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RBR Education Foundation

2010 Grants

$ 19,000

RBREA Grant (Pictured left to right) RBR Education Foundation incoming president Paul Noglows and outgoing president Stuart Tartarone present RBR Board of Education President John Garofalo and Superintendent Howard Lucks with a symbolic check for $19,039.07 for school grants at their June Board of Education meeting.

Chef Roskowinski with his composter Pictured is RBR Culinary Arts Teacher Peter Roskowinski at the composter purchased with the grant money for the Organic Garden, which Culinary Art students are tending in the background.

Dawn Lisko with her camera RBR Commercial Photography teacher Dawn Lisko holds one of two cameras granted to her classroom by the Red Bank Regional Education Foundation

In all, the RBREF made seven grants to various district departments as follows:
  • Smart Boards & Related software/hardware—Math Department
  • Two Digital Cameras & Related kit— Commercial Photography
  • Guest Dance Artists— Six-Week African Dance Workshop—Dance
  • Ice Machine-Science Department
  • Organic Garden Materials—Culinary Arts
  • Digital Display Screen & Related Hardware-Technology Department
  • Museum Field Trip—World Language Department

2009 Grants

Total Grants: $ 15,375.06

Jeremy Milonas with his HP tablet Claudia O'Connor using the Dell LCD projector Dawn Lisko
IT Teacher Jeremy Milonas uses the wireless HP Tablet PC to project images on a screen so his students can follow his lesson on their classroom computers as he walks about working with students. The Dell LCD projector (mounted on the ceiling) enables Commercial Art teacher Claudia O’Connor to explain an artist’s’ techniques in classroom lessons. The REBEF foundation recently provided materials for Dawn Lisko’s photography class for mounting and displaying their art work at a recent art show.

Flip Video Cameras & Cases Katie Blackwell, Social Studies
Dell LCD Projector Claudia O'Connor, Visual and Performing Arts—Commercial Art
TI-Nspire Graphing Calculators Anne Murray, Karen Laffey, Stan Sculthorpe, Math
Chinese Culture & History Cassette, Books, Dictionaries & DVD Susan Tseng, World Language
Logan 750 Simplex Plus Cutter & Blotter books Dawn Lisko, Visual & Performing Arts--Photography
CDs of the recorded book Night Audrey Kramer, Special Education
Bus Transportation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Katrina Reiff, SusanTseng, World Languages
HP Tablet PC, InFocus LiteShow II, & projector wireless device Jeremy Milonas, Information Technology

The RBR Education Foundation recently announced over $15,000 in education grants to teachers at a Board of Education meeting. Pictured (left to right) are: Kathleen Smith, RBR’s media specialist, Stuart Tartarone, RBR Education Foundation Chairperson, Jeremy Milonas, computer science teacher, Audrey Kramer, child study team, John Garofalo, RBR Board of Education President Anne Murray, math teacher and Dr. Edward Westervelt, RBR Superintendent.A total of 12 staff members received Education Foundation grants. RBREA Grants

Past Years

The RBREF provided grants to cover the costs of classroom projectors, a band shell, sound and lighting equipment for the stage and auditorium, tools for set construction, computers for the music department among many other things.