My students need to experience life outside of their city. The Student Council has suggested a fieldtrip to the New England Aquarium.
$1,388 goal
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Each day students and staff participate in a check in group. Each person says what is on their mind. People are respectful when others speak. Next our students go to six classes in a row without a break. Before the students leave everybody checks out and reviews their day and plans for the night.
The students attend a therapeutic day school.
The school services high school students who are either emotionally disabled or emotionally disabled and cognitively impaired. Each class contains less than 12 students. Three adults are in each class to support the students. Our students are encourage to have a preferred staff person that they can go to when they are having difficulty managing their feelings. Our students participate in a level system. Students can score 11 points for each class. Six of their points represents the schools core values. The remaining 5 points are based on students work production and effort. There is a total of 100 points available to earn per day. As students earn points they move up in the level system. The goal for students is to maintain a level 5 this would take 80 straight days of earning 95 points or more. Then we would hold an IEP meeting with the goal of sending the student to a less restrictive setting like the main high school.
My Project
Every other week 14 students meet in the Student Council. These students make suggestions to the administration on a variety of topics. Early in the year, the Student Council suggested several field trips that would be available to students with the highest consistent appropriate behavior and school work participation. One of the field trip ideas was a field trip to the newly renovated New England Aquarium. Students would be able to interact with the penguins and other small creatures, while looking and learning at various marine ecosystems. Touching displays is an excellent way for all of our students to learn and is especially exciting for our non-reading high school students who then can do the same things as their reading peers. Learning about ecosystems is also important for our ninth graders. Ecosystems are a strand on the state required science exit exam.
Our school is in a poverty stricken area of the State of Massachusetts.
Eighty percent of our students enter school without the ability to speak English. Most of their parents cannot communicate in English. Due to this language barrier, most families do not venture out of their city. This severely isolates the students. The trip would allow students to venture out of their safe zone. Even though it is unlikely that they will interact with students from other schools, they will see them.
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