Shawnee Mission Education Foundation Excellence in Education Grant Recipients

Shawnee Mission School District

Mar 28 2022

The innovation of Shawnee Mission educators was front and center.

The Shawnee Mission Education Foundation honored Excellence in Education (E2) grant recipients with a reception held at the Center for Academic Achievement on Monday, March 21, 2022.

The recipients also joined Kim Hinkle, executive director of the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation, at the Board of Education meeting to be recognized by the Board and Superintendent Dr. Michelle Hubbard. Hinkle commended the teachers for their innovative vision during a challenging time.

“We always applaud our grant award winners, but this year we do so even more,” Hinkle expressed. “It says something really special that all of these educators worked so hard on these grants and that they will receive them from the Foundation.”

Each year the Foundation presents E2 grants to educators to foster innovative and challenging teaching and learning opportunities.

April Cremer, fifth grade teacher at Tomahawk Elementary and E2 grant recipient expressed how thankful she was to receive a grant from the Foundation.

Cremer’s “3, 2, 1…Action” project provides greenscreens, teleprompters, tripods, and lighting for elementary students to use with their iPad. With these resources, students will have new ways to demonstrate their knowledge and engage in meaningful hands-on learning, like creating recordings of original stories or developing scripted videos with multiple settings.

“I am looking forward to seeing what great things our students will create with their iPads now that they will have access to the studio equipment and greenscreens”, shares Cremer. “We are very excited.”

E2 grant recipients are:

Recipient	Grant Title	School	Principal
Amara Baker, 5^th Grade	Graphic Novel Acquisition for Literacy Support	Lenexa Hills	Mike Brewer
Rachel Bravence, FACS Teacher	Fixer Upper: School Edition	SM South	Todd Dain
Kelley Capper, Associate Principal	Women in Leadership	SM West	Steve Loe
April Cremer, 5^th Grade	3, 2, 1…Action!	Tomahawk	Erin Aldrich
Amy Culley, ELL Instructional Coach	Tools for Providing Visual Modeling and Text Accessibility to Elementary Students with Limited Language Proficiency	Elementary ELL	Kim Barney, Asst Director
Karen Dierks, Librarian	Graphic Novels – More than Pictures	Westridge	Jeremy McDonnell
Caren Howes, Social Worker	Re-frame Your Brain Stations	McAuliffe	Michael Orr
Abby Kepka, Librarian	Graphic Novel Acquisition for Literacy Support	Nieman	Kiley Tenbrink
Karen Knabe, 3^rd Grade	Weather: Factors and Hazards	Brookwood	Kevin Frick
Jessica Leichter, 2^nd Grade	Orthographic Mapping Tool Kits	Brookwood	Kevin Frick
Carrie O’Farrell, 1^st Grade	Play to Learn with Osmo	East Antioch	Felicia Netolicky
Kelsey Phillips, Art Teacher	Introduction to Digital Photography	Indian Woods	John Bartel
Amy Quinley, Project Search Teacher	Physical Wellbeing for Young Adults with Disabilities	SPED Project Search	Sherry Dumolien
Jennie Skibbe, Instructional Coach	Coding Mania	Broken Arrow	Ryan Horne
Rebecca Anthony Anne Towers Sherri Crawford Jenny Robinson	Project Lit: Forging Community Connections and Building a Culture of Literacy in SMSD	All Middle and High School Librarians

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