This year, the Peabody Education Foundation received 53 Best Bet grant applications totaling over $40,000. The PEF will fund 42 of those applications in the 2016-2017 school year for a total of $30,408 in grants.
2016 Awarded Best Bet Programs
Brown School
- Peabody Essex Museum: American/Salem Collections
- Social Thinking
- Music for the Mind
- 2nd and 3rd Grade Milestones Program
- Schoolyard Science with Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats
- LEGO Engineering Concepts
- TenMarks
South School
- Fine & Gross Motor Materials
- Girl Power (with Burke School)
PVMHS
- MICCA Concert Festival
- Transitional Partners Program
- Downloadable Collection Kick-Off
- Drama Festival 2017 Artist-in-Residence
- Book Clubs
Carroll School
- New England Aquarium Field Trip
- Headsprout
- Tide Pool Alive
- Theaterworks USA Field Trip: Miss Nelson is Missing
Welch School
- Study Buddies – Fairy Tale Friends
- Forces in Motion
- Lunar Exhibition at Peabody Essex Museum
- Paul Revere Midnight Ride
- Welch School Birthday Books
- Wolf Hollow
- Animal Adventures
- Tide Pool Alive
- Engineering and Erosion
West School
- Macaroni Soup! Active Music for Kids
- No Bullying: Stand Up, Step In
- Choices for the Choices Program
McCarthy School
- Wiggles and Giggles
- Sound Waves by Discovery Museum’s Traveling Field Trips
- Uprising on King Street/Boston Massacre
- Let’s Get Moving Numbers Kit
- A Guided Discovery of Electromagnetism
Higgins Middle School
- Think Social with Social Thinking and Brain Gym
- Higgins Helping Hawks Student Mentoring Program
- Higgins Library Expands Hour of Code Activities with Sphero Spark Robots
- Yoko Kawashima Watkins Presentation
Center School
- Schoolyard Science with Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats
- Hands-On Math Centers
District-Wide (Grade 5)
Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concert Field Trip