Teacher Grant Recipient Lab Equipment Amount Awarded: $500 “In Chemistry, most of our budget goes to expensive consumables like chemicals, glassware, and equipment. The ability to get additional instructional aid has been challenging, and the PREA grant has provided that opportunity. Thank you so much for the support.”

Teacher Grant Recipient New Books Amount Awarded: $500 “I am so thankful for the materials I was able to purchase for my classroom with the PREA grant. My teammate and I are currently planning our unit for the novel The Long Walk to Water and we are excited at the opportunities for critical thinking it…

Georgia Brown Technology Grant (Specialty Program) Document Camera for Classroom Value: $1,000 “The document camera provided to my classroom through the PREA Grant in 2012 allowed me to give more immediate, precise visual presentations, and to efficiently challenge the children I teach in exciting and interactive instruction in all areas of language arts. I use…

Teacher Grant Recipient Food Webs – Hands on Lab Amount Awarded: $250 “Without the PREA Grant for owl pellets to teach food webs, my students would not be able to experience this hands on Lab and would not be able to learn the many other science topics that come up in this lab. Students are…

Teacher Grant Recipient Science – Lab Equipment Amount Awarded: $500 The PREA grant has been especially helpful for our fledgling Marine Biology program at the high school. In its first year, I am working hard to build a rigorous lab schedule. The PREA grant made it possible to order a class set of hydrometers that…

Teacher Grant Recipient Journalism – Print Expansion Amount Awarded: $500 “PREA supported nearly 30 student journalists at PRHS, generously funding an expensive print expansion that permitted more student writing, photography, and design to serve our PRHS readers. It was a victory on a host of levels, and we are tremendously impacted by the difference they made…

Teacher Grant Recipient Mock Trial Amount Awarded: $500 “If it was not for the generosity of the PREA grant funding, my 8th grade GATE class would not have had an enrichment activity this year due to lack of funds. With the grant, I was able to afford the middle school entry fee for the renowned SLO…

Teacher Grant Recipient Drama Production of “A Christmas Carol” Amount Awarded: $500 “PREA allowed me to rent period style costumes for “A Christmas Carol”. These costumes, for a cast of 35, were from PCPA and have been used in professional productions. We felt honored to have been able to afford these beautiful costumes because of…

“The collective work of the Paso Robles Education Alliance (PREA) has allowed our schools district to do great things with our students. We are eternally grateful to PREA for their vision in bringing to life so many vital programs to the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District.”

Teacher Grant Recipient “For some time now I have wanted to write to you and let you know how much your organization has meant to both me as a teacher in the Paso Robles School District and as a parent of a student in the school district. The Paso Robles Education Alliance’s contributions to our…

College Scholarship Recipient “I want to extend my deepest thanks for your continued support. Your generosity has been unprecedented. I am proud to come from a community that so highly values education.”

College Scholarship Recipient “Thank you for the generous scholarship. I shall use it to help me pay for college, and it will be useful in that regard. I will be attending Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo to study Civil Engineering, and your scholarship should help me through the challenges ahead.”

College Scholarship Recipients Note: This group of exceptional students included recipients for the first year PREA awarded college scholarships. A private donor has contributed to each of these students tuition/living expenses for all 4 years of their college careers. We are proud to see each of them graduate from their respective colleges in 2016.  “We all can’t ever thank…

Technology Grant Recipient (Specialty Program) Document Camera Value: $1,000 “Through the PREA, my classroom was able to enter the 21st century. The grant I received from the PREA provided for a projector and document reader to be appropriately installed in my classroom to make it easy to use on a daily basis. Through using this…

“Not only does the Paso Robles Education Alliance provide valuable support to my teachers through their grants, it also engages and motivates my students. The Jumpstart to College assembly, which featured former PRJUSD students, motivated my 8th Grade students to begin thinking about the classes they were going to take in high school.”