Grants Awarded

Overall - 411 grants awarded totaling over $586,749 since 2013

High Five Grants - 4th Nine Weeks - March 2025

9 grants funded for $1,823.24

• Primary

  • Rockets on the Run

  • Bringing Words to Life

  • Bringing Words to Life

• Elementary

  • STAAR Camp-Hiking Our Way to Success

• Intermediate

  • Out with the Old, In with the New: Upgrading Building Thinking Classroom Gear

  • Where There's a Wiffle There's a Way!

  • Building Biomes

• Junior High/High School

  • Shoot for the Stars

  • Our Future's So Bright

High Five Grants - 3rd Nine Weeks - January 2025

10 grants funded for $2,011.37

• Primary

  • Making Literacy Centers Engaging Again

  • Sewing Kits

  • Making Fluency and Word Work Fun Again

  • Sparking our Imaginations with a Toniebox

  • It's Surgery Time!

  • Taking on Visualizing with Toniebox

• Intermediate

  • Ant Adventures: Together We Thrive!

  • RIS Music Teacher Grant

  • Predator Pellet

• High School

  • Perfect Attendance Prize Patrol

Large Grants - December 2024

7 grants funded for  $24,061.67

• District

  • Hear, Engage, and Succeed: A Classroom Audio System to Meet Every Student's Need

• Primary/Elementary

  • Student Care Closets

• Primary

  • Pathway to Play

  • The Peaceful Reset Button

  • Reading Is a Blast!

• Elementary

  • Rooted in Learning

• High School

  • Mobility and Movement Matter

High Five Grants - 2nd Nine Weeks - November 2024

15 grants funded for $2,853.27

• Primary

  • Pre - K

  • Word Work

  • Toni's Reading Center

  • Fine Motor Fun

  • Teaching Retell with Dramatic Play

• Elementary

  • Empowering Exploration

  • Reading and Writing Resources

  • Classroom Pizzeria: Exploring Fractions with Pizza

  • Board to Brilliance: Engaging Third Grade Learners Trhough Collaborative Play

• Intermediate

  • The "ART" of Science - Bringing Creativity into the Classroom

  • 4th Grade RLA/Innovation Teacher

  • Improving BTC Application

• High School

  • Attendance Matters!

  • Macbeth in 3D

  • RHS Gallery Exhibition Program

High Five Grants - 1st Nine Weeks - September 2024

7 grants funded for $1,236.27

• Primary

  • Making Mornings Magical

  • Math Made Easy

  • Help Us Self Regulate Our Emotions!

• Intermediate

  • Mobile Classroom Collaboration Tools (Building Thinking Classrooms)

  • Biddy Buddies

• Junior High

  • Educational Government and U.S. History Board Games

  • Reward Time

High Five Grants - 4th Nine Weeks - March 2024

10 grants funded for $2,045.18

• Primary

  • Sports Skillustrated: Baseball

  • Sports Skillustrated: Soccer

  • Sports SKILLustrated: Football

  • Sports Skillustrated:  Basketball

• Elementary

  • Making Money on Market Day

  • In Our Eclipse Era

  • Famous Amos Cookies

• Intermediate

  • Moon in My Room

  • Graphing Student Success on the Coordinate Plane

• Junior High

  • Learning to Fly Your Citizenship

Large Grants - January 2024

9 grants funded for $41,460.47

• Elementary - Can You Hear Me Now?

• Elementary - Clear & Concise, No More Rolling the Dice on Classroom Instruction

• Intermediate - Movin’ and RevieWin

• Intermediate - Brick by Brick, Students STEM Coding that Sticks

• Intermediate - Rocket Reset

• Intermediate - Making Waves on Boogie Boards in Math

• Junior High - Manipulating Science

• High School - Firing Creativity through Ceramic Exploration

• High School - Return of the iMac

Mini Grants - January 2024

11 grants funded for 4,316.59

• Primary - SMALL Group Practice…BIG Educational Gains

• Primary - The Rooster’s Road Trip: Visiting the Coops of Classmates

• Primary - In-VEST-ing in the Growing Kindness Crew

• Primary - Let’s Get Cookin’!

• Primary - In-VEST-ing in the Growing Kindness Crew

• Elementary - Curious Creative Island

• Elementary - Wondering Whiteboard

• Elementary - Investing in Reading & Writing

• Intermediate - Independent Work: It’s a Whole Vibe

• High School - Counselors on the Move

• High School - Care Closet Restock

High Five Grants - 3rd Nine Weeks - January 2024

34 grants funded for $6,228.25

• District - Go ahead, push that button!

