The Nebo Education Foundation is composed of 20 volunteer board members who live in cities served by Nebo School District. Board members meet each month to review and award grant requests, consider fund-raising avenues and other items that advance the educational opportunities for Nebo School District students. (Photos were taken before social distancing.)
These grants are funded through the fund-raising efforts of the Nebo Education Foundation board. One fund-raising effort is the annual “Green Fever” golf tournament that helps fund these various grants throughout the year. The “Green Fever” tournament was postponed until Monday, August 31, 2020. The morning flight is full, but the noon flight is still accepting golfers and donations. The Nebo Foundation also accepts donations from individuals and businesses to support these grants and other projects.
Congratulations to the following teachers that continue to bless the lives of students.
Springville Junior – Stephanie Riggs
“I would like to thank the Nebo Foundation for this amazing grant to expand my classroom library with more diverse reading options,” said Stephanie Riggs, English teacher at Springville Junior. “Over the past eight years, I found that my biggest hurdle for increasing adolescent literacy is finding books that each student can identify with. My main goal this year as Languages Arts teacher was to increase my library to give students more diverse reading experiences for all the ranges of reading abilities. This means incorporating books that are high interest, but low readability, as well as books where the experiences of the main characters are relatable to various lifestyles, cultures, and ethnicities. Thank you Nebo Foundation for giving my students books where their heroes look, think, and act like themselves, so they can be inspired to do great things too.”
Brookside Elementary – Christina Broussard
Christina Broussard, kindergarten teacher at Brookside Elementary, said, “We are very excited to receive this grant from the Nebo Education Foundation. Our students are encouraged to use technology in our classrooms as part of our ever-increasing technology world grows. We will be putting the grant towards headphones that will be an indispensable tool for our students to engage in the world of technology. These headphones will afford our students with the ability to block out sounds and to be able to hear the prompts given on their devices without background interference, all while other class activities are simultaneously unfolding. These headphones mean our students will be given the opportunity to focus with fewer distractions which will allow for a more attainable use of their time using technology in the classroom. Thank you again for the wonderful donation to our Kindergarten classrooms here at Brookside Elementary. We truly appreciate it and are looking forward to using the headphones in our classrooms.”
Art City Elementary – Sheriece Farr
Sheriece Farr, computer teacher at Art City Elementary, said, “Thank you so much for fulfilling the needs of all the students at Art City Elementary by funding my grant. We are so excited to be receiving new headphones for our computer lab! We have so many sets of headphones currently that only work on one side, and they're especially uncomfortable for small people to wear. The students will be thrilled with new, more comfortable headphones, and so excited to be able to record their own voices to their Google Slides projects and to facilitate their Imagine Learning experiences in the lab, not to mention so many other things. Thank you!”
Maple Ridge Elementary – Vanessa Schmidt
Vanessa Schmidt, special education teacher at Maple Ridge Elementary, said, “Thank you so much to the Nebo Education Foundation for funding this grant for Maple Ridge Elementary. This will be so helpful to the students that I serve in the resource room. These decodable readers will target the specific skills that we have been working on for the duration of the lessons that are being taught in the SPIRE reading program. These readers will provide students with topics that cover many genres including social studies, science, and literature. Students will be able to apply the skills that they have learned connected to text. The readers are appropriate for my students reading levels and abilities and can bridge learning from decoding to fluency and comprehension. Thank you so much for your generosity!”
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