SEPTA Awards Grants For Mam'k Schools

by Lori Stevenson

(May 1, 2008) On April 17, SEPTA, the Special Education Parent Teacher Association for Mamaroneck-Larchmont, awarded a total of more than $4000 in grants to teachers and staff at five district schools. The grants are for programs specifically aimed at enhancing the learning and educational experiences of children with special needs.

Among those attending the SEPTA award ceremony were some of the teachers receiving awards.

At the April 17 awards ceremony, the SEPTA leadership extended appreciation to the grantees for their high level of dedication, creativity and innovation. Among those receiving grant funding were the following:

Central School:

Stephanie Saia , Susan Herron and Charna Cwiebel are reading teachers receiving three grants to support reading “visualizing and verbalizing” and an alternative reading assessment program to improve understanding of literacy development in lower and upper elementary grades.

Chatsworth Avenue School:

Noreen Yeh (Grade 3) and Rachel Morse (Special Ed) are receiving a grant to support acquisition of the “Touch Math” program. Touch Math is the leading multisensory teaching approach that bridges manipulation and memorization. It will compliment the TERC math program used in the district.

Mamaroneck Avenue School:

Ana Vidal-Montes and Mary Diffley (ESL) are grant recipients to support literacy workshops for parents of bilingual kindergarten students.

Angela Fazzolari and Susanna Franco (Speech) are being provided a grant to obtain and develop adaptive materials for the special needs population.

Jaime Perrotta (Special Ed) received a grant for the “New Heights” reading program to enhance struggling readers’ fluency and phrasing (Resource Room)

Joanna Levande, Ellen Katz, Lynn Dearwester, Susan Longo, and Kathy Rie (Pre-K ) are awarded a grant for materials in support of the continuation of their project "Creating and enhancing materials to encourage literacy in Pre-K“.

Murray Avenue School:

Patrice Schwartz, Rebekah Ward, Christine Portanova, Bernadette Mannion, George Hebron and Linda Finn (Kindergarten) are receiving a grant to obtain supplies to support development of fine motor skills and sensory integration.

Hommocks Middle School:

Jesse Dancy-Smith (Grade 7 Social Studies) received a grant to enhance audio visual equipment used in the “History Alive!” program for unconventional learners.

Shalini Sudarsanan and Susan Chester- (Grade 6 Social Studies and Mathematics) received a grant to purchase Battleship games for their project “Linking Battleship to the Global Grid and Coordinate Plane”

Lori Stevenson volunteers with SEPTA.

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