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  • SLEF
  • South Lyon Educational Foundation
  • @SLEFoundation

Teacher Grants

SLEF grants are awarded to enhance student learning and involvement and to encourage innovative educational activities for South Lyon students. The deadline for Fall 2024 grant applications has passed. Please stay tuned for the next round of grants,

coming soon!

Since 2018, SLEF has awarded nearly 90 grants, directly impacting the teachers and students of SLCS

​Your donations have helped fund:

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  • Magnet Steam Supplies - Pearson

  • Tonies Characters & Books - Bartlett

  • Phonics Storybooks for Literacy Support - Pearson

  • Outdoor Mud Kitchen - ECC

  • Serene Space Initiative - SLEHS

  • Decodeable Texts for Literacy Support - Salem

  • Yamah Harmony Directory - SLEHS

  • Doodle boards - Brummer

  • Enhanced Tech-Based Formative Assessment - SLHS

  • Summer Reading Books - Kent Lake

  • Speaking and Reading Technology Resources for Spanish Class - CMS

  • Drumming Along to Any Song - Salem

  • Bands Percussion update - MMS

  • Pottery Wheels - SLHS

  • Flexible Seating, Portable Lap Desks - Bartlett

  • Sensory Based Play - Dolsen

  • A New Way to Play - ECC

  • Articulated Mannequin - Art Department, SLEHS

  • Literacy and Math Games for Coyotes! - Salem

  • D Bass Resonator Bar - Bartlett

  • YA Books to expand Independent Reading Initiative - SLHS/SLEHS

  • "Doing" Sustainability Science for Student & Community Benefit - SLEHS

  • Social Studies Classroom Library - MMS

  • Student Workstation - SLEHS

  • Emotional Regulation Kits - Bartlett

  • Modified Novels - CMS

  • Flexible Seating - Dolsen

  • Picture books - Pearson

  • Break Out Boxes - Sayre 

  • Cooking Lab - CMS

  • Breakout Edu - Salem

  • Sensory Table - Kent Lake

  • PE Heart Rate Monitors - SLEHS

  • Cardio Drumming - Pearson

  • Read Aloud Library - Sayre

  • Let's Get Reading Ready with Zoo-Phonics - ECC

  • Camera Support Equipment & Young Adult books - SLHS

  • Coding toys and tools - Salem

  • Reading Intervention Books - Salem

  • STEM bins - hands-on creative tasks - Brummer

  • Books to teach creative writing - Special Ed

  • Basketballs for PE Classes - MMS

  • Boomwhackers for music instruction - Salem

  • Replacement speaker for music class - ECC

  • Low vision notebooks for students with visual impairments - Hardy

  • 7th-grade math manipulatives - MMS

  • Woodworking tools and materials - ECC- Kent Lake

  • Fiction and non-fiction texts - Salem

  • Flexible Seating - Hardy

  • Ceramic Slab Roller - MMS

  • Upper Elementary Guided Reading Books -  Salem

  • High-Interest 2nd Grade Books - Hardy

  • Resource Room Library - Sayre

  • Active Learning for Improved Focus and Achievement - SalemSamsung Galaxy tablets to evaluate student work w/students - SLEHS

  •  ... and more!

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Congratulations to past grant recipients!

2025 Recipients

Ashley Niedert

Lauren Ortega

Courtney Rabassa

Kim Bowyer

Angela Siggia, Amy Dawson & Charles Richter

Melissa Robinson 

Patrick Braun

Colleen Crowell

Jennifer Jones-Tims

Kimberly Watson

Brooke Dixon & Mary Stepek

Keri Smith

Matthew Sinopoli-Smith

Delaney Ulle, Leslee Voss, Brooke Gira & Angelina Debolski

Jennifer DiMarco

Kevin Smith

 

2023 Recipients

Patrick Braun

Jason Cooper

Amber Gorney

Leigh Goyings

Marie Jurado

Niki Keena

Kelly Leja

Danielle Kurajian

Rachel Melville
Edward Robinson

Pete Schmitz

Joel Smigell

Stephanie Stoneback

Angela Ugo

Tasha Watson

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2022 Recipients

Lindsay Gillett

Maggie Gearns

Karen Hantz

Danielle Hartman

Lisa Hrit

Sue Kaminski

Danielle McAfee

Brittany Monfette

Patricia Raines

Brittany Pearson

Irene Settle

Jennilee Smith

Elise Yost

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2021 Recipients

Katie Bell                     Kristen Unti

Kate McCallum          Susan Woodley

Clara Alberty              Tracie Stidhamt

Angela Ugo                Jenilee Smith

Kari Smith                   Jenny Lubin

Brenda McGuire         Kim Quinn

Irene Settle                 Carol Akers

Sarah Garbartz           Beth Nally

Michael Murphy         Jeffrey Prueter

Patrick Braun              Nancy Fox

Emily Kane                  Joel Smigell

Heather Thomas        Amanda Palm

Ann Miller                   Beth Klerekoper

Kendall Schultz          Kelly Newton

Melissa Robinson      Jill Witkowski

Sara McHalpine          Katie Pyles

Hannah Barnes           Katie Leja

Niki Rose                      Ed Robinson

Angie Badis                  Heather Toor

Sandra Conners           Paula Allen

Christopher Knapp      Kevin Cort

Jennier Myslinski         Andrea Stevens

Genna Danahy             John LeBlanc

Robert Woodward       Leigh Goyings

Stephanie Ferguson

Courtney Rabassa

Rachelle Kalbfleisch

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2019 Recipients

Megan George                                          

Jordan Garcia

Lori Loewer

Lindy Zilka                                                   

Gretchen Coles

Keith Niedbala

Ryan Knapp

Heather Wilson

Brad Todd   

Emily Testani

Nicole Thomas

John Hall

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2018 Recipients

Abbey Arble

Sarah Athey

Katie Bell

Amy Forsyth

Megan George

Danielle Kurajian

Kristen Line

Brenda McGuire

Susan Uvick

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