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  • Funding Partnership with Kenson Ventures and The Madison Group

    Funding Partnership with Kenson Ventures and The Madison Group

    We’d like to announce a wonderful gift that the Carlmont Academic Foundation has received just in time for the holidays! We will be entering into a long-term funding partnership with Kenson Ventures and The Madison Group, a local development team which is proposing Catalyst Labs, Belmont’s first state-of-the-art life science campus at 601 Harbor Boulevard.…

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  • Mr. Miskelly, Math Department Chair, on the Importance of Smaller Class Sizes

    Your donations help us do many things. The biggest of all is to fund additional class sections: 21 more this school year, in fact. Let’s aim to surpass this number for the next school year by donating today. Hear teacher Mr. Miskelly describe the benefits of smaller classes. Watch the video and then donate to CAF.

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  • CAF Supports Teachers with Smaller Class Sizes

    CAF Supports Teachers with Smaller Class Sizes

    Dina Cousin is both a teacher at Carlmont and a former student here — so Dina has first-hand knowledge of what it’s like to be a student when the class size was larger, and what it’s like now teaching to a smaller class size. And that shift is possible thanks to your generous donations to…

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  • CAF Supports Student Mental Health

    We need to take student mental health seriously.  CAF is incredibly proud, thanks to your donations, to increase the amount of mental health support at Carlmont this year.  Working with Carlmont administration, we will be able to increase mental health support on campus fivefold by funding additional counseling staff and allowing for more drop-in support. Hear more…

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  • Interview with Principal Gay Buckland-Murray

    One of the biggest impacts of Carlmont Academic Foundation is the funding of 21 additional class sections this year. Watch Principal Gay Buckland-Murray explain how the Carlmont community, including teachers, benefit from smaller class sizes. Learn more about what CAF funds at Carlmont High School.

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  • CAF Awarded Oracle Grant to Support STEAM Programming in 2022

    CAF Awarded Oracle Grant to Support STEAM Programming in 2022

    We are once again excited to announce that Oracle has awarded the Carlmont Academic Foundation (CAF) with a $20,000 grant for 2022. The grant will provide critical support for STEAM programs through continued enhancement of our lab-centric course offerings designed to promote student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. A broad range of classes will be…

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