More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My students from many diverse backgrounds have faced many challenges through Covid-19. Many of them and their families already struggled with economic, educational, and emotional challenges even before Covid. I want my classroom to be a safe place where they can make great growth. Many students are refugees and immigrants. Some have experienced homelessness or were removed from unsafe home situations. Most of my students did not have access to the internet during distance learning the last two years and fell behind. The majority of my students are learning English as a second language and need extra support to reach fourth grade levels of learning in all areas, but especially in reading.
I am requesting headphones that my students can use with their Imagine Learning program to help them read, speak, and listen. The headphones that they currently use are old and do not have good listening quality. I currently don't even have enough of them for the whole class. My students need to hear the sounds clearly and correctly to help them learn English effectively.
We do a lot of partner reading and reading as a class to help bring them up to grade level. The majority of my students are below or well-below reading level for 4th grade. I want the students to read and hear stories that reflect the diversity that is in my classroom. I carefully chose books that have characters that look like them and celebrate the identities and cultures that they experience and see in each other. The books have world-changing heroes that look like them and mirror emotions they may be feeling. I also chose mindfulness activity books to help regulate emotions in a difficult time of Covid and uncertainty and tangible math manipulatives that will help them close math learning gaps.
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My students from many diverse backgrounds have faced many challenges through Covid-19. Many of them and their families already struggled with economic, educational, and emotional challenges even before Covid. I want my classroom to be a safe place where they can make great growth. Many students are refugees and immigrants. Some have experienced homelessness or were removed from unsafe home situations. Most of my students did not have access to the internet during distance learning the last two years and fell behind. The majority of my students are learning English as a second language and need extra support to reach fourth grade levels of learning in all areas, but especially in reading.
I am requesting headphones that my students can use with their Imagine Learning program to help them read, speak, and listen. The headphones that they currently use are old and do not have good listening quality. I currently don't even have enough of them for the whole class. My students need to hear the sounds clearly and correctly to help them learn English effectively.
We do a lot of partner reading and reading as a class to help bring them up to grade level. The majority of my students are below or well-below reading level for 4th grade. I want the students to read and hear stories that reflect the diversity that is in my classroom. I carefully chose books that have characters that look like them and celebrate the identities and cultures that they experience and see in each other. The books have world-changing heroes that look like them and mirror emotions they may be feeling. I also chose mindfulness activity books to help regulate emotions in a difficult time of Covid and uncertainty and tangible math manipulatives that will help them close math learning gaps.