View Funded Programs Programs Program Areas History, New Mexico History & Government Basic Needs Enrichment & Extracurricular Health & Wellness Literacy Science & Math & Technology Special Needs & Special Education Sustainability & Environment The Arts Schools 400th Academy at Larragoite - SER Career Academy Academy for Technology and the Classics Acequia Madre Elementary School Amy Biehl Community School Aspen Community Magnet School Atalaya Elementary School Capital High School Capshaw Middle School Carlos Gilbert Elementary School Cesar Chavez Elementary School Chapparal Elementary School DeVargas Middle School E.J. Martinez Elementary School El Camino Real Academy (formerly Agua Fria) Eldorado Community School Gonzales Community School Kearny Elementary School Mandela International Magnet School Monte del Sol Charter School Nava Elementary School New Mexico School for the Arts New Mexico School for the Deaf Nina Otero Community School NYE – Early Childhood Center Ortiz Middle School Pinon Elementary School Ramirez Thomas Elementary School Salazar Elementary School Santa Fe High School Santa Fe Indian School SFPS District Sweeney Elementary School Tesuque Elementary School Tierra Encantada Charter School Turquoise Trail Charter School Wood Gormley Elementary School Atalaya 6th Grade Green Team School: Atalaya Elementary School Our 6th Grade Green Team would like to have water bottles made for all the students in our school to eliminate the use of plastic water bottles and cups. Any money left over we would like to use towards having Green Team t-shirts made for all the 6th graders. This year we have started a 6th Grade Green Team at Atalaya in order to help make our school more sustainable. Our job as the Green Team is to educate the younger students to be more sustainable, take care of recycling at our school, build a school compost for our scraps from lunch, and to create a more sustainable school. Our first mission was to ask the district to install a filtered water fountain with a water bottle filler in our cafeteria to help eliminate the use of a water jug and plastic cups. Last week we were pleasantly surprised to see the water fountain arrive. Read more Trip to the Planetarium School: Turquoise Trail Charter School I am requesting $300 to take approximately 30 children in 2nd through 6th grades on a field trip to the Santa Fe Community College Planetarium. I am teaching a 4-week unit on the solar system and other astronomy-related topics such as black holes, comets, nebulae, star clusters, et. al. The breakdown of the money requested is as follows: $200 fee for the bus and $90 fee for the SFCC instructor. Since we are an independent charter school, we do not automatically get buses for field trips. Therefore, as teachers, we are often responsible to raise money to hire buses to transport us. Read more Receptive, Expressive and Social Skills Therapy Materials Project School: Tesuque Elementary School My name is Beverly Harms, M. A. CCC- SLP, and I am a speech language pathologist working with 33 students each week. I am seeking funding to purchase a variety of receptive, expressive and pragmatic language therapy materials to support student development in several areas of language functioning. I am requesting language therapy materials, including picture resources and workbook type materials which will be utilized in a variety of ways to address special education student needs for understanding and following directions, listening comprehension skills for sentences and paragraph length text, understanding concepts and vocabulary, and developing social skills for home, school and community with students exhibiting autism and learning disabilities. The skills focused on in receptive, expressive and pragmatic language therapy support the student's progress in the elementary curriculum and overall supporting communication. Read more Dancing in the Big Apple School: Santa Fe High School SFHS Dancers are returning to New York City for our third trip (2015, 2017, 2019) to take dance classes. These classes at professional studios, Broadway Dance Center and StepsNYC, are $20/each. We are seeking funding to allow each of the 15 students to take a full schedule of four classes each. They will take classes alongside professional Broadway and ballet dancers. This trip brings Santa Fe High dance students to the heart of the American Theatre to experience training at the highest level. Read more CHS Mariachi Club School: Capital High School I am requesting $500 in funds to support the Capital High School Mariachi Club (extracurricular activity). Student and teachers meet during lunch time Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to learn and rehearse Mariachi music and performance, as part of a cultural and community experience. Read more BREATHE, MOVE, AND THRIVE: Mindfulness and Yoga School: Atalaya Elementary School I will be attending the Next Generation Yoga for Kids Certification (95 hour training) to be used when working with PK-6th grade students at Atalaya Elementary this summer in the SummerCAMP (17-18), Enrichment and aftercare, starting fully, next school year 918-19) in the classroom and in aftercare programs. Additionally, I will support teachers with training of toga poses, breathing, and mindfulness strategies to implement in their own practice. Funding will help to reimburse for yoga and mindfulness materials (mats, books, blocks, cds, etc) and assist with the teacher training expenses.ppropriate environment and need help to do so. Thank you! Read more Set-up A Science Room School: Nina Otero Community School Two volunteers are being paid to set up a resource room that will make science materials available to middle school science teachers for hands on explorations. We have a number of units that were replaced in the elementary grades that contain basics that can be used in the middle school classes. These classes have new teachers who are relying on text books and basic materials purchased with their own funds. This program will help enhance their lessons with hands on explorations for students. I am requesting $500 to pay 2 volunteers who are sorting through various donated materials, Some funds will also be used to fill in gaps for additional materials. Read more Accelerated Book Program School: Acequia Madre Elementary School I am requesting $1,000 to use toward my library. I do not have any level books, which make it hard to determine the exact reading levels per individual. These funds will help our students became less frustrated because they will