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“Creating Extraordinary Opportunities”
In keeping with the mission of the BMMF, Inc., Excellence in Education grants are awarded in honor of the extraordinary life and character of Brandon McPherson. These grants are awarded to educators who seek to implement innovative, unique learning experiences in their classrooms and exhibit the leadership qualities of Brandon McPherson. Since 2007 we have awarded 157 Grants totaling $68,351.
| District/School | Grant Title | Grant Recipient | Amount |
| Park Hill/English Landing Elementary | Help Us Create:Turning our Library into a Student Makerspace | Angela Van Batavia | $ 496.17 |
| Park Hill/English Landing Elementary | Life-Size Noteworthy Rug! | Caitlin Carney | $ 500.00 |
| Park Hill/Tiffany Ridge Elementary | Lego Robotics | Ryan Turner | $ 464.74 |
| Liberty/Alexander Doniphan Elementary | Sensational Seuss Share | Joan Arth | $ 500.00 |
| Liberty/Warren Hills Elementary | Raz-Kids Reading | Racheal Szarwinski | $ 500.00 |
| Liberty/Ridgeview Elementary | Roadrunner MakerSpace | Nancy Wilcox | $ 500.00 |
| Liberty/Warren Hills Elementary | The Wilson Reading System | Megan Saffell | $ 495.00 |
| Smithville/Primary Elementary | Reading through technology | Aaron Bowlin | $ 500.00 |
| Smithville/Upper Elementary | Math Manipulatives Mania | Tina Mecklenburg | $ 500.00 |
| $4,455.91 |
| District/School | Grant Title | Grant Recipient | Amount |
| North Kansas City/Fox Hill Elementary | Real Books for Readers | Latisha McGinnis, Laura Albaugh, Karen Mershon, Fran Foreman | $494.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner Elementary | Building a Classroom Library with Informational Texts | Debbie Hannah | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Hawthorne Elementary | An Apple Everyday | Kim Toyne | $429.98 |
| Kearney/Kearney Middle School | Can You Hear Me Now? | Ulrike R. Hayes | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/English Landing Elementary | Encore! New Musicals | Caitlin Carney | $430.35 |
| NKC/Briarcliff & Ravenwood Elementaries | Fill Those Swimming Classes | Bob Dever & Janet Williams | $500.00 |
| Liberty/Discovery Middle School | Picture This! Student Made Digital Cameras | Eric Langhorst | $462.00 |
| Liberty/Discovery Middle School | Go Pro in Student Broadcasting | Renee Baker | $478.86 |
| Park Hill/Chinn Elementary | Moving To It, Learning It! | Sarah Cohalla | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner Elementary | Integrating Non-Fiction Books Into the 3rd Grade Classroom | Betsy Praiswater | $500.00 |
| Platte County R-3/Siegrist Elementary | Recess "Learning Picnic" iPad | Disa Rice | $320.00 |
| Park Hill/Chinn Elementary | Express Yourself! | Janine M. Baker | $361.54 |
| Park Hill/Prairie Point Elementary | LEAP Into Learning | Carrie Codding | $500.00 |
| North Kansas City/Fox Hill Elementary | Write On! | Jade Elliott & Lyndsy Anderson | $360.00 |
| Liberty/Ridgeview Elementary | Summer Reading Mail Pals | Nancy Wilcox, Carolyn Phelps, Kitty Long | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/Tiffany Ridge Elementary | Move, Experiment and Play with Musicplay Everyday! | Maureen Fiudo | $359.00 |
| TOTAL AWARDED | 6945.73 |
2012 Grant Winners
| District/School | Grant Title | Grant Recipient | Amount |
| Park Hill/Tiffany Ridge Elementary | Extraordinary Starts When YOU open a Book | Kari Rowe & Dr. Alicia Kersaw | $500.00 |
| St. James Catholic Schools | We're RAZzed up for Reading | Michelle Herrig & Andrea Peregrine | $350.80 |
| St. Pius X High School | Math Technology Enhancement | Peter Bonello | $375.00 |
| Liberty/South Valley Middle School | Hooked on Books with a Nook | Robin Lewis | $496.82 |
| St. Pius X High School | Digital Video in the Foreign Language Classroom | Ron Scrogham | $300.00 |
| St. Patrick School | Advance-Paced Math Program | Dana Nolan | $489.29 |
