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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SENIOR RECEIVES $6000.00 TEACHING SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE MCCARTHEY DRESSMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Morgantown, WV. February 4, 2010
Professor Sarah J. McCarthey, President of the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation, announced that Ashley A. King is a 2009/2010-scholarship recipient. The Foundation has awarded four scholarships of $6000.00 each for the current academic year from among 41 applicants.
Candidate for a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master’s in Secondary Education, Ms. King is currently working to complete more than 1,000 hours of student teaching in ninth grade English at Morgantown High School. With a cumulative GPA of 4.0/4.0 and a minor in Spanish, she will graduate May 2010. “Receiving a scholarship from the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation is a true honor,” noted Ms. King. "It enables me to better focus on my student teaching experience and enrich my development as a prospective teacher." Her work experience includes participating in the Coordinating Council for Independent Living, the West Virginia Dialect Project, Sylvan Learning Center, and the WVU Writing Center.
Professor McCarthey noted that Foundation scholarships are designed to instill a lifelong, passionate commitment to education and learning at the highest level. “Our scholarships provide financial and mentoring support to educators who are student teaching in their final year of teacher education programs at New Mexico State University, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, and West Virginia University.”
SING LUM ELEMENTARY TEACHER BROOK WEBB AWARDED $7000.00 GRANT FROM THE MCCARTHEY DRESSMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
“Fascinating Forensics” One of Three Academic Enrichment Projects Funded Out of 200 Applicants across the U.S.
Bakersfield, CA.
Sarah J. McCarthey, President of the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation, announced that “Fascinating Forensics” proposed by Sing Lum Elementary Teacher Brook Webb is one of three to receive an Academic Enrichment Grant out of 200 applications nationwide. The project will receive more than $7000.00 in funding.
“Fascinating Forensics is an innovative approach to elementary education that integrates appropriate forensics curriculum into state-adopted, standards-based curriculum,” noted Professor McCarthey. “Students will be actively engaged in critical thinking, data analysis, logistics and deductive reasoning skills on a continuous basis. Each content area presents a novel gateway to the study of language arts, grammar, mathematics, science and social studies/history.”
Students will learn how the three branches of the U.S. government work together to create, implement and enforce the law. Interview techniques will teach communication and memory skills; physical evidence lessons will present the sciences and social studies in a nontraditional format. “This program will revolutionize the way students feel about learning,” added Professor McCarthey, “by making them the investigators of their own educational experiences.”
Preliminary Administrative Credential Certified, Mrs. Webb holds a Master of Arts in Education Administration from California State University Bakersfield. “Receiving the McCarthey Dressman Academic Enrichment Grant is such a joy and honor,” commented Mrs. Webb. She is also the recipient of other grants and awards including those from Tool Factory Olympus Podcasting, Kern County Museum “Living History Day,” AIAA Science, History of a Nation, Chevron Energy for Learning, among others. She is a member of the American Institute for History Education, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, California Teachers Association, National Education Association, and the Association of California School Administrators.
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ART PROJECT AT HENRY W. GRADY & GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOLS RECEIVES THIRD YEAR OF FUNDING FROM McCARTHEY DRESSMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
200 Applicants across the U.S. Competed for the Foundation’s 2009/2010 Academic Enrichment Grants: “On-Site/Insight” One of Only Three Projects Funded
Atlanta, GA. December 8, 2009.
Sarah J. McCarthey, President of the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation, announced that an art project at Henry W. Grady & George Washington Carver High Schools has received its third year of funding. The project “On-Site/Insight” is one of three to receive an Academic Enrichment Grant out of 200 applications nationwide. The Foundation has awarded an Academic Enrichment Grant in the amount of $7000.00 again this year to the project for a total of $21,000.00.
The 2009/2010 funding of “On-Site/Insight” will support a series of collaborative events between Grady and Carver High Schools as part of the overall project. “This project is an excellent example of a groundbreaking effort that relates to students’ lives and increases teachers’ abilities to reflect on their own practices,” noted Professor McCarthey. “Collaborative projects like “On-Site/Insight” break down subject matter barriers and bring teachers and students together to develop meaningful cross-disciplinary projects.”
In the first two years of “On-Site/Insight,” Grady, Carver, and M. Agnes Jones Elementary School students visited the High Museum to view the permanent collection, learn about its history and how to communicate the significance of the collection to elementary school students. Students developed interdisciplinary curriculum to explore contemporary art through museum-based learning and serve as tour guides in the museum.