have books at their level. It will also help our higher students by engaging them in interesting and advanced books. Please help our students set the foundation for a lifelong love for reading!!! Many Thanks ~ Ms. Kat Read more Teen Tutor Training School: Capital High School Reading Quest provides ongoing literacy training for teen parents in the GRADS program at Capital High School, which prepares them to read aloud to babies and young children and eventually teach their own children how to read. This training also enriches their own reading skills and builds their literacy courage. We are requesting funding to purchase baby board books, easy readers, and literacy materials for the teen-parent classes. We also provide training for Capital High AVID students and stipends for high school students who are dedicated to sharing their love of reading with young, low-income, struggling readers. Reading Quest partners with the Teen Parent and Avid Programs at Capital High School. We offer professional literacy training for students who want to teach their own children to read and who want to work with young children in our community who are 1-2 years behind grade level in reading. Young children are particularly motivated when teenagers are reading with them and encouraging them to persevere and work hard. Our teens become well versed in the Growth Mindset attitude of never giving up and persevering when the going gets hard. We train teen tutors using multi-sensory, hands-on, phonics-based strategies that support young struggling readers. Reading Quest has been extremely effective in increasing children's reading levels. During the past six years, our summer students have made, on average, one year's growth during each two week session, as measured by a standardized reading assessment. Many of our students have learning challenges and/or are English Language Learners. Approximately 25% of the students in the Santa Fe Public Schools are proficient in reading at grade level. Failure in learning to read by the end of third grade is, arguably, the single greatest determinant of subsequent academic failure - and the single best early predictor of eventually dropping out of school. The mission of Reading Quest is to help children who are having trouble learning to read become strong, enthusiastic readers. We provide individual and group tutoring; intensive two-week reading camps for groups of low-income children; and workshops, training, coaching, & mentoring for public school teachers. Read more Piano Performance Mastery School: El Camino Real Academy I request a funding for El Camino Real Academy (former Agua Fria Elementary school) piano students. El Camino Real piano students are very talented group of students. They work hard and play the piano very well. So many of them dream of being students of New Mexico School for the Arts. However they do not have funds for a piano tutor. I help them as much as I can after dismissal of school, but they need a professional piano teacher who would help them to prepare for audition for NM School for the Arts. Audition for the School of the Arts are usually held at the beginning of February. It would in the best interest of my students if they could receive financial help as soon as it is possible, so they can get ready. Please, help my piano students. Read more Volunteer Background Check Assistance School: Multiple Santa Fe Public Schools As the SFPS Volunteer Coordinator, and in an effort to encourage a more diverse volunteer population, I would like to offer paid background fees for up to 50 volunteer applicants to distributed throughout 5 different schools within the Santa Fe Public School District. Certain demographic criteria, including a residence radius of applicants who live within 6 blocks of the schools' attendance area will be required to be eligible for usage of the background check funds. Read more Hands-on History of Photography at Monte Del Sol Charter School School: Monte Del Sol Charter School Please support photography students participating in a hands-on/experiential 19th century photographic history project - Hands on History of Photography. This project will directly deal with the 1851 discovery of the collodion wet plate process. Students will read historical texts, view historical images and make in-camera renditions of modern day collodion photographs. The funding is needed for all consumable materials including silver nitrate (fairly expensive), metal and glass plates for making the images, and all of the various chemicals needed for processing Read more Science at the Bradbury in Los Alamos School: El Camino Real Academy Several years ago, Dollars4Schools funded my request to pay for buses to take my students to the Bradbury Science Museum. It was so valuable. I want to take the students I have now. We'll need two 44-student buses, 8th grade science is physical science, including physics and chemistry, and the Bradbury is the best place in the state for this. My students have never been. At the Bradbury they will learn about cryogenics and liquid nitrogen, which is critical to a deep understanding phase change and chemical versus physical interactions; about radioactivity and the atom; about our history; and about rockets and forces, motion and gravitation. The museum visit will anchor conversations and activities in class for the entire spring semester. At this dual language school I teach my classes in Spanish, but the kids are bilingual. Read more Friday Service Projects at The MASTERS Program School: The MASTERS Program Early College Charter High School The MASTERS Program is an early college charter school on the campus of SFCC, serving a diversity of students, many of whom are the first generation in their families to go to college. The program allows students to move at their own pace and integrates high school classes with college classes based on each individual. We also provide a strong supportive community and service to the greater Santa Fe community. Friday Projects are service-learning based and take our students in faculty-led groups out into the Santa Fe community every Friday. From the Humane Society, to The Horse Shelter, to Habitat for Humanity to Pinon Elementary School and to working with the county on trails, and more, we are building character and giving teens a sense of value with this program. Our request is for support running a bus that can take students to these projects. As a charter school, we cannot afford our own buses and the cost of renting each Friday is approximately $400/day. Read more