2025-2026 School Year

Marshfield Education awards $151,732 to fund 22 grants for the 2025-2026 school year.

 

On Monday, May 12, 2025, the Marshfield Education Foundation held its Annual Grant Ceremony to honor the educators and faculty which were the recipients of 22 grants for the 2025-26 school year. These grants will impact every student and every school within the Marshfield Public School District.

 

Making Quality Senior Portraits Accessible to All Students
Michelle Almeida
Marshfield High School
$1,039.97
Providing the photography class with a mirrorless camera and lighting kit will create an opportunity for seniors to receive professional-quality free senior portraits, enhancing their memorable high school experience.

Growing a Peaceful Cafeteria
Emily Baird, Amy Flutz, Wendy Slattery
South River School
$8,797.70
SRS aims to transform the cafeteria into a warm, student-centered space with soft lighting, calm music, creative arts, flexible seating and a student-run indoor garden. Fostering a sense of community, engagement, and connection to the food we eat.

Whisking Up Opportunity: A Grant for Better Baking
Joyce Biagini, Lori Sangster
Marshfield High School
$10,307.25
Incorporating a professional-grade Hobart mixer, students will be introduced into industry-standard tools, better preparing them for careers in the culinary field. This project bridges the gap between classroom learning and real-world application.

Building a Finance Lab
Joanna Binette
Marshfield High School
$6,027.50
The Finance Lab will transform my classroom into an interactive financial learning environment featuring the PersonalFinanceLab.com platform, a scrolling stock ticker, and real-time market data displays to enhance student engagement and financial literacy.

EMPower
Joann Bohoroquez
Furnace Brook Middle School
$2,000
EMPower is a teacher-led mentorship program at Furnace Brook Middle School that supports English Language Learners by fostering meaningful relationships, integrating language development into mentorship activities, promoting socialemotional well-being, and enhancing cultural awareness to help students successfully navigate their new academic and social environments.

2025 Grants Awarded
High Noon Books
Anne Burke
Furnace Brook Middle School
$2,022
This project aims to enhance decoding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and confidence among struggling readers and ELL students. By providing engaging, accessible, and structured reading materials, it seeks to bridge the gap between lagging reading skills and grade-level text.

Revitalizing the Yoga Room
Gwenevere Darrah, Robert Fleming
Marshfield High School
$2,568
This grant seeks to revitalize the multi-purpose PE space to feel more inclusive and similar to that of a “real” yoga studio similar to local yoga studios, increasing student participation. Creating an impactful introduction to yoga will inspire students to continue this practice into their adult lives creating healthier individuals
and lifestyles overall.

Sensory Room and School-Wide Support
Kimberly Figueiredo, Julie Gardner, Heather Lane, Kristine Sullivan
South River School
$900
A sensory space in elementary schools helps students manage stress, sensory sensitivities, and emotional regulation, promoting a positive and inclusive learning environment.

Book Club: Building Critical Literacies
Katey Greene
Furnace Brook Middle School
$4,000
This project seeks to provide Grade 7 students with meaningful literacy experiences that deepen their understanding of how pivotal moments shape identity, relationships, and perspectives.

Social Emotional Enhancements
Jennifer Ierardi
Governor Winslow School/ South River School
$4,625.35
The Therapeutic Learning Centers in the district propose to add additional supplies that will allow the programs to provide more cohesive, safe and inviting interventions across the continuum of support for some of our highest needs students.

Super Hero Training Camp
Sean Jackson
Governor Winslow School
$9,660
An elementary student spends the day at superhero training camp, leaping over obstacles, testing their strength, and mastering agility in a fun-filled, action-packed physical education class.

Digging for Knowledge and Fossils in Grade Two
Christina Jacobucci, Nicole Silva, Amy Lopes, Colleen Masotta
Governor Winslow School
$13,604.76
Second graders will become scientists studying fossils, reading informational and literary texts, writing reports and immersing themselves in the wide world of paleontology.

Archery for All
Ryan King, Sarah Newcomb-Baker, John Gilbert
Furnace Brook Middle School
$12,156.11
Archery for All will expand our archery program to be more inclusive and accommodating to all of FBMS, including adaptive gear for students with disabilities and specialized bows to support beginner archers in developing their skills.

Still Life Success
Brianna Ko, Meghan Dinsmore
Marshfield High School
$1,023.21
Observational drawing, drawing from real-life, is a foundational skill and a practice used by a variety of artists throughout time. This grant will allow us to create very controlled still life set-ups using a single directional light source, geometric forms and neutral backdrops for more dramatic and pronounced
compositions.

Inclusive Nuvo Recorders
Charles Larson, Lindsay Vaughan, Amber Morris, Mikenzie Matheson
All elementary schools in District
$5,591.27
Although the recorder itself dates back to antiquity, the instruments have benefited from technological improvements. In the spirit of making our curriculum more accessible and inclusive through the principles of UDL, adopting a more modern recorder design could significantly reduce the barriers of entry for our students while still providing an authentic and rewarding experience for all learners. The silicone keys of the Nuvo recorders help to elevate the students that struggle early on with their fine motor control by removing this barrier.

2025 Grants Awarded
Innovative Robotics and Engineering
Jessica Leach
Marshfield High School
$17,745
This project aims to establish a sustainable robotics and engineering team that fosters innovation, teamwork, and problem-solving skills among students through participation in the First Robotics Competition.

Vernier Equipment Enhancement for Wireless Data Collection
Jessica Leach, Lesley Dimond
Marshfield High School
$14,223
This project aims to enhance and transform science education by integrating Bluetooth-enabled Vernier equipment for wireless, real-time data collection. By allowing students to gather data anywhere--whether in the classroom, hallways, or outdoor spaces--this technology promotes hands-on, inquiry-based learning. Students will investigate real-world phenomena deepening their understanding of how scientific concepts apply beyond the classroom.

PBIS - Ram Pride
Greg Sorensen
Furnace Brook Middle School
$3,157
Our Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support (PBIS) system aims to positively influence our students’ academic, behavioral, and social choices through an incentivized token economy system to improve the climate and culture of the building.

Heart Rate Monitors for Personal Fitness
Todd Stoddard
Marshfield High School
$2,677
The heart rate monitors provided by this grant will provide students in the Personal Fitness class at MHS with an opportunity to gain meaningful feedback during their training sessions and will help them achieve their fitness and performance goals.

Sensory Integration Room
Elizabeth Venuti, Erin Wiggin
Furnace Brook Middle School
$3,100
The Marshfield High School is seeking to create a centralized sensory integration room that will allow special educators to safely support the growing sensory needs of students and mental health clinicians to teach Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation techniques to students when dysregulated.

Action Based Learning (ABL) Kinesthetic Classroom
Katelyn Woodard, Martha Murphy, Casey White
Furnace Brook Middle School
$24,953
This grant expands the kinesthetic furniture and ABL strategies to an ELA and Mathematics classroom. Last year introduced kinesthetic activities paired with brain-based learning strategies in the sixth grade health classroom setting will provide students at FBMS with an advantage to learn by creating an optimal
learning environment, preparing the brain for learning, reinforcing academic content while building upon and strengthening the 12 foundations of learning readiness.

The Crochet Collection
Katelyn Woodward
Furnace Brook Middle School
$1,500
The Crochet Collective will provide students with a creative and therapeutic outlet, fostering mindfulness, problem-solving skills, and a sense of community through hands-on crafting.

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