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February Featured Grant: Taiwan Travels
February Featured Grant: Taiwan Travels: An Immersive Understanding of East Asian Culture Emma Siver teaches 11th grade English and the 9-12 grade African-American and Latinx Scholars program at Brookline High School—a program for students who identify as [...]
January Featured Grant
January's Featured Grant was presented to the BEF community at this year's Green Apple Event, graciously held at the home of board member Neda Toloue and her family. Driscoll kindergarten teachers Deana Shea and Kayte Lenahan reported [...]
December Featured Grant: BEEP BCBAs
In December, the BEF Board heard from Catariny De Pina and Dana DeIngenis Kenwood, Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) at BEEP who received a BEF grant to attend the Black Association of Behavior Analysts (BABA) Reclaiming Our [...]
November Featured Grant – French Baking
In November, the BEF heard from Teacher Grant recipient Chima Ikonne, a special education teacher at the Hayes School and the beloved instructor of a popular after-school baking class. This summer, Chima spent ten days in Paris studying [...]
October Featured Grant – Puppets!
During our October meeting, the BEF had the pleasure of hearing from Jill Arnold, a recent Idea Lab Grant Winner and recipient of the Elizabeth Ascoli Award for Innovation in Experiential Learning. Jill is a speech language [...]
May Featured Grants: Music Education at Hayes and Districtwide
Teaching about Roland Hayes in Brookline Music Classes In our May meeting, BEF Board members heard from music educators Meredith Huntley (Hayes), Melodie Linhart (Lawrence) and Becky Vinci (FRR & Lawrence) about two grants from this year, [...]
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