Grants Awarded — 2025-2026 School Year

17 grants awarded for the Spring of 2026:

All Elementary Schools:

  • EmpowerED Part 2 ($7,000)- Classroom tool kits to support students with fine and visual motor skills, postural control, and sensory processing skills. 

  • Math Manipulatives ($12,000)- Manipulatives to support the Conquer Math teacher training program and district math initiatives for k-2.

  • Ready Set Grip ($1400)- Kits for kindergarten classrooms to help build hand and finger strength. 

CAS:

  • Sensory Hall for All ($760)- Sensory hallways to support student self-regulation, engagement, and readiness to learn. 

  • Multisensory Reading for Success ($250)- Reading tools to support students in tier 2 and 3 intervention.  

  • PE Items ($289)- Equipment to enhance the physical education program. 

TJS: 

  • Letters and Sounds Come Alive ($392)- Alphabet sounds teaching tubs to support ELL and emerging readers.  

KRS:

  •  Girls on the Run ($600)- Additional support for the Girls on the Run program.

MJS:

  • Signature Project Assembly ($650)- Joint funding with the MMA and MJS PTO for a school wide assembly. 

  • Economy Game ($700)- Support for the 8th grade project that teaches budgeting skills.

  • Cemetery Tour ($500)- Local historian will give a 50 minute guided tour of the Bottle Hill Cemetery to 7th grade students in conjunction with the historical fiction unit. 

  • Hispanic Heritage ($180)- Hispanic heritage month celebration with pinatas and enrichment activities.

  • Chariot of the Sun ($845)-Greek mythology based performance for 7th grade students. 

  • Memoir Anthology ($3250)- Memoir workshop for 7th grade students.

  • Madison250! ($2144)- Celebrating America’s 250th anniversary through local history.

  • MJS One World Festival ($400)-Support of the inaugural MJS One World festival celebrating different cultures. 

MHS:

  • Pickleball Paddles ($1600)- New pickleball paddles for PE classes. 

21 grants awarded for the Fall of 2025:

All Elementary Schools:

  • One District One Book ($416)- Elementary-wide reading program to support the Madison Reads district initiative.  The book selected is “8 Class Pets, +1 Squirrel, +1 Dog, =Chaos”

  • Sam Wedelich Author Visit ($3000)- Author/illustrator of the popular “Chicken Little” books will present at each of the elementary schools.  

  • Book Tasting ($6000)- Annual reading event at the elementary schools where students can preview 35-40 books. 

  • Battle of the Books ($2900)- All elementary schools will participate in ‘America’s Battle of the Books’ reading incentive program.  

  • Math Manipulatives ($12,000)- Manipulatives to support the Conquer Math teacher training program and district math initiatives. 

  • On the Same Page ($500)- Composition books/journals to support and improve elementary writing skills. 

KRS/TJS:

  • Karaoke in the Music Classroom ($1200): Karaoke machines to keep music education fun and relevant. 

TJS: 

  • Special Education Reinforcement Tools ($1500):  Reinforcement items to help special education students meet behavioral goals.  

  • Sensory Oasis ($3016)- A safe space for learners to help with self regulation.  

MJS:

  • Vex Robotics ($9245): Vex Robotics Classroom kit to enhance the makerspace learning center at MJS.  

  • Hydroponic Garden ($3389): Hydroponic tower gardens to enhance environmental education.

  • Museum of Natural History ($2500): 6th grade trip to the Museum of Natural History.

  • Special Education Reinforcement Tools ($1500): Reinforcement items to help special education students meet behavioral goals.  

  • Rutgers Science Bus ($1500): 7th graders will experience a hand-on, interactive science lesson taught by Rutgers graduate students in their mobile science lab. 

  • Healthy Italia Field Trip ($1295)- Italian students will participate in a culinary and cultural lesson at Healthy Italia in Madison.

  • Meteorologist John Marshall ($1650): 6th grade Science assembly to complement the weather curriculum. 

  • MET Trip ($2424): 7th graders tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.  

MHS:

  • Great Gatsby ($410):  Trip for ESL students to attend the Great Gatsby play after reading the book.  

  • Enhancing Biodiversity ($1177): Enhancing the biology courtyard with aquatic plants and native amphibians and fish species. 

  • Hatching Chicks ($500): Hatching chicks to learn about organism development.

  • Neuron Modeling Kits ($416): AP Psychology students will use the kits to study the biological basis of behavior.

For a listing of all grants awarded throughout the years, please see below.