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Family Learning Centers and Adult/Community Education, was awarded a $65,000 Barbara Bush Foundation grant. The Families Who Read Together, Succeed Together grant is an expanding literacy program that will provide family literacy services for 35 low income families. The project will create opportunities for undereducated and unemployed families by helping them to improve their educational levels, employability skills, and parenting skills, as well as to advance the school readiness of their preschool children, ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Community support from partner agencies will help families with transportation, clothing and food. (May 2011)
Horry County Schools has been awarded a Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP) grant totaling $687,000 to implement a district-wide STEM initiative aimed at improving the academic achievement of students in math and science over the next 2 ½ years. The program will provide sustained, in-depth professional development for 80 math and science teachers focused on improving teachers’ content knowledge, and their ability to provide standards-based instruction while integrating effective instructional practices, technology-based teaching methods, and 21st century skills into the curriculum. These master teachers will in turn deliver professional development to over 250 additional elementary, middle and high school teachers. Online AP Biology and AP Statistics courses will be developed during the project, in addition to over 300 instructional units which will be made available to all teachers in the district. (April 2011)
Amy Pyles, Teacher at Myrtle Beach Middle School, has earned a position in the 2011 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers program. She will have an action-packed schedule with visits from and to NIST scientists, lectures, activities designed to take back to the classroom, tours of NIST labs and facilities, visits one-on-one with NIST scientists in their labs. She will walk throughout the NIST campus and be introduced to many NIST staff and see many of our world-class facilities. (April 2011)
Lorraine Coe, Family and Parenting Specialist, was awarded a $5,000 Dollar General Waiting List grant to provide additional services to families enrolled in Adult Education and the Family Learning Center. (January 2011)
Tara Hannan, Special Education Teacher, has been awarded a $750 grant from Target to be used specifically for field trips. She plans on taking her class to Brookgreen Gardens. In the fall, she was awarded $875 through the HTC Bright Ideas Grant. Ms. Hannan will use the money to purchase cameras, memory cards and camera cases for students to generate photos to create storybooks, to produce picture cues for appropriate behaviors, and for use with creative and narrative writing through photographing aspects of school life. (November 2010)
Mollie Laut, Director of Special Education has been awarded four Individuals with Disabilities Education Act grants totaling $176,511. The first will create a mobile training lab where students, parents and teachers can learn about various augmentative communication devices and assistive technology. A second grant will create a Preschool Center in conjunction with the Parent Resource Center, offering parents and teachers low-cost opportunities to make books, games, and other learning tools, alo9ng with a lending library with parent resources and children's books and games
. The third grant will utilize Language Enhancement Strategies (phonemic awareness, listening & attention, pre-reading skills, expressive language, questioning & critical thinking) to support preschool and child development literacy. The fourth grant will provide five high schools with teacher training on the Content Literacy Continuum of the Strategic Instruction manual. (August 2010)
Karen Fowler, Attendance Coordinator, has been awarded an At-Risk Innovative and Supplemental Grant in the amount of $110,908 for the 2010-2011 school year. HCS will begin the Too Good for Violence and Drugs program to help referred students learn stronger decision making skills, and avoid drug use and violence through a 12-week program. (August 2010)
Linda Leisen, Media Specialist, has been awarded a $5,000 grant from Dollar General Literacy Foundation to provide books for the students of Pee Dee Elementary School. (August 2010)
Tara Hannan, Special Education Teacher, has been awarded a $150 grant from Donor's Choose for a pet in the classroom to support the Therapeutic Learning Center. She plans to purchase a fish tank for her classroom!! (August 2010)
Burgess Elementary and Ocean Bay Middle have been awarded a Lowe's Toolbox for Education Grant. (June 2010)
Lorraine Coe, Family and Parenting Specialist, has been awarded a $10,000 grant from Dollar General to support the Myrtle Beach Family Learning Center. (June 2010)
Lorraine Coe, Family and Parenting Specialist, has been awarded a Lakeshore Mini-Grant for materials that are designed to help our preschoolers master complex concepts through developmentally and age-appropriate materials and resources. (October 2009)
Mollie Laut, Director of Special Education has been awarded an IDEA Competitive Grant for Parent Involvement in the amount of $25,853. The focus of this grant is on increasing parent involvement in their child's educational process. This grant will provide training to Parent Advocates who will hold regional trainings to teach parents strategies they can use to help their children, to explain the IEP process and to talk about parents and children's rights and responsibilities. (September 2009)
