Submitted by alexcrose12 on Fri, 2017-06-23 08:47 Groups audience Tug Hill/ Black River - 589 Vote Up Down +12 + Good morning, I am reaching out to you in hopes that your chapter of Trout Unlimited may be interested in pursuing sponsoring a Trout in the Classroom experience at our school in Sherrill, NY. This program would greatly benefit the nearly sixty students that receive academic intervention services in reading, mathematics, or both. It is our hope that we would be able to help these students increase their motivation, increase their responsibility roles, help them to further invest in their schooling, and to deepen their understanding of grade level content through hands-on, real-world, project-based learning experiences that revolve around the Trout in the Classroom experience. Beyond this, we hope to allow for enrichment activities and cross-curricular learning experiences for the entire school population. If you are interested in helping us to pursue this further, I have created a grant proposal outlining why this project would be so beneficial for our students, our major objectives of this project, our budget, our prospective timeline, and current research on the benefits of project-based, real-world learning experiences. I look forward to hearing back from you. Thank you!