MIAMI TEACHERS RECEIVE DISNEY GRANTS


October 12, 2001


Twelve Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) teachers are among 118 teachers nationwide to receive Disney Learning Partnership grants. 

Disney established the Creative Classroom Fund to help teachers develop innovative instructional projects  that actively engage students in learning.  The grants, which range from $1000-$2000, are made possible by a collaborative pilot program with the Council of the Great City Schools, a national organization exclusively representing the needs of urban public schools.

"These projects will promote student achievement and enable students to produce tangible expressions of their learning, "said Disney Learning Partnership Executive Director Laurie Lang.  "We plan to show case nationally the most compelling examples of teacher instructional creativity and student' work."

M-DCPS grant recipients and their schools are:

Susan Azpillaga         

Ruth Owens Kruse Educational Center

Margaret W. Bastida      

Cutler Ridge Middle School

Jeanette Baumgarten 

Miami Edison Middle School

Kathleen Capellades

Centennial Middle School

Candria Eddinger

South Miami Middle Community School

Victoria Erhardt

Hialeah Middle School

Isabel Lera-Cantrell

John F. Kennedy Middle School

Jodi McCrackine

Miami Southridge Senior High School

Juan Moreno

Ruth Owens KrusÈ Educational Center

Lala Ramprasad

Thomas Jefferson Middle School

Joseph Underwood

Miami Senior High School

Sandy Witt

Miami Springs Middle School

For more information, contact Alberto M. Carvalho, Public Information Officer, at 305-995-4638.

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