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Norwood & Orems Receive Grants From
Crayola & NAESP
Norwood principal Pat Goldys and Orems Elementary School principal
Marcia Wolf are two of the 20 nationwide winners to receive Crayola and
the National Association of Elementary School Principals’ “Champion
Creatively Alive Children” school grant. Each school is awarded a
$3,000 grant ($2,500 monetary grant and $500 worth of Crayola products)
that encourages innovative arts-education projects at their schools and
share best practices for arts education with fellow educators. At
Norwood, Goldys is using the funds to establish a program at the
Dundalk school for art teacher Alison Paul. The art teacher has Norwood
students studying the work of Baltimore American Visionary Art Museum
artist Jennifer Strunge. Her fifth-grade students are creating original
“critters” from silk, which the students called stuffed monsters.
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Grange Elementary School Presented $10,000
Grant
NFL Ravens Cheerleaders joined Shellie Pfohl, executive director of the
President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, to present Grange
Elementary School with a $10,000 grant for being named one out of 32
NFL Play 60 Super Schools nationwide. One school from each NFL District
was chosen as a winner. This project is a joint campaign between United
Way of Central Maryland and the NFL to promote a healthy and fit
lifestyle by encouraging young people to get 60 minutes of exercise per
day.
For 85 years, United Way of Central Maryland (UWCM) has been the area’s
human service leader supporting programs and initiatives in the city of
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard
counties to help people in the community ultimately achieve a better
quality of life.
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