Florida’s K-12 local education foundations invest in students, teachers and classrooms to fund opportunities and support beyond what tax dollars provide. They serve 99% of our state’s 2.8 million students with a variety of initiatives to enhance education, help students, support teachers and drive innovation.

You can join with others to fund a classroom project now in Walton County! A few dollars can make a big difference for a motivated teacher with a great idea!

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Individuals, organizations and businesses are encouraged to invest in the creativity of a teacher to bring amazing learning experiences to their students. To get started, simply click on a grant below to view the details and fund online.

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School	Subject	Project	Amount	Date	Deadline
Dune Lakes Elementary School	Teaching Quality	Growing Buds	FUNDED	10/02/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Literacy	Technology and Flexible Seating Options to Support Literacy in a Diverse Classroom	FUNDED	10/02/19
Paxton School	Teaching Quality	Infinite Solutions with i Pads	FUNDED	10/02/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Teaching Quality	Please Help Students Build Accountability	FUNDED	10/02/19
Freeport High School	Career/Technical Education	Research Done Right	FUNDED	10/02/19	11/30/19
Paxton School	STEM Education	Science in the Classroom - STEM lab for our student's future	FUNDED	10/02/19
West Defuniak Elementary	Teaching Quality	Help us become a 1-to-1 classroom!	FUNDED	10/02/19
Van R Butler Elementary	STEM Education	Techy Teaching	$822.11	10/02/19
Van R Butler Elementary	STEM Education	Ipads Powering Individualized Instruction	$822.11	10/02/19
South Walton High School	Literacy	Inspire Spanish Speakers to Read	FUNDED	10/02/19
South Walton High School	Teaching Quality	Calculated Investment	$1,299.00	10/02/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Low Performing Students	Valuable Tool for Learning Disabilities	FUNDED	10/02/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Teaching Quality	Technology for Engaging and Rigorous Science Inquiry	FUNDED	10/02/19
Paxton School	Literacy	Epic Reading	FUNDED	10/02/19
Freeport High School	Low Performing Students	Knowledge is Power	$1,296.98	10/02/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	Low Performing Students	Playing to Learn Language	FUNDED	10/02/19
Paxton School	STEM Education	Stepping Up with STEM!	FUNDED	10/02/19
Freeport Elementary	Literacy	Soundtrack to Success	FUNDED	10/01/19
WISE Pre-K	Literacy	Dynamic Dinosaurs through Dramatic Play and Teach and Talk with Stories while Learning	$919.92	10/01/19
Van R Butler Elementary	STEM Education	Blossom in Garden Greatness	$0.00	10/01/19
Bay School	STEM Education	Illuminating a Love for Learning	$928.85	10/01/19
Mossy Head Elementary	Teaching Quality	Bringing Music To Life	$983.36	10/01/19
Bay School	STEM Education	Classroom STEM Lab Set-up	FUNDED	10/01/19
South Walton High School	Teaching Quality	Color It Creative!	$1,014.71	10/01/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Literacy	Guide Literacy instruction through technlogy	FUNDED	10/01/19
Walton High School	Teaching Quality	ACCESS Literacy and technology	$1,300.00	10/01/19
Walton High School	STEM Education	Boosting Biology with Technology	FUNDED	10/01/19
South Walton High School	STEM Education	Oysters Suck... But that's a good thing...	FUNDED	10/01/19
Walton Intensity School of Excellence	STEM Education	Science in the "Outernet"	FUNDED	10/01/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	STEM Education	Robotics Funding for First Lego League	FUNDED	10/01/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	STEM Education	Hands- On Science Field Trip	FUNDED	10/01/19
Bay School	Literacy	Power House of Learning	$743.28	10/01/19
Freeport High School	Teaching Quality	PE in the Digital Age	FUNDED	10/01/19
Emerald Coast Middle School	Literacy	Laptops for Readers	FUNDED	10/01/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	STEM Education	STEM Garden	FUNDED	10/01/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	STEM Education	Learning Through Technology and STEM	FUNDED	9/30/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Increasing Graduation Rates	Building Our Boys to be Successful Young Men	$865.56	9/30/19
Freeport High School	Teaching Quality	You Can Count on Me!	$580.20	9/30/19
Mossy Head Elementary	STEM Education	Little Bits for Learning	FUNDED	9/30/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	Literacy	Read and Explore the World	FUNDED	9/30/19
South Walton High School	Literacy	Teach Living Poets!	$1,484.29	9/30/19
Freeport Middle School	Literacy	Extra! Extra! Read all about It!	FUNDED	9/29/19
Emerald Coast Middle School	Literacy	Who Was? What Was? Where Is?	FUNDED	9/29/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Literacy	iRead, iKnow, iConquered!	$1,495.00	9/29/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	Low Performing Students	Independent Literacy and Math Stations	FUNDED	9/28/19
South Walton High School	Low Performing Students	Sensory calming space	FUNDED	9/27/19
Freeport Elementary	Low Performing Students	iPads for iKids and Individualized Instruction	FUNDED	9/27/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Low Performing Students	Building Better Mathematicians	FUNDED	9/27/19
Walton Intensity School of Excellence	Low Performing Students	Destination Innovation: Outdoor Learning Center for Students with Special Needs	FUNDED	9/27/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	STEM Education	Collaboration Skill Building K-5	FUNDED	9/26/19
Freeport Elementary	Low Performing Students	Hands on Autistic Learning Activities	FUNDED	9/26/19
Paxton School	Career/Technical Education	Triumph Using Technology Tools	FUNDED	9/26/19
Walton High School	Low Performing Students	Equity for ELL Students	FUNDED	9/26/19
Walton Middle School	STEM Education	STEM Gardening at WMS	$1,440.00	9/26/19
Walton Middle School	Literacy	Keeping the Magic in Middle School	FUNDED	9/26/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	Literacy	Y.A.? Hooray!	FUNDED	9/26/19
Freeport High School	Low Performing Students	The Gift of Graduation	FUNDED	9/25/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	STEM Education	Grant for Generation Genius Subscription	$360.00	9/25/19
Paxton School	Literacy	"Out with the Old, In with the New"	FUNDED	9/25/19
Emerald Coast Middle School	Literacy	Seeing is believing!	FUNDED	9/25/19
Freeport High School	STEM Education	Teacher iPad needed to improve laboratory quality	FUNDED	9/25/19
Dune Lakes Elementary School	Teaching Quality	Ceramics by the Sea	$1,255.00	9/24/19
Van R Butler Elementary	STEM Education	STEM in the Gym! Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Spelling in Physical Education!	FUNDED	9/24/19
Van R Butler Elementary	Low Performing Students	Oh Boy, We'd Be One to One!	FUNDED	9/23/19
Paxton School	STEM Education	Providing Quality Science Lab Experiences for Students	$997.40	9/18/19
Van R Butler Elementary	STEM Education	Lead the Way with STEM	FUNDED	9/17/19
West Defuniak Elementary	STEM Education	Growing Readers Through STEM	$993.99	9/16/19

