GOOCHLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

Programs

1. Strategic Innovation Grants is a competitive grant that allows the GEF to implement programming that enriches the curriculum and create opportunities that are outside of a traditional academic day

   $14,767 spentof which $14,767 as grants
   28% of program spending

2. Essay contest for Goochland County Public School students in 4th and 5th grades to develop/strengthen children's 21st century skills while engaging them on a deeper level of community engagement - develop strong sense of citizenship in Goochland County

   $1,630 spentof which $1,630 as grants
   3% of program spending

3. Building Thinking Classrooms is a framework for instruction that focuses on research-based practices to elicit more student thinking and engagement in learning. The research was identified nine practices that were present in almost all of the 40 initial math classrooms he studied. The nine practices were: 1. the type of tasks used, and when and how they are used; 2. the way in which tasks are given to students; 3. how groups are formed, both in general and when students work on tasks; 4. student work space while they work on tasks; 5. room organization, both in general and when students work on tasks; 6. how questions are answered when students are working on tasks; 7. the ways in which hints and extensions are used while students work on tasks; 8. when and how a teacher levels their classroom during or after tasks; 9. and assessment, both in general and when students work on tasks. Building Thinking Classrooms framework is a result of this research. The practices are intended to be implemented in the ways that work best for students and teachers, but he makes suggestions for the ways that the practices fit best together. From his research on those nine practices, are there 14…

   $4,250 spentof which $4,250 as grants
   8% of program spending

4. STEM in Nature: Outdoor Educational Experience: Each grade level, kindergarten through 12th grade, has its own curriculum with activities, building on lessons from previous years, teaching various skills and meeting Virginia's Standards of Learning requirements. The location is Westview on the James, an 800-acre piece of property that is bordered by the James River with streams, a lake, a forest, and land for gardening. There is a reduced use-cost as the students will do maintenance at the end of each visit as part of their environmental learning. Students visit the site three times a year to study life in the waterways and plant a garden, studying seasonal observations of the same location to see how the ecosystem changes in each season. Once a year, middle and high school students will be in canoes on the water and taught by James River Association educators using their curriculum on watershed systems, life, earth, and environment sciences on the water and on land. These studies will be incorporated into the academic lessons in the classroom. Through all these activities, all students will investigate and understand that living things have basic life needs and functional parts…

   $9,893 spentof which $9,893 as grants
   19% of program spending

5. STEM Backpack Program is designed to create equity in education, a cornerstone of the GEF's programming, by helping 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students develop/strengthen STEM skills. Each classroom would have four backpacks filled with five or six low-tech STEM activities with a questionnaire for the student to indicate what s/he learned from the experiments. The experiments are designed to build 21st century and STEM literacy within the homes of our at-risk students and to build STEM literacy skills among students whose first language is not English. The activities range in biology, physics, chemistry, acoustics, aerodynamics, botany, and magnetics, just to name a few. Four students will 'check out' a backpack for one week, perform the activities, and return it with the questionnaire. After the first 'round' of activities have been completed, another set of activities will be included in the backpacks. By the end of the school year, every student will have performed three or four activities. Each classroom has parent volunteers to replenish the backpacks for another four students.

   $1,457 spentof which $1,457 as grants
   3% of program spending

6. Scholarships: Three GEF scholarships to applicants demonstrating need, one William Quarles, Jr. Scholarship to applicant demonstrating need, one scholarship to an applicant participating in the debate team or drama department, one scholarship to applicant furthering education in the trades.

   $9,000 spentof which $9,000 as grants
   17% of program spending

7. Teacher Support: donations to "Teachers of the Year" recognized for outstanding work: A teacher recognized in each of the five schools and the county-wide teacher of the year. In addition, gift bags were given to all teaching staff during teacher appreciation week.

   $6,779 spentof which $6,779 as grants
   13% of program spending

8. Literacy programs for Preschool throughSecond Grades

   $5,645 spentof which $5,645 as grants
   11% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,421.