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  • Hennepin Elementary School
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households

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I teach second grade at a high poverty, high English learner school. Our students often lack the mental language structures to state their thinking clearly. We need this screen to help us focus our sentence structures. Right now my classroom is filled with anchor charts and it is difficult for students to discern which one applies to their work. The addition of a dedicated anchor chart screen will help my students focus their thinking and build their vocabularies and English proficiency. We currently have one projector in our classroom and that is where we post directions for our work. We need a separate space to post vocabulary and sentence frames to help guide our thinking. Our classroom is located in the basement. This brings with it many pipes, radiators and windows that limit our space to hang paper at a student friendly level. We can either place materials near the floor or up high where student strain to see it. Please consider helping to fulfill our goal. We would really benefits from these resources.

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I teach second grade at a high poverty, high English learner school. Our students often lack the mental language structures to state their thinking clearly. We need this screen to help us focus our sentence structures. Right now my classroom is filled with anchor charts and it is difficult for students to discern which one applies to their work. The addition of a dedicated anchor chart screen will help my students focus their thinking and build their vocabularies and English proficiency. We currently have one projector in our classroom and that is where we post directions for our work. We need a separate space to post vocabulary and sentence frames to help guide our thinking. Our classroom is located in the basement. This brings with it many pipes, radiators and windows that limit our space to hang paper at a student friendly level. We can either place materials near the floor or up high where student strain to see it. Please consider helping to fulfill our goal. We would really benefits from these resources.

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