Walton County School District Media Specialists meet regularly to collaborate and plan for media programs. Their discussions provide new media specialists with an opportunity to gain valuable insight from their more experienced peers. They have recently been working on a Media Specialist Handbook that will provide consistency throughout the district. From book fairs to book orders to student engagement, this group works hard to make the Walton County School District Media Centers the best that they can be! WCSD Media Specialists will help you find what you are looking for!

Media Specialists

Superintendent Hughes and many other local and state agencies worked on a major Table Top exercise today. The purpose was to discuss, assess, and recreate what Walton County would look like, share ideas, concerns and improvements in case of a major storm. Extremely powerful information, planning and conversations kept us fully engaged. Great Job Mr. Jeff Goldberg and staff for this intensive practice!

Table Top Exercise

Bay School hosted their first annual Thanksgiving Luncheon yesterday and it was definitely day to be thankful for! What a great turnout and a great day to share with our Bay Family!

Bay Thanksgiving

On Tuesday, November 19th, fourth and fifth grade classroom winners participated in the Schoolwide Tropicana Speaking Competition. Parents, students, teachers, and judges were amazed by the well thought out speeches and the students' ability to present them to such a large group of people. Congratulations to each of these students!!!

Fourth Grade Winners

1st- Kyson Allen ••• The Tasmanian Devil

2nd- Makenna Anderson ••• Addiction

3rd- Charles Allan Brooks ••• Mad Scientists Throughout History

WDE Tropicana 5th Grade

Fifth Grade Winners

1st- Annabel Hicks ••• My Geographic Tongue

2nd- Carli Nowling ••• Sharks Anonymous

3rd- Calie Brackin ••• Crocs

First and second place winners from our school competition will represent West DeFuniak at the District Tropicana Speaking Contest on December 12th at Freeport High School.

