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Page Ten, PHOENIXDistrict 15 Awards Mini - GrantsTHE FLOWER POT%u00bb%u00bbeOe e 90muOn%u00bbOOOOCi%u00bb%u00bbouLimousinesUnlimited; WEDDINGS, AIRPORTS, PIERS. RESOBTS,THEATRE, RACETRACKS AND GROUP TRANSPORTBy Hour - Day - Week - MonthO'Teacher IdeasSomewhere in Brooklyn, there now exists a fully-equipped weather bureau, a unique animal nursery and a brand-new botanical garden. If you look hard enough you can also find a young filmmaking crew roaming the streets of local communities recording every-day events.What makes each of these activities so unusual is the fact that they are all operated by and for the children of Community School District 15. The weather bureau, the animal nursery and the botanical gardens are but three of eleven exciting learning activities funded through the School District%u2019s highly innovative MiniGrant program %u2014 a program which seeks to support new and effective learning programs suggested by classroom teachers.For years, teachers have dreamed of having enough money to try new ideas in their classrooms. Seeking to capitalize on teacher-ideas, District 15 offered its teachers an opportunity to apply for ten Mini-Grants of $500. A Mini-Grant would enable a teacher to initiate a new program or activity in the classroom.Proposals quickly poured in from all the District%u2019s schools, and ultimately, well over 100 programs had to be considered. Mr. Alfred Melov and Dr. Jerrold Glassman, Deputy Superintendents of theTIS SPRINGand time for yourwindow boxes,planters,terraces and gardensto look their very best.Our experienced staffand fully equipped shopwill help you createi more beautiful season.S & .r& ilD , IFASHIONS IN FLOW INS **'jL 193 Joralemon StreetB klyn, N Y 11201,^(212)596-0700;District, studied and evaluated each proposal, and after much deliberation arrived at their decisions. So many excellent proposals had been submitted, it was difficult to fund only ten. In fact, the District ultimately funded eleven programs and wished it had money enough to finance many others.Mini-Grants were awarded to each of the following teachers for their ideas: Stephen Rifkin, P.S. 1%u2014 %u201cPhotography as a LearningTool%u201d ; John Lewis McNeeee, P.S. 27 %u2014 %u201c Learning ThroughMovement%u201d ; Mischa Eisenberg and Jesse Pincas, J.H.S. 51 %u2014 %u201cHydroponics %u2014 a Growing Activity%u201d ; Mario Di Santo and Kenneth Wasserman, I S. 88 %u2014 %u201cWeather Station%u201d ;Mini-Grants were awarded to each of the following teachers for their ideas: Stephen Rifkin, P.S. 1%u2014 %u201cPhotography as a Learning Tool%u201d ; John Lewis McNeece, P.S.27 %u2014 %u201c Learning ThroughMovement%u201d ; Mischa Eisenberg and Jesse Pincas, J.H.S. 51 %u2014 %u201cHydroponics %u2014 a Growing Activity%u201d ; Mario Di Santo and Kenneth Wasserman, I.S. 88 %u2014 %u201cWeather Station%u201d ; Ira Levitt, P.S. 94 %u2014 %u201cWoodworking and Creative Crafts%u201d ; Mary Ellen Bosch, P.S. 107 %u2014 %u201cStudy of Animals%u201d ; Suzanne Izzi, P.S. 124 %u2014 %u201cHistorical and Cultural Interest Trip Program%u201d ; Harvey Possner, P.S. 131 %u2014 %u201c IndividualizedMini-Grant winners from School District 15 includes (standing left to right) Jesse Pincas, Mischa Eisenberg, Mario Di Santo, Ira Levitt, Kenneth Wasserman, Harvey Possner, Adam Mocio, Lew McNeece, Irwin Kaufman and Stephen Rifkin. Seated are (left to right) Theresa Contardo, Suzanne Izzi, Mary Ellen Busch, and Phyllis Pfeiffer.Photography by: Peter MichaelsMathematics in a Multi-Media Center%u201d ; Phyllis Pfeiffer, J.H.S. 136 %u2014 %u201cArt History andAesthetics%u201d ; Theresa Contardo, P.S. 169 %u2014 %u201cIndividualized Instruction in an Open Classroom%u201d; and Adam Mocio and Irwin Kaufman, J.H.S. 142 %u2014 %u201cWeight Training and Nutrition to Develop Positive Self-Concept.%u201dMr. Alfred Melov, Deputy congratulates Mr. JessePincas, teacher at J.H.S. 51, Park Slope, on receiving a District 15 Mini-Grcint. Mr.Pincas, together with a colleague, Mischa Eisenberg, proposed a Hydroponics (Plant Growing) Project.A demonstration program to establish a system of information and referral to city services through the Brooklyn Public Library system got under way Wednesday when Mayor John V. Lindsay signed a contract between the city and the Administration and Management Research Association (AMRA).The first information centers will be housed in the branches of the Brooklyn Public Library and will distribute information to Brooklyn residents on city services and citizen rights. The centers will provide direct referral to public and private agencies. The project is designed to augment the community service role of theJ Clibrariessand will provide residents with a means of obtaining information about available services while bringing1 citizens into closer touch with one another.%u201cThis innovative program of city information and referral centers is a major commitment on the part of the city to provide important and easily accessible services to our people right in their own neighborhood,%u201d Mayor Lindsay said. %u201cThe Center will be a clearing house for all sorts of vital information for our people at the branch. It adds a completely new and significant dimension to the function of libraries.%u201dThe contract was signed atceremonies At the Ingersoll Library Branch at Grand Army Plaza. Among the public officials attending were Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone; Congressman Hugh Carey and Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman; City Council Majority Leader Thomas Cuite; Councilwoman Ruth Lerner and Councilmen Kenneth Haber and Fred Richmond.be undertaken by the teams in each of their communities to determine what kind of information is most needed.VM ANY NEW HANGING PLANTS*?! The Hanging Garden297 DeGraw St. between Court & Smith Saturdays + Sundays 11am to 5pm237-0866The Citizens Urban Information Center program will be managed by AMRA under a contract with the Department of Social Services. AMRA is a nonprofit corporation which conducts studies into the causes and solution of urban .... problems. Its unique position of Each of the Centers will be being associated with the city%u2019s staffed by teams of three persons leading management specialists consisting of two community and its freedom from bureaucratic residents who will be constraints particularly qualify it knowledgeable and experienced in to conduct large-scale innovative thecommunity they will serve, and programs with maximum a librarian whose expertise rests in flexibility and responsiveness to the collection, organization and community needs.Funding of the program is 75 per cent federal money and 25 per centretrieval of information.The teams will undergo a training period which will include human relations workshops, interviewing and surveying techniques; study of government organizations, studies of neighborhood organizations and the services they offer; and surveys tomatching funds that will be contributed by the Central Brooklyn Model Cities Committee, the Council on Library Resources and the Brooklyn Public Library. 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