• Primary

  • Mrs. Organized

  • Eggsperts in LEarning

  • Keeping It Calm and Cool in Kindergarten 

  • Making Stations Fun Again!

  • A,B,C,D - learn the letters with me!

  • Engaging Learners in the RLA Classroom

  • Wonderful Work Stations

  • Picture Me in 1st Grade

  • Cardio Drums for Primary

  • Leap into Literacy with Workstations

• Elementary 

  • Amazing Weather Tools and Stem Starters

  • Marvelous Maps

  • Measurement & Shapes

  • Living History Museum

  • Rolling into Math Mastery

  • Charts, Data, & Graphs

• Intermediate

  • BTC Toolbox

  • Creative Cranium Cart

  • Speak Up!

  • Storm Drain STEM

  • YES! Get Caught in a Pickle(ball)

  • Get Caught in a Pickle(ball)

• Junior High

  • Cancel the Noise

  • From Eggsperts to Experts!

  • Collaborate in Comfort

  • Noise Canceling Ear-muffs

• High School

  • Learning in High School Really Can be FUN too!

  • Building Thinkers

  • Cameron Park Zoo Trip

  • “Eggcellent Engagement”

  • Composing with Composition Notebooks

  • Objectives Board

High Five Grants - 1st Nine Weeks - October 2023

19 submitted, 19 funded for $3,186.17

• Primary - Vestibular System Support: Spinning

• Primary - Mobile Math Moments x 4

• Primary - Music Instruments

• Primary - Materials to Make Work Stations Work

• Elementary - Pizza Fractions on the Menu

• Elementary - What's on the Menu for Math?

• Elementary - Rocking with Rocks

• Elementary - Caddy On

• Elementary - Put on Repeat

• Elementary - PIzza Fractions!

• Intermediate - Modeling in a Thinking Classroom!

• Intermediate - Making Moves Around the Classroom

• Junior High - Shush, I'm concentrating...

• Junior High - Lights, Camera, Action!

• Junior High - Plant Germination, Tropisms & Interactions with 7th graders

Teacher Grants - March 2023

7 submitted, 6 funded for $22,247.39

• Primary - Kindness Crew

• Elementary - Igniting Learning with iPads

• Elementary - The Building Blocks of STEAM

• Intermediate - Care Closet

• High School - What is a Number 2 Pencil Anyway?

• All Campuses - Mic Check

Teacher Mini Grants - March 2023

19 submitted, 15 funded for $5,404.26

• Primary - Music Learning Items

• Primary - Supplies for Student Success

• Primary - Let's Watch Them Grow

• Elementary - Flexible Teaching

• Elementary - Boogie Fever: With Show What You Know!

• Elementary - Not "Board" Games

• Intermediate - Relax & Read

• Intermediate - Step on Stage - It's Time to ENGAGE!

• Intermediate - I Like to Move It, Move It!

• Intermediate - Storytime with Mrs. Hunt

• Intermediate - Light the Way to Growing Minds

• Intermediate - Getting Jiggy With It!

• Junior High - Fun Zone Phonics: Tap it out, Spell it out, Write it out, and Read it

• Junior High - Expanding Possibilities

• Junior High/High School - I Can Hear the Bells

Teacher Grants - November 2022

12 submitted, 9 funded for $32,760.20

• Primary - Glowing in Math

• Elementary - Watch Us Grow and Learn

• Elementary - Enhancing Outdoor Learning

• Intermediate - Treat Yourself, Seat Yourself! Flexible Future Leaders

• Junior High & High School - Bright Lights, Big Benefit!

• Junior High - Students Sounding Off

• High School - Getting in Rhythm with EKG Testing

• High School - Rocket's Care Closet

• High School - MacMini Video Production Studio

Teacher Mini Grants - November 2022

13 submitted, 10 funded for $3,198.75

• Primary - Stimulate Senses in the Sensory Room

• Primary - Calming Corner

• Primary - Picture Yourself Learning x2

• Primary - Learning with LEGOS!

• Elementary - Flexible Seating in the Rocket Classroom

• Elementary - STEM Bins Comprehensive Kit

• Elementary - STEM Bins for Engaged Learners

• Intermediate - Make Learning Flexible

• Intermediate - Boogie Classroom!

