The table below lists grants that have specifically benefited Glen Lake Elementary school. The second table lists grants that benefit all Hopkins elementary schools.
| Title | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Glen Lake Writers Consortium | Created a Writers' Consortium fpr all 4th and 5th graders to introduce them to the varied writing opportunities. | 1999-2000 |
| Teaching Responsibility | Funded CLIMB Theaterresponsibility program. | 2000-2001 |
| Mobile Elementary Computer Lab | Helped fund the purchase of a wireless mobile computer lab allowing the use of computers for smaller groups of students. | 2001-2002 |
| Differentiation Instruction | Funded the purchase of books and materials for a teacher study group on differentiated instruction. | 2001-2002 |
| Writers in Residence | Provided a matching grant for a Writers in Residence program providing students in Grades 2 through 6 with an in-depth experience with a professional writer or poet. | 2002-2003 |
| Matching Books to Readers | Matching Books to Readers expands the library collection to better meet the needs of beginning and early readers. Glen Lake Elementary will add books that are categorized by content and level of difficulty. This enhances independent reading by matching student reading level to book difficulty. | 2005-2006 |
| Activotes for Promethean Interactive Whiteboards | ActivotesTM integrated personal response systems are used with interactive whiteboards. They are designed to encourage student participation and enhance learning. [box style="rounded" border="full"]Awarded Fall 2007, Glen Lake Elementary, Submitter: Patty O'Reilly[/box] | 2007-2008 |
| Language Learning Through Laptops | This pilot program further enriches the 4th grade One-to-One Laptop Program. Using an online world language program, Rosetta StoneTM, students learn Spanish at their own pace and can take their laptops home at night to complete activities with their families. | 2007-2008 |
| Digital Voice Recorders | This pilot program enables teachers at Alice Smith and Glen Lake Elementary schools to more accurately identify needs in the evaluation process and give more specific feedback and therapy for speech and language students. | 2008-2009 |
| COMPASS Cooking Class | This grant funds cooking supplies for the COMPASS special education cooking class. | 2008-2009 |
| Listening Center | This grant funds multi-user listening centers for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th graders, to help expose students to literature that is at their maturity level but beyond their reading level. | 2008-2009 |
| RTI Reading Intervention | This early reading intervention pilot program provides 1st graders with literacy assistance including phonemic awareness, word decoding and vocabulary skills. | 2008-2009 |
| Home Connection Literacy Bags | The Literacy Bags program for first graders offers great opportunities for students and their families to work together with activity packs. The activities also promote higher order thinking skills and have a writing component. | 2009-2010 |
| Nooks: Any Book, Any Kid, Any Time | E-book pilot. Teachers can engage students by giving them quick access to popular new books. This 21st century technology helps disguise the difficulty level of books to reduce the embarrassment some students feel who are reading below grade level. | 2010-2011 |
| Learning Social Skills Through Video Role-Paly | With FLIP cameras, students with disabilities can view themselves in role play and real-life interactions. These tapes are used for discussions on socially appropriate interactions. | 2010-2011 |
| Daily 5 Listening Centers | Resources that support the 'listening' phase of the classroom Daily 5. Read more | 2011-2012 |
| Improving Student Achievement Through STEM | This grant funds “Explore Lab” project-based learning kits to be used throughout Glen Lake for engineering experiences. Read more | 2011-2012 |
| Bee Bots: Creating a Buzz with STEM | Programmable Bee Bots in 1st and 2nd grade classrooms. Read more | 2013-2014 |
| Community Vegetable Garden & Outdoor Classroom | Partnering with Glen Lake’s community, the school’s new living laboratory will focus on science, agriculture, and cooperation. Each grade level will plant six plots and use the garden in a different way. Read more. | 2015-2016 |
| 3-D Learning Through Virtual Reality | HEF is funding this curricular enrichment to give students the deeper learning and understanding made possible by an immersive 360-degree experience.Read more. | 2015-2016 |
| Give Me a Break | HEF is partnering with Glen Lake to expand the school’s current offerings to purposefully and proactively address sensory dysregulation for any student who needs a quiet space or sensory input such as a weighted vest, to focus or calm themselves. Read more. | 2017-2018 |
| Lego Wall | Small groups of students will use buckets of Lego bricks for purposeful mathematical challenges, for designing and building, for marble runs, for artistic creations, and for engaging before and after school fun. Read more. | 2017-2018 |
| Game On! Social Learning Through Board Games | Modeled after the popular Chess Club, the Board Game Club will provide fun, challenging student interaction - no electronics allowed! This HEF grant will stock the club with a wide variety of games, including something sure to interest any student. Read more. | 2017-2018 |
| Glen Lake Go! | Place-based learning and out of school experiences are part of a vigorous re-imagining of the best way to educate our children. Glen Lake’s first and second grade teams will pilot this lab prototype of frequent educational ‘field trips’ into the real world. Read more. | 2019-2020 |
| Increasing Engagement and Rigor | Glen Lake staff have fully undertaken the Hopkins’ Vision 2031 mission to disrupt the current system. HEF’s grant is sending a team of six to Educator Training at The Ron Clarke Academy (RCA) – a preeminent lab school for fourth-eighth grade in Atlanta Georgia with similar demographics to Hopkins. Read more. | 2019-2020 |
| DIY STEM Tinker Kits | This HEF grant funds six different sets of crates full of interesting gadgets to be sent home, encouraging all students to fully participate along with any siblings who care to join in. Some enthusiastic learners have already created videos of themselves with their projects, and now the excitement can grow and spread. Learn more | 2020-2021 |
