2018 Grant the District Winners

The Board of Trustees of CCUEF is proud to announce the winners of the 2018 Grant the District.

To-date, CCUEF has granted Cave Creek Unified School District educators with $143,267.

2018 Grant Awardees
School	Teacher(s)	Amount	Title
BMES	Kindergarten Teachers, Ms. Cardin, Ms. Taylor & Ms. Steward	$2302	Kinder Chrome
LMES	Ms. Hendrie	$2250	Special Education Equipment
DWES	Ms. Camarasa	$2500	El Periodico
	Ms. Bayless	$2368	Art Studio iPads
DSA	Ms. Kerschbaum	$2500	Pickle Ball
STMS	Ms. Stumpo & Mr. Nielsen	$1000	French Books
	Special Education Teachers Ms. Lindstrom, Ms. Dahlke, Ms. Watts & Ms. D’Ambrosi	$1844	Special Education Technology
	Science Teachers Mr. Conklin, Ms. Fauss, Ms. Knuteson, Ms. Petrine, Ms. Skinner & Ms. Spiess	$2500	Science Lab Equipment

Year	School	Grant Applicant	Grant Awarded	Amount
2017	DO	Recognition Committee	Support for the District-wide Recognition Program	$500
2017	BMES	Jennifer Maximoff	iPads for Personalized Learning	$2,053
2017	BMES	Susan Spigarelli	“Little Town”	$2,500
2017	CSHS	CSHS Counseling Department	Student and Family Support through Counseling	$1,100
2017	CSHS	CSHS English Department	Document Cameras for Writing Instruction	$1,200
2017	CSHS	Barbara Burt, Culinary Arts	Culinary Arts	$2,500
2017	CSHS	Luke Scott	Special FX in the Classroom	$1,500
2017	CSHS	Kevin Brady, HS Band	New Marching Percussion harnesses for Marching Band	$1,800
2017	DWES	Dr. Rodney Egan, Principal DWES	Steel Drums Before and After School Music Program	$1,000
2017	STMS	Shannon Griffith	Breakout of the Norm	$1,400
				$15,553

Year	School	Grant Applicant	Grant Awarded	Amount
2016	CSHS	Louise Rochford	Chromebooks for the CTE/IB/AP Economics Program	$2,500
2016	CSHS	Evelyne Burdette-Elgqvist	Chromebooks for the Science Department	$2,465
2016	CSHS	Yvette Maez	Anxiety Intervention- Patio furniture for small setting dining	$2,500
2016	CSHS	Allison Zilka	iPads for student-generated and student-centered PBIS lessons	$2,310
2016	CSHS	Kevin Brady	Guitars for music instruction	$2,500
2016	DWES	Irene Gomez Camarasa	Chromebooks for Spanish Classroom Newspaper	$2,300
2016	HTES	Kimberly Blackert	Osmo Wonder Kits	$2,030
2016	District	Anat Schure, LPC	iPad and iTunes Card for Apps for Counseling Program	$700
2016	STMS	Desiree Ippolito	Software for Sharing Classroom Notes	$360
2016	DSA	Kristine Paul	Let’s get moving activity mats; Bee-Bot programmable robots; zoob bots	$565
2016	BMES	Jenifer Maximoff	iPads and Osmo Wonder Kits	$1,320
				$19,550

Year	School	Grant Applicant	Grant Awarded	Amount
2015	BMES	Kristin Cardin	Osmo Game Systems, LiveScribe Smart pens and software	$2,500
2015	CSHS	Andrew Cupo	iPod touches/Apple TV for Drama	$2,300
2015	CSHS	M Luke Scott	Video Editing Equipment	$2,000
2015	DSA	Shari LaBuwi	Under Desk Pedal Exercisers	$400
2015	DSA	Julia Broome	Heart Rate Monitors for PE	$1,900
2015	HTES	Kristi Frederiksen	iPads, Osmo Game System, Think Write Headsets, Sifteo Cubes	$2,500
2015	HTES	Karen Dolezal	iPads for Music	$2,500
2015	LMES	Dreama L. Kyler-Emnett	Computer equipment for microscope large display	$2,500
2015	STMS	Ashley Fauss	Gaming Laptop & Robotics Tools	$1,200
2015	STMS	Shannon Benvenuto	Microscopes	$1,500
2015	STMS	Chris Hazeltine	Books + Audio Versions	$750
				$20,050

Year	School	Grant Applicant	Grant Awarded	Amount
2014	HTES	Dawn Olson	iPads plus fiction and non-fiction books to guide science inquiry	$2,500
2014	CSHS	M Luke Scott	Video Studio Equipment	$2,500
2014	CSHS	Jocelyn Raught	iPads for World Language Program	$2,500
2014	DWES	Mark Culbertson	Science Lab Equipment	$2,500
2014	CSHS	Tandehi Collentine	Chromebooks for Physical Education	$2,500
2014	BMES	Bonnie Loney/Jeanne Anna Baughman	iPads for Art and Music Instruction	$2,500
2014	LMES	Brian Putnam	Chromebooks for Classroom Use	$2,500
2014	District	Patti Keeling	iPads for speech/language therapy use	$2,500
2014	HTES	Natalie May	iPads for Classroom Use	$2,500
				$22,500

Year	School	Grant Applicant	Grant Awarded	Amount
2013*	District	Julie Urban & Traci Gellman	iPads for Special Ed/Hearing Impaired	$1,716
2013	LMES	Katherine Gibbs	Guitars for Music Room	$2,447
2013	HTES	Janiene Marlow	iPads, Studio Equipment, Furniture for Newscasting	$2,200
2013	HTES	Kent Taylor	Document Camera	$300
2013	HTES	Aaron Pettinato	Discover Magazine subscriptions, paper and iPad versions	$740
2013	HTES	Craig Cencer	iPads for Special Education	$2,500
2013	HTES	Kimberly Blackert	iPads for Classroom Use	$2,155
2013	HTES	Emily Hill	iPads for Classroom Use	$2,500
2013	STMS	Angie Braude and Bill Dolezal	Replacement materials for Sci-Tech Action Lab	$2,500
2013	BMES	Lisa Schwartzstein	Books for Classroom Use	$2,500
2013	HTES	Lesley Pletnick	PE Equipment	$2,000
2013	DWES	Leih Cooper	Artist-In-Residence Mural Project	$2,500
2013	HTES	Sandra Borth	iPads for Classroom Use	$2,500
2013	HTES	Linda Wilson	iPads for Classroom Use	$2,500
			2013 Marked the first year of the Grant the District* application program	$28,958

2014 – CCUEF funded $5,000 for Rebuild the Nest Campaign

2013 – CCUEF funded $3,000 for International Calligraphy Program

2012 – CCUEF funded $6,000 for transportation of World Language Teachers to our district.