Grants Committee

Never attended the MassCUE/M.A.S.S. Fall Conference?  Now is your chance to attend with overnight expenses paid! 

MassCUE will be offering 1 scholarship to an educator who is a current MassCUE member but has never attended the Annual Fall Conference.  An Educator Scholarship includes entrance to both days of the Conference and one overnight stay at the Hilton Garden Inn Foxborough Patriot Place.  The online application ^[11] must be submitted on or before June 5, 2018.  The winner will be selected at the MassCUE Annual General Meeting ^[12] on June 6, 2018 at Gillette Stadium. (You need not be present to win.)

Apply Now! ^[13]

MassCUE is a proud sponsor of many educational events ^[14]!
To apply for a sponsorship please follow the procedure outlined below.

Approval Process for Event Sponsorships

*Any event recommended for approval by the Grants Committee must support the mission and vision of MassCUE and must be open to all.

Process

1. Notification of the Masscue Sponsorships will be sent out in April for the following fiscal year(July to July)
2. The request will be made to the Chairs of the Grants Committee (Online Application ^[15]) by May 15th. We will accept rolling applications after May 15th but are limited to our budgeted amount.
3. The person making the request for Sponsorship of their event must be a MassCUE Member.
4. The written request should address the criteria below.
5. The request will be presented to the Grants Committee Members for discussion.
6. A rubric ^[16] will be used to score each application and the final decision will be determined by the Grants Committee.
7. In the case that there are more eligible proposals than we can sponsor, preference will be given to those who we have never sponsored as long as they meet the criteria.
8. Grants Committee members will notify applicants after June 15th who receive Sponsorship by July 1st.
9. Any rolling application will be notified within 30 days of the date of submission.

The Event should align with at least one of our four Goals:

1. To educate, connect and inspire the educational community across Massachusetts
2. To increase and diversify programs and services
3. To improve mutually beneficial partnerships
4. To improve operations and governance of MassCUE

In order for MassCue to Sponsor an Event, the following criteria will be reviewed.
The event to be sponsored:

• Leverages knowledge and expertise to educate and inspire the educational community
• Increases and diversifies programs and services
• Accomplishes more than MassCUE could alone
• Aims to improve teaching and learning in the Commonwealth
• Maintains MassCUE’s commitment to high standards
• Enhances and expands MassCUE’s reach
• Provides high-quality professional learning
• Creates excitement about technology in education
• Promotes and encourages MassCUE membership
• Is open and free to all MassCUE members
• The event should occur no sooner than 30 days from the date of the request.
• The event should be run by volunteers whose primary job is the education of Massachusetts children in a school setting.
  During the event the member facilitating the event will acknowledge the sponsorship from MassCUE

Within thirty days after the event, the member facilitating the event will write and submit an article, including 3 photos, about the event for MassCUE’s online newsletter OnCUE. The article should be submitted via email to: OnCUE@masscue.org ^[17]

• Online Application ^[15]
• Rubric ^[16]

Board Members eligibility
*If a Board member is part of the planning group for an event, there should be no penalty against the group of educators, and the proposal for sponsorship must be allowed. Board members who apply for this sponsorship may not participate in scoring of applications

The MassCUE Grants Committee serves to promote and administer initiative grants to members; identify grants and coordinate the writing of proposals to benefit MassCUE.

The Grant Committee’s responsibilities include:

• Design and facilitation of grants for MassCUE members to encourage activities that will strongly support and demonstrate:
  • Integrated technology
  • Standards-based learning
  • Enhanced student achievement
  • Development of instructional technology competency
  • Dissemination of sustainable results back to MassCUE members and others.
  • Follow up of Grant recipient’s requirements as stated in grant

Each MassCUE Committee is made up of a dedicated team of volunteers. The following make up the current Grants Committee Chairs and Committee Members.

Chair(s)

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Julie Baudreau ^[18]

Board member, elected, 2016-2018, Grants Committee Chair, Special Interest Groups, and Professional Development Committee Member

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Julie is currently the Director of Digital Learning at Westford Public Schools. Her focus is leading and supporting teachers…

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Bio

Julie Baudreau

Board member, elected, 2016-2018, Grants Committee Chair, Special Interest Groups, and Professional Development Committee Member

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Julie is currently the Director of Digital Learning at Westford Public Schools. Her focus is leading and supporting teachers to make the shift towards blended and personalized learning.

Her presentations include Digital Story Telling, Project Based Learning, UDL, Formative Assessment, Blended Learning and Online Learning at MassCUE, Digital Aged Leadership at NELMS, Fostering Fluency in Foreign Languages with Technology at MAFLA and Study Groups at MASCD. She also teaches courses on these topics.

Julie is a member of MassCUE, iNacol, and ISTE. She was a 2014 Pathfinder award winner. She holds an MA in Instructional Technology and an MA in Educational Leadership.

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Kimberly Zajac ^[18]

Board member, appointed, 2017-2019, Grants Committee Chair; Fall Conference Committee and Special Interest Groups Member

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Kim Zajac, MA CCC-SLP/A is a certified speech/language pathologist and Audiologist at Norton Middle School and Norton…

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Bio

Kimberly Zajac

Board member, appointed, 2017-2019, Grants Committee Chair; Fall Conference Committee and Special Interest Groups Member

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Kim Zajac, MA CCC-SLP/A is a certified speech/language pathologist and Audiologist at Norton Middle School and Norton High School.   She holds specialized certification in the area of Neuro-developmental Treatment with Pediatrics.  She is Co-Leader of the MassCUE SLP/Special Education SIG and is a Co-Founder of @EdCampSoutheasternMA.  She has presented at MassCUE Fall Conference 2016, New England League of Middle Schools Annual Conference 2017 as well a number of Norton Public School District Professional Development events.  With over 20 years experience working with individuals across a variety of settings, Kim specializes in creating programs and learning strategies to support families and students with a wide range of disabilities including the areas of communication, movement, cognition, verbal and non-verbal learning, executive function, social competence, and social-emotional regulation.  She is passionate about establishing equitable access and opportunity for ALL students and supports innovative integration of educational technology as a tool in learning as well as in specialized service delivery.  

 

Members

• Lynne Beatti
• Casey Daigle
• Stephanie Gosselin
• Connie Louie

Latest News & Updates

• Congratulations to MassCUE’s 2018 Teacher Scholarship Winners ^[26]

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    Holly Carpenter, Awarded by Edgenuity I am a Library Media teacher for the Worcester Public Schools.  As a 4th year teacher, I enjoy sharing my enthusiasm for technology and books with my students in grades K-6.   My goals in the classroom are to create an environment of collaboration and creativity while providing an opportunity for all ...

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Grant Recipient History

• Grant Recipients 2017 ^[28]
• Grant Recipients 2016 ^[29]
• Grant Recipients 2015 ^[30]
• Grant Recipients 2014 ^[31]

Governing Documents

• Committee Procedures ^[32]