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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020
Local teachers get grants for ‘Bright Ideas’
Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC)
awarded $10,683 in Bright Ideas grant funds to 10 local
middle school teachers in Jackson County.
Bright Ideas grant winning teachers from East Jackson
Comprehensive County High School are:
•Tyler Gamble, eighth grade teacher, $1,140 for his
“Print to Learn” project, which will use a 3D printer to
create objects and shapes to study motion, artifacts, and
dimensions
•Amelia Johnson-Scofield, eighth grade physical sci
ence teacher. $528 to create a hybrid learning model for
science labs and demonstrations for both in-person and
digital learners
•Bucky Sorrow, eighth grade math teacher, $1,135 for
his “1-2-3 Baseball” project using a swing tracker to teach
linear relationships and quadratic functions
•Jessie Wood, $338 to help students develop 21st Centu
ry communication skills.
Christopher Strickland, chorus teacher at East Jackson
Middle School, won $1,626 in grant funds for a project
teaching students how to create a digital music perfor
mance.
At West Jackson Middle School, Bright Ideas grant win
ners include:
•Kasey Bryson, agriculture science teacher, awarded
$502 for “Wonderful Wood Works” project that combines
agricultural mechanics and math integration for seventh
and eighth grade students
•Dana Harrell, chorus teacher, $1,982 for “When We
Lift Our Voices,” a project teaching music of the major
American wars to all choral students
•Raechel Hunt, social studies teacher, $953 for a digital
book project
•Caralena Luthi, physical science teacher, $1,532 for a
3D physics car derby that teaches kinetic energy.
Tracy Pratt from Jefferson Middle School received a
$947 Bright Ideas grant for an English learners lab.
In 2020, Jackson EMC awarded a total of $64,000 in
Bright Ideas grants to 47 teachers in 25 middle schools
across its service area.
The Bright Ideas grant program awards up to $2,000 an
nually to middle school teachers in Jackson EMC's ser
vice area to fund innovative classroom projects that would
go unfunded otherwise. An independent panel of judges
evaluates the applications based on measurable goals and
objectives, innovation, student involvement and implemen
tation plans.
For more information on the Jackson EMC Bright Ideas
grant program, visitjacksonemc.com/brightideas.
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Bright Ideas grant winning teachers from East Jackson Comprehensive County High School are: Tyler
Gamble, eighth grade teacher, $1,140 for his “Print to Learn” project, which will use a 3D printer to create
objects and shapes to study motion, artifacts, and dimensions; Amelia Johnson-Scofield, eighth grade
physical science teacher, $528 to create a hybrid learning model for science labs and demonstrations
for both in-person and digital learners; Bucky Sorrow, eighth grade math teacher, $1,135 for his “1-2-3
Baseball” project using a swing tracker to teach linear relationships and quadratic functions; and Jessie
Wood, $338 to help students develop 21st Century communication skills.
Dana Harrell, chorus teacher at West Jackson Middle School, received $1,982
for “When We Lift Our Voices,” a project teaching music of the major Ameri
can wars to all choral students
Tracy Pratt from Jefferson Middle School received a $947 Bright Ideas grant
for an English learners lab.
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