wef logo Wellesley Education Foundation (WEF) has awarded nearly 30 grants worth about $224,000 to public school educators district-wide for the 2018-19 school year. WEF’s mission is to advance innovation and excellence in the Wellesley Public Schools.

The biggest grants, for $30K and $30.6K respectively, are for workshops/coaching in project-based learning for elementary school teachers and for a keynote speaker on diversity, equity and inclusion for a December 2019 Professional Day, plus book texts & materials.

The smallest grant, at $156, is for foot covers for quiet chairs in an inclusion classroom at Hunnewell Elementary School.

You can check out more details at the WEF grant history page. Other grants support a Spanish language summer proficiency academy, books and take-home tote bags for kindergartners, and high school lab supplies for nuclear chemistry and biology.

WEF has awarded grants of more than $2.15 million to the district over the past 10 years.

Scholarship honors retiring WHS administrator Novo

A scholarship is being established through the Wellesley Scholarship Foundation to honor Wellesley High Assistant Principal Lynne Novogroski, who will retire this spring after 49 years in the school system, and it will be awarded this spring to a graduate.

Parents, students and alumni are invited to contribute to The Lynne Novogroski Scholarship.