Dartmouth Education Foundation (DEF)

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. The Wanabees are back in first place. 🏆🐝

More photos from a great night. 🎉🐝

We couldn’t BEE more grateful! 🐝
Thanks to all for participating— our teams, volunteers, donors, sponsors and friends. The Dartmouth Education Foundation appreciates you.

Tonight‘s the night! The 10th annual DEF Spelling Bee. Join us at 7 PM at Dartmouth High School to see 22 teams compete for the coveted trophy. Bee there or Bee square. 🐝🏆🎉 All proceeds support teaching and learning in the Dartmouth Public Schools.

Calling all spelling bee contestants! First in, first flight! The 10th Annual DEF Spelling Bee will be hosted on Thursday, March 24 at 7 PM at DHS. Arrival at 6 PM. Costumes encouraged. Masks a must.

Congratulations to the 2021 grant recipients from the Dartmouth Public Schools pictured here with DEF Board Members and DPS Administration. We look forward to a spring 2022 Spelling Bee on March 24!

The portal for teacher grants for the 2021-2022 academic year is now open. We are accepting applications through April 30th to support teaching and learning in the Dartmouth Public Schools!
Visit our website to apply: http://dartmoutheducationfoundation.org/grant.html

The portal for teacher grants is open until 11:59 PM on Thursday, April 30. DPS teachers... we want to support you. www.defma.org

The 2020 Grant cycle is now open for teachers in the Dartmouth Public Schools! Please spread the word. Applications are due by April 30! We look forward to reviewing your requests. Visit www.defma.org

Dartmouth Education Foundation

The Grant portal for 2020-2021 funding opens on March 1. http://dartmoutheducationfoundation.org/grant.html

Written by DEF member Mary Waite:
Each year the Dartmouth Education Foundation funds grants submitted by teachers hoping to bring thoughtful, engaging programming, curriculum and technology to their students. On Friday, February 14th, Ms. Gardner used that grant to bring Author Padma Venkatraman to Dartmouth Middle School to talk about her novel, The Bridge Home, and her other work. I was humbled to be able to attend Ms. Venkatraman’s presentation alongside the entire 6th grade, and some 5th, 7th and 8th graders. Ms. Venkatraman spoke about her writing process, her life in science, the difficulty of being the sole minority woman in a post doc program, and the challenge our generation is leaving to all of our kids- the kids sitting in that auditorium- to face our climate crisis head on. She was amazing. Thank you Ms. Gardner for bringing this author to Dartmouth Middle School and for being an inspiring educator.

Dartmouth Education Foundation The 2020 Teacher Grant Award Program is not yet open for submissions. We will open the portal for submissions in February 2020.

Another great funded project at Dartmouth Middle School! https://dartmouth.theweektoday.com/article/hydroponics-hit-dartmouth-middle-school/45039

Hydroponics a hit at Dartmouth Middle School Tomatoes, lettuce, swiss chard, and basil are among the plants grown by a group of intrepid middle schoolers for their cafeteria — inside their cafeteria . Instead of traditional gardening, the students are using a hydroponic system with...

Great to see our grant making in action!
https://dartmouth.theweektoday.com/article/demello-students-bounce-and-lounge-flexible-seating/45108

DeMello students bounce and lounge with flexible seating Students in Amanda Depin’s third grade classroom chose a variety of places to complete a reading assignment: Some sat on the floor with pillows or on donut-shaped seats, others wobbled on special stools, and a few bounced on yoga balls as they...

More photos from last night’s great event supporting Dartmouth Public Schools!

Congratulations to Wendy’s Foreign Language Lover’s from UMass Dartmouth for winning another Spelling Bee first place title. The Wanna Bees placed second and the Bee Bee Qs placed third. The DEF is so grateful to all of our flight sponsors, team sponsors, teams, donors, in-kind donors, volunteers, judges, our announcer Pete Braely, Harmonix who performed live and our supporters. DCTV filmed the event so you can check it out this week. All proceeds go to support teacher grants in the Dartmouth Public Schools. The DEF is an endowed fund of the Community Foundation of Southeastern MA. Thanks everyone for coming out to support our schools!

