Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008

Editor's note: Six more projects were awarded grants after our initial announcement in October. Below is the complete list for 2008-09.

Several Fayette County schools with innovative ideas are sharing about $17,000 from the Blue Grass Community Foundation, which provides mini-grants for teachers who develop creative, interesting programs, projects or events for their classrooms. The grant money enables them to buy special materials and resources that aren’t covered in school budgets.

The foundation was able to fund 19 projects for the 2008-09 academic year:

• Ashland Elementary School, $500, Colonial Times Revisited
• Booker T. Washington Academy, $1,000, Reader’s Theatre costume and props
• Bryan Station High School, $1,000, individual instrumental music instruction
• Deep Springs Elementary: $900, Native American culture program by Firebear
• Dixie Elementary School, $1,000, Dulcimer Days with an artist-in-residence
• Harrison Elementary School, $1,000, A Model Community, A Model School social studies project
• Henry Clay High School, $970, Science in Everyday Pictures, a collaborative project for special needs students
• James Lane Allen Elementary School, $1,000, for workshops on Appalachian and West African art, dance and music
• Lafayette High School, $1,000, Using Partner Schools to Create a Global Classroom
• Mary Todd Elementary, $1,000, West African Rhythm Performance and Teaching Ensemble
• Meadowthorpe Elementary School, $1,000, workshops on Appalachian music, art and culture
• Millcreek Elementary School, $527, Kentucky Reptile Zoo
• Russell Cave Elementary School, $1,000, school presentation of Disney’s “The Jungle Book”
• SCAPA Bluegrass, $961, Bridging the Cultural Gap: Introducing Latin Music to Elementary Students
• Southern Middle School: $988.88, for 16 heart-rate monitors for P.E. classes
• Southern Middle: $499.98, for iPods to help special education students learn
• Tates Creek High School, $1,000, Transition Step Team
• Tates Creek High: $1,000, performances by college student-musicians
• Winburn Middle School: $648, content vocabulary notebooks