• 
  • Administrative Staff
  • Special Services
  • Transportation
  • DESE District Report Card
  • Enrollment
  • Weather Dismissal
  • Grants
  • Food Service
  • Personnel Openings
  • Staff Recognition
  • Forms
• 
  • GRTS
  • CHS
  • CMS
  • Central
  • Field
  • Dewey
  • Garrison
  • Alternative Programs
  • District Home
• 
  • Agendas/Minutes
  • Board Members
  • Board Policies
• 
  • Teachers
  • Parents
  • Students
  • Staff Training
  • Documents
• 
  • Superintendent's Notes
  • Press Releases

Current Grants Awards

Garrison
Childcare Development Fund by Pam Miller
The goal of this grant is to increase early childhood child care programs and quality in public schools and colleges/universities. Missouri Preschool Project programs can use these funds to enhance infant/toddler programs. We are using this grant to improve our outdoor environment, replace worn and broken toys and equipment, and to install concrete ballards around the parking lot that is adjacent to our playground.
30 students were impacted by this grant award of $2,000 funded by DESE

Missouri Preschool Project by Pam Miller
Provides funding for our preschool program at Diapers 'n Diplomas. This is a renewal/maintenance grant that we have received for the past 10 years. We use it mostly to pay the salary of our preschool assistant and a small amount for supplies and equipment. Ten percent must be spent on the community, so we take area child care providers and early childhood students to Conference on the Young Years. This year $3000 is given to Parents as Teachers as well.
28 students were impacted by this grant award of $3800, funded by DESE

Dewey 2009-2010

MPER Grants June 2010
Growing Strategic Writers was accepted for study group funding by the MU Partnership for Educational Renewal (MPER) in the amount of $1500.
The goal is to provide funds to CSD in collaboration with the MU Partnership for Educational Renewal's Beliefs Statement and Goals to facilitate teachers' learning and enhance instructional practices by working with Marty Hawkins, MU Direct and Billie McGraw, MU Mentor Teacher. The MU partnership for Educational Renewal seeks to provide opportunities for university and school-based educators to engage in ongoing research related to student learning.

First Grade Litton Agri-Science Center Grant, by Linda Fox
First graders will be able to learn about nature by having hands-on and minds-on experiences during field trips to the Litton Ag Center. Students will use their senses to observe animals, habitats, plant growth, seasons of the year and weather. Data recorded from the trips will help students observe, predict, infer an dsee how changes take place over time in nature.
153 students impacted at a grant award of $600, funded by the Litton Agri-Science Center

Dewey Special Education Literacy Grant by Keri Rodenberg
Students in Mrs. Rodenberg's class will now have updated and more expansive resources for reading.
Books will be provided that meet both her student's reading levels and interests. Additional resources will be purchased that address student literacy in other ways (visually, tactilly, auditorily, and kinesthetically)
25 students impacted at a grant award of $900, funded by Mervyn Jenkins Foundation.

Dewey Helping Hands by Melissa Englert and Julia Reeter
This grant was designed to meet a need in our local community. Kindergarten and first grade students will be collecting gently used books to be placed in office waiting rooms in Chillicothe. Our goal is for families to have the opportunity to read to their children while waiting for services, increase community literacy, and help alleviate poverty.
40 students impacted at a grant award of $65, funded by a district grant designed to eliminate poverty.

Central
Bringing PFA to Your Community
We create exemplary schools of fitness in education. The total funding required to sponsor a pilot and model school program is $17,800. This is inclusive of the entire two-year program with absolutely no hidden or additional costs. Our goal and driving purpose is to create new opportunities for kids to be active, fit and healthy as part of the everyday school experience. This is accomplished through educational programs and equipment, that will allow the school to successfully teach fitness education year after year.