• Junior High - Don't Get "Board" with Theater

Teacher Grants - March 2022

26 submitted, 20 funded for $60,919.56

• Primary - Reaching the TOP with Math Stackers

• Primary - Sensory Room (Abbvie Foundation)

• Primary - Centergize with Re-energized Materials

• Primary - Let's Boogie!

• Primary - Transforming the TEKS

• Primary - Snack on a Good Book

• Elementary - Boogie Your Way into RLA

• Elementary - Purposeful Play: Increasing Student Engagement Through Motor

  Activity (Abbvie Foundation)

• Intermediate - Livestream: Model Learning (Abbvie Foundation)

• Intermediate - Bring a Little RCA (Ron Clark Academy) to Robinson

• Junior High - In the Zone

• Junior High - Standing Table Learning Space

• Junior High - Learning Through the Looking Glass

• Junior High - Keepin' It Glassy

• Junior High - Looking Through the eGlass

• Junior High/High School - Music You Can Tough

• High School - Flex Pods for Small Groups

• High School - Mac Mini Video Production Studio

• High School - Calm Room

• High School - Creating a Ubiquitous Classroom

Teacher Mini Grants - March 2022

23 submitted, 18 funded for $6,045.74

• Primary - A to Z is Fun for Me!

• Primary - Math Marks the Spot

• Primary - It's Game Time

• Primary - Building Strong Reading & Math Foundations

• Primary - Raising Rocket Readers & Pets

• Primary - Hands on Life Cycles

• Primary - Reading Makes Our Future BRIGHT!

• Primary - Flexible Seats, Focused Learners

• Primary - Learning Out of the Box with Math Blocks

• Elementary - Rockets Wobble but Don't Fall Down

• Elementary - Sitting on Success

• Elementary - Filtering the Fluorescents

• Elementary - Share Chair Flair

• Elementary - RES Shines Bright

• Elementary - Moving & Shaking Our Way Through Learning

• Elementary - If You Have a (Math) Problem, Yo I'll Solve It!

• Junior High/High School - Accommodations All Around

• Junior High/High School - My Buddy and Me

Teacher Grants - November 2021

10 submitted, 10 funded for $34,096.80

• Primary - Communication for All

• Primary - Let’s Get Moving to Get Focused!

• Primary - Adding Sparkle to Stations

• Elementary - The Rocket No Demo Reno (partial funding)

• Intermediate - Sensory Room

• Intermediate - Speaking My Language

• Intermediate - Hang Ten with Boogie Boards

• Junior High/High School - Bridging Athletics and Content

• High School - Rocket Podcast Lab

• High School - The Modern “Green” Classroom

Teacher Mini Grants - November 2021

16 submitted, 16 funded for $6,546.82

• Primary - Picture My Silhouette

• Primary - The Cycles of Spring

• Primary - Learning Digits with Fidgets

• Primary - Picture Yourself Learning

• Elementary - Thinking INside the Box

• Elementary - Boujee with Boogie Boards

• Elementary - Investigation Stations for Making Calculations

• Elementary - Flex It! Don’t Forget It! Sharpen Your Math Brain

• Elementary - Classroom Seating for Varied Learners

• Elementary - Osmo Play Every Day the RLA Way!

• Elementary - Moving & Grooving in Room 303

• Intermediate - Leading with Logic

• Intermediate - Flexible Mind

• Junior High - Picnic Table Outside Library

• Junior High - Smooth Operator, Smooth Transitions (#RCAInspired)

• Junior High - What Are We Made Of?

Teacher Grants - October 2020

9 submitted, 6 approved for $20,781.27

• Elementary - Sensory Room

• Intermediate - Eye Catching Education

• Intermediate - #RNQ and We're Bragging About It!

