Your Dollars at Work in Hillside Elementary School!
Your gift to MFEE fuels programs that support Hillside teachers, parents, and students. Hillside teachers have boosted their learning through out-of-the box Professional Development grants; families have participated in MFEE Programs like America to Me, the Healing Huddles, the You Got This! Conference; and students benefit from the innovative grants funded below.
- Virtual Learning Tools
- Singing with me Virtually
- The "Go Zen Program" will motivate and inspire Hillside Online Learners
- Flexible Seating in a Mindful Classroom
- Science + Fiction = Perfect Together
- Flexible Seating (7 grants)
- Multicultural Literacy and Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Building the ELA library
- Expanding Expression
- Mobile Teaching Unit for Small Group Instruction
- Standing desks to increase flexible learning options for the students of Room 103
- Math Manipulatives and Games
- Science Synergy
- Monumental stained glass window called LOVE IS
- Reading is FUN-damental
- Little Free Libraries - Multiple Benefits
- Student Emotional Learning in World Language classroom
- Got to Have Games
- Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience
- Social Thinking at Hillside School
- Mindfulness Training
- 1. Mindfulness Fundamentals 2. Transforming Your Classroom and Your Life in Three Steps
- Standing Desks and other flexible seating options
- Science Synergy 2019
- Taiji movement and Music program
- Handwriting Help at Teacher's Fingertips program
- AVerVision F-17-8M Document Camera
- Digital Piano
- The Escape Classroom program
- Mindfulness through YOGA for several classrooms
- Mindfulness professional development
- Screenagers screening for Parents and students
- Flexible Classroom Seating for 2 classes
- Collection of manipulative resources to complement kinesthetic activities in the world language classroom.
- Dyslexic Readers and Kindle Tablets
- What Did You Say?, a systematic approach to teaching vocabulary
- Tap Dance Class Shoes & Mats for Dance fitness
- Elmo Document Cameras
- Teaching Heroism and Diversity in the Classroom
- Science Synergy Symposium
- Multi-Cultural Family Connections Project
- Seeing Stars Program for Reading Fluency and Spelling PD Workshop
- Screenagers screening for Parents and 5th Graders
- Leveled Nonfiction readers
- Reader's Theater - Making Literacy Come Alive
- Kean University Professional Development for 6+ Staff: Developing a Makerspace Lens Across Curricula
- Professional Development: Maximizing Children’s Literature in the Language Arts Classroom
- Foreign Language Educators of NJ Annual Conference for Mandarin Teacher
- Professional Development: Mindfulness in the Classroom
- Linda mood Bell Professional Development
- Redefining Autism Professional Development Workshop
- Chinese Calligraphy Center
- Book Buddy Bags: Promoting Organizational Skills for all 3rd Graders
- Emerging Filmmakers: Final Cut Pro Video Editing Program
- TIME For Kids: Supplemental Literacy Materials to Boost Reading and Social Studies
- Leveled Libraries for Literacy Development
- Supplemental Reading Materials to Complement District Curriculum
- Flexible Seating to Increase Student Focus
- Developing Young Authors - Materials to Bind Student-Produced Books
- Latin American Classical Music for the Spanish Audio Collection
- Here Now/Hear Now: Materials to Enhance Expressive Receptive Skills
- Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom
- Support for Program to Troubleshoot and Problem Solve Difficult Feelings and Behaviors in School