GRANT RECIPIENTS

GRANT RECIPIENTS: Thompson Brook School

Year	Grant Type	Program Name	Director, Organization	Age Group	Subject Area(s)	Description
2009	Duffy Family Grant	Hartford Stage Arts and Literacy Connections	Mike DeRitis, TBS with grade level team leads at TBS and RBS	Grades K - 6	Reading	The Connections Program is being expanded after last year’s well-received 4th grade pilot program at RBS funded by an AEF Mini Grant. Over the course of five days, visiting artists in each classroom explore a grade-appropriate core-curriculum book. Designed to enhance reading comprehension skills and to instill a love of reading, students are engaged in a literary text through the use of dramatic techniques. (Additional funding from the PTOs and in-school field trip fees.)
2007	Farmington Savings Bank Mini Grant	WAVN TBS Podcasting	Mary Ramondetta, TBS	Grade 6	Language Arts, Social Studies	Application of personal audio technology to Language Arts and Social Studies; students will create podcasts which can be published to the internet for use by others.
2006	Program	Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Lab	Carl Sauerbrunn, TBS	Grade 5 & 6	General Music	Complete the MIDI Lab so that every student has the opportunity to compose, notate and record original musical works on the computer. The technology also enables new ways to integrate music with social studies, language arts and science projects.
2006	Farmington Savings Bank Mini Grant	Regarding the Book	Judy DeVito & Ardith Franklin, TBS	Grade 5 & 6	Reading, Writing	A reading and writing program presented by Nutmeg winning author and journalist Kate Klise.
2005	Dos Santos Family Mini Grant	Connecting to a World of Learning Using Streaming Digital Videos	Kelley Lanahan, AMS, & Doreen Cohn, TBS	Grade 5 - 8	Multi-disciplinary	Provide teachers and students a new and powerful learning tool – real-time video through United Streaming--to change student-teacher interaction in ways that facilitate student achievement.
2005	Avon United Fund Mini Grant	Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Lab	Carl Sauerbrunn, TBS	Grade 5 & 6	General Music	Create a pilot MIDI Lab to allow students to compose, notate and record original musical works on the computer.