Mamou Elementary teachers awarded grants

Teachers at Mamou Elementary School were recently awarded educational grants for their classrooms. All teachers pictured above received 2013 REAP Grants (Rural Educational Achievement Program). REAP Grants are government funded grants for classroom technology that include Smartboards, laptops, document cameras and projectors. Teachers awarded wrote successful grants that demonstrated student need, data analysis, common-core aligned standards and a commitment to extensive after-school training geared towards hands-on, high interest educational lessons within their classrooms. Additionally, Beth Veillon, Lisa Wedlock, Lori Guillory, Angel Manuel, Candace Manuel and Dawn Babineaux received QSM grants for the 2013-14 school year. The Quality Science & Mathematics Grant Program (QSM) provides materials to mathematics and science public school teachers. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis to individual classroom teachers to use in providing standards-based instruction to help meet state accountability goals. Applicants were required to show that their grant proposals were aimed at enhancing the quality of instruction. Teachers will each receive $750 to purchase instructional materials. As a competitive grant, applications were evaluated by a Review Panel composed of representatives from the Louisiana Association of Teachers of Mathematics and the Louisiana Science Teachers Association. Hat’s off to all teachers who wrote and received these grants!