Impact of Grants in Miami Area

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting this article about the impact of grant funding on students in the Miami Area.

GRANTS TO TEACHERS REWARD CREATIVE LESSONS
Peter Bailey, Miami Herald, October 24, 2006

“Clutching a green pencil, Nartisa Seals shaded in Cat Island's outer ridges, where the ocean laps at the boot-shaped Bahamian paradise. She then pointed to the dark blue coastline. ‘That's where my grandmother grew up,’ said the sixth-grader at Oak Grove Elementary School in North Miami Beach. ‘She told me about how they sang the Conch Song.’

“Nartisa, 12, and her peers sat drawing images of nostalgia, sketching maps of towns and villages familiar to their roots inside Patti Ward's geography class. ’I figured the best way to teach geography was to begin with where they're from,’ Ward said. ‘Once they appreciate their own heritage, they gain an interest in other places.’

“The project, called ‘Celebrate Us,’ is one of dozens being implemented throughout South Florida classrooms with the help of the Citibank Success Fund. More than 150 Miami-Dade and Broward teachers were awarded grants through the initiative, which hopes to foster nontraditional teaching methods on a variety of themes such as economics, science, math and more.”

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Learn more about the Citibank Success Fund here.

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