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At CA Jacobs we have a very large EL Latino population (50%) and being able to display visual examples of classwork is essential to reaching these students who are not fluent in English. We are a small school, around 600 students, and like many schools have no money for replacing things like my overhead projector. Our school is currently in PI(program Improvement) however, this last year we finally reached our goal of gaining over an 800 API score in our continuing efforts to come out of PI. Currently we have 4 science teachers, and two of us(myself included) have had our projectors crash. It is difficult enough to reach 7th and 8th grade students and keep their interest in science peaked, but it is even more difficult when we have no way of displaying visual learning tools with examples of what's expected of them on their class work. The school can barely afford the light bulbs for the projectors, which means getting a replacement for my class is not very high on the priority list.

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At CA Jacobs we have a very large EL Latino population (50%) and being able to display visual examples of classwork is essential to reaching these students who are not fluent in English. We are a small school, around 600 students, and like many schools have no money for replacing things like my overhead projector. Our school is currently in PI(program Improvement) however, this last year we finally reached our goal of gaining over an 800 API score in our continuing efforts to come out of PI. Currently we have 4 science teachers, and two of us(myself included) have had our projectors crash. It is difficult enough to reach 7th and 8th grade students and keep their interest in science peaked, but it is even more difficult when we have no way of displaying visual learning tools with examples of what's expected of them on their class work. The school can barely afford the light bulbs for the projectors, which means getting a replacement for my class is not very high on the priority list.

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