To all the teachers who managed to submit their 2024-2025 grant applications by the May 31st deadline! Your dedication, determination, and effort is commendable. Applications are still under review. Our list of grantees will be announced soon, so stay tuned to find out what exciting teacher initiatives will be implemented next year!
We Encourage and Support Teacher
Together
We Can Accomplish Bravo's Mission
The BRAVO Foundation of CCSC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that depends on contributions from individuals, civic organizations, local businesses/corporations, and government grants to fund programs, projects, and initiatives which support its mission. Teachers are on the front lines of educating our children every day and need community support! Please join in our mission to encourage and support teacher initiatives that foster innovative and enhanced learning opportunities for all students in Clarendon County!!
BRAVO & CONGRATULATIONS
to our 2025 - 2026
Teacher Innovation and Service-Learning
Grant Winners!
Manning Early Childhood Center
$1,622
Lesley Watson, Jennifer Mongold
Manning Elementary
$3,500
Caitlyn Hicks
Dr. Rose H. Wilder Elementary
$6,040
Patricia Avant, Wanda House, Takelia Hammett
East Clarendon Middle/High
$8,500
Season Johnson, Sheri Sims, Charlotte Driggers (not pictured)
Walker Gamble Elementary
$10,083
Jessie Welch, Chelsie Cannon, Amanda Williamson,, Lacie Hicks, Michele Weaver
Manning High
$3,770
Jordan Jefferson, Crystal Bramlett
Clarendon County Adult Education
$3,500
Lara Kolb
2024 Teacher grant recipents and their students turn ideas into action...
KIM FERRARI
"ACTIVE STUDENTS FOR ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT"
Manning High School
9th Grade English
"This project aims to enhance the learning environment by introducing standing desks and active seating options….incorporating flexible seating and movement-friendly furniture, thereby creating a more dynamic and health conscious classroom that promotes better focus, engagement and collaboration among students."
ACTIVE AND ENGANGED
COLLABORATIVE
SABRINA MCLEOD
"BUILDING A THINKING CLASSROOM"
Manning Junior High School
7th grade Math
"The implementation of 14 practices that help move students from rote memorization to truly thinking through problems and understanding what they are doing and why, with the help of vertical nonpermanent surfaces that encourage student collaboration."
"Students used examples to discover and create their own rules for integer operations."
JESSIE WELCH
"CUPS OF JOY”
Walker Gamble Elementary School
4th-5th Grade Art Class
"A project aimed at expanding the ceramics program to reach more students by adding an additional pottery wheel and related supplies."
KINESTHETIC
STEAM
MICHELE HARRELSON​
"21ST CENTURY LEARNING & GROWING"
Manning Elementary School
5th Grade Math, Sci, ELA, SS
"STEAM-based lessons and activities using Ozobot Evo– technology that prepares teachers to bring coding and creativity into the classroom.”
This initiative aims to promote the 4 “C’s: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Creativity."
"Excited for our trip"
JENNIFER PARKER
"ARE WE THERE YET?"
Walker Gamble Elementary School
K-5 Physical Education
"A class set of Brunson Compasses will be used in a creative, hands-on, and very practical unit on orienting, which is being able to navigate using a compass."
RUTH GARTH
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"BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE"
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Scott's Branch High School
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11th Grade Social Studies
"A series of three educational field trips that extend learning beyond the classroom by exposing students to varied and numerous historical exhibitions that directly relate to course content included on the end-of-course exams."
