Community Connection Grants

Our students and schools benefit from student, parent and community interactions that strengthen commitment to our public schools.

Community Connections Grants are available for school-based outreach activities that strengthen commitment to our youth and schools by:

1. Promoting service learning and opportunities for students to develop skills for civic involvement;
2. Involving parents and volunteers in school life;
3. Encouraging community knowledge of our students and schools and promoting use of the public schools.

These are some of the past Community Connection Grants awarded:

• A Coventry team created booklets that detailed the history of Coventry School and included remembrances of alumni and current students. 
  
  
• Parents, teachers, teacher leader and the principal on the Legacy Shared Governance team compiled and distribute a parent handbook and held quarterly parent meetings. 
  
  
• Heights High Senior Kate Bode created six paintings to brighten up the tub rooms at Judson Retirement Community. Click here to read more.
  
  
• Wiley Middle School PTA brought over 120 students, teachers, parents and community members together for their Annual Chili Cook-off. The mayors of the 3 cities, Cleveland Heights, University Heights & South Euclid, served as judges (see photo above). The Wiley Jazz Band provided the entertainment.

• Seventh graders at Roxboro Middle School wrote essays about a senior citizen, a grandperson, and then shared an evening at Roxboro with their special person. The Grand Persons Dinner Theater project included a dinner performance by instrumental music students; a dinner prepared by the Builders Club, Life Skills students, student council and the Gourmet Club; and a performance by drama students.

• Heights High parents initiated PATH- Parent Ambassadors to Heights- an outreach program for prospective high school families.

• The Heights High A Cappella Choir joined with choirs from Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights and the Mayfield United Methodist Church , and the Cantor from Temple Emanu El to perform the Holocaust Cantata .

Grant teams have wonderful ideas. Brief descriptions of other projects implemented in the past can be found by Clicking Here .