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
