LEF Awards More Than $92K to LISD Teachers Lewisville ISD Education Foundation Awards 64 Teacher Grants   This week, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) awarded 64 grants to teachers across the Lewisville Independent School District. Teacher grants were...

The Cain Sczepanski Foundation in Special Education was created by Bill, Carolyn and Cara Sczepanski in memorial to their son and brother, Cain. Cain lived for 24 years with Down syndrome and heart defects. He died on March 7,...

The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is happy to announce the 2018 scholarship and fellowship LEF award winners. This year, LEF awards Lewisville ISD seniors with 319 scholarships totaling $212,750. LEF also awarded seven fellowships to LISD staff and teachers...

Tenth Annual LEF Golf Classic Declared a Hit Lewisville ISD Education Foundation Raises More than $70,000 for LISD   The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) partnered with Bright Wealth Management and The Lakes at Castle Hills to put on...

The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is pleased to announce the 2018 winner of the Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education: Karen Fieszel, a math teacher at Lewisville High School. This award was established by Ted Barnes, who taught...

The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is proud to announce an addition to its board of directors: Lindsay Polyak. A Florida native turned Texan, Lindsay has worked with small businesses nearly 20 years. Currently, she is a Business Performance Advisor...

The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is proud to announce the addition of community stalwart and DATCU Community Relations Coordinator Mary Jacoby to the board of directors. Joining the board in December 2017, Mary has worked for DATCU Credit Union...

The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is happy to announce that LISD employees continue to increase their support for students and teachers of Lewisville ISD. For the third consecutive year, the number of employees to support the LISD employee giving...

Sophia Ling joined the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation in 2017 shortly after relocating to the area. After a lengthy career in accounting, Ling dove into volunteering in her community with time working at multiple non-profit organizations such as food...

Thank you to all of the restaurants that were kind enough to offer their outstanding servings at this year’s Evening for Education: Make Anything Possible – The Magic of Learning. This year, four stood above the rest according to...

DONATE FOR DOUG KILLOUGH   Farmer Pride… The Battle of the Axe… The LHS Wall of Fame… If you’re familiar with any of these traditions from Lewisville High School, you’re familiar with the legacy of Doug Killough. Killough came...

Yolanda Murray joined the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation in 2017. She is a great asset to the community as LEF is just one of many organizations she serves which currently includes the LISD Council of PTAs Board, The Colony...

The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is happy to announce the 2017 scholarship and fellowship LEF award winners. This year, LEF will award Lewisville ISD seniors with 292 scholarships totaling $187,205. At this year’s LEF Awards Ceremony, 241 scholarships were...

The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is pleased to announce the 2017 winner of the Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education: Holly Witter of LHS Harmon. Witter, a ninth-grade English and Pre-AP English teacher, has taught in the LISD...

Cain Sczepanski was a Lewisville ISD student who who took great pride in his school! His family says that’s because of the great educational experience and the inspiring LISD educators who worked with Cain. In the hopes of paying...

LEWISVILLE – The Lewisville Independent School District Education Foundation (LEF) is pleased to announce that the 2016 LISD Employee Giving Campaign was a resounding success, raising $149,574 across all campuses. That total represents an increase of $32,536 from 2015,...

LEWISVILLE – The Lewisville Independent School District Education Foundation joined with restaurants throughout the community and the Hilton Garden Inn in Lewisville to put on an exceptional event Saturday, the Dr. Seuss-themed “Oh the Places We’ll Go” Evening for...

Your support allowed LEF to fund Marcus High School Physics Teacher Karen Harper’s Grant, “Light It Up, Up, Up!” And light it up they did, thanks to you! The generosity of LEF supporters allowed the Physics students to utilize...

#WatchThisWednesday A special series showcasing the places YOUR donations go! It started as a plan to bring real life scenarios to the Academic Vocational Life Skills classroom at Lakeview Middle School. By the time the end-of-year evaluation was written,...

#WatchThisWednesday A special series showcasing the places YOUR donations go! Thanks to your continued support of LEF, last fall Hebron High School teacher Jeanny Haneline was thrilled to be awarded the Charles Foughty Legacy Grant from LEF to fund...

Years ago, LEF Board President Andy Eads began his education in LISD, attending Central Elementary. Today he oversees the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation’s 22-member Board of Directors, where he casts the vision necessary to fulfill the organization’s mission of...

#WatchThisWednesday A special series showcasing the places YOUR donations go! The mascot at Vickery Elementary is the Voyager, so from the start it is clear these students are meant to go places. Consider that the school is named for...

