D. Jack Mahuron Education Fund Recipients
The D. Jack Mahuron Education Fund was established at the Washington County Community Foundation to encourage educators and staff to teach in innovative ways. This year, the fund has awarded several teachers in the county school corporations over $4000.00.
Students at West Washington Junior/Senior High School will be creating an outdoor learning space, expanded from an existing structure, where open-air learning will occur. This is a hands-on self-motivated class project, let by teacher, Samantha Green.
The STEAM learning centers at Bradie Shrum will see more materials for students to collaborate, think critically, and problem-solve. The Creation Station, led by Crystal Mikels, and the Imagine Lab, led by Emily Johnson will utilize snap circuits, building boards, marble run sets, and several other STEAM themed building materials.
Pop It! is really popular right now and two Bradie Shrum Elementary School teachers are using that to their advantage in the classroom. Lorie Campbell, reading specialist, will be showing kinesthetic foundation skills of reading through the Pop It! activities and Lesle Leis, 3rd grade special education teacher, will be using the Pop It! to improve student math skills in a fun manner.
Brooke Ingram’s 1st grade Bradie Shrum classroom will be getting several facelifts throughout the year due to a flipped classroom concept. For example, when they study bats, the classroom will be transformed into a bat cave. How exciting!
East Washington Elementary students led by Leah Starrett will get a chance to play backyard games in PE with the purchase of equipment that will also encourage families to participate in the same games at home.
Lincoln Jones’ East Washington engineering students will be exploring sports science via blast motion sensors that will capture swing speeds and be analyzed and understood by the user as far as data capture, storage, and processing.
Students in Andrea Gorman’s Bradie Shrum Elementary music classes will be experiencing “Mallet Madness” through the utilization of mallet percussion while incorporating songs, stories, and poems to promote literature connections.
JD Wade-Swift’s Salem High School Interactive Media class will be getting their newscast prompts from a new teleprompter in efforts to produce a more professional show while improving eye contact and speech patterns with viewers.
Washington County Community Foundation is a nonprofit public charity established in 1993 to serve donors, award grants, and provide leadership to improve Washington County forever
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