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Every year PTC sets aside money to help teachers fund special classroom projects through Curriculum Grants. Grants allow our teachers to be creative and collaborative in developing projects for their classrooms that enrich the education of our children. The Curriculum Grant Committee consists of teachers and parents representing each grade, which meet monthly to consider proposals submitted by Newman teachers, or Newman parents or students (with teacher sponsors). Curriculum Grant proposals can be submitted for any activity designed to enrich and supplement the curriculum. Grants approved by the Committee have funded a wide variety of items each year ranging from books and videos to recess enhancements and digital microscopes.

In years past, Curriculum Grants funded digital microscopes for the NEAT Center, sets of books on life in colonial Boston and on the history of Massachusetts for the 3rd grade, an animated video series on Revolutionary War for 5th graders, supplemental math materials for all grades, a collection of high interest books on 5^th grade Social Studies and Science curriculum topics plus some contemporary biographies for two 5^th grade classrooms, materials for a 1^st and 2^nd grade classroom to make magnetic sentence-making boards, materials developed by Dr. Mel Levine which are used to better understand learning differences between children, including the video “Getting Your Thoughts on Paper”, and a laminated chart for use by classroom teachers as a tool for approaching learning differences, a Vertical Team 4/5 juggling project and a Vertical Team program with Jerry Perlotta, mathematics games for 4^th grade, and technology materials to support the K-2 NEAT Center among other things.

And, did you know that many of Newman's favorite projects began with funding from a Curriculum Grant? The 3rd grade Name That Book program, the 2nd grade Flat Stanley project, the 5th grade Astrosaucer and Pioneer Day programs, and the cartographer visits, for example, all began with a Curriculum Grant at one time. 

Grant applications and other material can be found in the PTC room.