Beverly Education Foundation Awards $20K+ In Grant Funding

BEVERLY, MA — Two dozen programs across Beverly Public Schools shared in more than $20,000 in grant funding from the Beverly Education Foundation as part of this year's funding program.

The grants were announced at last week's School Committee meeting and were awarded to teachers who oversee initiatives that benefit learning in a 21st-century global environment.

This year's recipients are:

• Beverly High School
• Robotics
• Peabody Essex Museum AP Art
• Beverly Middle School
• Graphic Novel Update for the library
• VEX Robotics

• All Elementary Schools & BMS
• Hooray For Health
• Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School
• Number Sense Math
• At Home Lively Letters
• Centerville Elementary School
• Fall Kindergarten Learning
• Express Yourself
• Decodable Text for Advanced Learners
• Cove Elementary School
• Eetchie Tool Kits
• Math Resources
• Change is Simple
• Poetry Hill Program

• Hannah Elementary School
• Hannah Beautification Mural
• Kindergarten Readiness
• Rivers Rock Ecology Program
• McKeown Preschool
• SPUR Garden
• North Beverly Elementary School
• Decodable Text for Older Students
• Social Emotional Books
• Introduction to CPR/AED
• Ukelele Program
• Playground Communications
• Steamroller Machine

The Beverly Foundation also disbursed $2,672 for Beverly High School's 1-to-1 Learning Initiative for hardship cases and $11,000 from the Teaching and Learning 10-Year Cummings Foundation Grant for:

• Beverly High School

• Robotics and Engineering Curriculum
• Digital Divide Laptop Subsidies for the 1 to 1 Learning Initiative

• Beverly Middle School
• Nature’s Classroom

Additional disbursements from the Cummings Foundation 10-Year Grant for this academic year were $16,000 for teacher professional development, elementary school programs and initiatives and Prusa Printers and Culturally Responsive Library at Beverly Middle School.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)