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2003, 2024

Trivia Bee 2024

By |March 20th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

    The BEF's annual Trivia Bee is in the books! On March 8, over 200 community members (including current and alumni parents and educators) came together in the beautiful 22 Tappan Commons for delicious food and drink, enjoyable competition, and inspiring support of Brookline educators. The event raised over $100,000 to support next year's grants and programs! Thank you to all who attended, [...]

1602, 2024

February Featured Grant – BHS Driver’s Education

By |February 16th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

At our February Board meeting, BEF leaders were thrilled to hear from 2024 grant recipient Joslyn Vendola. Joslyn teaches math in the EXCEL program at Brookline High School (and is the 2022 winner of the BEF's Caverly Award for Excellence in Teaching!) and she received a 2024 grant along with several colleagues to design a drivers' education program at BHS, specifically seeking to break down existing barriers to getting a [...]

1701, 2024

January Featured Grant – Puerto Rico

By |January 17th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

At our January meeting, the BEF Board heard from BHS social studies teachers Roger Grande and Astrid Allen about their trip to Puerto Rico this past summer. Along with BHS colleagues Stephanie Hunt and Emily McGinnis, Roger and Astrid received BEF funding to explore the impact of colonialism and climate change on Puerto Rico's culture, ecology, and industry. They immersed themselves in history, agro-ecology, and culture in diverse settings ranging [...]

1212, 2023

Featured Grant – December, 2023 – Danielle Goldie

By |December 12th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

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 [...]

2011, 2023

2023 5th Grade Spelling Bee

By |November 20th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

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 [...]

2610, 2023

2023 Sperber Award Event

By |October 26th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

  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. [...]

1209, 2023

Featured Grant: September, 2023

By |September 12th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

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 [...]

3105, 2023

June Featured Grant: Idea Lab BEEP Mud Kitchen

By |May 31st, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

  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, [...]

2405, 2023

2023 Celebrating Teachers

By |May 24th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

  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 [...]

1505, 2023

BEEP Art Show: Celebrating 50 Years of BEEP

By |May 15th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

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, [...]

1304, 2023

2023 Sperber Award Winner Announced

By |April 13th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

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 [...]

1402, 2023

February 2023: Featured Grant

By |February 14th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

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 [...]

1201, 2023

January 2023: Featured Grant

By |January 12th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

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. [...]

601, 2023

Team Brookline training is underway!

By |January 6th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

Training has begun for the running of the 2023 Boston Marathon, and this year the BEF is grateful for the support of five members of Team Brookline who will be raising funds with their race to support us! Four of these runners are educators at Brookline Schools, and the fifth one is returning to support us again after running with Team Brookline for the BEF last year! Please visit our [...]

2211, 2022

25th Annual BEF Spelling Bee

By |November 22nd, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

The Brookline Education Foundation's annual 5th Grade Spelling Bee was a huge and exciting success resulting in one shocked and exuberant winner and three students tied as first runners-up. 50 fifth graders from throughout the Public Schools of Brookline district gathered in the Brookline High School auditorium on Sunday, November 13th for the traditional spelling bee. Georgiana Green of the Runkle school won by being the only student out of [...]

2610, 2022

2022 Margaret Metzger Fellows Event

By |October 26th, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

We were so moved and proud to hear the 2022 Metzger Fellows read their essays on October 14th at the Lincoln School. This event is always profound and inspiring and this year was no different. Visit our YouTube Channel to watch the event! And click here to learn more about this year's Fellows and Margaret Metzger.

2110, 2022

Visit from Jerry Craft, author of New Kid!

By |October 21st, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF was so excited to welcome the latest in the Todd Saker Fund series of author visits: Newbery Award-winning author Jerry Craft to Brookline! Jerry visited the Heath School and the Pierce School, where he spoke to hundreds of students and signed books. His visit was wonderful, inspiring, and energizing. Click here to learn more about the BEF's Saker Fund. Thank you!

