Patton Grant Winners 25-26

Arley Rabinowitz for Pickleball Equipment (3-5, Intermediate) Pickleball equipment, including nets, paddles, and balls. Pickleball builds coordination, teamwork, and lifelong fitness.

Ellie Chin and Kelly Vignocchi for Mindfulness Matters for Meaningful Learning (K-5) various items to be added to calm Calm Corner Kits that will help students during times of dysregulation.

Danielle Hiller, Stacie Pacini, and Karen Pullam for Listening Loud, Learning Proud (K) over-ear headphones with boom mics to support focused learning, engagement, and access to the new interactive curriculum, fostering independence and maximizing instructional time.

Ellie Chin and Kelly Vignocchi for Belonging and Connection is at the Core (K-5) a variety of games that can be used for school-wide events, classroom checkout, class awards, classroom challenges against other classrooms, and more to foster a sense of belonging and connection throughout the school community.

Monique Weber and Jacqulyn Levin for IndoORIGAMI Recess (3-5) origami books and origami paper for purposeful play during indoor recess.

Zhaneta Roura, K-2 Team, and 3-5 Team for Buzzing with Purpose: Expanding Bee-Bots for Learning Across the Curriculum (K-5) a Bee-Bot six-pack of robots. Bee-Bots are child-friendly, rechargeable coding robots designed to teach sequencing, spatial reasoning, directional language, and logic through interactive play.

Zhaneta Roura for Igniting Innovation: Empowering Every K-5 Student as a Creator with Ozobot Evo (K-5) an Ozobot Evo Classroom Kit. This kit provides 18 small, engaging robots that teach coding through two simple methods: drawing with markers and connecting digital blocks.

Claire Hasemeyer for Bridging the Gap (K-5) Heggerty’s Phonemic Awareness book, Bridge the Gap 2025 edition. Phonemic awareness is the foundation for reading and Bridge the Gap is filled with short and impactful lessons that focus only on sounds.
This grant went to all 7 elementary schools!

Kelly Sedey, Hannah Blanchard, Becca Carlson, Ellen Harrigian, Patti Malinowski, Jordan Jackson, Queenie Rivera, Nicole Brown, Claire Hasemeyer, Katie Warner, Julie McCune, Julia Schacht, Regina Kross, Colleen Crandall, Bridget Venticinque, Sue Gogliotti, Lesley Daniel, Monique Weber, Julie Salski, Whitney Rodriguez, Deirdre O’Brien, Nicole Boyle, Mark Guerrero, Irene Belesiotis, Daniela Colosimo, Colleen Foster for Multi-Sensory Tools in Literacy Instruction (K-5) a collection of multi-sensory literacy materials, including sand trays, counters, mirrors, pop-its, and textured writing surfaces to be distributed to literacy interventionists and resource teachers across the district at the elementary level to support explicit, structured literacy instruction consistent with the Science of Reading.
This grant went to all 7 elementary schools!

Heather Coyle, Amy Arce, Jackie Aprati, Nicole Boyle, Courtney Clawson, Courtney Fleaka, Steve Swanson for Navigating Numeracy Skills (K) high-interest and collaborative math centers that allow kindergarten students to develop their mastery of critical numeracy concepts.
This grant went to Dryden, Greenbrier, Ivy Hill, Patton, Westgate, and Windsor

Vicky Stella, Shannon Watanuki, Laurie Wasik, Julia Pike, Amanda Range, Sara Born for Gamified Enrichment: Strengthening Critical Thinking in Math and Literacy (K-5) several critical thinking games and activities that can be used in a small group enrichment settings. These games include: Adsumudi, Brainy Knots, 24 Game, SET, Kanoodle, Tangrams, and Dominoes.
This grant went to Dryden, Ivy Hill, Olive-Mary Stitt, Windsor, and Westgate