Galesburg
Public Schools
Foundation

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2009 District 205 Funding
School projects, programs and events funded by the Foundation:


Cooke Elementary School:

Funding expenditures pending.


Gale Elementary School:

Study Island Licenses for grades 2 through 5.


King Elementary School:

Funding expenditures pending.


Nielson Elementary School:

Funding expenditures pending.


Silas Willard Elementary School:

Reading Materials for 1st Grade; Study Island - computer based instructional program for students K-5th grade; Flip Charts for Michael Haggerty Phonemic Awareness; Wilson student magnetic boards for Wilson Reading System; Key Math #3 Essential Resources easel; Essential Skills Reading Resources and additional Accelerated Reader books for grades 3 and 4.


Steele Elementary School:

Study Island Licenses for grades 2 through 5.


Churchill Junior High School:

Carl Cannon Assembly – Through role playing, audience response and straight talk with first hand accounts from individuals who have suffered through the consequences of poor judgment, Cannon’s message is about making positive, healthy choices.


Truth of Lies – A large screen video event put on by Motivational Productions. The presentation features how kids can learn to deal with people who tell them falsehoods, but are so believable they influence kids to make bad decisions.


Anti Drug Program – An assembly featuring Tyler Gordon and his band. Gordon had an older sister who got caught up in the world of drug abuse and he speaks on how that impacted his family.



Lombard Middle School:

Used funds to purchase Powerlite Multimedia projector equipment. This type of equipment is used in several classrooms along with the Computer Lab.


Galesburg High School:

English Department – purchased a classroom set of the novel Things They Carried.


Science Department – Funding expenditures pending.


Social Studies Department - Funding expenditures pending.


Vocational Agriculture – Funding expenditures pending.


Industrial Tech – Funding expenditures pending.


Vocal Music Department – used funds to purchase backdrops for use during the Madrigal Dinner.


Health & P.E. Departments – Funding expenditures pending.


Foreign Language Department – Funding expenditures pending.


Family & Consumer Science; pinking shears, and Olfa rotary cutters and refill blades.


Math Department – purchased digital camera and projector.


Business Department – purchased four web cameras.


Art Department – used funds to purchase a laptop computer to use with their smart board.


Special Education Department – purchased a life size human skeleton.