Grants Awarded 1995 – 2005

TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND CREATIVITY GRANT

Hurlbutt Elementary School

1996/1997

“Puppets in the Classroom”
Applicants: Janis Anderson-Laraby and Lois Perlah
Targeted population: Ms. Laraby’s first-grade class
Total amount requested: $494.33
Purchase of: hand puppets, theater, props, and books
Project: The use of the puppet theater allowed students to transform stories into plays and perform the works using puppets, costumes, and sets. This project allowed the students to express themselves creatively as individuals and as members of a small group. It supported reading and encouraged higher-level thinking skills.

“PowerPoint for Math”
Applicant: Diane Boesch
Targeted population: Hurlbutt math enrichment students
Total amount requested: $385.94
Purchase of: PowerPoint software
Project: to use in math enrichment courses for Hurlbutt students. This program allowed students to summarize steps to construct logical arguments, rearrange sequence, and use technology for editing and presentation.

1997/1998

“The Hartford Courant”
Applicant: Ellie Core
Targeted population: Ms. Core’s third-grade class
Total amount requested: $252
Purchase of: 25 copies of the Hartford Courant newspaper per week and 25 journals
Project: The Hartford Courant was used as a daily up-to-date “textbook” in all areas of Ms. Core’s curriculum to stimulate interest in current events, gain exposure to report-style journalism, learn note-taking skills, and create their own news journal. Students also held class discussions on articles.

1999/2000

“100% Environmentally Smart”
Applicant: Cathy Wilcox
Targeted population: Ms. Wilcox’s second-grade class
Total amount requested: $474
Purchase of: a recycled plastic NOVAWOOD park bench, plaque, transportation
Project: Students collected and graphed various types of plastics for recycling. They delivered the plastic to NOVAWOOD Products in Stamford where it was recycled into a “100% environmentally safe” park bench. The project involved students in three curriculum areas: science (recycling), math (graphing), and writing (explanation of project in a class scrapbook). The bench was delivered and placed outside on Hurlbutt’s grounds.

2000/2001

“Math on the Move”
Applicants: Lisbeth Dizney and Jane Pinciaro
Targeted population: grade 3
Total amount requested: $999
Purchase of: three extra-large storage tubs filled with English literature and math manipulatives
Project: Movable math resource kits to be shared among the nine third-grade classes on a scheduled basis. Students used the contents of each math kit to join literature and math manipulatives into specific, high-order mathematical explorations within strand of mathematics. The themes of the kits included problem solving, place value/estimation, fractions, and geometry.

Weston Middle School

1995/1996

“Shoe Mural”
Applicant: Holly Hawthorn
Targeted population: WMS art students
Total amount requested: $500
Purchase of: material and an artist-in-residence
Project: With the guidance of Ms. Hawthorn and an artist-in-residence, the students at WMS created an oversized wall mural that currently hangs in the WMS library.

“Science”
Applicant: Linda Froschauer
Targeted population: WMS science students
Total amount requested: $404
Purchase of: Iomega Zip Drive
Project: The Zip Drive is a computer memory device that helps students take what they have learned from their own research, present it graphically, and share it with others.

1996/1997

“Science”
Applicant: Peter Stern
Targeted population: WMS science students
Total amount requested: $200
Purchase of: equipment to collect scientific energy data
Project: Energy analysis in WMS, culminating in a presentation of ideas to the school and the BOE. Students developed research, reporting, and presentation skills. This project helped to promote civic awareness and citizenship.
**$100 was unspent and returned to WEF

“Eureka Electricity”
Applicants: Patti Belkin-Falber, Sharon Dominici, Kristin Rafferty
Targeted population: grade 5
Total amount requested: $500
Purchase of: electrical reference books, voltage meters, and various electrical materials
Project: Creation of experiments that allowed students to create an electricity exhibition by building models that apply knowledge gained in static electricity, current electricity, electrical energy, and energy conservation.

“Robotics”
Applicant: Mark Evans
Targeted population: WMS technology education students
Total amount requested: $410
Purchase of: supplies to create small robots
Project: The supplies allowed students to build a working, computer-controlled robot arm of their own design that could pick up an object and transport it over a small wall.