• Junior High - Remarkable Robots Inspiriting the 8 C's

• Junior High - Let's Learn Outside the Box

• High School - Learn How to Save a Life

Teacher Mini Grants - October 2020

13 submitted, 12 approved for $4,897.51

• Primary - Help Us with Our Language Development

• Primary - Once Upon a Retell

• Primary - Making Math Stick

• Primary - The Problem Solver's Toolbox

• Elementary - Flexible Seating Options

• Elementary - Magical Math

• Elementary - Flexible Seating

• Elementary - Puppet Theater

• Intermediate - Rocket Sensory & Motor Lab

• Intermediate - Pocket Microscopes

• Intermediate - You Complete Me Circuits

• Junior High - On the Ball with Student Voices

Teacher Grants - November 2019

15 submitted, 13 approved for $61,673.81

• Primary - 3D Printer

• Elementary - Feel the Rhythm

• Elementary - Rocket Reading Machine

• Elementary - Qball: Breaking the Silence

• Intermediate - Get Your Boogie On

• Intermediate - Makers on the Move

• Intermediate - Meaningful Mindful Music

• Intermediate - Igniting Innovation - Allergan Foundation Funded

• Junior High - Flip Our Foyer

• Junior High - Design and Create to Educate - Allergan Foundation Funded

• High School - Gettin’ Steady with It

• High School - Growing Our Skills

• High School - Rocket Media Center

Teacher Mini Grants - November 2019

25 submitted, 20 approved for $7,797.24

• Primary - My Portable Workstation

• Primary - Let’s Boogie

• Primary - Mindful Life at Robinson Primary

• Primary - Boogie Boards

• Primary - Groups Big or Small: Mastering TEKS for All

• Primary - Book Buddy Benches

• Elementary - Mindful Life at Robinson Elementary

• Elementary - Escaping the Norm

• Elementary - The Power to Choose

• Elementary - Take Me to Another World

• Elementary - Read All About It

• Elementary - Blowin’ in the Wind

• Elementary - The Write Tool for the Job

• Elementary - STEM Your Way

• Primary & Elementary - Breathing Balls Bring Balance and Brain Power to the Classroom

• Intermediate - I Just Need a Minute

• Intermediate - Teach a Kid to Cast

• Intermediate - Author Visit for ELAR

• High School - Pen Making Lathe for Robinson High School Construction Trades

• High School - Outside-the-Box: Incorporating Code to Create Problem Solvers

Teacher Grants - December 2018

11 submitted, 7 approved for $23,903.24

• Junior High - It’s All Clear to Me Now! - Allergan Foundation Funded

• Junior High - We Like to Move It Move It!

• High School - Sawing Logs - Allergan Foundation Funded

• High School - Is There a Future Doctor in the House?

• High School - #Digital #Create #Publish #Repeat

• High School - Getting In Touch with Math

• Intermediate/Junior HIgh/High School - The White Board Compositional Grant

Teacher Mini Grants – November 2018

21 submitted, 19 approved for $7,923.79

• Primary - Take a Look! It’s a Reading Nook!

• Primary - Taking Learning to “The Mat”

• Elementary - I’ve Got this Feelin’ Inside My Bones

• Elementary - Window Wednesdays and Beyond

• Elementary - High Score Learning with Gaming

• Elementary - All Aboard the “Osmo-tastic” Training Station

• Elementary - Fixer Upper Classroom Library Edition

• Elementary - Lounging and Learning

• Elementary - Differentiated Learning Environment

• Elementary - Awesome Osmos

• Intermediate - Rocket Fuel: Launch into Vocational Learning

• Intermediate - Boogie Boards? Not Your Average Whiteboards

• Junior High - You Can’t Spell STEAM without STE!

• Junior High - What’s Cookin’?

• Junior High - We Can’t Wear Pajamas Every Day, but…

• Junior High - Bean Bags for Learning

• Junior High - Put that Phone Down!

• Junior High and High School - Energizing Enrichment

• District - Drop the Snowball

Teacher Grants – January/February 2018

17 submitted, 13 approved for $84,794.35

• Primary - Create a Place for MakerSpace

• Elementary - Out of Your Seat and Into Learning

• Elementary - Mozarts in the Making

• Elementary - The Beat Goes On

• Elementary - Maker Movement

• Intermediate - Sparking Learning with Spero SPRK

• Junior High - Game On

• Junior High/High School - Experience Learning for eVRy Student

• High School - Enhancing the Production of Fine Arts in Education

• High School - Seat the Choir

• High School - Rocket Ribbons: Printing the Future

• District/Junior High Cafetorium - Shining a Light on Visual Arts

• District/Junior High Cafetorium - Engineering the Sound of Education

Rapid Mini Grants – December 2017

11 submitted, 10 approved for $4,027.15

• Primary – It’s a Flexible Life

• Elementary – Learning without Limits

• Elementary – Get Out of Rows and Get Flexible

• Elementary – Where do you work best?