“The generous support of the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation has taken us on many great adventures and produced permanent artifacts for multiple locations involving hundreds of students from the full range of cultural backgrounds,” noted Grady Fine Arts Department and Fine Arts Academy Director John Charles Brandhorst. “Unprecedented partnerships from the High Museum portion of “On-Site/Insight” have led to a new set of interactions that the Foundation is generously funding this academic year.”
According to Director Brandhorst, the 2009/2010 project will build on the High Museum experience and memorialize it on both the Grady and Carver campuses where students will collaboratively produce matching sculptures The Stonehenge-like sculptures or “cairns” will be identical in design and fabrication; the cairns will align with each other across the distance between the two schools. “Typically schools meet to compete making this type of collaboration between schools quite rare,” added Director Brandhorst. “One of the aims of this project is to remind school communities that we are after the same things; truth, teamwork, beauty, and participation.” Names of stakeholders including the McCarthy/Dressman Education Foundation will be sandblasted into the surface of the cairns.
URBAN AGRICULTURE PROGRAM AT PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS HIGH SCHOOL IN CHICAGO AWARDED $10,0000.00 FROM McCARTHEY DRESSMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
“The Greening of a Desert” Project at Pedro Albizu Campos High School - One of Three Funded Projects from among 200 Applications Nationwide
Chicago, IL. December 8, 2009.
Professor Sarah J. McCarthey, President of the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation, announced that “The Greening of a Desert” program at Pedro Albizu Campos High School (PACHS) has been awarded $10,000.00 for the 2009/2010 academic year. The funding can be renewed for two more years for a total award of $30,000.00 depending on the design of the project. “The Greening of a Desert” is one of only three out of 200 applications nationwide to receive an Academic Enrichment Grant.
Carlos R. DeJesus, Assistant Principal and Director of the Urban Agriculture Initiative and the Community Scholars Program at PACHS described “The Greening of a Desert” as a school-based program in urban agriculture. “The mission is to enhance the engagement of our students in addressing the community’s designation as a food desert,” commented Director DeJesus. “Currently, community residents have to leave the community and travel to other communities in order to purchase affordable, fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs.”
Professor McCarthey described the program as an outstanding example of a an innovative educational effort that challenges a system that has focused on testing and standards by introducing real world, problem-based curriculum. “The Foundation’s Board of Trustees were impressed by this creative yet pragmatic program that relates to students’ lives and the community in which they live,” commented Professor McCarthey.
PACHS will establish a student-designed, student- coordinated Urban Community Farm in Chicago’s Humboldt Park. “PACHS provides its students, all of whom have dropped out or have been pushed out of public high schools, with a highly supportive, student-centered environment in which to undo years of negativity and failure in prior schools and rekindle their innate curiosity and love of learning,” added Director DeJesus. “Students learn the value of service learning and community engagement; that the community is an ecosystem; and that their well-being as individuals is intimately tied to the well-being of their community.”
According to Director DeJesus, PACHS students are engaged in problem-based learning in which they are encouraged to research, deliberate and come up with solutions to the community’s food desert status and related health issues. Student recommendations have already fueled community-wide urban agriculture initiatives: a campaign to encourage community residents to grow their own food through backyard and rooftop gardens; development of a greenhouse at PACHS and on the rooftops of buildings along Paseo Boricua; and an urban community farm in Humboldt Park, a 209-acre park located within the community's boundaries.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SENIOR RECEIVES $6000.00 TEACHING SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE MCCARTHEY DRESSMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Austin, Texas. Salt Lake City, Utah. November 5, 2009.
Professor Sarah J. McCarthey, President of the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation, announced that Jenna Rae De La Rosa is a 2009/2010-scholarship recipient. The Foundation awarded four scholarships of $6000.00 each for the current academic year from among 41 applicants.
De La Rosa is in her last semester at the University of Texas at Austin. An Elementary Education major, she is serving as an Apprentice Teacher full time. Recipient of a 2005 Presidential Award Scholarship and a University Honors student, De La Rosa has earned certification in both “Early Childhood to Fourth Grade Generalist” and “Pedagogy and Professional Responsibility.” She will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Learning and Development. “I am very thankful and feel very honored to be a McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation recipient,” commented De La Rosa.
McCarthey noted that Foundation scholarships are designed to instill a lifelong, passionate commitment to education and learning at the highest level. “Our scholarships provide financial and mentoring support to educators who are student teaching in their final year of teacher education programs at New Mexico State University, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, and West Virginia University.” Other 2009/2010 Scholarships recipients are Jocelyn Kadas, Coronado, California; Ashley King, Morgantown, West Virginia; and Chad Rountree, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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