1997/1998

“Art in the 20 th Century”
Applicant: Michele Raffaele
Targeted population: WMS students
Total amount requested: $140
Purchase of: art CD-ROMs for the computer
Project: Using these CD-ROMs helped students understand 20 th century art and the evolution of abstract painting. The CD-ROMs served as a springboard for discussion, written reports, and production of student art.

 “Art Links”
Applicant: Holly Hawthorn
Targeted population: grade 5
Total amount requested: $200
Purchase of: enrollment in Creative Connection Program, supplies to construct a scrapbook, postage to China, and film processing
Project: An endorsement and enrollment in an international arts exchange program that involved fifth graders in creating art work based on the theme “Windows...Looking Out/Looking In.” The theme corresponded with several curriculum areas. The students created a scrapbook about Weston Middle School, our community, and America, as well as a video on the fifth grade art class, and then sent the package to a partner school in China.

1997/1998

“Ancient Civilizations”
Applicant: Jan Trent-Fraser
Targeted Population: grades 5-8
Total amount requested: $1,000
Purchase of: CD-ROMs on ancient civilizations and earth sciences
Project: In order to make the current program more exciting, current, and challenging, two CD-ROMs units were to be used to integrate technology directly into the content area curriculum.
Check was returned to WEF when further investigation revealed the CD-ROMs were of sub-standard quality and did not fulfill the original intent of the grant.

"The Better Mousetrap”
Applicants: Peter Stern and Mark Evans
Targeted population: grade 8 science and technology education students
Total amount requested: $429
Purchase of: 12 mousetrap kits, glue guns, design video, and X-Acto knives
Project: A project designed to explain Newton’s law of motion (F=MA). Students designed, assembled, and tested a mousetrap-powered vehicle that was used in competition with other students. Distance and speed of the vehicle were the criteria for the successful design. Students also presented a detailed analysis of their solution to the class.

1998/1999

“Flower Boxes”
Applicant: Mark Evans and Sharon Dominci
Targeted population: Ms. Dominci’s fifth-grade class
Total amount requested: $350
Purchase of: flower box materials: wood, nails, assorted plants, lexan
Project: The two teachers collaborated to help students build flower boxes and incorporate the current “Plant Science” unit with math and woodworking. Students designed, built, and painted boxes that were attached to the outside of room B5. Boxes were designed to be removed so they could be reused year after year.

1999/2000

“Calculator Based Math”
Applicant: Kevin Buckley
Targeted Population: grade 7 and 8 pre-algebra and algebra students
Total amount requested: $730
Purchase of: math calculator-based laboratory physics package
Project: The purpose of this grant was to create a more challenging and engaging way to teach students physics with calculator-based labs. Through the use of motion detectors, sensor detectors, microphones, magnetic field sensors, and CBL data collection materials, students were able to actively participate in learning while mastering the difficult concepts of physics.

2000/2001

“Video Scrapbook”
Applicant: Bruce Simon
Targeted population: two-fourth-grade classes, one fifth-grade class
Total amount requested: $675
Purchase of: $225 per teacher for support services
Project: Students had the fun and challenge of planning and creating scrapbook video documentaries to be shared with an exchange student in a foreign country. Each video contained individual taped responses to each partner’s questions and written/illustrated presentations of aspects of each student’s life that were unique to his/her culture. The topics in the videos included foods, dress, holiday celebrations, songs, dance, and a video tour of WMS and classrooms.

“Bottle Rocket Construction and Launch”
Applicant: Linda Froschauer
Targeted population: grade 5
Total amount requested: $1,000
Purchase of: bottle rocket launcher, port pumps, and bottle rocket kits
Project: This project was done in conjunction with the fifth grade science unit “Beyond our Solar System.” Through the use of hands-on learning, students understood that gravity holds us to the earth’s surface. They considered constraints (such as time, trade-offs, and materials). Constructed a model, designed a solution/product, and implemented a proposed design. Bottle rockets (opposed to the solid fuel rockets of prior years) are easy to assemble safely and allow individual teachers to launch them on their own schedules.

2001/2002

“Integrated World Drumming Ensemble”
Applicant: Danielle Tusch
Targeted population: grade 7 in integrated arts
Total amount requested: $980
Purchase of: four large ethnic drums to enhance the Integrated Arts program
Project: In order to provide an opportunity for creative expression to 7 th graders (those not schedules for band, orchestra, or chorus) who are uncomfortable in a performance-oriented music class, as well as to launch musical rhythmic practice techniques, drums were introduced to engage students in active learning. The physicality of drumming helped accommodate “fidgety 12-year-old boys.” The drumming course targeted skills including language, discipline, improvising teamwork, self-esteem, respect, security, memory, tolerance, community, and coordination.