2110, 2022

Idea Lab grant proposals are now being accepted!

By |October 21st, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

Now is the time to apply for an Idea Lab grant, if you are an educator currently employed by the Public Schools of Brookline! If you have a new idea that will bring hands-on, experiential learning to your students, we would like to grant you up to $1,000 to make your idea a reality! Simply fill out the online application, and come to pitch your idea to our committee. Grant [...]

709, 2022

Registration Now Open for Team Brookline

By |September 7th, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

  Have you always wanted to run the iconic Boston Marathon? Now's your chance! If you sign up to run the marathon with Team Brookline, you can make your dream a reality, plus raise much-needed funds for the Brookline Education Foundation! Team Brookline will give you structured training, a community of fellow runners, and of course a bib number. Visit the Team Brookline site for more information and to register!

1407, 2022

2022 Margaret Metzger Fellows are hard at work!

By |July 14th, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

This week, the 2022 class of Margaret Metzger Fellows are working together to write their personal essays about the craft of teaching. They represent different schools, subject areas, and grade levels from all across the Public Schools of Brookline, and their combined energies and experiences are sure to contribute to a wonderful, inspirational, and enlightening selection of essays! The BEF is so proud to host these creative and thoughtful educators [...]

2906, 2022

Fiber Arts and Project Based Learning with Preschoolers

By |June 29th, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

IdeaLab Grant winner Molly Richard received BEF funds this year to purchase a sewing machine, a loom, and other fabric arts supplies -- and she taught her pre-K students to sew! The classroom quilt they created together was unveiled just prior to the end of school, at a playground celebration with students, parents, educators, and BEF representatives. Each student created a section of the quilt, and a matching fabric square [...]

2705, 2022

2022 Caverly Award winners honored!

By |May 27th, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF welcomed educators and donors to our annual Celebrating Teachers event on May 10 at the Lincoln School. All recipients of grants and awards were acknowledged at the event, in particular this year's winners of the Ernest R. Caverly Award for Excellence in Teaching. Nicole Chasse, kindergarten teacher at the Florida Ruffin Ridley School, and Joslyn Vendola, math teacher in the ExCel program at Brookline High School, were this [...]

704, 2022

Six Team Brookline Runners Supporting the BEF

By |April 7th, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

We're so grateful to Crystal Chang, Emily Edgar, Claudio Nahmias, John Nwosu, Sarah Reilly and Zoe Spearman for running the 126th Boston Marathon in support of the Brookline Education Foundation! They are working so hard to get ready, and we can't wait to line the race route on Beacon Street and cheer them on. They include a Heath parent, a Driscoll parent, a Lawrence parent, and a Pierce paraprofessional! They [...]

612, 2021

Teacher and Collaborative Grants Awarded!

By |December 6th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF Teacher and Collaborative Grant Committees have awarded grants that will impact over 100 educators in the coming year! Please visit the Grants section of our website to learn more about the newest projects our educators are preparing to embark on! Thank you to our donors for making this exciting work possible!

1711, 2021

Congratulations, Fifth Grade Spellers!

By |November 17th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

The annual BEF Fifth Grade Spelling Bee was held on Sunday, November 14, 2021, at Brookline High School. Congratulations to the winner, Kris Barbarin of Heath School, and to the runners-up, Rav Amin of Baker School and Felice Vittolo of Pierce School! The winning word was etymology. The BEF is so grateful to all of the volunteers who made this event possible! Thank you to our pronouncer, Brookline Librarian Caroline [...]

2110, 2021

Congratulations to the 2021 Margaret Metzger Fellows!

By |October 21st, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

The 2021 Margaret Metzger Fellows event was held on Friday evening, October 15, 2021 at the Lincoln School. Click here to watch the event! Congratulations and thanks to all of this year's participants, including John Andrews, English Department Chair at Brookline High School, and the 2021 Fellows:

2009, 2021

Meet Steph Guseh – today’s featured BEF Team Brookline runner!

