Superintendent announces Paul Matthews grant winners

Superintendent of Schools Jeff Granatino is pleased to announce the 2010 recipients of the Paul R. Matthews Foundation Grant, established in honor of longtime School Committee member and youth sports coach Paul Matthews. A total of $5,000 came from the foundation and went toward projects that were assessed by the grant committee and the Canton Public Schools’ leadership team.

This year’s six grant recipients were:

* Peter Boucher, K-12 wellness coordinator, who will apply the funds toward the creation of a peer mentoring program at the elementary and middle school levels.

* Librarians/media specialists Nancy Stockwell-Alpert and Joanne Teliszewski, who will use the grant money to visit and view examplar programs in six neighboring schools.

* Special education teacher Cheryl Bina Rodriguez, who will use the grant to correlate lessons in math and social skills with Duplo blocks at the kindergarten level.

* Kelty Kelley, early childhood coordinator, who will use the funds to visit other integrated pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs as they ready themselves for the upcoming NAEYC accreditation process.

* The Galvin Middle School science department, which plans to establish a differentiated science resource center for all students. The center will include science magazines, journals, film clips and DVDs, science-based novels, and career information in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

* Marilyn Roache, CHS English department coordinator, who will use the funds to establish a web-based writing program that will be utilized in up to four classrooms.

“We want to thank everyone associated with the Paul Mathews Charitable Foundation,” Granatino said. “It is an honor to be able to put those monies to great use in a way that will benefit a large array of Canton students. It is the type of work that I’m sure Paul would have wanted to see going on in our classrooms.”

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