“Robotic Rocket Remote Sensing”
Applicants: Mark Evans and Tom Grace
Targeted population: grade 8
Total amount requested: $999
Purchase of: complete starter package of rocket boards, launchers, and consumables from AC Supply Company
Project: Math and technology education collaboration. In order to cover the physics linear motion principles of velocity and acceleration vs. time, the teachers incorporated the use of model rockets to record g-force once every .01 seconds while mounted inside the model rocket. The circuit recorded 2,000 measurements and could download them to a Windows PC for printing graphs of position and other measurements. The activity was incorporated into the 8 th grade science curriculum as well as the math/physics unit to find and interpret, among others, apogee and velocity of curves.

2005

“General Music Pilot Course”
Applicant: Rebecca Merrick
Targeted population: WMS 8 th grade general music students
Total amount requested: $1,335.00
Purchase of: 10 Acoustic Guitars (full size) 4 Acoustic Guitars (3/4 size), 10 full size guitar bags, 4 ¾ size guitar bags
Project: Students will learn fundamental principles of Western music theory including keys and scales, intervals, chord construction, and harmonic progressions. The course will also focus on the development of aural skills (ear training) and the comprehension of written musical notation through the hands-on, experience of playing the guitar.

Weston High School

1997/1998

“Spanish II Technology”
Applicant: Lisa Wolak
Targeted population: WHS Spanish students
Total amount requested: $980
Purchase of: 24 interactive computer CD-ROMs to aid in Spanish Language classes
Project: In order to accommodate the growing enrollment of Spanish language students (due to the new curriculum of Spanish education beginning in the third grade), the Spanish department revamped their curriculum to include new texts, audio tapes, and video tapes. This software complimented these improvements. It included a video presentation tool, slide presentation maker, word-processing tool, Spanish/English dictionary, songs, maps, and a vocabulary builder. The software engaged students in interactive tasks involving them in producing a telenovela or mini-drama. The purpose was to expose the students to culture and language in an intriguing, creative way using a young heroine they could relate to.

1998/1999

“Flexcam”
Applicant: J. Erhard
Targeted population: grade 9-10 Honors Biology students
Total amount requested: $895
Purchase of: one “Flexcam,” an electronic instrument that allows an image from a microscope to be projected onto a screen or TV monitor
Project: The Flexcam enabled students to compare the structure of a cell and its function in the body (a cellular biology class) and helped them to identify and distinguish between ground-positive and ground-negative staining ( microbiology). Students in Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and other classes were able to visualize and present the micro-world of living and non-living objects. The Flexcam could also allow teachers to demonstrate the micro-world without the time-consuming and difficult use of microscopes.

“Energy of Life Systems”
Applicant: Sue Pastor
Targeted population: grade 10 Biology students
Total amount requested: $975
Purchase of: 15 interactive CD-ROMs for the computers on cellular respiration
Project: The CD-ROMs focused on a unit of biology that is specific for energy systems of living organisms. The CD-ROMs provided a boost to a tired curriculum. They not only explained the conversion of food to energy, ATP and ADP, lycolytic pathways, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain but also made the concept more exciting for the students. The program enhanced independent learning by interaction, reinforcement, and review.

2000/2001

“Historical Document Book for U.S. History”
Applicant: Jean Bennett
Total amount requested: $998.64
Targeted population: grade 11 AP History/American Studies students
Purchase of: materials to create 76 custom-made, professionally-bound, history books through “Bibliobase”
Project: In order to incorporate more relevant primary source documents into AP History/American Studies classes (rather than generalized standard textbooks), Ms. Bennett created her own “books” that included actual documents for a database called Bibliobase (Houghton Mifflin). This program enabled the teacher to select documents that were most integral to her specific course and the ones she felt were most appropriate for her students. The books were professionally bound to help preserve them for use year after year.

“Inspiration Writing Program”
Applicant: Michael Maffucci
Targeted population: grade 9 Special Education students
Total amount requested: $715
Purchase of: Inspiration software for 26 computers
Project: This computer program provided software to benfit all students, especially those who struggle to write papers and essays. Many students already used the program at home. The installation of the program at school provided a necessary link to continue their success. The program allowed students to brainstorm and list ideas with a visual organizer.

