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Show 6 Tuesday, January 9, LakesideYouth 1996 Lakeside Review Spectrum volunteer behind schools grant requests at Cook Elementary School, said By V1KKI LEZA Standard-Examin- Bain. correspondent - a volunteer who students and Syracuse giftedgrant requests has made a huge difference in the students lives, say educators. If every parent were this dedicated to the education of their children, miracles would happen in the lives of kids, says Cook Elementary Principal Laurel Bain, about parent volunteer Tina Robison. Robison has successfully written the schools Centennial School grant proposals for three years, and also helps in the Spectrum program Robison started volunteering six years ago when her oldest child, Larry, was in first grade. I just felt like I wanted to participate. Teachers do incredible things and they have very limited time, said Robison. She started with a few hours a week and gradually increased until its practically Robison chairs the schools committee, which started in the fall of 1993, where parents and the community work together in exploring direcuons of education within the school. full-time- ." site-bas- ed In fact. Cook was awarded its state Centennial Schools grant due to Robison's efforts, said Bam. Robison spent more than 200 hours last year alone helping Spectrum teachers with typing, copying papers, grading papers, acting as a teachers assistant, and tutoring students. Much of the work for Spectrum students is accelerated, and other activities and interests are encouraged because the students do their regular school work more quickly. She takes whatever needs to be done, and does it well, said Bain. Robison not only chairs the school committee, but started it, is the most instrumental person in running it, said Bam. My kids were in school so I Robison has wntten and helped with the first Centennial Schools grant," she said. The next year they received it and implemented it and the next year we expanded to other areas. Pursuing the grants became something she really enjoyed doing, said Robison. but the Its teachers were pleased to have the funds they needed. She writes the grant proposals as a community member, not a school employee, g with no previous grant-writin- A software program for acceler- -' ated reader comprehension was from part of a grant Robison - half-a-doz- other grant proposals smce, which resulted in various grants for the school, including funds for a new reading program with formal phonics, trade literature and novels, so that students could read excellent obtained for the school, with theother part going toward additional books. The most recent grant applied for is the education experimental developmental grant, to take a look at new concepts m education, and whether educating children can be done more effectively, said Bam. One such possibility is an ex- - literature. Teachers could get materials for students for hands-o- n math representations of numbers with objects and items, for a visual concept of math, said Robison. A writing process grant was pursued to address the low language art scores across the state as a whole, and to help teachers with a uniform program up through the sixth grade. schedule, which differs schedule m use d from the at some Davis County elementary schools. See HELP on page 8 tended-yea- r ' i 'j I ? y i ! year-roun- i I Ip) r nn A Video Ear Inspection Camera Comes to Beltone Aid Center Hearing EJtBllttoirD off gjcfleira 362 2nd SI. Ogden, Utah Seeing is believing. 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