Your gift to MFEE fuels programs that support Hillside teachers, parents, and students. Teachers have boosted their learning through out-of-the box Professional Development grants; families have participated in Montclair Learning Circles on Race and Navegadores Escolares; and students benefit from the innovative grants funded below.

• Turning Drummers Into Musicians
• Instructional Keyboard Covers
• Community Time
• Fortifying Science Instruction for All
• Performing with amazing voices
• Windows and Mirrors: Building Classroom Libraries that Represent All
• Under a Microscope!
• Flexible Seating
• Calming area including nugget couch, art work, and standing table
• SEL Tool Box
• Calm, Connected, Comfortable Classroom
• FLENJ annual conference and its workshops 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