Welcome to our grant project website!

The students and teachers at the Extraordinary Education Family Learning Center are excited about the adventure that awaits this year as we continue working on our Extraordinary Ecology Wildscape Project.

Click the link if you would like to join our Friends of the Habitat Yahoogroup email list. This is where we post information about upcoming project activities, FREE Community Workshops and opportunities to volunteer throughout the year. As a service-learning project, students, families and community volunteers are all vital to the sucess of this project. You are sure to enjoy being part of this worthwhile effort to improve the environment while also learning about native Texas habitats.

We have just completed our second grant application for another year of the Healthy Habitat project. Click the link to read the 2010-11 Texas Healthy Habitats Grant proposal that our students submitted this year.

We are still waiting to see if we get the grant. We should know some time in July. Even if we don't get a grant, we will continue working on improving the "Wildscape" we started with our 2009-2010 grant. It is sure to be an exciting year as we begin to see the fruits of our labors during the past 12 months!

The adventure began in June 2009 with a small group of students, parents and teachers. This group worked tirelessly over the course of several weeks to gather information, discuss plans and work together to write a grant proposal to transform a portion of our campus into a native Texas wildlife habitat. The group met and worked together for many hours, went on field trips to gather information and utilized GoogleDocs as a means to collaborate on all of the different aspects of the grant-writing process. The end product was a 10 page application written primarily by the students with assistance from the teachers and parents.

Click the link to read the 2009-10 Texas Healthy Habitats Grant proposal that our students submitted the first year.

The Healthy Habitats grant is funded through the generous support of Encana Oil and administered by the Texas Center for Service Learning in cooperation with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

The Extraordinary Education Family Learning Center is a cooperative, non-profit 501(c)3 organization that supports homeschooling families by offering a variety of classes, enrichment programs and social activities for students and their families.