LPS System-Wide Grants

Welcoming faculty at the annual Lexington Learns Together event created to encourage staff to share their learnings and insights. Many of the faculty presenters are sharing with colleagues the knowledge and teaching approaches they developed with LE… — Welcoming faculty at the annual Lexington Learns Together event created to encourage staff to share their learnings and insights. Many of the faculty presenters are sharing with colleagues the knowledge and teaching approaches they developed with LEF funded grants.

In honor of Retired Assistant Superintendent Carol Pilarski, LEF’s Board has created a permanent grant program to fund the annual professional workshop series that is a hallmark of Ms. Pilarski’s commitment to Lexington’s teachers and students. Lexington teachers say the support they receive to pursue ongoing learning is a major reason they choose to teach here. This grant is set in the spirit of maintaining the benefits of continuing education for our teachers and staff.

Program Grants

Karen McCarthy received a Rapid Response Grant to install Pollinator Living Lab gardens at Estabrook, Fiske and Harrington Elementary Schools. Read more in the Lexington Observer article. (Awarded 2022-23)

Sara Calleja, K-5 Literacy Department Head, was awarded a Rapid Response grant for Jump RopeReaders for Jump Start. Jump Start is a four week summer program designed to welcome our new METCO students to the Lexington school community. (Awarded 2022-2023)

Carol Pilarski Summer Workshop Program. The LPS Central Office received a grant to support the continuation of the Summer Workshop Program for Lexington Public Schools’ educators to address innovative educational/academic/instructional needs that enrich teaching and learning, and to provide professional learning opportunities that directly support the LPS priorities and Strategic Plan.(Awarded 2022-2023 and 2023-2024)