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Each year, the Foundation invites teachers and schools across the district to submit proposals for innovative projects that enhance learning in a creative and motivational way. The program is a competitive process which ensures that the highest quality projects are funded. These opportunities wouldn’t be possible without the support and generosity of donors.

Applications are accepted for projects costing up to $10,000. Foundation Directors are assisted by District curriculum experts to determine which projects will have the greatest potential to improve educational experiences of students in a positive and unique way.

To date nearly $2 million has been awarded through the classroom and school grant program. These funds have helped teachers increase the effectiveness of student learning. Projects have included the creation of a school garden to make science come alive, technology to give a voice to severely disabled students and athletic gear to enable students in Title I schools to participate in co-curricular activities.

If you would like to help provide resources to give our children unique educational opportunities, please consider sponsorship of a classroom grant at the $2,500, $5,000 or $10,000 level.

>> Visit our Ways to Give page to learn how.

June 2021 Classroom and School Grant Awards

The Foundation for Clovis Schools is pleased to announce the funding of 18 classroom grants for Clovis Unified educators. The grants, totaling $130,000, were awarded in the Social Emotional Wellness and General Classroom/School Projects categories, to schools and programs across the District.

Emotional Wellness Category
K-12 sites with Educationally Related Mental Health Services		Digital Sandtray - Provides a powerful portable and engaging therapeutic tool to increase social emotional skills in students receiving educationally-related mental health services.
Granite Ridge Intermediate/Clovis North High		Hope Squad Mental Health Suicide Prevention Program - Implements Hope Squad, a program focused on increasing mental wellness and connecting students with each other and mental health resources, at CNEC. The Hope Squad program reduces youth suicide through education, training, and peer intervention.
Reyburn Intermediate/Clovis East High		Adapted PE Peer Tutoring - Provides students enrolled in Unified PE the ability to develop leadership skills and to learn to work with special populations in a sports style setting. Also provides inclusion opportunities for students with disabilities.
Tarpey Elementary		Flexible Seating to Promote Social Emotional Development - Provides flexible seating to promote social emotional development through autonomy, engagement, self-regulation, and physical movement for students in special education.

General Classroom and School Projects Category
Boris Elementary		Library Makerspace, Agricultural and CTE Projects - Provides opportunity for reading, writing and critical thinking development in K-6 students through hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) based projects.
Buchanan High		Technology to Support Student Creativity, Equity, and Mastery - Expands technology within the English Department at Buchanan High to provide additional assessment options for students of various backgrounds and abilities in order for them to show content mastery based on their individual learning strengths.
Buchanan High		Using Vernier Technology to Enhance NGSS Education and Lab Experiences in our Science Classes - Engages science students at Buchanan High School in inquiry-based, data-driven, and NGSS-centered lab activities and investigations using advanced data-collecting sensors and technology from Vernier.
Buchanan High		Instructional Aide Technology - Provides computers for instructional aides so they can support students in the classroom, in Google Classrooms, and provide timely feedback to Special Education case managers.
Clark Intermediate/Clovis High		Google Draw Technology - Provides Google draw technology and digital art resources to the Art department at Clark Intermediate and Clovis High.
Gateway High and all Elementary Sites		Gateway Bicycle Building Community Project - Funds a project at Gateway that connects students with community by assembling one bicycle for each CUSD elementary school.
Jefferson Elementary		Transforming Math Mindset at Jefferson Elementary - Promotes positive mindset, creativity, and growth in math instruction for 5th graders by supplementing traditional methods with tools that facilitate active engagement through kinesthetic and collaborative learning.
Lincoln Elementary		Learning for Lions - Helps increase literacy of TK-2 students by continuing to build lending library with multicultural books.
Miramonte Elementary		Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Kits - Supports 1st through 3rd grade struggling readers by providing leveled, sequential intervention.
PS/Elementary Sites w SPED Program		SPOT Vision Screener for PS-6 SPED Students - Provides a SPOT vision screener to quickly and easily detect vision issues for students in Special Education programs.
Red Bank Elementary		STEM Bins: Building Minds for the Future - Provides boxes filled with a variety of engineering manipulatives and task cards to inspire students to engineer and problem solve.
Red Bank Elementary		Hands-on Minds-on Next Generation Science - Provides a hands-on learning experience with the Next Generation Science Standards for fourth grade students by using current experiments, models, and activities.
Reyburn Intermediate/Clovis East High		Precision Agriculture-Expanding WiFi to the McFarlane-Coffman Ag Center - Provides the McFarlane-Coffman Ag center the most current technologies available, and teaches students the concept of Precision Agriculture.
Reyburn Intermediate/Clovis East High		Discovery of Science iPads - Supports REC Science department by providing iPads to help students master Next Generation Science standards while completing labs, practicing state assessment questions, and researching new scientific discoveries.