Over $1.5 Million in Grants Awarded
The LEF is proud to help foster innovation, create meaningful change, and prepare students for a global economy through our LEF Grant Program.
Playing is learning. This grant provides a new playhouse and play bridge for the toddler playground at the LECC, which will serve as a safe play space for our students and community families.
This outdoor classroom will provide a versatile learning environment for students to engage with nature and enhance their educational experience and overall well-being. This space will be used for interdisciplinary hands-on lessons, sustainability, and outdoor activities, fostering creativity, collaboration, and environmental stewardship.
An updated state-of-the-art piano lab will provide a space for students who are interested in pursuing a non-performing music class at Ladue High School. This Piano Lab will serve our current Intro and Advanced Piano courses, however the lab will have the technology to expand to guitar and composition classes in the future.
Hosting Emmy-nominated David Hagerman in Ladue provides an opportunity for all learners to benefit from exposure in each component of STEAM through innovative instruction which paves the road for creativity and critical thinking.
The Anatomage Table Alpha, previously acquired through an LEF grant, is eligible for the full table software, with multiple new models and simulations, including a total of FIVE (three new) human cadavers, as well as a new mouse cadaver with segmented anatomy (in addition to our current cat and dog). This software was unavailable for the model of the table previously purchased, but is now.
With the purchase of balance bikes and skates, Project Kids on Wheels hopes to build physical literacy by getting all students in all the Ladue elementary schools on wheels. We hope to have all kids capable of riding a bike by second grade and all students able to roller skate by fourth grade.
During the holiday season, many families struggle with the increased cost of food expenses while students are not in school along with the additional cost to provide holiday gifts. The Holiday Happiness Program will help support our families, district-wide.
This grant creates an outdoor classroom space at the FGC which allows students to comfortably learn and work in an engaging outdoor environment.
To coordinate with our 'No Place For hate' program, two buddy benches on the FGC playground area creates a welcoming addition. The purpose of a Buddy Bench is to provide a place for a student to sit and another student to join, making a friend, a safe place, a place to share.
Students who have strong regulation skills, manage emotions, attention, and impulses, are more likely to be successful in school. This grant creates regulation spaces/processes within our schools that offer students a controlled and predictable place where students can learn to regulate sensory and emotional needs. Providing time and space to meet these needs can improve school culture and decrease problem behaviors.
As part of an initiative to gauge student interest in the opportunity to participate and compete in Esports, this quickly grew into a club with dozens of members who all have many unique qualities. This grant would allow LMS to be more serious about Esports with proper hardware while also opening the possibilities of creating our own software- games and apps- which will link academics with fun.