The Summit Hill Educational Foundation would like to welcome the families and staff to another exciting school year. With the opening of Mary Drew School and the addition of new staff and families to our District, we would like to take a few minutes to reintroduce ourselves to you.
The Summit Hill Educational Foundation is a non-profit organization, comprised of parents, teacher liaisons and school board members. This is a very dynamic, energetic group, whose work we are very proud of. The goal of the Foundation is to enrich our childrens education through the fulfillment of teacher and administrator grants. The Foundation has had two successful fund raising events that have taken place in the Spring. The monies raised during these events, were turned around and fed back into our schools based on teacher requests. A few examples of the items purchased were laptop computers, Xylophones, reading, language arts and writing programs, and updated audiovisual materials.
As we begin our third year, we are looking for parents and community members to join our Board of Directors. As a Board Member, we would like to make you aware of the meeting schedule and expectations. We hold monthly meetings at Hilda Walker School at 7 pm. In addition to attending the monthly meetings, we ask that you participate in one of the various committees that are available. For more information and an application, please click here. Please feel free to call 815-474-9052 if you have questions and a member of our Board of Directors would be happy to talk with you. Please have the applications submitted by September 15, 2008. Listed below are the dates for our meetings:
Please consider sharing your creativity and ideas with this wonderful Foundation!
Summit Hill Educational Foundation
Summit Hill School District 161 staff invited to submit grant applications by Sept. 26
Now that the 2008-2009 school year is underway, the Summit Hill Educational Foundation would like to invite teachers and administrators to submit their impact grant applications for consideration. These grants are meant to promote creativity and increase educational opportunities and resources for District 161 students and staff. We encourage all applicants interested to apply and to talk with your peers about potential group applications.
Applications are available online (click here) and in each school’s office. Through our experiences last year, we have made a few changes to the process to ensure that it runs smoothly. All applications must be typed and signed by your school principal. We are requesting that the applications be mailed to the Summit Hill Educational Foundation and be postmarked by September 26, 2008. Additionally, we ask that any grants related to technology are reviewed and signed by the technology representative of the district, Frank Zajac. This step must be completed on your submitted application. The purpose of this request is to ensure that technology requests are compatible with our district’s current technology guidelines.
Each grant application will be evaluated independently. Please do not combine projects in one application. Upon receipt of the impact grant application, the applicant will receive a confirmation e-mail. Decisions will be communicated to applicants by October 29, 2008. Please email or call the Foundation with any questions you may have.
Sincerely,
The Summit Hill Educational Foundation