• Elementary – Learning Beyond Me

• Elementary – Jamming with Code

• Intermediate – Brain Builders – STEM Kits

• Junior High – Creating STEAM One Block at a Time

• Junior High – Circuit City

• High School – Hover Over Me

Teacher Grants – January/February 2017

13 submitted, 9 approved for $21,751.78

• Elementary - There is more to Reading than Meets the Eye

• Elementary - Optimal Learning with Osmos

• Elementary - Radically Raising Reading Rigor

• Intermediate - Take It Outside...The Learning, That Is!

• Intermediate - Beginners "Pluck"

• Junior High - It's a bird, it's a plane, it's art history explained!!!

• Junior High - Square and Precise

• Junior High and High School - Set the Stage

• District - Expanding Percussion Possibilities

Rapid Mini Grants – Spring 2016

20 submitted, 16 approved for $6,334.49

• Primary - Wobble While You Work!

• Primary - “Write” the Wave – Boogie Boards

• Primary - Rise and Shine

• Primary - Handy Dandy Chair Bags

• Primary - Bouncy Band Brain Break

• Primary - Ready for Rubik’s

• Primary & Elementary - Make Buddies, Not Bullies

• Elementary - Learning in Motion: Bounce it out!

• Elementary - Becoming a Genius

• Elementary - Comics in the Classroom

• Intermediate - Operation Happy Feet

• Intermediate - Science Goodies!

• Intermediate - Drumming Up Successes

• Intermediate - Measure This!

• High School - Osmos Through the Cosmos

• District - Games Dyslexia Students Play

Rapid Mini Grants – Fall 2016

26 submitted, 21 approved for $8,371.30

• Primary - Mission Positive

• Primary - Wobble into Learning

• Elementary - Why Not Play!

• Elementary - Anything but Prehistoric...Dinos in the Classroom

• Elementary - Hooked on Puppets

• Elementary - Let's Learn Another Way

• Elementary - Game On! Igniting Enrichment Through Gaming

• Elementary - Oh So Many Opportunities!

• Elementary - Mission Positive

• Elementary - Start-up Funding Social Studies is Super!

• Intermediate - Rise of the Machines: The Forces, Motions, and Machines of the Future

• Intermediate - Math Works with Osmo

• Intermediate - Pedal Toward the Lights!

• Junior High - #RocketsRead

• Junior High - Can you Hear Me Now?

• Junior High - Bean Bags and Books

• Junior High - There's a Book for That!

• Junior High - Mini Millionaires

• Junior High - Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader

• Junior High - Setting the Scene with the Green Screen

• District-wide - Escape the STAAR

Teacher Grants – Fall 2015

14 submitted, 11 approved for $21,233

• Primary - Pedaling a Path to Successful Learning

• Primary - Techie Tikes

• Primary - Masterful Math Manipulatives: Building Better Mathematicians

• Primary - Wiggly Tiggly

• Primary & Elementary - Nurturing Knowledge with Nature

• Elementary - Just A Swinging…Not Only at Recess Anymore

• Elementary - Exer-learning

• Intermediate - Yo, ho! Yo, ho! A Science Life for Me!

• Intermediate - iPads 4 iLearn

• Junior High - Safety First, Avoid the Worst

• High School - Lighting Up Science

Teacher Grants – Fall 2014

8 submitted, 8 approved for $26,220.66

• Primary - Shining a Little Light on Science and Math

• Primary - Little Leaping Learners

• Intermediate - Chrome: Worth More Than Gold in Reading

• Intermediate - Math3: Making Math Matter

• Junior High - Should I Document That

• Junior High - 21st Century Woodshop

• High School - Biotechnology: Integrating Biology with Technology

• High School - Ready, Set, Collect

Teacher Grants – Fall 2013

20 submitted, 11 approved for $26,597.83

• Primary - Hot Dots for Tots

• Primary - You Read to Me; I’ll Read to You!

• Elementary - Creative Cats Do Music

• Elementary, Intermediate & Junior High - Dyslexia Assistive Technology

• Intermediate - iTeach with iPads

• Junior High - Rocket News: Read All About It

• Junior High - Google, It’s What’s for Dinner

• Junior High - Digiwrite, A Digital Portfolio Project

• Junior High - Mini Millionaires - Maybe!

• Junior High - Digital Imagery in Visual Arts and Academics

• High School - Versatile Science