#WatchThisWednesday A special series showcasing the places YOUR donations go! Almost two years ago your generous support of the students and teachers of Lewisville ISD through your giving to LEF allowed us to award a grant to Briarhill Middle...

#WatchThisWednesday A special series showcasing the places YOUR donations go! Last fall generous donors like YOU allowed LEF to award a Campus Excellence Grant to College Street Elementary School (CSE) for their project, “The Garden of Learning: Where Leaders...

#WatchThisWednesday A special series showcasing the places YOUR donations go! Last fall generous donors like YOU allowed LEF to award funds from the Jo Haney Special Education Grant and the LISD Employee Giving Fund to Prairie Trail Elementary School...

Some of the youngest students at Stewarts Creek Elementary (SCE) enjoyed an exciting pair of visits thanks to the generosity of LEF donors! The students, enrolled in LISD’s first “multi-age” program which combines students who would traditionally be in...

The year was 1967. The population of Lewisville was just under 10,000. Lakeland Elementary was still new, established to serve the recent growth on the west side of 35E because historically, Lewisville existed largely east of 35. As part...

Cain Sczepanski was a Lewisville ISD student who who took great pride in his school! His family says that’s because of the great educational experience and the inspiring LISD educators who worked with Cain. In the hopes of paying...

LEF is pleased to announce Lewisville High School Harmon Social Studies teacher Wendy Seeliger as the 2016 winner of the Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education. “We are thrilled for Ms. Seeliger and her recognition for the Ted...

Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on. —Rasheed Ogunlaru Former Lewisville High School teacher and coach Ted Barnes was...

Congratulations to the 2016 LEF Fellowship recipients! LEF awards fellowships annually to LISD employees who are actively pursuing advanced degrees to propel their education career and better serve the students and stakeholders of LISD. Mariya Davis – 2016 Dr....

Congratulations to LISD’s 2016 graduates, many of whom applied for a scholarship through LEF! We’re excited to announce that 263 scholarships totaling $170,600 were presented to members of LISD’s 2016 graduating class! This is a new annual record! Click...

“The kids are loving their time outside! The garden and the students are flourishing!’ – Liberty Elementary School Principal Tim Greenwell Across Lewisville ISD, educators work to create interactive and hands-on learning opportunities. In elementary science, investigations – what...

LEF Puts Up DOUBLE-TRIPLE in 2015, Sets Up 2016 March Madness In the midst of March Madness, the basketball pinnacle that started building when the college season started late in 2015, LEF announced stats of its own that would...

Last fall, thanks to YOUR generosity, LEF awarded Flower Mound Elementary Second-grade Teacher Lisa Holt a classroom grant to fund her project entitled, “Science, Inquiry and Aeroponics.” Now that spring is here, the project is beginning to bear fruit!...

Sarah Stone, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus High School, was awarded the Marcus Swim and Dive Team Booster Club Kyle Tilley Memorial Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “When I remember getting this scholarship, I feel grateful...

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –maya angelou Kyle Tilley was a 26-year-old swim coach and substitute teacher in Lewisville ISD and a...

Lauren Taylor, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Lewisville High School, was awarded the Meredith M. Gregory Memorial Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “I no doubt feel honored to have been chosen to receive an academic gift so valuable in...

Catalina Donnelly-Vasquez, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus High School, was awarded the Woojae Leana Kim Memorial Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “It made me feel very privileged and honored,” Catalina said. “Because the award was in...

They say the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long… Woojae Leana Kim seems to be the personification of that truism. Thirteen years doesn’t seem like enough time to accomplish more than the basics: walking, talking,...

Madison Gaber, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus High School, was awarded the Highland Village Women’s Club Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “When I think of getting the scholarship,” Gaber said. “I feel so grateful to have...

Faith Bell, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Flower Mound High School, was awarded the Jo Haney Special Education Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “When I think about getting this scholarship I feel very proud,” Bell said. “I...

“In the beginning, Bartholomew Cubbins didn’t have five hundred hats. He had only one hat. It was an old one that had belonged to his father and his father’s father before him.” — The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins,...

Paulina Bracker, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus High School, was awarded the Christa McAuliffe Elementary Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “When I think about how I was hand selected for a scholarship from LEF, I think...

Manijeh Rustomji, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Lewisville High School, was awarded the Lewisville Noon Rotary and Rick Neill Memorial Scholarships through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “Whenever I look back and remember the time I was awarded two...

Rick Neill was the Head Track/Cross Country Coach at Lewisville High School from 1995 until cancer took him in 2000. Today, LEF administers the Rick Neill Memorial Scholarship, awarding it to a senior graduating from LHS with minimum 3.0...