“Classical International Films Archive”
Applicant: Larry Schackner
Targeted population: grade 9-12 in TAG, Language Arts, Social Studies, World Language, Fine Arts
Total amount requested: $1,000
Purchase of: various DVD titles to create a library of “50 American and foreign film classics”
Project: A collection of “World Classic” DVDs provided the students with the resources to analyze films for content as well as technique. The examination of creativity used in production helped to encourage and develop self expression. Probing questions enhanced independent learning with discussions of films, directors, cinematographers, writers, and languages. The foreign films helped students with foreign language skills and understanding cultural differences and similarities.

2001/2002

“AP Studio Slide Work”
Applicants: Elaine Pawlowski and Bob Mitchell
Targeted population: grades 11 and 12 AP Art students
Total amount requested: $1,320 or $660 (depending on which proposal we accepted)
Purchase of: film, processing, all camera and lighting equipment
Project: The purchase of photographic material and instruction on using the equipment enabled AP Art students to submit an advanced-level portfolio to the AP Testing Board
(a recognized national program with guidelines set up by the Educational Testing Service) that reflected their high level of artistic accomplishment. Students in this class are expected to adhere to AP guidelines. Since the cost of producing this quality slide is prohibitive, many of these students cannot meet AP testing guidelines. This grant helped to ensure their equal evaluation compared to other art students.

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EXPERT-IN-RESIDENCE GRANT

These grants enable a recognized, outside expert in a specific curriculum area to be hired as a consultant to the schools to provide a comprehensive program on curriculum development and teacher education.

1997/1997

“Project Adventure”
Applicants: Darli Ebling and K-12 PE/Health Department
Targeted population: systemwide
Teachers involved: Hurlbutt, WMS, and WHS Physical Education/Health teachers
Total amount requested: $5,000
Expert’s name or company name: Bart Crawford of Project Adventure
Project: the Physical Education/Health Department, used Project Adventure to help develop an atmosphere of trust, discovery, and teamwork. The K-12 P.E. and Health Department received direct training from Bart Crawford when he co-taught the P.E. and Health classes. Mr. Crawford provided staff development workshops for all administrators and addressed the three PTOs. The classes he taught focused on problem-solving, building communication skills, interpersonal relationships, and risk-taking activities.

1999

“Reading Workshops”
Applicants: Trish Epifano and Jeanne Michel, Language Arts Department Chairs
Targeted population: 75 Hurlbutt and WMS Language Arts students
Teachers involved: 27 Language Art teachers
Total amount requested: $5,000
Expert’s name or company’s name: Columbia Teachers College
Project: To cover the cost of a Columbia Teachers College staff developer to come to Weston and hold five reading workshops for grades 3, 4, and 5 teachers. The overall goal was to enable the staff to be trained as “workshop mentors” to support the BOE goal of differentiation in teaching reading. A lab class would be created for each grade so that the expert could model the Columbia Teachers College-developed classroom strategy.
**Project was approved but never got off the ground.

1999/2000

“Science”
Applicant: Richard Miller
Targeted population: systemwide
Total amount requested: $10,000
Expert’s name: Harold Pratt
Project: Expert’s time only; no individual teaching/guidance involved. This expert objectively evaluated the K-12 science curriculum and helped develop a long-term paln to improve science instruction for all students.

2000/2001

“Composer-in-Residence”
Applicant: Sean Burton, WHS choral/orchestra director
Targeted population: grades 9-12. Approximately 120 students
Teachers involved: one
Total amount requested: $1,000
Expert’s name: Nathan Paul Scalzone
Project: WHS students learned and performed an original work with the insight/guidance of the composer-in-residence. The project provided students with the opportunity to work with a living 20 th-century choral composer who discussed elements of contemporary composition for orchestra. The piece was performed during the spring Weston Pops Concert as a world premiere event. Students who were enrolled in choral music, music theory, orchestra, and the entire audience benefited from this endeavor.

