The Beverly Education Foundation awarded grants totaling $10,096 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 2026-2027 school year and were awarded to applicants for the following initiatives:
2026-2027 Grant Awards – $10,096 in funding awarded:
Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School
- Rich Supplemental Texts will help build second graders’ knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement while expanding students’ comprehension and reading skills. These Wit and Wisdom texts explore many people that are not usually mentioned in this Movement.
Beverly High School
- Peabody Essex Museum Multiple Visit Partnership for AP Art Students is to introduce BHS AP Art students to the considerable resources at Peabody Essex Museum to assist them in the creation of their portfolio and exhibits at the Museum while viewing a variety of work from artists throughout the world.
Beverly Middle School
- Coffee Café is a year’s long project to create an entrepreneurial experience for students with the goal of strengthening; life skills, culinary skills, financial planning skills, organizational skills and social/emotional and communication skills.
- Morphology Awareness Project is to increase 5th and 6th grade students’ awareness of essential word components, or morphology, for improved word recognition, vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension of word parts.
Centerville Elementary School
- Bringing Phonics Home: Strengthening Family Literacy Partnerships in Kindergarten provides appropriate decodable readers for families to read at home with their kindergarteners so to increase family reading time at home and foster parent-school learning partnerships
Cove Elementary School
- Learning with our Cove Comfort Pets will allow all Cove students to work with their grade level peers and mentor other students to care for school pet chickens and guinea pigs and include them in our school community.
Hannah Elementary School
- Creative Engineering Materials will allow students to compare how different materials can be used to engineer different structures. Students will use their creative skills to build new structures and improve existing ones.
- Outdoor Physical Education Station will transform Hannah’s outdoor space into a dynamic outdoor Learning and Wellness Environment to promote child physical fitness, active learning, and community engagement. This station is in honor of retiring Physical Education Teacher Roberta Brown.
McKeown Preschool
- Play in Motion will provide structured purposeful indoor movement and collaborative construction opportunities.
North Beverly Elementary School
- Glockenspiels for Young Composers will provide North Beverly students time to compose, improvise, and improve their music literacy skills.
- Building Number Sense Through Multi-Sensory Math Instruction to improve foundational math understanding, engagement, and independence for all learners who need differentiated support.
Historic Beverly
- Beverly and the American Revolution Curriculum Book for all 3rd grade students district wide
In addition, the Beverly Education Foundation disbursed $2,979 for Beverly High School’s 1-1 Learning Initiative for hardship cases and laptop subsidies for students who are not eligible by a marginal amount to qualify for financial assistance from the Cummings Foundation 10 Year Grant that the Foundation was previously awarded.
The Beverly Education Foundation is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1997 and is celebrating 29 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. Grant awards are funded by the annual Honor a Teacher campaign proceeds.
Above Photo: (from left to right) – Michael Osborne, Erin Brewer, Tara Fitzpatrick, Sarah Aiello, Catherine Barrett, Lisa Crowell, Lisl Hacker, Beverly Superintendent Peter Cushing, Anna Green (Vice President, Beverly Education Foundation), Andy Cooper, Janna Dwyer, Courtni Laci, Lorinda Visnick (Beverly School Committee President), Krystina Yeager (Historic Beverly), Maggie Berger.