Kendra Washington, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Lewisville High School, was awarded the LHS Farmerette Drill Team Excellence Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “I felt so proud of myself,” Washington said. “I didn’t think for a minute...

Whitney Anderson, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Hebron High School, was awarded the Kristen Webb Memorial Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “Receiving the Kristen Webb Memorial Scholarship was truly an honor,” Anderson said. “Not only was I...

“She was beautiful inside and out.” That’s how a former teacher described Kristen Webb. Webb was a 2008 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus High School. In July of that year, Webb was preparing to study at the University of...

Lauren Sheffield, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Hebron High School, was awarded the Hebron High School PTSA Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “Getting the scholarship from LEF/LISD makes me feel grateful and successful,” Sheffield said. “I am...

Araceli Castillo, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Lewisville High School, was awarded the Doug Killough Honorary Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “In a way I felt special… Special because out of the pool of applicants that applied...

Farmer Pride… The Battle of the Axe… The LHS Wall of Fame… If you’re familiar with any of these traditions from Lewisville High School, you’re familiar with the legacy of Doug Killough. Killough came to LISD from Alabama in...

Reggie Evans, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Hebron High School, was awarded the Hebron High School Football Booster Club Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “I feel honored and grateful to receive this scholarship because I know it’s...

Rachel Hampl, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus School, was awarded the Melanie Sanford Gillan Young Athenians Fund Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “The scholarship was a blessing.  I am very grateful to LEF and LISD,” Hampl...

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Without a...

Hannah Conrad, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s The Colony High School, was awarded the TCHS PTSA Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “Getting the scholarship from LEF made me feel like LISD truly cared about helping me obtain...

Kennedy Kessler, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus High School was awarded the BeLinda Nikkel Heritage Elementary Hawk Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “I was really excited to receive the scholarship,” Kessler said. “It definitely helped me...

In 1995 a corporate transfer moved the Nikkel Family, BeLinda and her husband David and their daughters, from Oklahoma to Texas, causing Oklahoma to surrender an educator once named Oklahoma Science Teacher of the year. But Oklahoma’s loss was...

For those aged 70½ or older, it is once again possible to make tax-favored charitable gifts from traditional and Roth IRA accounts. On December 18  Congress passed legislation retroactively extending the charitable IRA rollover for 2015 and makes this...

Marcus High School’s tennis team organized their annual “serv-a-thon,” in which 100 members of the MHS tennis program — from middle school students who are the future of the program, to the varsity and junior varsity teams — completed...

LEF is honored to partner with booster clubs throughout Lewisville ISD to administer scholarships for graduating LISD seniors. In 2016 LEF is poised to offer 57 booster club scholarships totaling $35,000. LEF has the expertise to avoid UIL, NCAA...

Carlie Spaulding, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Flower Mound High School was awarded the FMHS Rosettes Drill Team Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “I feel incredibly lucky and blessed when I think about getting the LEF scholarship,”...

Josue Perez Campos, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Lewisville High School was awarded the Tom Cooper and Alan MacMorran Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “Having the opportunity to receive a LEF scholarship makes me feel relieved to...

No one could have predicted the tragic accident that took the lives of Tom Cooper and Alan MacMorran in 2004. While on a hunting trip together in West Texas their car hit a guardrail and went off the road....

Erin Hisey, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Marcus High School, was awarded the Chester Boyd Honorary Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “When I think about the scholarship I received last year, I remember all of the fun...

In 1937 a young man by the name of Chester Boyd began teaching in Texas. By 1942 Boyd brought his talents to Lewisville ISD, where he worked until 1975 as the Lewisville High School Vocational Agriculture teacher. Boyd spent...

LEF and AT&T Aspire recently joined forces to offer five scholarships, valued at $1,000 each, to LISD seniors in the 2016 AVID graduating class. AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a sixth- through twelfth-grade system to prepare students in...

LEF proudly partners with PTAs from across LISD as well as the LISD Council of PTAs to offer $20,000 in scholarships to students graduating from schools in LISD. Each year the Council provides 10 scholarships. LEF partners with the...

Madeline Proznik, 2015 graduate of Lewisville ISD’s Hebron High School, was awarded the HHS PTSA Scholarship through LEF’s scholarship program last spring. “When looking back on receiving an LEF scholarship, it is a flashback to high school and a...

It was Henry Ford who was first quoted as saying, “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.” But it was educators at College Street Elementary who chose to teach their students the merit of that...

Last spring, LISD educators wrote grant proposals in hopes that LEF would fund the great ideas they had for their classrooms. After the review committee allocated all available funds, there were still proposals left unfunded. So at the Fork...

