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Classroom Grants

For more than 17 years, the Bainbridge Education Support Team awarded grants directly to pre-K through 12th grade educators (including teachers, counselors, librarians, and other certificated personnel) in the Bainbridge Schools District to support innovative teaching and learning.

Class Size Reduction

To sustain the tradition of outstanding public schools on Bainbridge Island, one of Bainbridge Schools Foundation programs is to increase the teacher student ratio by hiring additional teachers. This is accomplished by paying for additional teachers that the district could otherwise not afford.

Teacher Training

Students learn more from great teachers. Research shows that effective teaching is one of the most significant predictors of a student’s academic success. The link between effective teaching and student success outdistances other factors such as socio-economic status, race, and parent education levels. Teaching all students to high levels requires effective teaching knowledge, skills, tools, and support. To help guide our teachers to greatness, Bainbridge Schools Foundation supports the professional development needs of our teachers.

Wings Program

BISD Wings Program focuses on K-8 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and supports their needs in the classroom. The Wings Program has been very successful in its first year and has served over 50 children with ASD. The Wings Program coordinator has successfully created strategies for each of the children in the program and has helped them transition through their school days so they can learn and progress.

Academic Remediation

Reading is one of the basic skills necessary for effective learning. Studies have shown that early intervention with struggling students is essential to their academic success in later years. Students who participate in K-8 remedial education are less likely to receive failing scores and repeat grades, have better academic motivation, lower incidences of absenteeism, better attitudes toward school and better self esteem. Bainbridge Schools Foundation understands that by correcting learning problems early, remedial education can set in motion a chain of events that improves a child’s learning ability through high school and beyond.

K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

K-12 STEM is a new focus for BISD. The goal of the STEM program will be to increase the number of BHS graduates who pursue STEM related fields of work and study. STEM improvements will happen at all grades. Elementary Schools will focus on math literacy, Middle Schools will focus on science and math literacy and the High School will focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. All seventh graders will have a STEM plan beginning in 2012. More details of STEM will be available as the year progresses.