Grants

Wyandanch Early Childhood Curriculum Project : August 2010 – August 2012

  • Rauch Foundation – $20, 000 to provided Tools of the Mind Curriculum to three
  • Early childhood classrooms in Wyandanch Union Free School District.

Wyandanch Union Free School District : 2008 – 2014

Long Island University Partnership: Universal Pre-K Program 

  • Wrote grant and administered a five-year grant for University-Public School
  • Partnership (First year $60, 800 allocated, second year $65,000 allocated, third year $65,000 fourth year $65,000 allocated, fifth year $65,000 allocated)

 Faculty Research Grants

Bilingual Fairy Tales Supported with Play Props

  • Faculty grant for project – Bilingual Fairy Tales Supported with Play Props.
  • Provided familiar fairy tale literature in English and Spanish to forty dual language learners in the Wyandanch Union Free School District.

Dialogic Reading with Preschoolers

  • Faculty grant for project – Dialogic Reading with Preschoolers.
  • Provided 3 preschool teachers in Wyandanch Union Free School District with a research-based model for explicit teaching of vocabulary through shared picture book reading.

Comparison of Traditional and Technology Contexts

  • Faculty grant for project – A Comparison of Traditional and Technology Based Numeracy-related Contexts.
  • Provide an investigation comparing preschool use of the traditional board game, Chutes and Ladders with online version on I-Pads.
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