Report of the Dickinson School Trust

The Dickinson School Trust awarded four grants to Southwick Tolland Regional School educators to help support innovative programs that they designed and hope to implement with students. The grant recipients are Ania Saj and her collaborators Marsha Ramah and Jessica Torone for their creative use of board games in instruction, Aaron Pearsons for his creative use of History board games, Susan Pac, Marissa Blais, Susan Yates, Kelly Kiltonic, and Tracy Cesan for their community problem solving project “Addressing the Issue of Inappropriate Grafitti in Southwick’s Rail/Trail Tunnel,” and Kim Lynch for using drama to enhance student’s lives via the Powder Mill Drama Program. The grants represent the sixth round of grants in what the Dickinson School Trustees hope will continue to be an annual program to support the efforts of teachers that go above and beyond to develop innovative programs for the district’s students.

The Dickinson School Trustees continue to work to make the Trust more useful in its role to support education in the community. To that end, we hope to encourage and support our teachers as they reach beyond to provide innovative and exciting programs to the district’s children. We also call on members of the community to help us make that happen by supporting the trust with donations. Since we first announced this program five years ago, a number of people have shown interest in our efforts, either through direct donations or through their willingness to volunteer to help us in our efforts to increase the value of the trust. If members of the community wish to donate money, please send a check to the Dickinson School Trust, Southwick Town Hall, Southwick, MA 01077. If you are interested in volunteering to help raise money to increase the trust, please contact Ken Haar, at 569-0381.

Respectfully submitted,

Ken Harr