Missouri Farm Bureau Agriculture in the Classroom
Missouri Farm Bureau Foundation For Agriculture is offering competitive mini-grants of up to $250.00 for use in classroom programs K-12 that promote agricultural literacy. The grant is titled "Earth Science Rocks" which is designed to allow students to explore the layers of the earth, soil, and rock types through edible or hands-on experiments.
120 students were impacted by this grant award of $250, funded by Farm Bureau

Missouri Marathon by 4th Grade Teachers
In conjunction with our famous Missourian research during the spring of 2010, the 4th grade students will use their map skills to determine the distance between Chillicothe and their famous Missourian's hometown. Starting in late February, students will begin to log their miles walked or jogged at gym, recess or other available times established in an effort to reach their marathon mark of 26.2 miles. We will combine our class mileage to get a realistic picture of the distance to each student’s chosen city and to see how many cities in Missouri we could of actually visited. To culminate the school year, we will conduct an awards ceremony. Each student, completing the 26.2 miles, will receive a Missouri Marathon medal and official race tee shirt designed by the students. The last .2 miles will be ran in front of Central School with the finish line at the front entrance.
120 students were impacted by this grant award of $1500, funded by the Education Foundation

Souvenir Suitcase by Terria Cox
Our state of Missouri is a major topic in fourth grade. Missouri has many historical places that many students haven’t had the opportunity to visit. The “Souvenir Suitcase” allows each fourth grader the opportunity to visit a historical location in Missouri related to their famous Missourian's hometown. This project invites each student to research their given hometown and compose a mock trip journal entry. Upon completion of their journal entry about their pretend trip,the student will then purchase a souvenir related to the given historical location or their famous Missourian. Upon arrival of the souvenirs, students will share their journal entry and souvenir that they purchased with the class. The souvenirs will then be displayed during our famous Missourian presentations and finally sent home to remember their 4th grade research experience.
20 students were impacted by this grant award of $500, funded by Northwest MSTA

CMS
Kemper Museum Transporation Grant by Susan Elson
This grant provides the cost of the bus and bus driver to the Kemper Museum. The grant is sponsored by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and funded by the KC Chiefs and the Royals to provide cultural experiences for students.
45 students were impacted by this grant award, funded by KC Chiefs and the Royals

Women of World War II by Connie Dow
The seventeen students in the gifted class taught by Connie Dow at Chillicothe Middle School will learn about the time of World War II. They will develop questions and techniques for interviewing women of the area who lived through the years of World War II. The interviews will be video-taped with the assistance of Janet Zion and later edited and transferred to DVDs. The DVDs will be available to the public.
17 students were impacted by this grant award of $550, funded by Service Learning Grant

Grant Creates CMS Program
Published: Thursday, February 26, 2009
by LAURA SCHULER, C-T City Editor

The Chillicothe R-2 School District will receive almost $80,000 over the next two and a half years to fund an academically-focused after school program for sixth and seventh grade students. According to R-2 grant writer Nancy Elliott, the School Age Community grant will fund a three-year program with the district receiving nearly $20,000 for the remainder of this year (through summer school) and $30,000 for each of the following two years. The after school program will start Monday, March 2. “We have an early dismissal on Monday and we want to be able to have the (sixth and seventh grade) students take advantage of the program that day,” Superintendent Dr. Linda Gray Smith said.

The program will be funded through the Child Care Development Fund and money is distributed to Missouri Department of Social Services and administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Elliott, who is also a former middle school teacher, says the after school program will reap benefits for the students enrolled — especially those who may need extra help in their studies. “This is just the age group where parents begin to think that their kids can stay alone, but many (students) still need supervision and extra help, so we think this will be very good for them,” Elliott said. The Chillicothe After School Care program, Elliott says, will provide a wide array of opportunities for students in the sixth and seventh grades.

The program will be held in the Chillicothe Middle School’s east wing and will be free to students enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program. The fee will be $25 a week for other students. Elliott says the program will run from after school until 6 p.m., but students may be picked up as their parents finish work and head home.

The after school program will also cover early out days with supervision from noon until 6 p.m., and will continue through summer school from 3 until 6 p.m. During the after school program, Elliott said, students will have time for physical recreation, snacks, homework, tutoring, silent and oral reading, crafts, and hands-on enrichment classes. Instruction in tolerance, anger management, time management and organization, study skills, drug and substance abuse avoidance, and character education will be included in the instruction. “This will be more of a structured after school club that will extend and enhance the students’ learning,” Elliott said.

CHS
Kindle Reading Grant by Lisa Rule
I purchased a Kindle reading device with the grant money and nearly thirty titles to go on the Kindle. My non-college-bound seniors check out the Kindle to use for their reading assignments.
45 students were impacted by this grant award of $500, funded by the Education Foundation.