2001/2002

“Language Arts and Creative Expression”
Applicant: Sharon Radko, WMS librarian
Targeted population: grade 5
Teachers involved: grade 5 teachers
Total amount requested: $5350
Expert’s name: Lorna Stengel
Project: This storytelling program supported the fifth grade tale unit in which students are introduced to a various types of folk tales. Since folk tales are based in oral tradition, bringing in five “expert storytellers” was a natural extension to the curriculum. Students heard professional storytellers during both the tale and storytelling units. The “performances” offered an opportunity for students to become immersed in tales. With help from classroom teachers trained in a workshop and the expert, the students used storytelling techniques they had seen modeled to retell a folk tale for a community service project.

“Advanced Placement Vertical Team”
Applicant: Mary Kolek
Targeted population: Primarily WHS students in AP Language Arts. Grade 7-12 Language Arts students will benefit because each of these grades will have a L.A. representative teacher involved in workshops.
Total amount requested: $8,075
Expert’s name: The College Board
Project: A series of workshops led by The College Board Vertical Team Trainers for middle and high school teachers to help them work together to build and strengthen a continuum of skills to create vertical teams in Language Arts. The purpose is to ensure that AP English is not an isolated course but a planned program of teaching skills and concepts over several years and that a planned program is best achieved by vertical cooperation of teachers to coordinate the teaching efforts. The establishment of vertical teams will help make certain that English courses leading up to grades 11 and 12 AP courses provide a continuous focus on developing students who possess the rigors necessary for the AP program

2002/2003

“Word Up”
Applicant: Len Tomasello
Targeted population: systemwide
Total amount requested: $8,000
Expert’s name: several poets and storytellers
Project: A week-long poetry celebration which sent visiting poets and storytellers to all three schools. It exposed students and teachers to new forms of writing and exploring language patterns, rhythms, and word analysis, all under the aegis of professional poets. There were also open-mike opportunities where students, teachers, parents, and community members were able to read and share their original work.

2004/2005

“Science”
Applicant: Linda Froschauer
Targeted population: Hurlbutt and Weston Middle School
Total amount requested: $8,400
Expert’s name: Robert Evenski, with The Connecticut Academy for Science and Mathematics
Project: The Expert-in-Residence will work with the K-8 grade faculty for a total of two years as they prepare to launch a new science program. This grant was requested to fulfill the initial year of a two year plan with a specific focus on K-5 science. During the first year, the initial work with the Expert-in-Residence will be along the lines of immersing teachers in quality science teaching – namely pedagogy, inquiry, conceptual development, and performance assessment. All teachers will be involved in exploring teaching materials they have not had the opportunity to utilize previously. Learning the content will be a critical piece of this overall plan. Teachers will not only be instructed in the content but wi9ll also have some of the same exploratory experiences their students will participate in during their learning of the content.

“Visiting Artist Workshop”
Applicant: Sydney Girardi
Targeted population: 3 WHS Ceramics classes
Total Amount requested: $540, $270 for 1 semester and $270 for another semester
Expert’s name: Charles Jones, of the Creative Arts Workshop
Project: A one-day workshop, teaching three separate classes about hand-building pottery. This workshop will present students various techniques and procedures regarding hand-building. The student’s last project will be to design and build a piece of hand-built pottery. Other art teacher’s will be invited to observe.  

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ENRICHMENT AND TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES

WEF has sponsored many grants in addition to Teacher Development and Creativity or Exert-in-residence Grants. The unique nature of these projects are distinctive enough to fall under a new grant category: Enrichment and Technology Initiatives. Some requests are for collaboration with institutions of higher learning, others are for tangible items. Whatever the case may be, WEF has found these proposals worthy of funding and encourages their system-wide development.

1995/1996

“Data/Video Projector”
Applicant: Dave Burke
Targeted population: systemwide
Total amount requested: $6,180.50
Purchase of: Data/Video Projector

1996/1997

“High Speed Internet Access”
Applicants: David Trigaux and Richard Miller
Targeted population: systemwide
Total amount requested: $32,920.79
Actual amount spent: $25,456.83
Purchase of: T-1 telephone connection and cable modems
Project: Provide all three schools with high-speed access to the Internet

1998/1999

“Summer Curriculum Institute”
Applicant: David Trigaux
Targeted population: systemwide
Total amount requested: $15,400
Actual amount spent: $8,082.79
Purchase of:
Project: A mini-lab program for teachers. At high school, teachers and students developed a Web site, www.westonhighschool,com. At the elementary level, Weston teachers were trained through Lincoln Center to develop a fine arts course. 