| Liberty/Alexander Doniphan | Technology Today! | Andrea Busch | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/English Landing | Excellence Through Access | Debra Carter | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/Russell Jones Ed Center | iPad Cases and Keyboards for Classroom Use | Mary Jo Pettit | $498.72 |
| Liberty/Ridgeview Elementary | Summer Reading Mail Pals | Nancy Wilcox, Carolyn Phelps & Kitty Long | $500.00 |
| Liberty/South Valley Junior High | Makey Makey Kits- Industrial Revolution Hands On | Eric Langhorst | $499.88 |
| Liberty/Liberty Oaks Elementary | Building My Classroom Library With Nonfiction Books | Ashley Allen | $220.00 |
| Park Hill/Chinn Elementary | Special Education Leaping over iPads | Sarah Cohalla | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/Chinn Elementary | No Bully Zone | Tracey Walter & Annie Pritchett | $400.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner Elementary | iCan Learn with an iPad | Shanna Hays | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/English Landing | GAMEPLAN is a Game Changer | Catlin M. Carney | $493.55 |
| Platte County R3/Paxton | Technology in the Classroom | Sarah Buescher | $500.00 |
| North Kansas City/Briarcliff | Changing non-swimmers to swimmers | Bob Dever | $500.00 |
| Liberty/Liberty High School | The Pressure is On! | Kathleen Moburg | $421.38 |
2011 Grant Winners
| District/School | Grant Title | Grant Recipient(s) | Amount |
| Park Hill/Lakeview Middle School | Flippin' for Movies | Leah Panther | $ 449.94 |
| Park Hill/English Landing Elementary | Making Reading Extraordinary with eReaders | Angela Van Batavia | $ 498.00 |
| Park Hill/Elementary Buildings | Content Classroom Libraries--Established:NOW | Becky Kroenke | $ 500.00 |
| Park Hill/Southeast Elementary | D.R.U.M. (Discipline, Respect, and Unity through Music | Lori Lopez | $ 500.00 |
| Park Hill/Chinn Elementary | eReaders | Ryan Turner | $ 500.00 |
| Park Hill/Plaza Middle School | Calculator Check | Linda Wiederholt | $ 499.94 |
| Park Hill/Prairie Point Elementary | Traversing Into a Sport of Their Own | Linda Kane/Pamela Carver | $ 500.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner & Graden Elementary | Hooked on Nooks | Sarah Cohalla | $ 500.00 |
| Park Hill/Chinn Elementary | Creating a LIVE Mathematics classroom | Amy Barr | $ 487.20 |
| Park Hill/Renner Elementary | Reader's Workshop Classroom Library | Geoff Reno | $ 495.00 |
| Park Hill/Lakeview Middle School | Keep 'em Cooking | Marilyn Ruggles | $ 500.00 |
| North Kansas City/Briarcliff Elementary | Water Safety 101: Learn to Swim | Robert Dever | $ 475.00 |
| Kearney/Kearney Middle School | "10..9..8..Action" | Ulrike R Hayes | $ 500.00 |
| Smithville/Smithville High School | Increasing Virtual Experiences in the Science Classroom | Julie Winterboer/Lori Mertz | $ 500.00 |
| Liberty/South Valley Junior High | Guys eReader Club | Eric Langhorst | $ 500.00 |
| Liberty/Ridgeview Elementary | Summer Reading Mail Pals | Nancy Wilcox/Carolyn Phelps/Kitty Long | $ 500.00 |
| Liberty/Lewis & Clark Elementary | It's a Guy Thing | Angela Rosheim | $ 500.00 |
| Liberty/Kellybrook Elementary | Cougar Mail | Joan Peluso/Chris Anderson | $ 500.00 |
| Northland Catholic/St. Pius HS | iMac Lab for Yearbook | Melanie Martin/Julie Pickert | $ 500.00 |
| District/School | Grant Title | Grant Recipient | Amount |
| Kearney/Kearney Elementary | Engaging Readers with Technology and Audio Books | Amy Jo Barner | $500.00 |
| Kearney/Kearney Middle School | Video Production in the Middle School "Taking the Show on Location" | Ulrike R. Hayes | $500.00 |
| Kearney/Southview Elementary | MP3 Magic! | Ida Cessna | $312.41 |
| Kearney/Southview Elementary | Adding Dimension to the Classroom | Amy Cordle | $500.00 |
| Liberty/Kellybrook Elementary | We Both Read | Nancy Deshler and Nancy Niemann | $500.00 |
