Local Pups Raise Funds for Back To School Fair Man’s best friend recently upgraded to education’s best friend this summer as a group of pups from Camp Bow Wow in Flower Mound banded together to fundraise for LEF. During...
LEF Awards $104,000 in Teacher Grants The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) awarded 64 teacher grants to 40 schools across the Lewisville Independent School District on Wednesday, August 18. Totaling over $104,000, the awards were a welcome surprise to...
The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation and the Cain Sczepanski Foundation awarded five LISD teachers on May 17, 2021 with the Cain Sczepanski Award of Excellence. Created by Bill, Carolyn and Cara Sczepanski, the Cain Sczepanski Foundation was established in...
Following a blind review by a volunteer-based committee, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation is awarding six fellowships to LISD professionals and paraprofessionals. These fellowships provide financial assistance to recipients who are seeking higher education degrees and certifications. “Our mission...
The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) is pleased to announce Lewisville High School’s Allison Stamey as the recipient of the 2021 Ted Barnes LHS Award of Excellence in Education. This award was established by Ted Barnes, who taught at...
Support LEF and save on your Hawaiian Falls Waterpark fun! Summer is always filled with family fun and sun-soaked memories but we all know Texas heat can be a hard one to beat. Don’t let the 100+ degree weather...
The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation awarded $243,835 in scholarships to graduating LISD seniors during the 2021 awards season. Each year, community volunteers blind review more than a thousand student applications to select the winners. This year, 342 scholarships were...
Lewisville ISD Education Foundation Awards Over $20,000 in Campus Grants It was a sleepy day in North Texas, made only more apparent with sporadic rain and an unusual cold snap for late October but for five educators in Lewisville...
Inaugural LEF Week Raises Over $203,000 In its first ever “LEF Week” celebration, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation hosted a series of in-person events and virtual campaigns to raise over $203,000 in support of Lewisville ISD teachers, students and...
Lewisville ISD Education Foundation Awards $103,000 in Teacher Grants In a little more than three hours on October 1, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation surprised more than 65 teachers on 47 different campuses with grants totaling $103,000. The timing...
On the crisp fall morning of October 1, 2020, teachers all over the district were being surprised with Teacher Grant awards they had applied for in the spring. But for a select five LISD employees, they were about to...
LEF Launches First Peer-to-Peer Campaign to Support Teacher Grants Encouraged by an enthusiastic local community wanting to help, LEF is launching its first online peer-to-peer campaign beginning September 16th to support Teacher Grants as they prepare to award over...
315 Students Under Stay-At-Home Order Awarded LEF Scholarships The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation annually awards scholarships to outgoing seniors in the district who are pursuing a college degree or vocational training beyond high school. This year, despite the cancellation...
A Letter from LEF Executive Director, Thomas White I often say it takes an entire community to create quality public education. Now, in a time of uncertainty, we find that to be even more true and we are ready...
LISD Employees Help Students Achieve through Giving Campaign Teachers are almost superhuman in their passion for education. Beyond giving of their professional career and personal time to reach every last student, they often selflessly use their limited income to...
LEF Raises $140K+ for Lewisville ISD Lewisville ISD Education Foundation’s Evening for Education Raises More than $140,000 The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) raised more than $140,000 for students across southern Denton County at this year’s Evening for...
LEF AWARDS $100K TO LEWISVILLE ISD TEACHERS Lewisville ISD Education Foundation Awards 64 Teacher Grants Across LISD The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) awarded 64 grants to teachers across the Lewisville Independent School District on Wednesday, Aug. 21. Teacher...
Thomas White Named LEF Executive Director Marcus High Alum Dr. Thomas White Steps in to Lead Lewisville ISD Education Foundation The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation Board of Directors is happy to announce Dr. Thomas White as Executive Director...
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 pleased to announce the 2019 winner of the Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education: Elizabeth Gonzalez, a history teacher at Lewisville High School Killough. This award was established by Ted Barnes, who...
LEF Executive Director Announces Retirement Lewisville ISD Education Foundation Executive Director Connie Pelphrey Plans to Retire at Close of 2019 Connie Pelphrey, longtime Executive Director of the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation, has announced her plans to retire at...
LEF’s First Ever ‘Recipes for Success’ Serves Up Restaurant Week for Southern Denton County Lewisville ISD Education Foundation announces culinary event benefitting LISD students and teachers The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation, always creating innovative ways to support the...
LEF OPENS ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION It’s that time of year! The LEF scholarship application is now open for all Lewisville ISD seniors to apply. It just takes one application for an LISD senior to be in the running for...
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...
Updated June 2021 Lindsay Polyak joined the LEF board in 2018 and has a passion for mental health awareness and helping to advance special needs education in the community. A Florida native turned Texan, Lindsay has worked with small...
LEF Executive Director Connie Pelphrey Selected to National School Foundation Association’s Industry Leadership Council Connie Pelphrey, Executive Director of the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation, has been selected for the National School Foundation Association’s Industry Leadership Council. Individuals selected...
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...
LEF SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION NOW OPEN Encourage LISD Seniors to Apply LEWISVILLE – The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) opens the 2017-18 scholarship application process today at lisdef.com/scholarships. LEF invites all LISD seniors to apply before the application process closes...
Jim Collin/Steve Allen Memorial Golf Event Raises More than $100,000 The Jim Collin/Steve Allen Memorial Golf Event, the first annual joint effort by the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) and the Denton Public School Foundation (DPSF), grossed over...
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...
LEF SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION NOW OPEN Encourage LISD Seniors to Apply LEWISVILLE – The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) opens the 2016-17 scholarship application process today at lisdef.com. LEF invites all LISD seniors to apply before the application process closes...
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...
