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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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