By |September 20th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

Meet today's featured BEF Team Brookline runner - Stephanie Guseh! Here's a note from Steph: Hello! My name is Steph Guseh and I am training for my first ever marathon in support of the Brookline Education Foundation! I have 3 kids - Jamie (7), Nora (5) and Mae (2) who all love Runkle. Jamie is thrilled to be in Mrs. Chen's class in 2nd grade this year and [...]

1709, 2021

Meet Chima Ikonne: today’s Featured BEF Team Brookline Runner!

By |September 17th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

We are so grateful to all six of the Team Brookline runners who are raising funds to support the Brookline Education Foundation. Today we're highlighting Chima! Both a Lawrence parent and a Heath educator, Chima knows firsthand the value of the BEF's support of teachers. Here's a note from Chima: As a late entrant into the world of distance running, I was 40 when I ran my first marathon in [...]

607, 2021

Introducing BEF’s Team Brookline Runners for 2021!

By |July 6th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF is honored to have six dedicated parents training and running to support public education in Brookline. This will be a historic October in-person running of the 125th Boston Marathon on Monday, October 11, 2021. With this year's runner field limited to just 20,000 runners, we are fortunate to be able to be supported in this way! Meet our runners and help them to meet their [...]

1506, 2021

BEF Honors our School Nurses

By |June 15th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

As we are closing out this school year, a year like no other in our lifetimes, it’s amazing to think about where we started the year and how far we have come. In large part, we owe the fact that we are safely back at school to our amazing school nurses, led [...]

405, 2021

Caverly Winners Announced

By |May 4th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

We are pleased to announce this year's Caverly Award winners for excellence in teaching! Watch Celebrating Teachers Francesca Stark Driscoll School Fifth-Grade Betsy Davis Brookline High School World Language After a hiatus last year, we are so pleased to announce the 2021 Caverly Award winners this year. Since 1984, the Ernest R. Caverly Award has been presented to [...]

2503, 2021

2021 Margaret Metzger Fellowships Announced

By |March 25th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

The Brookline Education Foundation and the Metzger Committee are pleased to announce the educators selected for the 2021 Margaret Metzger Fellowships: Susan Balogh, Baker School, 7th Grade, Social Studies; Zac Broken Rope, Brookline High School, SWS, English; Alisa Conner, Brookline High School, Spanish; Will Gordon, Lawrence School, Paraprofessional; Colleen Kavanagh, Runkle School, 5th Grade; Wan Wang, Driscoll School, Mandarin; [...]

103, 2021

BEF Launches Educational Equity Speaker Series

By |March 1st, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF is pleased to announce it is launching a new free webinar speaker series entitled Equity in Education. Over the course of the next few months, we will examine equity, in its various forms, in the public schools of Brookline through the lens of teachers who have received BEF grants to do this important work. Our first webinar was held on February 25th and highlighted SEED (Seeking Educational [...]

601, 2021

Runkle teacher Meghan Walsh explains how a BEF grant helped her student

By |January 6th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

Runkle School Special Education teacher, Meghan Walsh, sent an email to the BEF thanking us for the Collaborative Grant she and her colleagues received. Below is her email and story (shared with permission): Dear Members of the Brookline Education Foundation, I wanted to take the time, once again, to thank you for your extremely generous collaborative grant for the 2020-2021 school year. Because of you, I was able [...]

912, 2020

BEF joins ‘Be More Brookline’

By |December 9th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Brookline Food Pantry Brookline Community Foundation Brookline Interactive Group Brookline Music School Brookline Teen Center Brookline Library Foundation Brookline Symphony Orchestra Puppet Showplace Theater Brookline High School Innovation Fund Brookline Community Mental Health Center Brookline Arts Center Steps to Success Voices Boston The Brookline Education Foundation is happy to announce its collaboration with other nonprofit organizations in Brookline to create a campaign called Be More Brookline! [...]

