1999 PNM Partnership Grant Recipients

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APS Foundation (Albuquerque): Three Family Centers, representing a consortium of 51 schools, were created at Hawthorne Elementary, East San Jose Elementary and Harrison Middle School. These centers provide computers for students and parents to participate in writing projects and visual literacy workshops throughout the school year and in summer academies.

Art in the School (Albuquerque): Art in the School will train teachers through "Turning on Creativity in the Classroom" workshops in how to integrate creative art education curricula into their core subjects (language arts, social studies, science and mathematics). Students throughout New Mexico will benefit from the art-infused curricula by becoming more engaged and enthusiastic in their education, and teachers will benefit by increased creativity in their teaching.

Center for Civic Values (Albuquerque): Center for Civic Values' New Mexico High School Mock Trial is an interscholastic program in which more than 30 teams from high schools throughout the state compete in local, regional and national programs. These programs teach students an understanding of the law, the value of civic involvement and the skills necessary for this involvement. Working with teacher sponsors and attorney coaches, the students prepare a hypothetical case of current significance that was developed by the Center for Civic Values. The student "attorneys" and "witnesses" then present their cases to "juries" composed of educators, attorneys, judges and community members who also serve as role models and mentors for the students.

Casa Esperanza Inc. (Albuquerque): Casa Esperanza, a medical hospitality house, provides affordable lodging for temporarily displaced medical patients and their families who come to Albuquerque while the patients receive medical care, either in the hospital or as outpatients. This grant will fund a fenced playground and family area outside the house for children of the families accompanying patients.

Children's Water Festival (Albuquerque): Educators from local organizations along the Middle Rio Grande Region will be invited to present an activity at this year's Water Festival to be held in October. These activities will be fun, use hands-on learning and incorporate art, drama, music, geography, history, science or math.

DAY Foundation of New Mexico (Placitas): DAY Foundation of New Mexico offers compensation to classroom teachers who provide tutoring in basic skills to their students after school, in groups of up to five students at a time. Over 400 elementary and middle school students have participated in the Bernalillo project over the last three years. The program is being expanded to the Santo Domingo, Placitas and Cochiti schools, and is expected to benefit 90 students.

Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico (Statewide): The Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico and the University of New Mexico College of Education recently partnered and formed the UNM/Golden Apple Academy. This academy unites outstanding teachers, faculty and young "teachers-to-be" in an ongoing series of professional development and learning-enhancement institutes.

Junior Achievement of New Mexico Inc. (Albuquerque): Junior Achievement of New Mexico Inc. will use the PNM Foundation award to introduce to Albuquerque and Rio Rancho seventh-graders a program called "Economics of Staying in School." The program explores the personal and societal impact of not completing a high school education, helping students learn the value of education and early goal-setting. The program is made up of six activities and will be presented by volunteers from the business community.

Literacy Volunteers of America Cibola County (Grants): Literacy Volunteers of America’s mission is to promote and foster increased adult and family literacy through volunteers, assisting the illiterate, semiliterate and those for whom English is not the native language. This grant will provide funds for Literacy Volunteers of America Cibola County Youth Literacy Pilot Project, which will expand the Peer Tutoring Program, the Intergenerational Program and the Family English as a Second Language Program. A Future Teachers Organization will also be formed to build on the Peer Programs already in place.

Mimbres Region Arts Council (Silver City): PNM Fine Arts Fridays sends accomplished musicians, storytellers, dancers and other artists to nine elementary schools monthly to demonstrate creative arts. This program provides students with firsthand exposure to a variety of music, instruments, art, dance and poetry. More than 2,000 elementary students in the Silver City area will benefit from this program.

New Mexico Coalition for Literacy (Santa Fe): The New Mexico Coalition for Literacy, which currently trains 700 to 800 new tutors each year, will use the PNM Foundation award to offer five additional workshops to add at least 250 new individuals to the group of volunteer tutors in the state. Once trained, these tutors will return to their communities to work one-on-one with adults and children needing basic literacy services.

Open Hands Inc. (Santa Fe): Open Hands Inc. provides essential services to assist frail, elderly, disabled and economically disadvantaged New Mexicans. The Youth Service Corps is a summer program for low-income and at-risk teens to supply home maintenance for clients of Open Hands. This grant will be used to expand this program to a year-round employment program.

Strengthening Quality in Schools (Albuquerque): Strengthening Quality in Schools assists schools in assessing and improving their current processes through the use of Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Education Criteria for Performance Excellence. The initiative benefits hundreds of teachers, administrators and staff and more than 20,000 students throughout New Mexico.

Town of Taos Recreation (Taos): Taos' ScienceQuest program provides youth in grades 5 to 8 with interesting, diversified, fun-filled experiments and projects in the various branches of science. Students experience and develop skills in a number of science fields, including physics, chemistry, biology and earth sciences. This program is expected to benefit 2,880 youths and teachers in the Taos area.

Tree New Mexico (Albuquerque): Tree New Mexico's TreePath program is designed for fifth-grade classes and will bring environmental education and tree-planting projects to four New Mexico schools. TreePath facilitators present three classroom sessions to each class. These interactive sessions show students the value of our urban, rural and natural forests, and demonstrate basic planting techniques. Students then participate in an on-campus planting of native and indigenous trees, shrubs and flowers.

UNM-PNM Statewide Mathematics Contest (Albuquerque): The UNM-PNM Statewide Mathematics Contest promotes mathematics education by rewarding students, teachers and their schools for their mathematics excellence. The contest is open to all students in New Mexico enrolled in a high school math class. The 1999 contest had 996 participants statewide.