$10K in PTSA Grants to Clubs, GHS Staff

The Building Leadership Team (BLT) recently approved nearly $10,000 in PTSA funding for a variety of staff projects and student club activities.

• DeltaMath online learning platform, teacher licenses: $1,000
• Laptop chargers (40) for teachers to keep in room for students who lost/forgot theirs: $1,000
• Blackout shades for two south-facing classrooms to enable students to see projections and make temperatures more comfortable: $2,500
• Translation mics (20) so ELL students can read translation of classroom lectures in their first languages. (This technology is already tin successful use and merited expansion.): $400
• Copies of “Purple Hibiscus” (60), a book that all 10th-graders read: $700
• Copies of book for psychology class (8): $150
• Parts to build remote-control car for computer science: $150
• New whiteboard for PE teacher: $500
  

Student Club allocations of up to $300 for general expenses such as food and materials, unless otherwise noted. (This is a first round of funds for clubs — more to come.)

• Filipino Student Association
• Vietnamese Student Association
• Chinese Student Association
• Japanese Student Association
• Korean Student Association
• Asian Pacific Islander Student Union
• Chess Club
• Engineering Make Club (materials for a maker space)
• Pickleball Club