Stratford's BEST

09/12/2019

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06/14/2019

Member's of the O'Brien-Sheridan family was invited to the Strive-Rise Pizza Pal's luncheon supported by the @ Judy O'Brien Scholarship fund via a BEST mini grant.

The scholarship fund was able to support this event by working through Stratford's BEST Business Education Support Team.
The student's worked hard to organize the event, calculate monies needed for the event, invited guest, greeted us as we arrived and gave a speech to welcome everyone to Villa Pizzeria Ristorante Bar Stratford CT.

In the spirit of Judy's teaching style the student's had FUN while planning and executing the event.

03/14/2019

Thank you Sikorsky Credit Union for supporting Financial Literacy in Stratford with Save, Spend and Share Moonjar with our young students.

03/06/2019

Sponsored by Ashcroft Inc. this mini-grant supports Stratford High educator Sharon Foran and her students.

They all matter: cancer awareness campaign: HOSA students with in the medical careers pathway will be running a cancer awareness campaign called they all matter with a focus on specific carcinogens linked to smoking and va**ng. This is a state wide HOSA initiative. Students will attend training in January at Naugatuck CC. They will bring this back to implement the program at SHS. The school is trying to help students who currently choose to use the products to make better, healthier choices? The medical careers program currently focuses on cancer and carcinogens in the existing curriculum but has not been recently updated to include Vapping.

Thank you Ashcroft for continued support the Stratford School's and their mission! https://www.facebook.com/AshcroftInc/

Ashcroft Inc. has been the benchmark in pressure and temperature measurement instrument manufacturing since its inception over 165 years ago.

03/06/2019

BEST would like to thank Ashcroft Inc. for sponsoring a STEM Mini-Grant awarded to Wooster Middle School educator Brian Kowalsky.

This mini-grant - Digital STEM Classroom: will enable the converting of the wood tables in the Project Lead The Way classroom into dry-erase white board surfaces, along with the integration of iPad mini’s to take pictures and videos, and upload sketches and design ideas to google classroom.

This will convert the pre-engineering class into a completely digital classroom while reinforcing the use of technology as well as collaboration between students. Students will be able to compile a digital portfolio of all their work in Project Lead The Way, including preliminary sketches, design ideas, progress pictures of their work, and finished prototypes.

In addition this mini-grant will inspire more collaboration between class periods, as students will have more access to the ideas and progress of their peers, empowering them to collaborate to solve real-world problems.

Rediscover Ashcroft. The leading pressure and temperature instrumentation manufacturer of pressure gauges, test gauges, and temperature gauges.

03/06/2019

BEST would like to thank Stephanie Philips and Softlink Resources for sponsoring a BEST Teacher's Choice Mini-Grant. Your sponsorship will allow educator Cristina Hereford to purchase Moby Max software, a tool used to create individualized lessons for students. This tool will assist students improve their mathematical skills and better prepare for mastery based learning.

03/01/2019

Thank you to Health Care Advocates International for sponsoring the BEST mini grant for Supporting Gender and Sexual Minority Youth.

BHS GSA members plan to attend the True Colors Conference at UCONN in March.The annual True Colors at UCONN conference seeks to ensure that the needs of sexual and gender minority youth are both recognized and competently met. The attendance addresses the district goal that all students are valued and treated with respect.

The BHS mission statement includes “acceptance of diversity and a culture that actively welcomes all learners,” This grant helps meet that goal.

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Pattie McKnight - HCA Execuitve Director, Elizabeth Hull, Teacher and Lenny Courtemanche - HCA Director of Outreach

03/01/2019

Thank you Sikorsky Credit Union!

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02/28/2019

Ashcroft is a major supporter of Stratford's BEST program supporting STEM. Thank you Ashcroft Inc.

Trends with robotics and AI, coupled with the socio-political milieu are all leading to a future where most available “good” jobs will be STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs....

02/19/2019

Congratulations! Strive

We are proud to announce that the Scholarship Fund Awarded another BEST mini grant to Stratford teacher Gail Mudre Voytek from STRIVE. STRIVE is Stratford's post-secondary program for adults with special needs. Social interaction with peers is essential to the development of self esteem, self advocacy and positive friendships. With funds from the Scholarship fund the STRIVE students will invite RISE students to lunch at a restaurant, they will be responsible for making all the arrangements and act as hosts.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Judy O'Brien-Sheridan Scholarship Fund over the years.

As special component to this story is Gail and Judy went to Bunnell and Southern together, both returning to Stratford to work in the school system. In addition, Gail has calculated that many of the students who will benefit from this grant are some of Judy's last students at Second Hill Lane Preschool.

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“Stratford’s BEST is a partnership between the Stratford Chamber of Commerce and eht Stratford Publc Schools. The mission of BEST is to facilitate collaborative relationships between business and education in the Town of Strtford
by aligning resources with needs for the benefit of all students in the Stratford
Public Schools.”
This program is designed to promote exemplary performance by teachers
through support of their classroom efforts. The Grants encourage programs
that enrich the education of Stratford’s children, and support special, innovative
and outstanding projects which otherwise might not be funded.