WEAC Members Win NFIE Grant

A team of WEAC members from Milwaukee has won a grant from the NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education.

The $2,000 Innovation Grant supports public educators' exemplary work throughout the nation. Teams of two or more practicing teachers and staff are eligible for the award, which honors innovations that significantly improve achievement for underserved learners.

The Wisconsin recipients are Mary Anderson, a 6th- to 8th-grade special education teacher at the Audubon Technology and Communication Center in Milwaukee; and her partners, Richard Drida, Cynthia Eldien, and Wendy Liedtke.

Each Wednesday afternoon, Anderson and her partners take their students with special needs to a bowling alley for "Bowling for Numbers," a standards-based activity designed to increase students' mathematics and interpersonal skills.

Students learn to use public transportation to travel to the site, and apply their mathematics skills to complete computations based on their bowling scores.

Posted November 11, 2003