Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation

08/30/2024

Is your birth-5 year old signed up for a monthly book in the mail from Lynchburg Imagination Library?

Want to make storytime more engaging? Check out these tips for reading aloud to your child!

08/17/2024

Register your child, aged birth - 5 years, for a free book in the mail each month!

08/16/2024

Peakland United Methodist Church conducted a month long supply drive on behalf of the Tools4Schools Warehouse. This truckload of goodies made it to our shelves yesterday; now we're ready for our Lynchburg City Schools' teachers to take it off our shelves and into their classrooms! Thank you for this generous donation; it will be put to good use immediately.

08/13/2024

Tools4Schools was open for in-person teacher shopping all day last Friday and Monday; and they cleaned off our shelves! The most popular items include tissues, earbuds, pencils/markers/crayons, and all sorts of paper. The most asked for items we do not have on hand are pencil sharpeners, staplers, and adult sized scissors.🙁

Between our in-person shopping days and our on-line shopping tool, we've already had 360 teacher "visits", and school hasn't even started for most of our Lynchburg City Schools' students!

Thank you to all the fabulous volunteers and donors who make this resource possible. Best of luck to all our LCS staff as they begin the 2024-2025 academic year.🍀

08/12/2024

126 Lynchburg City Schools' teachers took advantage of free shopping for classroom supplies at our Tools4Schools warehouse on Friday. We look forward to welcoming lots more at today's shopping opportunity!

Tools4Schools helps to mitigate the out-of-pocket expenditures by teachers on classroom and student resources. Learn about this program and about how you can make a material donation or financial contribution here:
https://www.lcsedu.net/community/education-foundation/programs/tools4schools

08/01/2024

The Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation was super excited to be able to sponsor breakfast for the 105 new Lynchburg City Schools teachers to partake during their orientation this morning (and hopefully helped keep them fueled as they shopped in the afternoon for free school supplies at our Toos4Schools warehouse).

Thank you to Twenty Two Gourmet for making these amazing boxed breakfasts for them! What a way to kick off a great new year!

08/01/2024

We welcomed many new teachers, including Janet Metcalf (Kindergarten at T. C. Miller Elementary School for Innovation) and Luke Ramsey (Perrymont Elementary School), to shop for FREE for school and classroom supplies at the Tools4Schools Warehouse this afternoon.

The Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation welcomes all our new teachers at Lynchburg City Schools and wishes them each a very happy and successful 2024-2025 academic year!

08/01/2024

Tools4Schools Warehouse is READY to welcome our new Lynchburg City Schools teachers to shop for FREE for back to school supplies! Welcome New Teachers!

07/31/2024

While making a special deliveries from our Tools4Schools Warehouse at Robert S. Payne Elementary School these happy floor decals inspired joy. The Sensory Pathways were made possible by a Classroom Innovation Grant awarded to teacher Elicia Fleshman sponsored by Piedmont Community Health Plan.

Lynchburg City Schools teachers, the 2024-2025 Classroom Innovation Grant portal remains open until September 22, 2024. Don't miss the opportunity to apply for funding to bring an innovative program to YOUR classroom!

07/29/2024

Don't miss this great article in today's LCS Lately edition about this fabulous Classroom Innovation Grant awarded to teachers Carrie Lewis and Gaynell Phelps and sponsored by Opportunity Lynchburg - VA . Read it here: https://www.lcsedu.net/2024/07/29/students-invent-vr-recess-experience-disabled-children

Lynchburg City Schools teachers, looking ahead to the 2024-2025 academic year, our Classroom Innovation Grant application portal remains open. Find it at our website and apply by September 22, 2024: https://www.lcsedu.net/community/education-foundation/grants

07/17/2024

We were thrilled to welcome teachers from William Marvin Bass Elementary School to shop for free for supplies for their classrooms at the Tools4Schools Warehouse today. Our online shopping tool helps ensure they have all the supplies they need for a successful and fun school year all year through!

We look forward to welcoming teachers from the rest of the division in just a few weeks! Lynchburg City Schools

07/11/2024

Students, teachers, and community partners are so excited about the Classroom Innovation Grant project Everplay that even summer break has not stopped their progress! Students and teachers involved in the DEPTh program at several of our elementary level Lynchburg City Schools are collaborating with CloudFit Software engineers to sync a simulation chair's movement with the playground action viewed through VR goggles as they strive to make recess more accessible to students with mobility challenges.

