Scholarships
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
2019
ETE - George E. Wilson Scholarship
- All applicants must be of African-American/Black descent and graduating from a Hamilton Township Public High School.
- Applicants must be graduating seniors who plan to attend college or an accredited post-secondary institution.
- Applicants must have at least C+ grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
- Extracurricular activities, community service and indicators of leadership skills should be stressed on your application
Gary Dean Gray Sr. Memorial Scholarship
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Gary Dean Gray Sr. was an educator for 34 years as a 5th grade teacher at Kusr School, a 4th grade teacher at Rowan School, Vice Principal at Hamilton High West, Principal at George E. Wilson Elementary School, and the Substitute Director and educator at the Trenton Community Charter School. He also worked at the Bromely Center. Mr. Gray was a past member of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the New Jersey State Department of Educational External Review Teams, Delaware State University Alumnae Association, Rider University Alumnae Association, Hamilton Zoning Board of Adjustments, Hamilton YMCA Board of Directors, Hamilton Jaycees, Hamilton Township Human Relations Committee and Chairman of the Mercer County Human Relations Council. Mr. Gray also coached in the Hamilton Township Recreation Baseball association, the Hamilton Township Recreation Soccer League, Hamilton PAL, and the Mercer County Women's Softball League.
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All applicants must be of African American descent attending and graduating from a Hamilton Township Public School.
Applicants must be graduating seniors who plan to attend college or an an accredited post secondary institution.
Applicants must have at least a C+ grade point average on a 4.0 scale
Extracurricular activities, community service and indications of leadership skills should be stressed in the application.
Applicants must be graduating seniors who plan to attend college or an an accredited post secondary institution.
Applicants must have at least a C+ grade point average on a 4.0 scale
Extracurricular activities, community service and indications of leadership skills should be stressed in the application.
Excellence Through Education
PROUDLY PRESENTED
ETE Annual Awards Night
Friday, June 7, 2019
ETE Annual Awards Night
Friday, June 7, 2019
Excellence Through Education is a group of minority educators based in Hamilton Township School district. This organization is committed to the encouragement and celebration of academic excellence, personal growth, citizenship, and community involvement of minority students within the African Diaspora within our district (this includes African and Caribbean countries, Cuba*, Dominican*, Puerto-Rican*, Brazil*, Colombia*).
We will present academic and financial awards to deserving students who have maintained academic excellence, demonstrated motivation, and made a significant contribution to their school community.
Nominations are based on the following criteria:
Outstanding citizenship
Academic excellence (mostly 3s or 4s)
Interest, motivation and initiative in school activities.
An outstanding contribution to school (Science Fair, community sponsored event, performance in school production)
High School Seniors are welcome to apply for the George E. Wilson & Gary Dean Gray Sr. Scholarships
(see applications above)
We will present academic and financial awards to deserving students who have maintained academic excellence, demonstrated motivation, and made a significant contribution to their school community.
Nominations are based on the following criteria:
Outstanding citizenship
Academic excellence (mostly 3s or 4s)
Interest, motivation and initiative in school activities.
An outstanding contribution to school (Science Fair, community sponsored event, performance in school production)
High School Seniors are welcome to apply for the George E. Wilson & Gary Dean Gray Sr. Scholarships
(see applications above)
Summer Resources
Summer Slide & The Math Achievement Gap
Children from low-income households feel the summer slide more than anyone due to unequal access to summer learning programs and various other socioeconomic factors.
Unfortunately, the math achievement gap between low-income and high-income students widens over time, almost entirely during the summer break. The end result: lower-income students fall further behind their more affluent peers, a trend that is compounded at each grade level until the achievement gap is overwhelming. On average, low-income students fall behind 2.5 to 3 full years by fifth grade.
Learning should be a continual process. In order to achieve the best results and minimize the summer slide, it will take a combined effort of educators, parents, and students. Without access to summer learning programs, many students are left on their own.
So, what is the best summer slide prevention?
Math students without access to summer learning programs can still effectively reduce the summer slide by using online math programs, particularly one with on-demand support from live math teachers.
Access to 1-on-1 instructional support is a vital component to every student’s development in mathematics. This type of student-instructor interaction is typically lost over the summer months, even during summer learning programs (if available) due to limited resources.
With web-based math instruction, students can utilize these programs as remedial tools, brushing up on last year's lessons or getting a jump start on next year's material, all on their own time. Internet access is all that's needed for a math student to be completely immersed in a mobile learning environment, perfect for family road trips, long plane rides, or to mitigate rainy-day boredom over summer break.
By providing students with unlimited access to grade level math instruction at their convenience, online math instructional tools place the power of reducing the summer learning slide quite literally into the hands of each student.
Children from low-income households feel the summer slide more than anyone due to unequal access to summer learning programs and various other socioeconomic factors.
Unfortunately, the math achievement gap between low-income and high-income students widens over time, almost entirely during the summer break. The end result: lower-income students fall further behind their more affluent peers, a trend that is compounded at each grade level until the achievement gap is overwhelming. On average, low-income students fall behind 2.5 to 3 full years by fifth grade.
Learning should be a continual process. In order to achieve the best results and minimize the summer slide, it will take a combined effort of educators, parents, and students. Without access to summer learning programs, many students are left on their own.
So, what is the best summer slide prevention?
Math students without access to summer learning programs can still effectively reduce the summer slide by using online math programs, particularly one with on-demand support from live math teachers.
Access to 1-on-1 instructional support is a vital component to every student’s development in mathematics. This type of student-instructor interaction is typically lost over the summer months, even during summer learning programs (if available) due to limited resources.
With web-based math instruction, students can utilize these programs as remedial tools, brushing up on last year's lessons or getting a jump start on next year's material, all on their own time. Internet access is all that's needed for a math student to be completely immersed in a mobile learning environment, perfect for family road trips, long plane rides, or to mitigate rainy-day boredom over summer break.
By providing students with unlimited access to grade level math instruction at their convenience, online math instructional tools place the power of reducing the summer learning slide quite literally into the hands of each student.
LANGUAGE ARTS LITERACY & Math
CLICK ON LINKS FOR ELEMENTARY ONLINE ACTIVITIES
Click on Links for Middle School & High School
- Fantastically Fun Word Families
- Word Mover mobile app to play with word families and listen for rhyme, then sort real and nonsense words, alphabetize the words, and create a story or poem using the words.
- Blast Off to Learn New Words Boost vocabulary by taking an imaginary trip into space. After a lunar “landing,” children return to Earth with a galaxy of new words.
- Write "Moving" Sports PoetryWe've all heard the expression “poetry in motion”—this activity gets children writing poems about grace and movement using photos of athletes.
- Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be “amazing”—either someone they’ve heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
- Khan Academy: a free, not-for-profit organization offering online courses, interactive exercises, and resources for students, parents, and teachers. Parents can sign up for tips on how to encourage and support their child’s learning and monitor their child’s progress.
Click on Links for Middle School & High School
- How to Write a Book Review
- Make a Word Card Game
- Create A Timeline
- Khan Academy: a free, not-for-profit organization offering online courses, interactive exercises, and resources for students, parents, and teachers. Parents can sign up for tips on how to encourage and support their child’s learning and monitor their child’s progress.
