Grant Recipient History

Governing Documents

• Committee Procedures

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the 2020 MassCUE/MASCD Spring Leadership Conference Administrator Scholarship!

Dan Ambrosio is a former Library Media Specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools and now serves as a District Technology Integration Specialist for Foxborough Public Schools. Dan is a site coordinator for Project Lead the Way as well as a club facilitator for Girls Who Code.

Tracey Kenney is the proud mother of 4 adult children and grandmother of 1 granddaughter. She is a passionate educator with 25 years in public education and the current Principal of Leicester High School.

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

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) 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 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

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

• Online Application
• Rubric

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)

Holli Caulfield

Board Member, Appointed, 2022-2024, Grants Committee Chair

Holli 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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Bio

Holli Caulfield

Board Member, Appointed, 2022-2024, Grants Committee Chair

Holli 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.

Members

• Linda Cartier
• Stephanie Gosselin
• Lisa Sanderson
• Sanaea Simmons

Ex-Officio members

• Chris Gosselin (President)
• Heidi MacGregor (President-elect)
• Savvy Demers (Executive Director)

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