburg
Jennifer Nzeza Booker Middle School "Cultivating a Community - Connecting Reading and the Real World"
Aamie E. Fish Brentwood Elementary School Multisensory Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap
Kimberly Douglas Englewood Elementary School Soar to Success
Nicole Favreau Englewood Elementary School Start Simple!
Brenda Barnes Fruitville Elementary School "Building Vocabulary without Boredom"
Kay Deming Fruitville Elementary School M & M's (Make Movies, Move Mountains of Math, and Manipulate Machines)
Julie Jeffrey Fruitville Elementary School Hands-On Science: Offering the Best in Learning!
Christa Kennard Fruitville Elementary School Maximum Exposure: A Pre-School Literacy Lab
Sharon Ponitz Fruitville Elementary School Sensory Integration Station
Gwendolyn Sermon Fruitville Elementary School "Center It With Literacy!"
Miriam Showalter Fruitville Elementary School On Beyond Scrapbooking!
April Tisdale Fruitville Elementary School Go TEAM Go!
Karen West Fruitville Elementary School Connecting Sound to Learning
Joanna Davis Garden Elementary School Tessellate: Slide, Flip and Rotate
Marcy DeMaree Garden Elementary School Carbo-Loaded Classroom
Jeanne Troiano Garden Elementary School Carbo-nizing the Classroom Reading Environment
Kellyann McWilliams Gocio Elementary School The Sea Snooze Experience
Katie Wetherill Gocio Elementary School Elmo Writes!
Freda Williams Gocio Elementary School Places, Action, Curtain: Reading with Drama Strategies
Jeri Rosenthal Gulf Gate Elementary Read, Write, Sit, Stand, Walk!
Kathy Nixon Island Village Middle School Students, Got Information Overload?  Get Nettrekker!!!!!
Kristen Anderson & Melissa Bush Lakeview Elementary School Planting a Fall Florida Garden
Petie Brown Lakeview Elementary School Let's Go On a Safari!
Deborah McCart Lakeview Elementary School Giving the Joy of Reading
Lorraine Rittmeyer Lakeview Elementary School Seating a Storyteller Takes a Whole Village
Terri Tucker-Warth Lakeview Elementary School The Great Pumpkin Caper
Khizran Usman Lakeview Elementary School Versa Tiles
Barbara Stella Laurel Nokomis School CSI: Creating Student Investigators
Jocelyn Webber Laurel Nokomis School "Techno Music"
Diane Nelson & Team McIntosh Middle School Classroom Libraries
Deborah Brister Oak Park School What Will I Be?
Kit Carson Oak Park School Ready-Set-Work
Veronica Fritsch & Catherine Hinshaw Oak Park School Leaping into Learning
Marlea Hughes & Kathy Baldwin Oak Park School "Photo Talk"
Pam Plank Oak Park School Communication Design!
Susan Rodgers Oak Park School Listening Centers
Dawn Kelley Oak Park South All Eyes On The Science Guy!
Marta Calabrese Phillippi Shores Elementary School An International Baccalaureate primary classroom in the making!
Pamela Tucker Phillippi Shores Elementary School Check Mate
Connie Gordon & Team Pine View School for the Gifted Mentoring in Motion
Kristen Correia Riverview High School Science Fiction?  Evaluating Science Fiction
Roxane Abbott Sarasota County Technical Institute OCR-Optimal Character Recognition
Gail Fowler Sarasota County Technical Institute Big Books: One Size Fits All
Regina Stinson Sarasota County Technical Institute Ready-to-Work with Speech Communications
Ellie Longo Sarasota High School Junior Achievement Success Skills
Jimmy McAuley Sarasota High School Stay Alert- Stay Alive: Training for the Unexpected
Jessica Price Sarasota Middle School Coral Reef Diversity
Marti Watson Sarasota Middle School Sensitivity Training Project
Janice K. Crowe Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Rising To New Heights
Carlos Hernandez Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Meeting Science Standards with Digital Animation
Mary Ellen Donovan Southside Elementary School The Kindergarten Literacy Workshop
Mara DuBois Tatum Ridge Elementary School Can You Hear and Say It Right
Dorothy Edwards Tatum Ridge Elementary School Now I Understand
Lisa Cline Taylor Ranch Elementary School Math + Math = More Math
Jacqueline Detert & Ashlie Deinert Taylor Ranch Elementary School Together We Read Strong
Gretchen Eidelbus Taylor Ranch Elementary School InS.P.I.R.E. Me to Read
Steven D. French Taylor Ranch Elementary School "By Leaps and Bounds"
Brenda Anderson Toledo Blade Elementary School If I were a KITE…..
Jill Woodward Toledo Blade Elementary School Engineering Academic Success
Christine Tweed Tuttle Elementary School The Language Resource Project
Kathryn Baber Venice Elementary School Passport to the Universe: An Intergalactic Odyssey

 

Total Grants- 69   Total Awarded $73,097.48

• 2005-2006 SELBY BUILDING BLOCKS FOR SUCCESS CLASSROOM GRANT AWARDS 

Made possible through the generosity of a grant award 
to the Education Foundation of Sarasota County 
from the William G. Selby and Marie Selby Foundation



2004-05 SELBY BUILDING  BLOCKS FOR SUCCESS GRANT PROGRAM
WINNING TEACHERS BY SCHOOL

LAST NAME FIRST NAME SCHOOL PROJECT TITLE

Fuller

Sheila

Alta Vista Elementary

Visual Literacy:
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Redington

Paul

Ashton Elementary School

What Are Barrier Reefs?

