Our Teacher Mini Grants were fueled by our Healthy Futures grant funding which was made available for 2021-2022 school year programs and projects. Faculty and staff of the school districts across Dunn County including Boyceville, Colfax, Elk Mound, and Menomonie were invited to apply for grant funding for programs or projects related to health education and healthy lifestyles. Competitive grants are awarded to teachers, public education support professionals, and/or staff. Funding for mini-grants comes from The Foundation’s Healthy Futures Fund, the SDMA Teacher Mini Grant Fund and the Kari Bostrom Memorial Fund.
Boyceville Community
School District
Bulldog Adventures – $1,000: A summer school class offered to middle school students that focuses on teambuilding and leadership skills.
Outdoor Winter Activities – $1,000: To purchase 50-60 flying saucers for sledding and team-building activities; broomball sets to learn about and play broomball.
Flex Seating – $800: To purchase five floor seats and five wobble chairs to promote movements while learning in the classroom.
School District of Colfax
Viking Pride – $1,000: To help with unmet personal needs, including but not limited to students in foster care, homeless students, warm weather clothing drive, food insecurities and family tragedies.
Inclusive Classroom Library – $500: To increase the diversity and number of books at the high school level with intent to provide students with content relating to their own personal experiences .
Walking Club – $1,000: To begin a walking club for high school students not involved in competitive athletics but who might like or want to participate in physical activity.
Elk Mound Area
School District
Elk Mound High School Character Strong – $1,000: To provide general education on social emotional learning and coping skills, Tier II interventions for students showing signs of mental health struggles, outside referral processes and support for staff in the effort to help and guide students.
Mindfulness in the Classroom – $595: A course that teaches K-12 staff and students to learn how to integrate mindfulness practices into their school day to nurture social-emotional well being and thriving learning spaces.
School District of the
Menomonie Area
Mileage Club, Downsville Elementary – $460: To continue a school-wide before school walking program launched in the spring of 2021
Puberty Education, Menomonie Middle School – $529: To provide reading materials to support learning for the middle school puberty unit. Materials include a classroom set of two different books on biological gender.
Cricuts & Markerspace – $1,354: To build a sense of community between teachers and students by purchasing supplies to make inviting classroom decorations and t-shirts.
Murder on the Orient Express – $1,000 (Kari Bostrom Memorial Fund): To use a high-interest topic novel to engage at-risk students in authentic and standards-based inquiry and learning curriculum through interactive activities, field trips and materials.