HEB ISD School & Family Magazine Spring 2016 | Page 11

HEB ISD Education Foundation Grant in Action
The HEB ISD Education Foundation
works hard to raise and award
private funds and community
resources to support the HEB
ISD’s commitment to excellence in
education. To date, the Foundation
has raised and awarded more than
$643,850 to our deserving HEB ISD
classrooms and campuses, funding
a diverse array of needs identified by
our educators. Past grant winners
include innovative initiatives like
3-D printers and dremeling tools,
the HEB Chamber of Commerce’s
Young Entrepreneurs Academy,
and programs to prevent suicides
and bullying, build life-long music learning and foster engaged readers. One particular grant provided
an opportunity for Spanish Immersion students to interact with bilingual students across campuses,
enhancing their learning experience.
The grant titled , “Making Connections with Spanish Stories,” provided Spanish Immersion students
from Meadow Creek and Bedford Heights elementary schools the opportunity to collaborate as they
applied their writing and Spanish skills to create an authentic product. The students practiced their
oral and written Spanish skills when working together to create their own books, and when delivering
and presenting the completed books to other bilingual students.
“The greatest impact the grant had was in encouraging the fluency of Spanish. The Spanish Immersion
students were able to talk to students from another Spanish Immersion campus and to native speakers
in the bilingual program at Shady Oaks.” –Doreen Mengwasser, Principal – Meadow Creek Elementary

Please join our work to support
the HEB ISD’s commitment to
excellence in education.
www.hebisd.edu/community/edfoundation.asp

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