Past K-12 Teacher Grants Recipients

The New Era Awards for Excellence in K-12 Education is a grant program that helps teachers bring creative classroom ideas to life. The grant program supports Edison’s 47-year commitment to furthering educational excellence in the communities we serve.

These are the most recent recipients of the New Era Awards:

• Arlene Bitely Elementary School (Rosemead, CA), Garvey School District:  Science Alive! is a program that provides enrichment activities in the area of science and endeavors to make the difficult concepts presented in the science textbooks readily accessible.
• Bonita High School (La Verne, CA), Bonita Unified School District:  Participation by the students in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service brings real world experiences into the classroom.
• Burnett Elementary School (Long Beach, CA), Long Beach Unified School District: The goal of the M.I.N.D. Institute’s Math+Music program is to enhance students’ mathematical skills and to teach them to read music and play the piano keyboard.
• Corona High School (Corona, CA), Corona-Norco Unified School District: The Audio-Assisted Reading program seeks to improve reading comprehension in 9th and 10th grade special education language arts students by at least one year in one school year, as measured by the Scholastic Reading Inventory comprehension assessment tool.
• Fairgrove Academy (La Puente, CA), Hacienda La Puente Unified School District: The goal of PALS (Projects Accelerating the Learning of Students) is to create a safe, nurturing after-school program which is supported by parents and the community and is directly linked to student academic objectives in Science, Mathematics, Language Arts, and the Visual and Performing Arts.
• Hawaiian Elementary School (Hawaiian Gardens, CA), ABC Unified School District: Hawaiian Early Learning Project (HELP) seeks to increase the academic and language skills of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students, increase the quality and quantity of parent/child interactions both at home and at school, and provide training for at least 50% of the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten parents.
• Jane Addams Elementary School (Long Beach, CA), Long Beach Unified School District: Parent Power Nights is a program that aims at increasing the knowledge of the parents on how to help their children achieve academically.
• Lehigh School (Montclair, CA), Ontario-Montclair School District: The after-school Online to College program provides mentors/tutors to students in the Montclair community school district and various visits to the college for after-school educational events.
• Lennox Middle School (Lennox, CA), Lennox School District:  The purpose of this project is to develop the LMS Media Center that will give students the opportunity to use technology for research, and preparing for presentations. Parents will be empowered to learn how to access Power School Parent to monitor their children’s grades and attendance and to use word processing programs.
• Los Altos High School (Hacienda Heights, CA), Hacienda La Puente Unified School District:  The Orientation to Apprentice Training for Electric Industry program seeks to institute a pilot program to enable high school graduates to gain more direct access to an apprenticeship program in the electric industry.
• Monroe High School (Tehachapi, CA), Tehachapi Unified School District: The goal of the Weather or Not program is to allow students to earn science credits through the successful completion of a course in weather science. Students use math skills and concepts to interpret weather data on both a daily and a longitudinal basis.
• Pleasant View Elementary (Porterville, CA), Pleasant View School District:  Go With the Flow aims at raising student academic performance not only in science, but in mathematics and language arts by using the study of water as a basis for scientific investigation, recordation and analysis.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson School (Rosemead, CA), Garvey School District:  Family Involvement in Education Through Literacy is a program that seeks to enable the students’ families to take part in their children’s education and to have every child in the kindergarten class read independently.
• Rice Elementary School (Rosemead, CA), Garvey School District:  The Differentiated Math Enrichment Instruction Program is dedicated to improving math achievement among at-risk students and the planning and implementation of monthly parent-math workshops in which parents, along with their children, will create hands-on math activity kits which they can take home to use with their youngsters.
• Rio Hondo Elementary School (Arcadia, CA), El Monte City School District: The goal of the program Families Learning Together is to assist at-risk students and their parents to develop lifelong reading skills, math skills, and computer literacy skills.
• Ruby Drive Elementary School (Placentia, CA), Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District:  The Mind, Music and Math Program seeks to enhance children’s mathematical understanding by improving their spatial-temporal reasoning abilities. This is sometimes referred to as the “Mozart Effect” where music assists children in understanding complex tasks.
• Somis Elementary School (Somis, CA), Somis Union School District: Building School Success Today and Opportunity for Tomorrow is dedicated to helping underachieving, at-risk students with high academic potential to accelerate academic progress, plan and explore future choices and prepare themselves for success in high school.
• South El Monte High School (South El Monte, CA), El Monte Union High School District: The pilot course Surveying the Landscape: An Introduction to Surveying aims at improving students’ math skills and attract students to an applied science area such as surveying.
• State Street Elementary (South Gate, CA), Los Angeles Unified School District:  Math Mania helps students improve individual and overall test scores by utilizing the mathematics “Learning Wrap-Ups.”  Wrap-Ups are manipulatives that utilize visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning modalities.
• Sultana Elementary School (Ontario, CA), Ontario-Montclair School District: The HERO After-School Program operates daily to help homeless children succeed in school through after-school enrichment activities and academic opportunities often not provided by their families.