Feb 7, 2015 2 min read

The Peters Township Education Foundation recently awarded six Granting Educators Opportunities grants to staff members. Winners were:

• Veronica Byers, first grade, Pleasant Valley Elementary School. Byers will receive math games and activities that coincide with the district’s math curriculum to provide enriching activities for sequencing, planning, logic, spatial concepts and problem solving.

• Paige Seelhorst, sixth grade, McMurray Elementary. Seelhorst will receive laptops for special needs students in her classroom to support the Kurzweil software that will facilitate curriculum in math, science, language arts and social studies.

• Lindsey Myers and Angel Schranz, library media specialist and high school English teacher. Myers and Schranz will receive licensing fees to support their screening of a documentary film that discusses the portrayal of women in the media. They will host a showing and facilitate dialogue among the students, and coordinate with related classes and student groups within the school.

• Meghan Myers, Bower Hill. Myers will receive funding to purchase supplies and groceries for the “Snack Scene” TV show at Bower Hill that supports healthy eating, good snacking choices and physical activity among students.

• Beth Walsh and Alyson Boyer, enrichment, McMurray. Walsh and Boyer will receive iPads for their enrichment classrooms to support curriculum and projects for fourth- through sixth-graders.

• Nancy Barley, librarian, Pleasant Valley. Barley will receive funding to purchase books and a workshop stipend to create a “Positively Poetry” experience for third-graders.

In the past four years, the PTEF has provided more than $32,000 in funding to support education at all levels in Peters Township.