Grant money from BCEF!

Hello,

I'm sorry that I had to run off at the end of homework club to go to a meeting. I like to chat a bit and touch base with all of you, but I needed to go to the library to meet with the BCEF.

The Brunswick Community Education Foundation gives grant money to help support Brunswick public schools. This meeting was for grant award winners. Many teachers from all levels of our school system met to get the details on the next step in the grant process. I'm happy to report that our class will be benefiting from one of the grants.

I wrote up a grant a couple of months ago to support HBS teachers that are trying to teach children to have a growth mindset. A group of teachers had read Carol Dweck's book, Mindset, last summer. This led us to a number of other books on the topic, including Mindset in the Classroom by Mary Cay Ricci. That book recommended a series of games made by a company called Thinkfun! These are games that are meant to be played alone that teach that accomplishment comes through perseverance and learning from your mistakes. The grant allows us to purchase an assortment of thirty of these games. I'm going to write up the order tonight, which means we may have the games before April Break! It's very exciting for me because I've been grabbing these games at lawn sales and Goodwills whenever I see them, but now we'll have a full class set to share.

Thank you BCEF!

I'll update you on when we start using them. I think I may want some parent volunteers, so we can have some game rotations on the first day we use them.

Thanks for reading.

Mr. Shea