Grants Committee
The Grants Committee promotes and administers initiative grants and scholarships to members. The Grants Committee administers Event Sponsorship requests from members.
MassCUE Grants (Update)
MassCUE’s competitive Classroom Grants offer up to $3,000 to current MassCUE members. The grant application for the 2023-2024 school year closed in December 2023.
If you have an idea for infusing technology purposefully into the classroom, then this is the grant for you! We fund hardware and almost anything else you need to make your idea come alive. (Grant funds cannot be used for stipends).
In keeping with MassCUE’s commitment to supporting educators who are dedicated to building communities where every learner creates, contributes, and succeeds in a connected world, we have prioritized diversity in our scoring criteria.
Grant Recipient History
MassCUE Grant Funding in Action
Read about the educators who received grants and the innovative projects they did with their students.
- Creating 3D from a 2D World
- Usable Math Generates Math and Design Learning for Elementary Students,
College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Innovation Lab Takes Off with 3D Printers, Pembroke Public Schools
- Wearable Technology-Infused Fashion, Somerset Berkley Regional High School
- Capping it Off: iPads and a Synergy of Library, Technology, and SEL Skills, Falls and Community Elementary Schools, North Attleboro
- Going Digital for an Invention Convention, Cape Cod Academy, Osterville
- Soaring with MassCUE Grants, Burlington High School, Burlington
- Virtual Reality in the Art Classroom, Hopkinton High School
Example of Submitted Grant Accepted and Funded by MassCUE
Latest News & Updates
2024 Classroom Grant Recipients
Congratulations to our 2024 Grant Recipients From drones, to podcasting, to laser cutting, educators from around the commonwealth will be introducing their students to new technology and new ways of learning, thanks to MassCUE Classroom Grants. MassCUE is pleased to announce that this year’s Classroom Grant winners work with students that span grade levels and regions. ...
Continue ReadingGrants: Creating 3D from a 2D World
MassCUE Grant Funding in Action Creating 3D from a 2D World by Jane Kent “I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” I am not sure who first made this quote but it fits my journey. At MassCUE, I stumbled upon the 3Doodler table and was enthralled by a 3D heated pen that allowed students ...
Continue ReadingClassroom Grants – Opened October 18th
Bring Your Innovative Idea to Life With a MassCUE Grant! MassCUE is pleased to announce that we will begin accepting applications for Classroom Grants on October 18th. MassCUE’s competitive Classroom Grants offer up to $3,000 to current MassCUE members. The grant application for the 2023-2024 year will open on October 18, 2023. All applications will be due ...
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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)
Holli Caulfield
Grants Committee Co-ChairHolli Caulfield is currently the principal of the Ralph Wheelock School in Medfield. Before coming to Medfield, Holli was the principal of the Oakdale School in Dedham from 2005-2019….
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Holli Caulfield
Grants Committee Co-ChairHolli Caulfield is currently the principal of the Ralph Wheelock School in Medfield. Before coming to Medfield, Holli was the principal of the Oakdale School in Dedham from 2005-2019. Prior to becoming an administrator in Dedham, Holli was an assistant principal in Walpole. She began her career as a kindergarten and then a second-grade teacher at the Old Post Road School in East Walpole. Mrs. Caulfield was so effective in relaying computer and digital skills to students that they, in turn, taught those skills to adults visiting Caulfield’s classroom regularly. While at the Old Post School, she also wrote and received several Lighthouse grants from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. She was a member of the K-12 Technology Steering Committee, and was featured in a Department of Education video on technology-integrated instruction. In 2000 Holli received the Milken Family Foundation Outstanding Educator Award. In 2004 she went on to receive a Milken Festival for Youth grant creating an outdoor environmental classroom. In her free time she enjoys traveling with her husband and children, cooking, and reading.
Chris Gosselin
BOARD MEMBER, APPOINTED, 2023-2025, GRANTS COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR, FALL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBER, STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERChris Gosselin brings a wealth of experience to his role as Director of Instructional Technology and Innovation in the Needham Public Schools (MA). Throughout his career, he has served…
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Chris Gosselin
BOARD MEMBER, APPOINTED, 2023-2025, GRANTS COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR, FALL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBER, STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERChris Gosselin brings a wealth of experience to his role as Director of Instructional Technology and Innovation in the Needham Public Schools (MA). Throughout his career, he has served as an Assistant Principal, Digital Learning Coach, Media Specialist, and English Language Arts teacher, working with students across all grade levels (PreK-12).
Chris earned his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Saint Michael’s College (Burlington, VT), his Master of Arts in Teaching from Simmons University (Boston, MA) and his Master of Educational Leadership & Organizational Management from Endicott College (Educator Leadership Institute through the EDCO Collaborative). Chris currently serves as an instructor in this program.
As a classroom teacher, Chris pioneered the use of 1:1 devices, fostering student engagement through innovative and student-centered learning practices. As a digital learning coach, he collaborated with school leaders to implement effective instructional strategies across diverse disciplines in elementary schools. As a school leader, Chris worked with and led a variety of teams to provide relevant and supportive services for students and embraced innovative professional development to help teachers grow. Now, as a district leader, his focus is on empowering teachers to adopt high-impact, innovative instructional practices aligned with a district vision and framework for learning. Notably, Chris’s recent work explores the potential of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) in K-12 education and school leadership.
Chris’s passion for digital learning, literacy, student voice, and engagement extends beyond his district. His presentations and writing on these topics have been featured on educational platforms like Edutopia and ISTE.org. Chris is a past-President of the MassCUE Board of Directors (2020-2023) and still serves on the Board, co-chairing the Grants Committee and as a member of the Fall Conference Planning team. He has presented widely throughout New England at various conferences including MassCUE Fall & Spring, MSAA Summer Institute, Medfield DesignYourLearning Day, the Blue Ribbon Schools Conference, plus many more.
Members
- Linda Cartier
- Stephanie Gosselin
- Ed Paris
- Lisa Sanderson
- Sanaea Simmons
Ex-Officio members
- Casey Daigle (President)
- Sarah Boyle (President-elect)
- Savvy Demers (Executive Director)
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
Governing Documents
MassCUE is a proud sponsor of many educational events!
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
- Notification of the Masscue Sponsorships will be sent out in April for the following fiscal year(July to July)
- The request will be made to the Chairs of the Grants Committee (Online Application) by May 15th. We will accept rolling applications after May 15th but are limited to our budgeted amount.
- The person making the request for Sponsorship of their event must be a MassCUE Member.
- The written request should address the criteria below.
- The request will be presented to the Grants Committee Members for discussion.
- A rubric will be used to score each application and the final decision will be determined by the Grants Committee.
- 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.
- Grants Committee members will notify applicants after June 15th who receive Sponsorship by July 1st.
- 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:
- To educate, connect and inspire the educational community across Massachusetts
- To increase and diversify programs and services
- To improve mutually beneficial partnerships
- 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
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 website. The article should be submitted via email to masscue@masscue.org. Please used "Website Submission" in the subject line.
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.