| Liberty/Kellybrook Elementary | Cougar Mail | Joan Peluso and Chris Anderson | $500.00 |
| Liberty/Liberty HS | Vertebrate Dissection Lab | Rebecca Groebe and Michelle Fairhurst | $394.95 |
| Liberty/Liberty North and Liberty HS | Midwestern Roots: The Real Kansas City | Kimberly R. Brownlee | $464.52 |
| Liberty/Liberty North and Liberty HS | You Light Up My Life: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum | Mary Coogan and Rosemary Camp | $482.85 |
| Liberty/Liberty North HS | Can You See What I See? Using Microslides to Enhance the Bioscience Curriculum | Misty Black | $493.00 |
| Liberty/Ridgeview Elementary | Summer Reading Mail Pals | Nancy Wilcox, Carolyn Phelps, Kitty Long | $500.00 |
| NKC/Gracemore Elementary | No Swimmer Left Behind | Bob Dever, Sarah Farsace, Chad Stewart | $500.00 |
| NKC/Meadowbrook Elementary | Come Play the Drum! | Christine Gibson | $496.05 |
| NKC/North Kansas City HS | NKC_BookSpace: Virtually Connecting Readers | Abbigail Yellman and Kristie Carney | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/Congress Middle | Congress Archery Unit | Zach Dorrell, Amanda Garton, Jeremy Benninghoff | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/English Landing | New Musicals | Caitlin Carney | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/Park Hill South HS | Student Assistance with Band Uniform and Travel | Craig Miller | $500.00 |
| Park Hill/PH Day School | Science Explorations | Gretchen Crilley | $450.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner and Graden | Digital Storytelling Toolbox | Sarah Cohalla | $460.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner Elementary | Still Growing Great Minds | Shannon Braun | $500.00 |
| Platte County/Barry School | Technology in the Classroom | LaVonna Woods | $462.59 |
| Platte County/Siegrist Elementary | Learning Through Movement | Disa Rice | $477.00 |
| St. James Elementary | Rain Garden Outdoor Classroom | Andrea Peregrine | $500.00 |
| St. James School | SMARTBOARD | Julie Miller | $500.00 |
| St. Pius X High School | Multimedia Interactive Modules for Learning and Assessment | April Hailey, Christi Ivers, Ron Scrogham | $300.00 |
| District/School | Grant Title | Teacher | Grant |
| Liberty/Kellybrook | Speech Mirrors | Jaime Rombalski | $110.00 |
| Liberty/Kellybrook | Cougar Mail | Joan Peluso, Chris Anderson | $250.00 |
| Liberty/Kellybrook | Breakfast Bunch | Liz Barton, Kristin Havens | $250.00 |
| Liberty/Kellybrook | Puppet Pedagogy | Stephanie Myers | $238.90 |
| NKC/Gracemor | No Swimmer Left Behind | Bob Dever, Sarah Farsace | $250.00 |
| NKC/Gracemor | Investigating the Possibilities | Robert Ellis | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Chinn | Balancing Act! | Vickie Larkins | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Chinn | Powerful Panthers | Tracey Walter | $185.00 |
| Park Hill/Congress Middle | Read-a-Latte! | Angela Van Batavia | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Congress Middle | Reading Like a Writer/Writer's Library | Jessica Reeves | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Graden | Mountain Math | Amy Laytham | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner | Reading Pen | Marcy Schumacher | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner | Math Shark Madness | Lindsay Koerner, Mary Pat Johnson | $250.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner | Spanish for Teachers with Rosetta Stone | Sheryl Goodwin, Cheryl Moorman | $230.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner | Comics and Computers the Island Way | Sarah Cohalla | $220.00 |
| Park Hill/Renner | Fun with Composers | Tracy Cox | $232.80 |
| Park Hill/Union Chapel | RTI Reading Resources | Jennie Edwards, Amanda Steitz, Sara Dorrian, Corey Steenhoek, Abby Merryfield | $250.00 |
| Platte County/Pathfinder | RTI Tier 2 Support | Amy Wazac | $250.00 |
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