Since re-opening in 1996, Jack L. Weaver Elementary School has become an outstanding learning facility with exceptional students, staff and programs. Weaver provides a creative, challenging and nurturing environment that offers students unparalleled preparation for life long learning. We are dedicated to academic excellence and we value parents, community and business members as partners in education.

Mission

Friends of Weaver (FOW) was founded in 1999 as a non-profit organization dedicated to acquiring, maintaining, improving, and updating technological resources at Jack L. Weaver Elementary School. FOW provides support and resources to teachers and staff so they can provide a variety of learning opportunities enabling all students to be successful. FOW achieves this through various fundraising efforts throughout the year.

Accomplishments

Through the generous donations of our parents and community, FOW has been able to provide the following for Weaver students:

• MIND software program for Kindergarden through 5th grade students
• Half-Time Teacher on Special Assignment to instruct on MIND
• 130 iPads for 4th, 5th grade and autism students
• MIND Fluency Software (math facts)
• Title Peek and Accelerated Reader Program Service from Follett
• Electronic keyboards for the music lab
• Computer Lab in the media center for student use
• Computers for each classroom
• Smartboards and speakers for each classroom
• Elmo projectors for each classroom
• LCD projectors for each classroom
• Digital cameras for each teacher
• All-in-one copier, scanner, printers for each classroom
• Laser printers for teacher use
• Student Response Systems

Our Future

Technology is constantly changing and presenting new opportunities for our children to excel in their eduction. It is our goal to harness these opportunites and integrate them into the learning environment at Weaver. Below are a few of these technologies that we are attempting to acquire over the next school year:

• 550 additional iPads for all students, including autism classrooms
• New computer lab for Media Center (for MIND instruction)