Horry County Schools Energy Department, under the guidance of Paul Hucks, has been awarded the State Energy Program grant in the amount of $598,438 to install ceiling mounted occupancy light sensors in 1,651 classrooms. These sensors will lower energy consumption in the schools which will save the district money monthly. (September 2009)
HCS has been awarded a $29,654 grant from the SC Department of Education through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which provided funding under the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth program. The grant will enable the district to work closely with local homeless shelters and agencies to provide supplies and tutoring to students at shelters and to offer parenting classes for parents of homeless students. (September 2009)
Martha Gasque of Whittemore Park Middle School has been awarded the 2009-10 Arts Curricular Innovation Grant in the amount of $13,488 through the SC Department of Education. (September 2009)
Horry County Schools Adult Education has been awarded a $9,500 grant for a one-year Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (T3P). Funded by the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the grant will provide programs and
services to directly support Adult Education students ages 18-19 in accessing reproductive and/or sexual health services and information and reducing the number and frequency of teen pregnancies. (September 2009)
Linda Leisen, Library Media Specialist for Pee Dee Elementary has been awarded a Dollar General Youth Literacy Grant for approxiamtely $3,000 to purchase recorded books on MP3 devices. (September 2009)
Mollie Laut, Director of Special Education has been awarded an IDEA Competitive Grant for discipline in the amount of $46,527. This grant will provide training to WRAPS and school-based Mental Health Counselors in Positive Behavior Supports so they can support the intervention and IEP teams. Additionally, five regional Behavior Specialists will be trained who will then coach other teachers in the use of positive behavior supports. This program will decrease the number of expulsions and suspensions of our students with disabilities. (August 2009)
Mollie Laut, Director of Special Education has been awarded an IDEA Competitive Grant for Model Demonstration Sites in the amount of $38,567. Horry County Schools will serve as a model demonstration site in the areas of placement in the least restrictive environment, drop-out prevention and increasing the graduation rate of students with disabilities. (August 2009)
At-Risk Student Supplemental Grants have been awarded to eight high schools from the South Carolina Department of Education for $6,000 to help them fund a graduation coach. The eight schools are: AHS, AAST, ATA, GSFHS, NMBHS, LHS, SHS, SJHS. Early College High School also received this grant to purchase 4 mini-computers and hire a part-time AVID coach. (July 2009)
Teacher Mini Grants for up to $750 have been awarded to the following teachers and were made possible through the Waccamaw Community Foundation and the Knight Foundation. The grants will be used to purchase 21st century learning materials for their classrooms.
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Bianca Bashor, Burgess Elementary
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Kimberly Lawson, Myrtle Beach Primary
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Mary Beth Bennett, St. James Middle
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Linda Leisen, Pee Dee Elementary
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Terra Bodkins, N. Myrtle Beach Primary
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Lyndsey Martin, Myrtle Beach High
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Janice Camp, Adult Ed.
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Peggy McGill, Aynor High
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Robin Donaldson, Green Sea Floyds High
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Charles Mercavich, Black Water Middle
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Sherry Flowers, Aynor High
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Dawne Oliver, Conway Elementary
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Etta Greene, Green Sea Floyds High
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Angie Smith, Burgess Elementary
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Tara Hannan, Loris Elementary
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Marsha Smith, Homewood Elementary
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Rebecca Hinson, Green Sea Floyds High
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Bryn Tomaro, Loris Elementary
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Anthony Kroll, Adult Ed.
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Sean Uthe, Academy for Tech. & Academics
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Pee Dee Elementary School
was awarded a $200,000 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant from the South Carolina Department of Education. This grant will allow the school to operate a before and after school program for its at-risk students at no cost to parents. Students will be invited to attend the program. The program will operate 4 days a week from mid-September to mid-May. After school sessions will focus on phonics, reading and math, along with enrichment activities. (July 2009)
Dr. Virginia Simmons, Director of Adult Education was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Wachovia Foundation in support of Adult Education's "Ready 4 Work/Ready 4 Life" program. (June 2009)
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