Grants for All Elementary Schools
| Title | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Naturalist | Funded assistant naturalist for student field trips. | 2000-2001 |
| Elementary Learning Centers | Awarded funding for the development of Learning Centers at all elementary schools in the district. This sizable grant of $45,000 will fund specialized instruction for students requiring basic skills instruction. The Learning Centers will provide direct instruction in reading, writing and/or math. | 2003-2004 |
| STAR Fund -- LRT Support in Elementary Schools | Awarded $115,000 buying back over 4,900 hours of LRT (Learning Resource Teacher) support. This is equivalent to restoring one hour per day to a grade level across all elementary schools. | 2003-2004 |
| A Sound Investment | Over the course of several years, HEF funded the implementation of classroom amplification systems in elementary schools throughout the District. Read more | 2003-2006 |
| Area Learning Centers | A $45,000 award provided certified instructors to work with individual or small groups of elementary students who need assistance with basic skills in core subjects. This tutoring takes place outside the normal school day allowing teachers time to provide for the learning needs of all students, including middle and upper achievement level students. | 2004-2005 |
| Infrared Classroom Amplification | A $60,000 award for Infrared Classroom Amplification systems for 34 K-3 classrooms. Building on the success of pilot programs at Tanglen, Katherine Curren and Eisenhower, these systems have enhanced students’ listening and learning behaviors by minimizing background noise and providing an advantage for students with attention and learning needs. Read more. | 2004-2005 |
| Leapfrog Literary Centers | A $40,000 award for Leapfrog Literacy Centers used by kindergartners and first graders to reinforce letter recognition, rhyming words, sounds, word recognition and fluency. HEF funded a pilot of this program at Eisenhower, which received enthusiastic reviews and prompted the request to take the program district-wide. | 2004-2005 |
| Dance Residency | Awarded a grant to fund a two-week dance residency with Christopher Yeager for all elementary schools in the district. The residency will provide instruction in the elements of self-expression through dance/body movement that is inclusive of all students’ learning styles and behaviors, and connects with other curriculum areas such as history and language arts. | 2004-2005 |
| Elementary Amplification | Following three years of pilot support for improving sound environments in elementary classrooms, the Hopkins Education Foundation awarded its largest grant in history to complete amplification in all Kindergarten-6th grade classrooms in the district. This $130,000 grant will have students hearing more clearly in an additional 79 classrooms. Read more | 2005-2006 |
| Primary Art Specialist Resource Grant | This HEF grant allows the continuation of the award-winning elementary school art program that was nearly eliminated due to resource cuts. Read more. | 2006-2007 |
| Nature's Corner | This program gives students the opportunity to increase their knowledge of plants and animals in their local environment. | 2007-2008 |
| Nature's Corner | This is the second (and final) year of funding to build Nature's Corner digital slide show library. This library can be accessed by teachers throughout the district to aid in their classroom discussions. | 2008-2009 |
| Books on Hand -- Grades 5 and 6 | Classroom libraries are important to build good reading skills because they are easy for kids to access. This grant enhances classroom libraries in all our elementary schools by increasing the non-fiction offerings and providing engaging options for readers with diverse interests and skill levels. | 2010-2011 |
| Books on Hand -- Grades 3 and 4 | Expanding classroom libraries for grades 3 and 4 in all elementary schools. Read more | 2011-2012 |
| Books on Hand -- Grades 1 and 2 | First and second grade classroom libraries will receive expanded book options to build literacy skills. Read more | 2012-2013 |
| Magnifying the Power of STEM | Bash 2013 Special Appeal, year one of a two-year initiative. This Special Appeal provided STEM kits in elementary schools and rolling robots labs in Junior highs. Read more | 2012-2013 |
| Math Manipulatives Intervention | Exciting, hands-on instructional materials to help elementary school students who are struggling with math. Read more | 2013-2014 |
| History Live | Minnesota Historical Society experts will use 21st Century technology to ‘transport’ Hopkins students back in time, connecting them to important segments of our country’s history. Read more. | 2015-2016 |
| Social Emotional Learning Assessment Study | Over the course of the 2017-18 school year, Special Education staff will pilot 4 different assessment tools for evaluating students’ social and emotional leaning. The assessment tool that best benefits students will then be used as a framework to further the work of school social workers and classroom teachers. Read more | 2016-2017 |
| Giant Maps: Sitting on Top of the World | Short of viewing Earth from space, National Geographic’s Giant Maps are the most exciting way for students to explore their world in realistic scale to develop a global understanding of its size and scope. This HEF grant will purchase two permanent vinyl maps: a 20’ x 26’ North American map, and a 17’ x 21’ Minnesota map. Read more. | 2017-2018 |
| Preschool Social Emotional Curriculum | Second Step Early Learning Kits will create a consistent framework across Hopkins Public Schools. The implementation of these kits will help build a strong foundation in social emotional development for the approximately 500 children enrolled in all Hopkins Preschool Programs within the six elementary schools as well as The Harley Hopkins Family Center. Learn more | 2019-2020 |
| Grade 5 Virtual Literacy | Currently, fifth graders are acquiring 60-100% of their learning virtually. This grant funds subscriptions to a slate of digital literacy resources to enhance and engage their endeavors during this very unusual year of COVID-19. Learn more | 2020-2021 |