Teachers Carrie Lewis and Gaynell Phelps were awarded an Impact level Classroom Innovation Grant. This project is sponsored by Opportunity Lynchburg - VA .
Sandusky Elementary School Paul Munro Elementary School

07/10/2024

Building literacy with free books!

06/23/2024

And we know so many of our teachers spend so much more.

06/03/2024

The Lynchburg Imagination Library is growing literacy with free books for children birth to 5 years old, and we're proud to be the fiscal agent for this excellent project in our community. Don't miss the 8PM deadline for registration to get the July book in the mail!

Our monthly registration deadline is at 8pm this evening! Share with friends to make sure their children are one of the 2,400+ who receive a Lynchburg Imagination Library book from Dolly next month.

05/31/2024

Ronald Black will graduate from Heritage High School this weekend and then continue his education Liberty University with the goal of becoming a geriatric nurse. Ronald's school counselor says his positive and welcoming attitude "inspires everyone with whom he comes in contact."

While at HHS, Ronald participated in Student Government Association, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the football and wrestling teams. Additionally, he participated in University of Lynchburg's Scholar Identity Program where students learn character-building and leadership skills. Ronald has also been a member of HHS's Engineer Program allowing him to work monthly with engineers from BWX Technologies, Inc. , Framatome Inc. , and Vector Space to design projects and learn about engineering principles. We, at the Ed Foundation, were trilled to see Ronald again after meeting him when he helped install the Free Little Library structure at the Lynchburg City Schools' Administration Building. Outside of school, Ronald has served this community volunteering with the group All About the Community.

Congratulations to Ronald Black on earning the Stroobants Focus Scholarship, and thank you to The Al Stroobants Foundation for providing the funds to enable this exceptional student's dreams!
Lynchburg CTE

05/31/2024

Congratulations to Ronald Black, a senior at Heritage High School, who was surprised by the LCSEF and The Al Stroobants Foundation yesterday during his graduation rehearsal with the reveal that he is the 2024 Stroobants Focus Scholarship recipient in the amount of $13,000 to pursue his dream of being a geriatric nurse. Ronald is pictured here surrounded by his family, LCSEF Executive Director Dawn Wise, and representatives from The Al Stroobants Foundation, Jane Sprouse and Mike Spencer. Congratulations Ronald!!

The Stroobants Focus scholarship is awarded to a Lynchburg City Schools graduate entering a career or technical program immediately after graduation. We are grateful to The Al Stroobants Foundation for their generous support of our schools and our students.

05/24/2024

E.C. Glass High School English teachers, Mr. Casey Wood & Ms. Patricia Finn Rapiejko, are committed to bolstering the the 12th grade English Literature curriculum focusing on research on Lynchburg's literary history. They were awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant to purchase a class set of Lynchburg native and 2008 ECG graduate Sheldon Anderson's book 'Impossibilities'. Students engaged with the narrative aspect of Mr. Anderson's work and also connected with him directly in classroom discussions, lecture presentations, and interpersonal mentoring. Students found inspiration in Sheldon’s story about overcoming issues such as peer pressure, drugs, homelessness, domestic abuse, and crime to achieve success through determination and positive outlook.

This great opportunity was sponsored by Moore & Giles and Virginia School Equipment/Gallagher-Stone.

05/24/2024

Ms. Patricia Finn Rapiejko was awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant to better prepare AP English Literature and Composition students at E.C. Glass High School for success through access to contemporary literature. This was accomplished using an author study of Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner. Students were excited to read this contemporary author’s body of work that is tied to modern historical moments, such as the Deep Water Horizon oil disaster, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the historical roots of slavery, economic poverty, generational trauma of mass gun violence, and mass incarceration, presented in a real and compelling way in an accessible writing style.

Thank you to our generous grant sponsors Merryman Charitable Foundation, Winston & Roger Green, and Lynchburg Municipal Employees Federal Credit Union!

Sonny Merryman Inc.

