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As a high-school educator in Baltimore City, I've come to know that it is students' own interests, fascinations, frustrations, joys, and preoccupations that must drive the inquiry of a productive classroom. If we are to close the achievement gap by any amount, it will be by harnessing the sort of native fuel students bring with them to school and to show them how to read and write about the things that interest them most of all. This creates the kind of purpose and motivation that are key to making learning during the secondary years rigorous, meaningful, and transformative. When students are engaged in the topic and reasons for their writing and reading, they are prepared to do a large volume of both. We know that is the key to their success with either. Furthermore, the flexibility and student-centered nature of this sort of project-based, workshop-style classroom is ideal in a high-needs environment like I know Baltimore to be. Students are likely to need to work at different paces and different levels within the same classroom. Now, here's where you come in! We need funds to make this kind of learning space possible. It starts with books, lots of them! When students are choosing their own books and gobbling them up at the rate they need to attain that necessary volume of reading, we need lots of choices of reading materials at all different levels of entry. We need text that is relevant, contemporary, diverse, and reflective of a wide variety of authors with many different things to say about the world. Books can offer both mirrors of ourselves and windows into lives we'll never lead, but can hope to understand. You can help us to build this kind of workshop library!

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As a high-school educator in Baltimore City, I've come to know that it is students' own interests, fascinations, frustrations, joys, and preoccupations that must drive the inquiry of a productive classroom. If we are to close the achievement gap by any amount, it will be by harnessing the sort of native fuel students bring with them to school and to show them how to read and write about the things that interest them most of all. This creates the kind of purpose and motivation that are key to making learning during the secondary years rigorous, meaningful, and transformative. When students are engaged in the topic and reasons for their writing and reading, they are prepared to do a large volume of both. We know that is the key to their success with either. Furthermore, the flexibility and student-centered nature of this sort of project-based, workshop-style classroom is ideal in a high-needs environment like I know Baltimore to be. Students are likely to need to work at different paces and different levels within the same classroom. Now, here's where you come in! We need funds to make this kind of learning space possible. It starts with books, lots of them! When students are choosing their own books and gobbling them up at the rate they need to attain that necessary volume of reading, we need lots of choices of reading materials at all different levels of entry. We need text that is relevant, contemporary, diverse, and reflective of a wide variety of authors with many different things to say about the world. Books can offer both mirrors of ourselves and windows into lives we'll never lead, but can hope to understand. You can help us to build this kind of workshop library!

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