PS. Dartmouth High School won the “Buzzzzzzzing with Pride” trophy this year!

What will they come up with this year?! Come on out Thursday, November 14th at 6:15 PM arrival and 7:00 PM start time to find out. Come support our 9th Annual Spelling Bee teams and cheer them on. Prizes will be given away all night long. All proceeds support teacher grant awards in 2020! 🐝🎉👍

This lucky fan won tickets to see the Bruins last year at the 2018 Spelling Bee! This year we have (2) tickets to the Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks on 3/18/20 at 7:30pm at TD Garden. Could you be the lucky door prize winner on 11/14 at 7:00 pm? Attendance at the Bee is Free! Come watch your friends, teachers and families compete. And... there will be a trophy given to the school in the system that shows the most BZZZZZZZ of support for their teams! Join us!

Dartmouth! Come on out Thursday, November 14th at 6:15 PM arrival and 7:00 PM start time to support our 9th Annual Spelling Bee teams! It’s not too late to enter. It’s not too late to sponsor a team. Come cheer them on! Prizes given away all night long! All proceeds support teacher grant awards in 2020! 🐝🎉👍

Thanks Dartmouth Week for your great coverage of what’s happening in the Dartmouth Public Schools.

Education Foundation awards grants to Dartmouth teachers Flexible seating, a sensory path, robotics equipment, and a hydroponic system were among the classroom items funded with grants awarded by the Dartmouth Education Foundation at a ceremony in the high school media center on September 4. This year the...

Congratulations to 2019 grant recipients! So excited to see how you put your awards into action supporting student learning.

The DEF will host a short teacher grant awards celebration for the 2019-2020 academic year on Wednesday, September 4 at 4:30 at the DHS Media Center.

The 8th Annual DEF Spelling Bee is next Thursday, 11/8 at 7 PM in the DHS Cafeteria.

This year we are offering something new—In it to Win it Games in the Auditorium will be taking place from 6-7 PM as audience members arrive. Fun for the whole family—make sure you invite your friends to attend. Come cheer on teachers, friends, students and community members!

All audience members and spelling bee participants will receive a ticket and be entered to win gift certificates and fun prizes!

Prizes include gift cards to Dunkin Donuts, AMC, IHOP, Naughty Dogs, Osprey Sea & Sport, Oxford Creamery, NYAJs, Farm & Coast, Little Moss and Cask & Pig and Lloyd Center & Buttonwood Zoo Memberships.

Final prize drawing before Championship Flight will be (2) tickets to see the Bruins play the Canadians on 1/14/19!

See you next week!

Dartmouth Education Foundation

It is that time of year again! The Dartmouth Education Foundation is recruiting teams for our 8th annual spelling bee. We hope you will join us by either entering a team or sponsoring a team! The spelling bee is Thursday, November 8 at 7:00 PM. Teams arrive at DHS by 6:15 PM for pizza (donated by Fay’s Restaurant) and briefing. For the first time we are offering: Early registration in, early as possible flight! If you haven’t seen the video of this year’s teacher grant awards (made possible by money raised by the spelling bee fundraiser) produced by students at DHS, you can view it on the DEF website.

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Education Foundation provides extras for Dartmouth students

Pretty great day yesterday honoring Dartmouth educators and awarding nearly $15,000 in grants for teaching and learning. http://www.southcoasttoday.com/news/20180905/education-foundation-provides-extras-for-dartmouth-students

southcoasttoday.com DARTMOUTH — Robert Perrotti of the Dartmouth High School Media Program was awarded a grant for a studio camera thanks to the Dartmouth

Dartmouth Education Foundation

The Dartmouth Education Foundation is accepting teacher grant applications until Tuesday, May 1. The process is made easy this year and is completely online. Just visit: www.defma.org and click the blue button. Spread the word— we want to help!

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