Sloan

Marilyn

Ashton Elementary School

Vocabulary Development for the ESOL Child

Parker

Marti

Bay Haven Elementary

Sing! Sing! Sing!

Brustad

Patti

Booker Middle School

Comprehending in Comfort

Stabenow

Jennifer

Booker Middle School

Poetic Pictures

Kourapis/Loschin/
McCormack/Rosales

Kathy/Margie/
Gillian/Kathy

Cyesis Teen Parent Program

Cooking with Literature: Feed Me a Story

Gersen

Robin

Englewood Elementary

Earobics

Burkee

Catherine

Fruitville Elementary

Exploring Poetry:
The Reading and Writing Connection

Cao

Helen

Fruitville Elementary School

Back Packing Across the Curriculum

Cunningham

Karen

Fruitville Elementary School

MOM! I CAN READ MY MATH VIDEO!

Deming

Kay

Fruitville Elementary School

"Really Rad"
Real-World Mathematical Connections

Jeffrey

Julie

Fruitville Elementary School

Projecting Powerful Projects

Kennard

Christa

Fruitville Elementary School

Phantastic Phonemic Awareness:
Take if Home!

Prestia

Jeana

Fruitville Elementary School

Listening to Learn

Rodriguez

Dianne

Fruitville Elementary School

Around the World in Eight Books

Showalter

Miriam

Fruitville Elementary School

Welcome to Our World!

Targaszewski

Julie

Fruitville Elementary School

Scientific Reading and Writing with
the Magic School Bus

Tausan

Carol

Garden Elementary School

Got Recorders?

Blevins/Conway

Lisa/Aleta

Glenallen Elementary

Parents As Literacy Supporters (P.A.L.S.)

Bakan

Kelley

Gocio Elementary School

Book Buddies for Home-to-School
Literacy Connection

Ballard/Cooke

Norma/Barbara

Gocio Elementary School

Macro to Micro

Emmett

Asheley

Gocio Elementary School

Homework Helpers

Nations

Susan

Gocio Elementary School

Literacy Champions: READ, WRITE, WIN!!!

Spangler

Carolyn

Gocio Elementary School

A Language Tune-Up for Better Performance

Waite

Sandy

Gocio Elementary School

We're Nuts About Science

Williams

Freda

Gocio Elementary School

Marvelous Marine Animals and Communities

Harazin

Liz

Gulf Gate Elementary

A Garden of Books..
Brings BLOSSOMING READERS!

Padgett

Glenda

Gulf Gate Elementary

Let's Write Right Too!

Padgett/Haring

Glenda/Marie

Gulf Gate Elementary

The Non-Stop Learning Zone

Losey

Carole

Heron Creek Middle School

Let's Get Physical-
Hands on Physical Science

Perraualt/Seiler/
Davis

Katherine/Jayanti/
Lynsey

Heron Creek Middle School

Portfolio Development and Career Exploration

Johns

Karen

Lakeview Elementary

Songstory: A Sensory Approach to
Teaching Florida History

McCart

Deborah

Lakeview Elementary

Get Ready, Get Set, Connect:
Math and Reading

McCoy

Kathleen

Laurel Nokomis School

Primary Literacy Centers for Learning

Stella

Barbara

Laurel Nokomis School

Get Up and Grow!  Hydroponic Laboratory

Thomas

Alicia

Laurel Nokomis School

Reading & Writing in the Round:
Lit Circles for LEP Students

Woody

Barbara

Laurel Nokomis School

American History Jeopardy

Gwatney

David

McIntosh Middle School

AgriCam- Gardening Through Time

LaVallee

Carol

North Port High School

Holocaust Elective Class

Closs

Jane

Oak Park School

Reading Designed for Success

Hughes/Baldwin

Marlea/Kathy

Oak Park School

"Switch Me to Success"

Lampman

Paula

Oak Park School

Food, Fun, and Phonics-
A Delicious Way to Learn

Lessard

Judith

Oak Park School

"A Novel Idea"

Morrow

Donna

Oak Park School

Literacy Locomotion

Raugh

Brian

Oak Park School

Access for All!

Rosenthal

Jeri

Oak Park School

Stand Up For Yourself!

Wojtyna

Carol

Oak Park School