BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Amanda Caldwell, English teacher at Westview Middle School, received a $1,000 Bright Ideas grant from Berkeley Electric Cooperative to create English Interactive Student Notebooks. The grant was awarded as a part of Berkeley Electric Cooperative’s 75 Acts of Education, celebrating the companies 75th year of service to the community.
“The grant is helping to fund interactive student notebooks; this year-long project facilitates a student-driven learning process tailored to individual student needs. Interactive notebooks draw on creative and scientific principles not traditionally associated with English/Language arts. The notebooks are formatted in a manner that engages both right and left hemispheres of the brain, increasing student comprehension, retention and synthesis of learning material. The notebooks are organized, assembled and maintained by the students. Teacher provided materials are permanently mounted into the notebook on the right side and students complete their related assignments on the left side. The notebooks serve as great study materials and complete 8th grade with a highly user-friendly resource to assist their ongoing success in 9th grade,” said Caldwell.
Bright Ideas is a grant program designed to provide funding for innovative classroom-based education projects. The grant is intended to fund projects outside normal public school funding sources. Educators who teach Kindergarten through 12th grade, within Berkeley Electric Cooperative’s three county service territory may apply.
“We’re extremely proud of Ms. Caldwell and her students. The Bright Ideas grant program is one of our 75 Acts of Education, and it is a way for us to support our local educators and the students they serve. Ms. Caldwell is grooming our next generation of members and we’re excited to see the outcome of their projects,” said Berkeley Electric Cooperative’s Communications & Public Affairs Specialist, Johanna Cooper.
Berkeley Electric Cooperative’s 75 Acts of Education initiative is focused on giving back to the communities that have supported it through the last three-quarters of a century. “By establishing the Acts, it inspires the co-op to look to the future while honoring the past.” (www.berkeleyelectric.coop)
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