2025-05-15T13:44:44-07:00 2024-06-30 990EZ 2023-07-01 264409476 GOOCHLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED GOOC 8045565627 2938-I River Road West Goochland VA 23063 Cynthia Brown Executive Director 8045565627 2024-11-11 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X www.goochlandedu.org X X 175596 X 95451 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80145 41828 38317 0 0 0 0 133768 0 0 62441 0 0 0 8802 71243 62525 67360 0 129885 X 129885 161517 0 0 0 0 129885 161517 62525 31632 67360 129885 The Goochland Education Foundation mission is to provide funding for innovative learning opportunities for Goochland County Public School students. Strategic Innovation Grants is a competitive grant that allows the GEF to implement programming that enriches the curriculum and create opportunities that are outside of a traditional academic day 14767 14767 Essay contest for Goochland County Public School students in 4th and 5th grades to develop/strengthen children's 21st century skills while engaging them on a deeper level of community engagement - develop strong sense of citizenship in Goochland County 1630 1630 Building Thinking Classrooms is a framework for instruction that focuses on research-based practices to elicit more student thinking and engagement in learning. The research was identified nine practices that were present in almost all of the 40 initial math classrooms he studied. The nine practices were: 1. the type of tasks used, and when and how they are used; 2. the way in which tasks are given to students; 3. how groups are formed, both in general and when students work on tasks; 4. student work space while they work on tasks; 5. room organization, both in general and when students work on tasks; 6. how questions are answered when students are working on tasks; 7. the ways in which hints and extensions are used while students work on tasks; 8. when and how a teacher levels their classroom during or after tasks; 9. and assessment, both in general and when students work on tasks. Building Thinking Classrooms framework is a result of this research. The practices are intended to be implemented in the ways that work best for students and teachers, but he makes suggestions for the ways that the practices fit best together. From his research on those nine practices, are there 14 practices that came out as most impactful for engaging students in truly thinking about math and other disciplines. 4250 4250 STEM in Nature: Outdoor Educational Experience: Each grade level, kindergarten through 12th grade, has its own curriculum with activities, building on lessons from previous years, teaching various skills and meeting Virginia's Standards of Learning requirements. The location is Westview on the James, an 800-acre piece of property that is bordered by the James River with streams, a lake, a forest, and land for gardening. There is a reduced use-cost as the students will do maintenance at the end of each visit as part of their environmental learning. Students visit the site three times a year to study life in the waterways and plant a garden, studying seasonal observations of the same location to see how the ecosystem changes in each season. Once a year, middle and high school students will be in canoes on the water and taught by James River Association educators using their curriculum on watershed systems, life, earth, and environment sciences on the water and on land. These studies will be incorporated into the academic lessons in the classroom. Through all these activities, all students will investigate and understand that living things have basic life needs and functional parts and can be classified according to certain characteristics. The students observe and measure change over time. Students investigate the role of plants in affecting air and water quality. Activities will also include planting a variety of grasses along the riverbank to prevent erosion and water pollution, and planting trees to improve air quality. They will investigate and understand that adaptations allow organisms to satisfy life needs and respond to the environment as well as those organisms, including humans, interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. They will describe how the location, climate, and physical surroundings of a community affect the way people live, including their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation. 9893 9893 STEM Backpack Program is designed to create equity in education, a cornerstone of the GEF's programming, by helping 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students develop/strengthen STEM skills. Each classroom would have four backpacks filled with five or six low-tech STEM activities with a questionnaire for the student to indicate what s/he learned from the experiments. The experiments are designed to build 21st century and STEM literacy within the homes of our at-risk students and to build STEM literacy skills among students whose first language is not English. The activities range in biology, physics, chemistry, acoustics, aerodynamics, botany, and magnetics, just to name a few. Four students will 'check out' a backpack for one week, perform the activities, and return it with the questionnaire. After the first 'round' of activities have been completed, another set of activities will be included in the backpacks. By the end of the school year, every student will have performed three or four activities. Each classroom has parent volunteers to replenish the backpacks for another four students. 1457 1457 Scholarships: Three GEF scholarships to applicants demonstrating need, one William Quarles, Jr. Scholarship to applicant demonstrating need, one scholarship to an applicant participating in the debate team or drama department, one scholarship to applicant furthering education in the trades. 9000 9000 Teacher Support: donations to "Teachers of the Year" recognized for outstanding work: A teacher recognized in each of the five schools and the county-wide teacher of the year. In addition, gift bags were given to all teaching staff during teacher appreciation week. 6779 6779 Literacy programs for Preschool throughSecond Grades 5645 5645 53421 Cynthia Brown Executive Director 30.00 54458 0 625 Betsy Woolf Director 1 0 0 0 Michael Kelly Treasurer 2 0 0 0 Jay Shively Director 1 0 0 0 Christina Griffith President 4 0 0 0 Wray Mills Director 1 0 0 0 Mark Barth Vice President 2 0 0 0 Joseph Street Director 1 0 0 0 Ann Kelly Secretary 2.00 0 0 0 Zheni Avram Director 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VA Carol Jean Smith 2938-I River Road W Goochland VA 23063 8045565627 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 199261 200789 175696 163488 177686 916920 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 199261 200789 175696 163488 177686 916920 0 0 0 0 0 0 105000 181250 68487 103000 138750 596487 105000 181250 68487 103000 138750 596487 320433 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 199261 200789 175696 163488 177686 916920 0.34947 0.44399 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Annual Gala 80145 46204 33941 0 0 5000 24672 0 12157 0 0 80145 46204 33941 0 0 5000 24672 0 12157 41829 -7888 Form 990-EZ, Header, Line B Audited numbers revealed a change of $2090 in income. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Accounting: 1574.07; Board retreat: $538.07; Insurance; $1,145; Memberships: $1,090 Office Supplies: $210.36; License Fee: $75; Technology: $2058.54:General Fundraising Expenses: $2,111.06 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Critical Thinking: $6,428; John Wright Estate Fund for biology, agriculture and environment: $18,305; STEM in Nature program: $5,7244; William Quarles, Jr. Scholarship: $1,175; Literacy: $12,653 This is an amended filing reflecting a change in income. It is not a late filing.