1998/1999 -1999/2000

“Media Lab”
Applicant: Dave Eger
Targeted population: WHS students
Total amount requested: Initially $40,000—an additional $40,000 was approved later on
Actual amount spent: $80,000
Purchase of: state-of-the-art equipment, videography hardware and software
Project: To create a high school Media Technology Lab that rivals those found at colleges and universities. With the installation of video editing, audio, lighting, and mixing equipment, students can explore and/or create individual video productions.

1999/2000

“Network printers”
Targeted population: systemwide
Total amount requested: $15,000
Actual amount spent: $13,480.79
“Gel Electrophoresis Laboratory”
Applicant: Sue Pastor
Targeted population: students in Bio I, Bio II, and Honors Biology
Total amount requested: $5,000-$6,000
Purchase of: Laboratory equipment
Project: The purchase of gel electrophoresis kits (approved by the National Science Standard Committee) to pilot the integration of biotechonology labs into the curriculum though the funding of equipment, curriculum revision, and related training. Gel electrophoresis is a biotechnology experiment that allows students to conduct research on DNA. The labs help prepare students to compete in the future as leaders in biotechnology and other careers grounded in inquiry and experimentation. The labs incorporate inquiry-based labs while still maintaining the quality of the science curriculum. Cloning, gene therapy, genetically-modified foods, and human-genome sequencing are addressed.

“American Studies Collaboration with FairfieldUniversity”
Applicant: Mary Kolek
Targeted population: WHS American Studies students
Total amount requested: $5,325
Project: Allowed the high school to form a partnership with Fairfield University faculty to give seminars and co-teach classes for WHS American Studies classes. ThePurpose of the collaboration was enhance the WHS program and to improve the curricula for coming generations of instructors and students. Special attention was paid to the incorporation of arts into the interdisciplinary study of both American Literature and U.S. History.

“Sound System”
Targeted population: systemwide and Weston community
Total amount requested: $76,049.48
Purchase of: high school auditorium sound system
Project: to install a completely new and state-of-the-art sound system in WHS auditorium for use by the middle school production (Short Wharf), high school productions (Company),and Weston community events
Funding: a collaboration of a single donor, WHS Company, WMS Short Wharf, and WEF

2001/2002

“Wireless Library”
Applicant: Larry Schackner
Targeted population: All WHS students
Total amount requested: $30,350
Purchase of: NEC or comparable 15” flat panel display, Wire Access Node, NT application server w/2 processors, Citrix MetaframeXPS software license for 15 stations,3Com or comparable wireless pcmcia network cards, WYSE 3360se or comparable wireless Thin Client
Project: Pilot the use of innovative wireless technology to create a flexible learning and teaching environment in the WHS Library/Media Center. This project will provide expansion and new access to the Internet and the addition of current and new software into areas of the school that currently have no access to learning technology. This pilot program will spearhead a flexible environment that can be expanded throughout the high school and be a model for the middle and elementary schools. The Wireless Library will create a flexible infrastructure to meet a wide variety of educational needs, situations, and opportunities. For example, in the library or classroom, a teacher can create large and/or small tutoring centers, presentation centers; quiet study areas; production areas; individual team research areas; and discussion, research, and brainstorming team areas.

2005

“Digital Spectrophotometers”
Applicant: Stacey Greenberg
Targeted population: WHS students in Honors Biology, Honors Chemistry, Honors Chemistry II, AP Biology
Total amount requested: 7,887.00
Purchase of: 6 Spectronic 20D + Digital Spectrophotometers
Project: Spectrophotometers allow scientists to measure the amount of light absorbed or transmitted by a solution. Students can use spectrophotometers to collect data monitoring the progress of a reaction, allowing them to quantify results that are currently gained through qualitative measures. The use of spectrophotometers enables the department to be expanded and enhanced by the ability to carry out labs which could not be done previously.

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THE DAVID TRIGUAX INNOVATION AWARD

The Weston Education Foundation established this award to be given to a Weston teacher who has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Foundation an unusual level of originality and dedication to creative teaching—a teacher who has truly made a difference in our school community.

2001

Mark Evans
Weston Middle School
Technology Education Teacher

2002

Jean Bennett
Weston High School
History teacher

2003

Geri Grocki
Weston High School
Health and Physical Education Department Chair for K-12

2005

Dave Eger
Weston High School
Videography teacher