The Richland County Foundation awarded more than $13,000 in Teacher Assistance Program (TAP) grants for the upcoming school year to local teachers for their creative and innovative supplemental programs not covered by school funding.
The grants are given directly to K-12 teachers in 501c3 public or private Richland County schools to encourage them to develop new programs, projects, or events for their classrooms. Grants were given to the following teachers and projects:
CLEAR FORK VALLEY
- Butler Elementary School, Nancy Fox for “Learning American Geography”
CRESTVIEW
- Crestview Elementary, Delores Bluntschly and Lisa Dulin for “Students Take Charge”
DISCOVERY
- Discovery School, Drew Jeffries for “Therapy Chickens”
LEXINGTON
- Central Elementary School, Cara Pelphrey for “Animals Up Close”
- Central Elementary School, Melody Hensel for “ Birds of a Feather Learn Together”
LUCAS LOCAL
- Lucas Elementary School, Carla Delianides for “Math Minds: A Different Approach”
MADISON LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- Madison High School, Craig Green for “ Success through Sight Reading”
- Madison South Elementary School, Michael McCormic for “Kids Under Construction”
Plymouth
- Plymouth High School, Brittany Charek for “Serving the Needs of all College-Bound Students”
- Plymouth High School, Jillian Little for “Science through Literacy Lenses”
- Shiloh Elementary School, Rachel Robinson for “Sing a Song of Literacy”
RICHLAND ACADEMY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE
- Richland Academy, Chesley Talisse for “ Rockapella”
- Richland Academy, Dan Jones for “The Flipped Classroom”
SHELBY
- Shelby Middle School, Jason Siwek for “ Whippet Action News”
