EDUCATION
2023 Grant Awardees
Stories and Canvas: Elementary and HS Authors and Artists Collab: $2,000, Liberty Hill High School Carnipalooza 2024: $2,800, Liberty Hill High School Liberty Hill Bionic Panthers Robotics Team: $5,000, Liberty Hill High School INCubatoredu / Entrepreneur: $3,000, Liberty Hill High School Outdoor Classroom: $3,000, Liberty Hill Elementary Motor/Sensory Lab: $800, Louine Noble Elementary School Pocket Lab Equipment Grant: $4,500, Liberty Hill Middle School Building a Thinking Classroom with Vertical Workspace: $2,300, Liberty Hill Middle School Sensory Outdoor Learning Center: $800, Liberty Hill Middle School Empty Bowls: $1,400, Liberty Hill Middle School Mark It Up with Math!: $2,400, Bill Burden Elementary Decodable Phonics Books Will Improve Reading Skills: $960, Rancho Sienna Elementary Cultural Literacy for Kinders: $2,115, Rancho Sienna Elementary SPED / All Abilities / Pre-K Playground: $2,000, Rancho Sienna Elementary STEAM Ozobots: $3,500, Santa Rita Elementary Guaranteed Game Changer: $1,000, Santa Rita Elementary Toniesbox: $600, Santa Rita Elementary Building Future Authors: $700, Santa Rita Elementary Empowering Champions through Project: $3,500, Santa Rita Middle School MiniOne: Elevating Excellence with Hands On Discovery Labs: $1,000, Santa Rita Middle School Makerspace Launchers!: $381, Santa Rita Middle School Book Vending Machine: $2,000, Santa Rita Middle School Sensory Seekers: $1,500, Bar W Elementary Centered Around Our Scholars: $2,500, Bar W Elementary Stimulating Sensory Bins: $1,500, Bar W Elementary 14
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Innovation Celebration
he Liberty Hill ISD budget does not always enable teachers to provide all of the innovative, enriching opportunities they would like to provide their students. However, 25 grants totaling $51,256 awarded by the Liberty Hill ISD Education Foundation in December have expanded their ability to provide greater educational experiences for students at all grade levels.
Formed by a group of caring and committed citizens who share a vision to enhance educational opportunities and student success, the LHEF provides annual grants to support teachers’ projects that lie outside the district’s budget. Just before the Christmas break, members of the foundation, district staff, and campus principals surprised grant recipients in their classrooms with oversized checks. “We are very fortunate to have so many talented teachers in LHISD. They continually strive to provide new and innovative teaching strategies to improve the learning ex-
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perience for our students,” Foundation President Mike Bowles says. “With the generous support we receive from the community, the Education Foundation is proud to help foster the innovation of our amazing LHISD teachers.”
PAGES TO PALETTES One of those teachers, Misti Schulz, was excited to receive $2,000 for her Elementary and High School Authors and Artists Collab project at Liberty Hill and Bill Burden Elementary Schools and Liberty Hill High School. An art teacher at LHHS, Misti teamed up with other art teachers to en-
