Educators at Brunswick Schools received $27,000 in grants this year from the Brunswick Community Education Department, which will be used to fund enrichment projects in the schools.
Brunswick foundation helps teachers respond to pandemic with mini-grants
This school year the Brunswick Community Education Foundation provided smaller grants to more teachers and with more frequency.
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The Brunswick Community Education Foundation decided to offer emergency mini-grants to Brunswick school teachers this school year, helping them find new and safe ways to teach students during a pandemic.
The donation-based foundation offers grant applications once a year but board member Susan Olcott said the board agreed to offer four rounds this year. The organization just finished its third round of applications this school year.
“At the very beginning of the pandemic, there was obviously an immediate need for technology that came from talking to people in the district and superintendent’s office,” Olcott, a member of the Brunswick foundation’s board. “We were able to raise a bunch of money and purchase 50 laptops just in the thick of things and following that,
Guest column: Education foundation helps next generation of nurses
By Susan OlcottGuest column
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Even before the pandemic, teachers have been using virtual techniques in creative ways to help their students to learn new skills. Not everything can be taught first-hand and that can be particularly challenging given the limitations of classroom spaces and schedules. But, Joanne McMahon has come up with a simple virtual solution for her students at the Region 10 Technical High School to learn one of the skills they need to earn their Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) degree.
Students training for a CNA degree have to learn how to support the medical staff that they work with by doing a variety of tasks. One of the most basic services a CNA can provide is to take measurements of a patient’s vital signs. Sometimes this is simple, like taking someone’s temperature, but other times it is more complex. Blood pressure is one of those more complex measurements. There’s systolic a