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Featured Grant – December, 2023 – Danielle Goldie

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:07:33-04:00

At the December, 2023 Board Meeting the BEF Board was thrilled to hear from Teacher Grant recipient Danielle Goldie, 7th grade science teacher at Baker. Danielle's grant took her to Iceland on a tour specially designed for educators. She learned about the geologic forces which formed the nation of Iceland, and explored volcanoes, glaciers, the reef between the continental plates, and many other ecological wonders. We learned so much about geology! Danielle's enthusiasm and curiosity were infectious - her students are so lucky to get to learn from such a curious and engaging educator! Thank you, Danielle!

Featured Grant – December, 2023 – Danielle GoldieJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:07:33-04:00

2023 5th Grade Spelling Bee

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:08:05-04:00

The BEF held our annual 5th Grade Spelling Bee at Brookline High School on Sunday, November 19th. This fun and exciting tradition was wonderful as ever! Congratulations to the winner, Lucy Lawson (Baker School), and the runners-up, Miles Hainer (Pierce) and Felix Schwartz (Lincoln)! The winning word was "quintessence". Thank you to our generous sponsors, Dr. Sally Roth and Centre Pediatric Associates! Thank you also to our Pronouncer, Brookline librarian Abbey Stephens; our Judges, Vanessa Trien, Officer Katie McCabe, Sergeant Casey Hatchett, and Bear the Dog!

2023 5th Grade Spelling BeeJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:08:05-04:00

2023 Sperber Award Event

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:08:30-04:00

The BEF was thrilled to host an event honoring Dan Bresman, the 2023 recipient of the Robert I. Sperber Award for Administrative Leadership. On Friday evening, October 20, over 200 students, colleagues, friends, and family gathered in the STEM Commons at Brookline High School to honor Dan. The evening featured speeches, performances, an inspiring award acceptance speech by Dan himself, and refreshments catered by BHS' own Tappan Green restaurant. Please click here to watch video of the event! At Dan's request, donations honoring his receipt of this prestigious award will be allocated toward funding SEED trainings and other professional development [...]

2023 Sperber Award EventJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:08:30-04:00

Featured Grant: September, 2023

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:08:58-04:00

Welcome back to school! The BEF Board was thrilled to hear from Heath middle school teacher Elyse Terry at our first Board meeting of the year. Elyse recently traveled to Rome on a BEF Teacher grant, and told the Board all about her wonderful experiences there. She had never been to Rome before, and plans to infuse her personal experiences there this past summer into her 7th grade social studies curriculum. She learned a lot about the daily lives of ordinary ancient Romans, about the tensions between current-day life in Rome and the study of archeology and antiquity, about gender roles [...]

Featured Grant: September, 2023Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:08:58-04:00

June Featured Grant: Idea Lab BEEP Mud Kitchen

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:09:58-04:00

BEEP teacher Alicia Osborne-Stackpole reported this month on her Idea Lab grant to build and utilize a mud kitchen with a water pump and painted stone fruits and vegetables with her students. Alicia requested funding for this project because of the growing body of literature indicating positive developmental impacts for preschoolers of outdoor, hands-on sensory learning. Alicia's students, by playing with the mud kitchen outdoors in nature, experienced physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional growth during the course of the year. The BEF is so excited to be able to support project such as these, that enable educators to explore new [...]

June Featured Grant: Idea Lab BEEP Mud KitchenJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:09:58-04:00

2023 Celebrating Teachers

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:10:41-04:00

On May 9 in the BHS Auditorium the BEF hosted this year's Celebrating Teachers event - an annual gathering of educators and the broader community to celebrate all of the talented Brookline educators who have won grants, awards, and fellowships this year. The highlight of the event is always the opportunity to hear from the two winners of the Ernest R. Caverly award for Excellence in Teaching, and this year was no exception. Heath School middle school teacher Sara O'Shea and BHS biology teacher Liz Crane delivered moving, inspiring addresses, introduced by each of their principals and by the BEF's [...]

2023 Celebrating TeachersJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:10:41-04:00

BEEP Art Show: Celebrating 50 Years of BEEP

Elizabeth Ascoli2024-08-05T14:11:03-04:00

The Brookline Education Foundation has a long history of supporting the Brookline Early Education Program (BEEP), and is thrilled to continue to support them with both professional development and special programs. BEEP is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and as part of that celebration, the students of BEEP are displaying art that they have created with their amazing art teacher, Erin Palazzolo Loparo. Erin goes to every BEEP classroom, and teaches art with an incredible combination of patience, seriousness, and fun. The children learn about art, artists, and techniques, while expressing themselves and using their hands. The BEF is thrilled [...]

BEEP Art Show: Celebrating 50 Years of BEEPElizabeth Ascoli2024-08-05T14:11:03-04:00

2023 Sperber Award Winner Announced

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:11:23-04:00

Every five years, the BEF awards the Robert I. Sperber Award for Excellence in Administration. This year, this prestigious award was given to Dan Bresman, the Director of Brookline High School's School Within A School (SWS) program. Dan was informed of his honor by BHS Head of School Anthony Meyer, Brookline Superintendent Dr. Linus Guillory, BEF Executive Director Elizabeth Ascoli, and an assortment of BEF Board Members, SWS teachers, and SWS students. The BEF will host a ceremony honoring Dan on October 20, at 5:30pm in the STEM Commons at BHS. If you are interested in attending, please let us know [...]

2023 Sperber Award Winner AnnouncedJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:11:23-04:00

February 2023: Featured Grant

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:11:38-04:00

Alison Kerr, a French teacher at Heath and Runkle, applied for and received a Brookline Education Foundation Collaborative Grant in 2022. She was one of 33 educators to attend the ACTFL Conference at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center that took place on November 18-20 of 2022. 29 of the 33 educators in attendance were classroom teachers representative of all eight Brookline K-8 schools and Brookline High School, covering all K-12 grades. Alison applied for the grant because it was a good opportunity for teachers to get to know each other and to work together. It was clear from Alison Kerr’s [...]

February 2023: Featured GrantJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:11:38-04:00

January 2023: Featured Grant

Jennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:12:05-04:00

Alison Hansel, Pierce School Math Specialist, traveled to Seoul to study Korean! Earlier this month BEF board members were treated to a presentation by Alison Hansel about her experience of traveling to Seoul, Korea to study the Korean language with help from a BEF grant. Ms. Hansel, a math specialist at the Pierce School in Brookline, began studying Korean during the pandemic lockdown. Like many (if not all) educators, Ms. Hansel felt burnt out and exhausted after going through the subsequent remote and hybrid teaching challenges. She was looking for a means to reconnect with her work and renew her motivation, [...]

January 2023: Featured GrantJennie Roffman2024-08-05T14:12:05-04:00