Longview ISD Foundation, Inc.

Kim Holcomb, Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. president, pins a Foundation Campus Initiative Grant Winner ribbon on Sue Wilson, principal of Hudson PEP Elementary School. Hudson PEP received $1000 through a Campus Initiative Grant to build a small pond on the campus to use for science instruction.

	Kim Holcomb, Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. president, pins a Foundation Campus Initiative Grant Winner ribbon on D’Wanna Finkel, principal of L.E.A.D. Academy. L.E.A.D. Academy received $4,014.00 to take over 70 students to NASA in October 2011 for science instruction.

Jonathan Latham, Ware Elementary School music teacher, received $1,941.41 for his grant titled Q Chord Quiz Kids.

	Foundation board members Kimberly and Roy Hunter were proud to join the Grants Giveaway on Monday, March 7, as the Grants Giveaway Team surprised elementary grant recipients with the good news that their grants had been funded.

Susan Merrill, science teacher at Longview High School, is surrounded by her students as she learned that she, along with other science teachers, received two grants, one titled "Motion, Force, Magnets—ITS Physics" for $1,889.00 and one titled "Survival of Our Ecosystems" for $1,931.00.

	Robert Holland, South Ward Elementary School music teacher, is surrounded by the Foundation’s Grant Giveway team members, Heidi Archer, Paula Poole and Karen Reed (from left to right, front row) and Kim Holcomb, Betsy Pistone, Kimberly Hunter, Roy Hunter, Leslie Nance, Lisa Turner, and Shirley Williams (back row). Mr. Holland was a big winner again this year with his grant "Orffestrating in Music Classes" for music instruction, grades Pre-K through 5, for $1,238.89. Mr. Holland also received $1,285.00 for his grant titled "The Sounds of Music."

Vicki Tramel, culinary arts teacher at Longview High School, was simply ecstatic when she learned that she received $2,000 for her grant titled "Lobo Bistro Kitchen Equipment." Mrs. Tramel is pictured with her culinary arts students.

	Bonnie Floyd, PE teacher at Hudson PEP Elementary School, thanks the Foundation Grants Giveway Team, Betsy Pistone, Jillian Greifenkamp, Leslie Nance, Heidi Archer, and Lisa Turner (left to right) for funding her grants "Jumping for Joy" and "Outdoor Fitness and Fun for All," for a total of $3,942.70.

Jennifer Smith, science teacher at Foster Middle School, received $2,000.00 for her grant, "Spark Science Learning."

	Foster Middle School had several grant winners. They are (left to right): Allison Killingsworth, Carmen Hohlt, Jennifer Smith, Dorothy Haggerty and Tresha Iles. Foster Middle School received funding for "Nature Mapping" for seventh grade science for $1,790.00, "Another Book Please..." for seventh grade language arts for $1,917.48, and "Wow! What a Voice!" for $829.25, and “Spark Science Learning” for science, grades 6-8, for $2,000.00.

First grade teachers at the all new Ned E. Williams Elementary School were very excited when they learned that they had received $1,989.78 for their grant, "Enrich Language, Enrich Lives!"

	Barbara Briley, teacher at Johnston-McQueen Elementary School, received $309.00 for her grant titled “Building Math Readiness Through Fact Fluency,” for math, grades 2-5. These materials will enhance Mrs. Briley’s classroom’s, one that already contains Study Island for math instruction previously purchased by the Longview ISD Foundation, Inc.

Ashley Hairgrove, Hudson PEP Elementary School second grade teacher, received $806.40 for her grant, "Air and Weather Science Kit" to improve science education in her classroom. With her are Foundation board members Leslie Nance, Heidi Archer, Roy Hunter, Kimberly Hunter, Jillian Greifenkamp, Paula Poole, Karen Reed, Lisa Turner, Shirley Williams, and Kim Holcomb.

	The Longview ISD Foundation's Grant Giveaway Team spread money throughout Longview ISD on March 7 and 8. From left to right, front row, are Betsy Pistone, Shirley Williams, Paula Poole and Kay Ray, Director of the Foundation. On the back row are Kim Holcomb, Foundation president, Leslie Nance, Roy Hunter, Kimberly Hunter, Jillian Greifenkamp and Karen Reed.

The Grants Giveaway Team presented $1,467.76 to Terry Wheless, Courtney Jackson and Kathy Daniels for their grant "Engage, Empower and Challenge Students with GPS." From left to right are Tracey Welborn, Shirley Williams, Courtney Jackson, Kathy Daniels, Terry Wheless and Kimberly Hunter.

	Kim Holcomb, Tracey Welborn, Shirley Williams and Kimberly Hunter present a grant for Triple Balance Beams to Dianne Vioson at Judson Middle School. Total award was $1,935.06.

Diana Key, Longview High School science teacher, third from left, was presented a grant for "Survival of Our Ecosystem" for $1,931.00. Grants Giveaway Team members Tracey Welborn, Marsha Dotson, Shirley Williams, and Kimberly Hunter shared the good news with Mrs. Key.

	Dr. Marcy Ragland, Forest Park Middle School music teacher, and Marie Hall, physical education teacher, were awarded $510.74 for their grant titled "Movement Momentum" for choir, general music and physical education, grades 6-8. Mrs. Hall also received $1,986.95 for physical education instruction, grades 6-8, for "National Archery in the School Program." Judia Harvey, language arts teacher at Forest Park, received $1,999.00 for "Technology Tools" for language arts instruction, grade 8. From left to right are Shirley Williams, Dr. Marcy Ragland, Marie Halls, Brian Bowman, Forest Park Middle School principal, Judia Harvey, and Kim Holcomb, Foundation president.

Kay Ray, Foundation Executive Director, left, along with D'Wanna Finkel, L.E.A.D. Academy principal, present a grant to L.E.A.D. Academy teachers Betty Banks, Jeff Goza, and Beverly Todd for $1,197.46 for their grant, "Why Did I Do What I Just Did?" Principal D'Wanna Finkel is on the right.

	Tracey Welborn, Shirley Williams, Kay Ray, Kim Hunter, and Kim Holcomb present $1,935.06 to Bill Russell, Judson Middle School science teacher, to purchase Triple Beam Balances.

Debra Wallace, second grade teacher at J. L. Everhart Elementary School, received $500.00 to purchase books for a classroom library.

	Jillian Greifenkamp, Kay Ray, Heidi Archer, Roy Hunter, Shirley Williams, Betsy Pistone, Karen Reed and Paula Poole surprised Karla Thomas, first grade teacher at South Ward Elementary School, with "Interactive White Board to the Fullest!" Her grant was funded for $496.71.