Twice each year we offer the chance to recognize LISD educators through your donation to LEF in the name of educators who Change Childrens’ Lives. We promise to award grants of $250 to the Lewisville ISD elementary, middle and...

Each year principals in LISD are asked to prepare a grant request for LEF’s Campus Excellence Grant Program. Requests must impact a majority of the student body. Recently LEF staff and board members visited six lucky schools to award...

Farmers Harvest, the student newspaper of Lewisville High School, is a top-notch publication. The journalism team at LHS provides great instruction, and it isn’t uncommon for student journalists to win awards for their work on the paper. But with...

Music students at Ethridge Elementary had a great opportunity – and a problem. Their music department was well-equipped with 12 Orff glockenspiels, small xylophone instruments that help students learn rhythm and tempo as well as other music concepts. But...

Thanks to your generosity and support of LEF, students at Polser Elementary enjoyed an exciting and unique opportunity in their art class last year – and will continue to enjoy it for years to come! Polser Art Teacher Amy...

Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF), an organization best known for granting awards to others, recently received an award of its own. At the annual Unity in Communities Luncheon, a collaborative effort of the Lewisville and Flower Mound Chambers of...

Thanks to your generous support, students at Briarhill Middle School are experiencing technology education in a new and exciting way. From the beginning of Lewisville ISD’s 1:x program, which aimed to provide students with the right device at the...

Thanks to the generosity of donors and benefactors, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation presented more than 250 scholarships, valued at more than $150,000, to members of LISD’s class of 2015. Six LISD employees were also presented with fellowships to...

Cain Sczepanski was a student whose pride in his education ran deep. His family attributes that to the great educational experience and the inspiring LISD educators who worked with Cain. In the hopes of paying forward the great things...

Thanks to the generosity of donors and benefactors, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation presented more than 250 scholarships, valued at more than $150,000, to members of LISD’s class of 2015. Six LISD employees were also presented with fellowships to...

That instruction seems straightforward, but what if the engine isn’t in a vehicle? And what if the recipients of the instruction are Automotive Technology students in Brad Warren’s class at Lewisville ISD’s Career Center East? That makes the instruction...

When you give to LEF, you support a teacher…. Like Noel Andia who teaches 10th grade English at Lewisville High School’s Harmon campus and was awarded a grant from LEF last summer. With that award she was able to...

LEF is pleased to announce LHS Aquatic Science teacher Dawn Chegwidden as the 2015 winner of the Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education. This award was established by Ted Barnes, who taught at Lewisville High School for 25...

In November and December members of the LISD community were invited to show their support for the LISD educators in their lives by making a donation in the educators’ names to LEF. It’s called a Changing Children’s Lives Award,...

Lewisville ISD seniors with an interest in marketing and a plan to attend college in the fall of 2015 are invited to utilize their own creativity and personal research to design and script (but not produce) a 30-second Van...

Growing up, many kids play with Legos. Many of today’s adults recall Legos as one of their favorite childhood toys. But times have changed, and kids today have a whole new plan for Legos. Vickery students enjoy enhancing their...

Thanks to the Christine Nicole Smith Memorial Grant and LISD Employee Giving, Melissa Cary’s third-grade students at Bridlewood Elementary enjoy a flexible learning environment in which their brains are more fully engaged in every task. “Early in my career...

“Unbelievable,” that’s the word used by LEF Executive Director Connie Pelphrey when the numbers showed LEF surpassed the $1 million mark in grant awards to Lewisville ISD schools. From its inception in 1990, until Pelphrey took the reins at...

The school library is iconic to the memory of one’s school days. Many people remember it fondly as the place they could find a book to transport them to another place or time, a place to find a book...

“I’m not sure yet what I want to be when I grow up,” Hebron High School Senior and Dale Jackson Career Center Hospitality Student Skylar Nedd said. “But this certainly opens doors and gives me experience and hands-on knowledge...

LEF received exciting news — perhaps the most exciting news in LEF history! In short, LEF comes out on top when measured against peers! The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation, as part of a nationwide survey by an independent firm,...

Last year LEF funded a grant written by Lewisville High School Orchestra Director Kevin Sluder. “Playing a string instrument can be very expensive, and that is just for the basic instrument/bow setup,” Sluder explained. “Making training and tuning items...

What’s next? Parents, teachers and students wonder that each day. For many, the answer is simple: whatever comes next in a standard progression. What about students whose standards are different? Students in LISD’s Focus on the Future (FoF) program...

Preserving the memory of Cain Sczepanski, a Lewisville ISD student whose life touched all who knew him, while honoring LISD educators whose daily work changes children’s lives, is what the Cain Sczepanski Award of Excellence in Special Education aims...