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Student Enrichment

The Foundation will provide students and teachers with the resources for supplemental educational and enrichment activities that build upon the District’s curriculum beyond what is typically financed with tax dollars.

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Celebrating Differences Program:
On Wednesday January 29th, the 4th grade students will participate in the Gower Foundation's sponsored Celebrating Differences Program. This program focuses on a greater understanding and awareness of disabilities, both visible and non visible, through hands-on activities.  The students will be exposed to the complexities people with disabilities face daily to help with empathetic understanding.

The Program has seven engaging stations displaying physical, mental, speech, hearing, vision and learning impairments. The hands-on activity stations include a wheelchair obstacle course, using a white cane, Braille, goggles that simulate various visual impairments, hearing impaired audio, assistive devices for physical and hearing impairments, dyslexic reading simulations and support devices for people with Autism.

The Gower Foundation looks forward to partnering with the wonderful parent volunteers to make this program a success and a learning experience for the students. For additional learning and context, the following book list contains resources available at either the Gower school libraries or Indian Prairie Public Library.

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Celebrating Differences Book List.

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Reality Store

On Friday November 22, the 7th graders participated in The Reality Store.  This program exposes students to practices of budgeting through real-world scenarios resulting in improved confidence with financial literacy.

Some things we learned: 

  • 62.7% of student responded they were nervous about managing money in the future, but willing to learn.

  • Students shared that the most helpful topics were budgeting household expenses, paying bills and saving money and understanding needs vs wants.

  • The part of Reality Store that was hardest for students to manage was unexpected expenses.

Family Discussion Topics:

  • How does your family manage a household budget?

  • What role does each member of the family play to help manage expenses?

  • What is a need versus a want in your household?

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