A Message from our Grant Committee...
Dear Potential Grant Applicants,
The Westerly Education Endowment wishes to generate an initiative to sponsor a focus grant opportunity where educators are empowered to work collaboratively and bring the ARTS of possibility to life through interdisciplinary learning.
Research has indicated that the ARTS are a catalyst to meet the needs of the 21st century student and have increased student engagement and motivation, and improved communication skills and an overall attitude toward school.
Katrin Oddleifson Robertson (pbs.org) has stated that creative thinking and reasoning have been identified as essential twenty-first century skills by many business, education, community, and government leaders. Introducing children to the ARTS designs a unique approach to develop habits of mind to help them succeed from preschool to the work environment.
Eliot Eisner, a professor of education at Stanford University states, “The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives…seeing that there are many ways to interpret the world.”
Our focus grant opportunities will challenge classroom subject area teachers to connect with the arts and “learn from a new perspective and cultivate creativity
with an inventive, resourceful and imaginative approach.” (Anna Duncan, US Sec of ED).
WHAT will your idea do to empower affective possibilities? How will your connection to the arts explore, apply, promote, encourage and/or facilitate relationships to instruction, curriculum, and assessments that foster growth and inspire confidence?
HOW (goals, objectives, activities) will your collaboration with the arts effectively expand a student’s potential to work toward analysis, synthesis, and evaluative measures?
The ARTS may shape the future as an integrated core component to differentiate the flavor of possibilities, blazing a new frontier in the journey to discovery.
WEEF wants to sponsor a focus grant initiative where our educators and their students illuminate this path, working together through innovation to become creative
problem solvers, capable of facing the challenges in today’s ever changing world. Focusing on the arts, where judgment rather than correctness prevails, we will generate opportunities for our students to acquire the tools to inspire and encourage better understanding and tolerance on the global “stage.”
Let’s use this initiative to begin, believe, and become proficient in generating opportunities together showing the power of ARTS integration in our quest to navigate excellence for the future demands of this global society for our students in the 21st century.
Dear Potential Grant Applicants,
The Westerly Education Endowment wishes to generate an initiative to sponsor a focus grant opportunity where educators are empowered to work collaboratively and bring the ARTS of possibility to life through interdisciplinary learning.
Research has indicated that the ARTS are a catalyst to meet the needs of the 21st century student and have increased student engagement and motivation, and improved communication skills and an overall attitude toward school.
Katrin Oddleifson Robertson (pbs.org) has stated that creative thinking and reasoning have been identified as essential twenty-first century skills by many business, education, community, and government leaders. Introducing children to the ARTS designs a unique approach to develop habits of mind to help them succeed from preschool to the work environment.
Eliot Eisner, a professor of education at Stanford University states, “The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives…seeing that there are many ways to interpret the world.”
Our focus grant opportunities will challenge classroom subject area teachers to connect with the arts and “learn from a new perspective and cultivate creativity
with an inventive, resourceful and imaginative approach.” (Anna Duncan, US Sec of ED).
WHAT will your idea do to empower affective possibilities? How will your connection to the arts explore, apply, promote, encourage and/or facilitate relationships to instruction, curriculum, and assessments that foster growth and inspire confidence?
HOW (goals, objectives, activities) will your collaboration with the arts effectively expand a student’s potential to work toward analysis, synthesis, and evaluative measures?
The ARTS may shape the future as an integrated core component to differentiate the flavor of possibilities, blazing a new frontier in the journey to discovery.
WEEF wants to sponsor a focus grant initiative where our educators and their students illuminate this path, working together through innovation to become creative
problem solvers, capable of facing the challenges in today’s ever changing world. Focusing on the arts, where judgment rather than correctness prevails, we will generate opportunities for our students to acquire the tools to inspire and encourage better understanding and tolerance on the global “stage.”
Let’s use this initiative to begin, believe, and become proficient in generating opportunities together showing the power of ARTS integration in our quest to navigate excellence for the future demands of this global society for our students in the 21st century.
How to Apply for an ARTS Focus Grant
Please complete the 2014 ARTS Grant Application and review the rubric:
ARTS Focus Grant Application / Rubric
The WEEF grant committee requests that you upload your proposal and other materials in one PDF or Word Document below.
If you do not have access to a scanner for the signed portion of the application, you may mail it to the following address:
Westerly Education Endowment Fund
P.O. Box 1219
Westerly, Rhode Island 02891
Please complete the 2014 ARTS Grant Application and review the rubric:
ARTS Focus Grant Application / Rubric
The WEEF grant committee requests that you upload your proposal and other materials in one PDF or Word Document below.
If you do not have access to a scanner for the signed portion of the application, you may mail it to the following address:
Westerly Education Endowment Fund
P.O. Box 1219
Westerly, Rhode Island 02891