05/24/2024

Elementary Academic Coaches Ms. Carrie Lewis and Ms. Gaynell Phelps, inspired by their students' desire to find a way for their mobility challenged classmates to experience recess, were awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant. Elementary students in Lynchburg City Schools across the division have been polishing their engineering problem solving skills while exploring entrepreneurship. The students learned to operate a 360﮿ camera to take stitched & stabilized videos after brainstorming how to mount the camera for filming. They also edited and added sound to the videos. The finalized form of the videos will be posted in their YouTube channel to be accessed by VR goggles from a specially programmed chair.

Along the way the students have also created a business plan, voted on a unique name/created a logo for their project, and learned about patents, copyrights and trademarks.

This fabulous project was made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Economic Development Authority of the City of Lynchburg.
Opportunity Lynchburg - VA Sandusky Elementary School
Bedford Hills Elementary School PTO Paul Munro Elementary School

05/23/2024

Ms. Jasmine Payne-Winchester wanted to inspire her students to expand their career dreams when she applied for a Classroom Innovation Grant to take Heritage High School cosmetology students to the International Beauty Show in New York City in March. In addition to seeing a wide variety of career options available with a cosmetology education, students enjoyed classes and Look & Learn Stations as well as testing all sorts of skin, nail, and hair products.

This awesome opportunity was made possible by Classroom Innovation Grant sponsors Schewel Charitable Foundation, The News & Advance , Successful Innovations, Inc. and Virginia School Equipment/Gallagher-Stone.
Schewels Home Lynchburg CTE

05/22/2024

Ms. Megan Swithers and Dr. Tawanda Johnson, teachers at Dearington Elementary School for Innovation - LCS, were awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant for their students to engineer a new pollinator garden while expanding their garden from last year's grant project. Students read culturally relevant texts correlating to their work, developed homes for local pollinators, constructed garden beds and hand pollinators, tended their garden, and had the opportunity to work with local farmers/chefs to create healthy dishes they can replicate with ingredients grown at DESI.

This grant was made possible by our generous sponsors at Bank of the James, Hanwha Azdel, R M Gantt Construction, Wooldridge Heating Air & Electrical. Thank you!
Lynchburg City Schools

05/22/2024

Ms. Caroline Arp, Library Media Specialist at Bedford Hill Elementary School, was awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant to to provide students the after-school opportunity to engage in meaningful research, exploration, collaboration, and creation addressing a real-world problem presented through the First LEGO League Explore Challenge. After working through the challenge, the student teams presented their process and design at the annual SciFest Explore/Build Expo at Randolph College in March. These materials are also being used for lessons in problem solving and coding in library classes.

Thank you BWX Technologies, Inc. for 20 years of sponsorship of the Classroom Innovation Grant program!
Bedford Hills Elementary School PTO Lynchburg City Schools

05/21/2024

Music teacher Ms. Gladys Gonzalez Landaverde was awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant to enhance Perrymont Elementary School student's musical experience by exposing them to "new sounds and tone colors" at the low end of the musical spectrum. Bass bars played with a mallet provide an inclusive opportunity for students to play music.

Thank you to our generous sponsors MH Masonry & Associates and Wegmann USA, Inc. for bringing this opportunity to Lynchburg City Schools classrooms!

05/21/2024

Sandusky Middle School teachers Ms. Catherine Bragg, Ms. Mildred Crist, Ms. Jessica Roman, and Mr. Steven Hubbard were awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant designed to bring career awareness, job skills, and self advocacy skills to the students participating in the Lynchburg City Schools' division-wide adaptive programming curriculum. The Spartan Shack, a concession stand to operate during school athletic competitions, will provide an opportunity for workforce development on many levels.

The generous sponsors of this grant are Berglund Toyota and the Economic Development Authority of the City of Lynchburg. Opportunity Lynchburg - VA

05/20/2024

Ms. Elicia Fleshman, was awarded a Classroom Innovation Grant to bring a sensory path to the hallways at Robert S. Payne Elementary School. Engaging tactile, visual, and proprioceptive activities along the sensory path helped student's to self-regulate behavior, promoted physical activity, and increased concentration and focus in the classroom. Additionally, the tailored support for students with sensory processing challenges created a more supportive and inclusive learning environment while promoting holistic student development.

This grant was sponsored by Piedmont Community Health Plan, and we are grateful for their 19 years of support for the Classroom Innovation Grant program!