District 287 is starting new school year
with four substantial grants from our community partners.
From the Minnesota State Arts Board, District 287 will receive a
$16,250 award for the Arts Learning Project for the Emotional Expression and
Connection Through Clowning Project. Performance Artist Perrin Boyd will
provide a series of performance art residencies with Sandburg Education Center
students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities. A second year will be awarded for 2011-2012,
but is dependent on positive year one outcomes.
Edgewood Education Center has been notified of a Target
Corporation Award for the Drum Up Connections. The $2,000 award will sponsor an
African Drummer who will facilitate drumming as the artistic medium by working
on communication, cooperation and interaction with students who present with
emotional/behavioral problems and developmental/cognitive problems. This is the
second year of Drum Up Connections at Edgewood See video story.
Medica Foundation is awarding $27,050 to the Sandburg
Education Center for the Children Learning and Improving Boundaries (Climb) Curriculum.
This Sexual Behavioral Health Prevention Project will include group and
individual services provided by Village Ranch Children & Family Service
Staff to improve interpersonal boundaries, personal safety and appropriate
sexual behavior in the school setting.
The largest of the four grants is $300,000 from the Federal
Elementary School Based Mental Health Program. This is year three of the
District Elementary School Based Mental Health Project. This project offers
ongoing mental health support by way of individual & family therapy, staff
consultation, psychiatric consultation, medication management and school
counselor services to elementary aged students and families. During the past two
years, it has been located at Hosterman and has moved with students and staff
to Sandburg Education Center.
