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Educator-Designed Projects Earn VEA Mini-Grants

Educator-Designed Projects Earn VEA Mini-Grants - VEA Website

Our members have fantastic ideas for how to best teach and reach Virginia’s young people, and one way VEA backs those efforts is our Mini-Grant program. Each year, educators from around the state apply for funding to launch innovative lessons in their classrooms and schools. Each year, members of VEA’s Instruction and Professional Development Committee face the tough task of going through those applications and selecting the winners.

Here are the winning projects and members for the 2021-2022 school year:

Aeroponics in the Kindergarten Classroom

Christy Flanagan, Virginia Beach

Engaging Books for Tactile and Visual Learners

Gregory D’Addario Arlington

Language Development for Deaf Kindergarteners Through Dramatic Play

Helene Grossman, Chesterfield

Lights! Camera! Create!

Andrea Eisenberger, Virginia Beach

Living in Outer Space: Is it worth it?

Charmaine Dyson, Chesterfield

Providing Varied and Quality Decodable Reader Texts for Struggling Readers

Keri Treadway, Richmond

Readers and Leaders

Ashley Eich, Virginia Beach

Soundbellows create inclusion!

Allyson Gillispie, Frederick County

Students seeing themselves in books

Mary Frances Daly, Fairfax

Using Series Books to Increase Reading Engagement and Achievement

Abigail Quinn, Fairfax

A Charlie Brown Christmas Musical Performance

Shayna Crews, Bedford County

Bonzai Trees For Mindfulness

Kathleen Bochert, Frederick County

Bringing Learning to Life in Many Ways! 

Heather Schweitzer, Virginia Beach

Calculators in Chemistry

Stephanie Harry, York

Super Scientists

Michele Copeland, Loudoun

The Joy of Reading

Julie Sargent, Giles

Using a Graphic Novel to Build Empathy and Integrity

Megan Hott, Frederick County

Where in the World Is That?

Anne Straume, Albemarle

Graphic Novels for Middle Schoolers

Barbara Haas, Richmond

Hands-On Digital Logic Lab Kits

Lesley Frew, Fairfax

Collaborative Student-Created Murals for School Cafeteria

Elizabeth Rodriguez, Greene County

Daily Decodables = Ready Readers

Kelly Thrower,Waynesboro

Design to Play: Using Iterative Design in the Classroom

Sharon Carino, Gloucester

Discovering Myself

Meredith Kerr, Suffolk

Empathy: A Life Skill

Amy Wade, Frederick County

Exploring Classic Literature Through Manga

Jessica Kirkland, Loudoun

Forging Ahead: Implementing A Glow Forge Laser Printer In A High School Makerspace

Edward Spruell, Roanoke County

Global Scientists with Level Up Village

Joy Rottkamp, Roanoke County

Human Rights and Social Justice

Helen Pryor, Norfolk

Learning Through Play (We Learn Through Play)

Patricia Morgan, Mathews County

Morning Tubs in Kindergarten

Caroline Wittenberg, Frederick County

Pre-Reading Skills Tap Into the Sound of Music

Catherine Malley, Virginia Beach

Really Great Students Love Really Great Reading

Kristen Honeycutt, Bedford County

Recess Fun!

Jill Krause, Loudoun

Regulation tools for success

Jennifer Diehl, Prince William

Did You Know?

According to a poll conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University, 66% of Virginians say public schools do not have enough funding to meet their needs.

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