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Waylon Shaffer
Students Learn More Through Amazing Learning Experiences Sitting in Waylon Shaffer’s fifth-grade classroom at Wes-Del Elementary School, it was easy to see his passion for providing his students with an amazing learning experience. Tables replaced desks making working together more manageable for students. Buckets of manipulative learning tools lined the shelves. Student work was proudly on display.
students to put their hands on the learning process. Let me show you,” Waylon said as he pulled out a box of colored sticks and explained how each color represented a different length. He quickly clicked four orange sticks together to show how he could illustrate a square and a rhombus. He then swapped out two orange sticks for two blue sticks to demonstrate Waylon serves on a rectangle and The Community “I hope more and more a parallelogram. Foundation’s “Students of all people realize that even Robert P. Bell ages benefit Education Grants in small ways, we can when they can Committee. keep making a put learning tools Teachers are in their hands. difference.” awarded Bell Through Bell Grants of $50 to Grants, student $450 for creative interest piques in and innovative classroom projects. things like gardening, engineering, robotics, A committee comprised of one teacher from writing, and beyond.” each Delaware County school district blindly reviews applications four times each school Waylon and his wife, Sarah, live in Delaware year to recommend grants. During the 2018County and have a daughter in the second 2019 school year, teachers received 45 grade at Wes-Del and a new baby boy. Robert P. Bell Education Grants, impacting As a family, they take full advantage of more than 3,441 students across the county. the programs and opportunities in the community. Waylon explains that when they “Teachers use Bell Grants to allow their 14 | CFMDIN 2019 Annual Report
