The Beverly Education Foundation awarded 30 grants totaling $20,835.50 at the recent Beverly Public School Committee meeting. The grant funding will benefit students, teachers, and various educational programs at all levels and schools within the Beverly Public Schools. The Foundation supports innovative Beverly educators who enhance teaching and learning in a 21st century global environment. Grant awards support a wide variety of curriculum-based educational topics and projects that benefit all students. Grants are for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year and were awarded to applicants for the following initiatives:
2025-2026 Grant Awards – $20,835.50 in funding awarded:
- Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School
- Promoting Early Number Sense and Math Fluency at Home in Kindergarten
- Promoting Literacy With Decodable Readers
- Breakout EDU
- Beverly High School
- Boda Borg
- Manufacturing, Engineering, & Robotics Equipment
- Peabody Essex Museum Multiple Visit Partnership for AP Art Students
- Beverly Middle School
- Hygiene Initiative
- BMS Thrift Store
- Diverse Foreign Language Books
- Centerville Elementary School
- Preventing Summer Learning Loss with Grab and Go Kits
- Cove Elementary School
- Animal Assisted Activities Integration
- Decodable Readers
- Parent Literacy Cafe
- Change Is Simple
- Potato Hill Poetry
- Hannah Elementary School
- Human Eye Model Project
- Horticulture
- Summer Story Hour
- Family STEAM Night at Hannah with Messy Makers
- McKeown Preschool
- Squeeze Machine- Improving Self-Regulation with Hugs
- North Beverly Elementary School
- 1st Grade Decodable Reader Initiative
- 2nd grade Decodable Readers
- 3rd Grade Book Clubs
- Sensory Integration
- SEL Growing Book Collection
- Sensory Fitness
- Social Everyday Speech
- Wellness Project
- District Wide
- Hooray for Health
In addition, the Beverly Education Foundation disbursed $2,934.00 for Beverly High School’s 1-1 Learning initiative for hardship cases and $2,000.00 for laptop subsidies for students who miss by a marginal amount to qualify for financial assistance from the Cummings Foundation 10 Year Grant that the Foundation was awarded.
An additional $27,750 was disbursed from the Cummings Foundation 10 Year Grant for:
- Teacher Professional Development
- Elementary Schools’ Programs and Initiatives
- Beverly Middle School
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- Vex Robotic Kits
- Sports Books
- Attain Sensory Equipment
- Nature’s Classroom
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- Beverly High School
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- Manufacturing, Engineering, and Robotics Equipment
- Accomplish Café
- Vex Robotic Kits
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The Beverly Education Foundation is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1997 and is celebrating 28 years of supporting public education in Beverly. The Foundation supports programmatic initiatives that provide enhanced educational opportunities for all Beverly public school students. Each Spring, grants are awarded to support innovative initiatives and programs in Beverly Public Schools.
Above Photo: (from left to right) – Kate Twombly, BEF rep for BMS & Principal of Cove School; Beverly Superintendent Sue Charochak; Catherine Barrett,Clerk of BEF; Rachael Abell, Beverly School Committee President Ward 1;, ; Kimberley Coelho, School Committee Ward 3; Lorinda Visnick. Vice-President of School Committee Ward 6; Anna Green, VP of BEF; Kaarin Robinson, Secretary of School Committee Ward 5; Dr Kenann McKenzie-De Franza, School Committee Ward 2; Doug Walker, President of BEF; Lisa Crowell BEF rep North Beverly; Michael Osborn, BEF rep Centerville; lady in peach shirt, Natalie Pommersheim, BEF Cove Rep; Lisl Hacker, BEF rep Hannah; Sarah Aiello, BEF rep Ayers, & Beverly Mayor Mike Cahill.
