Duke School Under the Oak Magazine, Fall 2019

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Dragons Innovators Grant The innovation grant that funded TerraCycling is still going strong this year. Last spring, a painted dragon appeared outside the Preschool building. Inspiring experts engaged with students in an Upstanders Summit. Middle schoolers spent Earth Day packing supplies to be delivered to Durham’s Urban Ministry. faculty/staff alter the school’s physical and educational landscape. Since fall 2018, 11 grants have been awarded to individuals and teams— most of them students—with the goal of making Duke School even better. Across the Duke School campus, Dragon “We’re also really promoting innovation and Innovators Grants are helping students and creativity, and we want that to become part of our 8 UNDER THE OAK
culture,” said Duke School Innovation Director Katie Ree. “What this grant does is it not only gives people an opportunity to do something, but it also encourages students to have agency so that they can try things.” The Dragon Innovators Grants emerged from a gift of $15,000 from an anonymous donor. Students, faculty, and staff can apply for up to $2,000 for projects, which are chosen based on their creativity and innovation, community reach, potential to catalyze additional ideas, documentation plan, efficient use of resources, and use of collaboration. “It was a community effort to even create the process,” said Katie. thought of,” said Katie. “For me, it was really about seeing what the students would think would make our campus better.” Students applying for grants must have a teacher mentor and submit a detailed plan for the materials and money needed, timeline, how they expect the project to impact the school, and how they will document their progress. Students not submitting applications can volunteer to review potential projects. During the 2018-19 school year, several fourth through eighth graders reviewed and scored applications based on a rubric. Middle School students also joined teachers and administrators on the panel making the final selections. Once school leaders settled on the idea of offering innovation grants, the entire Duke School community was invited to take part via an all-school email. Katie visited second- through Students helped design the review process, including determining that applicants’ names should be hidden so that their proposals were scored anonymously. eighth-grade classrooms to encourage students to apply. “What we were really hoping was for them to come up with—in some ways—ideas we hadn’t Students helped install the new water fountain on the Lower School playground. UNDER THE OAK 9
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