Hays Education Foundation board members toured Hays CISD campuses last week bearing gifts of Innovative Teaching Grants and multiple minigrants. Recent record-breaking community support allowed the Foundation to award more than $75,000 in needed funds for a total of 49 projects. The board, right, gave an Innovative Teaching Grant ($1,729) at Pfluger Elementary to recipient Jessica Ovalle for her proposed “Sensing Achievements with Sensory Integration.” The full celebrating group included (back, L-R) Foundation Board members Nathan Miller, Ray Bryant, (HCISD Superintendent) Mike McKie, Pam Kaye, Bert Bronaugh; (front L-R) Foundation Executive Director Angie Mendez, Board members Kerri Espinoza, Marilyn Van Uum, grant recipient Jessica Ovalle, Board members Vanessa Petrea, Julie Snyder, Genelle Duran, and Pfluger Elementary School Principal Kathy Noack.
