Oct 9, 2012 3:42 PM
Thanks to a $35,000 private grant from an elementary-school parent, seven school districts on eastern Long Island will be participating this year in an initiative that focuses on establishing a hands-on foundation in science literacy.
Richard Wilson, a retired science teacher and former department head in the Sag Harbor School District, has already started hand-delivering black and white marbled boxes containing the resources, from beakers and balance scales and basins to student journals and lesson plans and assessment tools, to elementary teachers at the Montauk, Amagansett, Springs, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, Wainscott and Sagaponack schools.
Michael Maffucci, who has a child at the John Marshall School in East Hampton, awarded the grant through the Greater East Hampton Education Foundation in response to a proposal written by Mr. Wilson, who’s also co-chair of... more
Richard Wilson, a retired science teacher and former department head in the Sag Harbor School District, has already started hand-delivering black and white marbled boxes containing the resources, from beakers and balance scales and basins to student journals and lesson plans and assessment tools, to elementary teachers at the Montauk, Amagansett, Springs, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, Wainscott and Sagaponack schools.
Michael Maffucci, who has a child at the John Marshall School in East Hampton, awarded the grant through the Greater East Hampton Education Foundation in response to a proposal written by Mr. Wilson, who’s also co-chair of... more
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