2411, 2020

BEF Establishes the David E. Pradell Award

By |November 24th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF is pleased to announce a new annual award for middle-school teachers in memory of David E. Pradell, a beloved teacher at Lawrence and Driscoll Schools for over 30 years. This monetary award will be presented each year to one middle-school Teacher Grant recipient whose work will stimulate students' imagination and curiosity; help students develop self-assurance and self-esteem; encourage student collaboration and/or instill an abiding sense of [...]

608, 2020

Robust Remote Learning

By |August 6th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF allocated $100,000 to support Brookline's teachers in building a robust remote learning model for the Fall. In March, the school year was turned on its head as we all faced the first 100 days of a worldwide pandemic. Given the need to pivot all learning to a new, uncharted, remote environment, it's no wonder that our teachers, students and school community struggled. While online teaching [...]

2905, 2020

Thank you, Emily!

By |May 29th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Farewell to Outgoing Board President Emily Dolbear; Welcome to Catherine Burke!  As we draw to a close of this crazy, topsy-turvy school year, the BEF wants to take a moment to thank outgoing Board president Emily Dolbear. Emily has served on the BEF Board since 2013 and has been a valuable member of the Executive Committee from her second year. As a Runkle and [...]

405, 2020

The BEF in the Age of COVID-19

By |May 4th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

During this time of challenges, the work here at the Brookline Education Foundation (BEF) continues — albeit remotely. In mid-April, our Board committees awarded 32 grants, totaling more than $200,000, to Brookline teachers. We have also responded directly to the COVID-19 crisis by funding a special Districtwide Grant to immediately train teachers in remote learning and online curriculum development instruction. Although we had to cancel our Trivia Bee fundraising [...]

512, 2019

BEF Awards 19 New Idea Lab Grants Throughout the District

By |December 5th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|

The BEF Idea Lab grants committee awarded 19 new Idea Lab grants last week. After hearing teachers give their pitches for their hands-on ideas to be carried out in the classroom this year, the committee awarded 19 grants to teachers from many schools in the District, ranging in grades from pre-K through the high school. The committee was excited to see [...]

1010, 2019

Margaret Metzger Fellowship Event

By |October 10th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|

On Friday, October 4th, over 200 people joined us for the 2019 Margaret Metzger Fellowship Event where our 6 Fellows read their essays to a packed house! While the essays were varied reflections on teaching and working with students; all were extremely touching. We are so lucky to have [...]

110, 2019

BEF Gift to Brookline Schools

By |October 1st, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|

Last year, the Brookline Education Foundation gave "A Gift of Music" to the Performing Arts Department of the Public Schools of Brookline, under the leadership of K-12 Curriculum Coordinator Kenny Kozol. This gift was funded through the 35th Anniversary Gala of 2016. After an application and evaluation process, the BEF funded this musical project, recognizing that the Performing Arts department is an important and valuable part of [...]

1709, 2019

Saker Author Lesa Cline-Ransome visits Brookline Schools

By |September 17th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|

On October 24th and 25th, children's book author, Lesa Cline-Ransome, visited four Brookline School Libraries. The author of award-winning Finding Langston, as well as Game Changers about Venus and Serena Williams, Satchell Paige, and Before She was Harriet gave presentations at Baker, Lincoln, Runkle, and Driscoll. She spoke about her early beginnings, what is involved in [...]

1603, 2016

Run the Boston Marathon with Team Brookline

By |March 16th, 2016|Categories: Uncategorized|

Have you always wanted to run the Boston Marathon? Team Brookline is a great way to get an official bib number the historic Boston Marathon and raise money for a great cause all at the same time. Team Brookline is a group of local non-profit organizations that receive official bib numbers in order to help them fundraise.  The Brookline Education Foundation is lucky enough to be one of these [...]

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