Teacher Wish List 2024

Every year WEF participates in the Whitefish Community Foundation Great Fish Challenge. Money raised from this challenge is used to fund Teacher Wish List items; teachers requested items they feel would enhance the educational experience of Whitefish Students.

This school year, we funded $35,100 in Wish List grants:$8,900 to Muldown, $12,400 to Whitefish Middle School, $5,600 to Whitefish High School, $4,700 to both WMS and WHS, and $3,500 to all three schools.

Items purchased included books, storage, headphones, hands-on manipulatives, student clocks, planners, table top oven, chess boards, a dishwasher for the CSE, an egg incubator, a food dehydrator, flexible seating options and articles for gym, science, math, art and special education classes. We also helped the music programs at all three schools with helping update their rental instruments for orchestra and band, as well as updating some of the percussion instruments for drumline and instruments for the Muldown music program.

…Huge thank you for our incubator! We had so much fun learning about the life cycle of chickens and successfully hatching 8 chickens in our classroom. It was fun to pass them around Kindergarten as well, so all the students could participate. It is a memory my students will not soon forget.

Emily Dugan – Kindergarten Teacher / Muldown Elementary

Additionally, we funded Stumptown Art Studio to work with our 2nd graders for a ceramics lesson, as well as materials for a sensory path at Muldown and a mural in the library at the high school.

We funded new and innovative items like purchasing a quarter cow to be used in culinary arts to learn butchery, smoking, grilling, braising, searing, and grinding meats. This also teaches the importance of knowing where our food comes from and how sourcing local food keeps our money in the community and supports local families. We also help purchase items for the new Spirit Dawg card program at the high school and cross-country ski for students at the independent school to use while helping teach the 4th graders how to ski.

Finally, we funded many health and well-being items like items for an emergency medical bag at Muldown and for the culinary arts program at the high school, the NAR wound management simulator, and BLS/AED training equipment.