This week, faculty, staff, and students honored Coach Laurie Gilbert with a retirement party. Coach Gilbert will be retiring in December after 32 years of teaching. The entire Paxton family is very thankful for all Coach Gilbert has done for our school and wishes her well in her retirement. Coach Gilbert has been at Paxton for 17 years and taught at Freeport for 15 years before that. She will continue to stay on as track/cross country coach. Attendees of her party included her husband (Bryan), children (Maryllyn and husband Blake, Ryan and wife Brooklynn), granddaughter (Evie), sister (Cathy), and mother-in-law (Sherry). Thank you, Coach Gilbert!

Cover picture: Emma Baker, Broxson Dickey, Hallie Campbell-Work, Jake Daniel

Students from Mrs. Willcox's Kindergarten class at WDE enjoyed making Stone soup while learning about the letter S. Each student brought in an ingredient to add to the soup. They also enjoyed listening to different versions of the story Stone Soup.

WDE Stone Soup

Pictured: Henley Cosson

WDE Stone Soup

Pictured: Terry Gandy

Kobe Phillips presented his winning speech from the 2019 Florida Farm Bureau Youth Speech Contest at the Tuesday night meeting of the Walton County School Board at South Walton High School. Kobe, a student at Freeport High School, placed 3rd in the state of Florida in the annual speech contest sponsored by the Florida Farm Bureau Women's Leadership Committee.
The 2019 topic was: “Recent natural disasters have had a
major impact on agriculture. How have these impacts affected
consumers?”
Walton County School District is incredibly proud of Kobe, and look forward to following his promising future!

Kobe Phillips '

Kobe Phillips

Cover Picture – LtR – Liam Holley, Dariyon Moore, Mason Shelton, Brianna Jiggetts, Hannah Johnson, Destiney Waggoner

As an introductory experiment to their study on properties and states of matter, physical and chemical changes, and mixtures and solutions, WDE 5^th graders experimented with a solid and a liquid to make a gas. The 5th grade students mixed baking powder and vinegar to create a reaction and make the gas. The combined products made the “hands” come to life by emitting a gas. The students enjoyed watching the magic of the gloves rising!

WDE Magic Hands

Mckade Nelson, Isabella Adkinson, Skyler Ramos, Carli Nowling

WDE Magic Hands

Daetyn Kee, Amiliauna Robinson, Hayden Arnold

WDE Magic Hands

Ethan Lewis, Que’Asia Dukes, Bethany Hopper

Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance’s Grasses in Classes is a hands-on, environmental education program that gives students a direct role in the restoration of Choctawhatchee Bay. In partnership with AmeriCorps and with partial funding from the USFWS Coastal Program, Boeing Corporation, and National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, CBA provides teachers in Okaloosa and Walton Counties the equipment and materials required to grow shoreline grasses at their school.

Grasses in Classes students tend salt marsh nurseries throughout the school year, and receive monthly education on local estuarine topics that meet Florida’s state science standards from CBA and CBA partners (e.g. AmeriCorps members). http://basinalliance.org/…/in-the-class…/grasses-in-classes/

Third grade teachers at West DeFuniak Elementary School recently had their second visit with Grasses in Classes. Students enjoyed comparing and contrasting the Choctawhatchee Bay with and without shoreline grasses. Smooth cordgrass acts as a pollution filter and helps buffer the shoreline against flooding and erosion

WDE Grasses in Classes

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November 22, 2019

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WCSD Media Specialists - Opening the Door to Knowledge!

November 21, 2019

Superintendent Hughes Joins in Table Top Exercise for Storm Readiness and Response!

November 20, 2019

Bay School Hosts First Annual Thanksgiving Luncheon!

November 20, 2019

WDE Announces Tropicana Speech Winners

November 20, 2019

Paxton Sends Off Coach Gilbert!

November 20, 2019

West DeFuniak Elementary Kindergarten Stone Soup!

November 19, 2019

Kobe Phillips Presents Winning Speech at School Board Meeting!

November 19, 2019

WDE 5th Grade and Magic Hands

November 19, 2019

West DeFuniak Elementary 3rd Graders Visit Grasses in Classes!

November 18, 2019