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  • Triadelphia Middle School
  • Wheeling, WV
  • More than three‑quarters 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. Learn more

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My students attend a middle school, grades 6-8 in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. Our school is not Title I, but over 40% of our student population receives free or reduced meal assistance. The language arts curriculum centers around writing. Our school's total enrollment is over 400 and serving those 400 students are 3 computer labs. Once I'm able to get my students into one of the labs, I'll have them there for a week working on their personal essays. Unfortunately, they cannot save their work to their particular work station; it has to be saved to an open, unsecured server to which all 400 students and 40 faculty members have access. Teaching writing is all about the steps of the process. Once students can break it down, part by part, they are able to build essays they never dreamed of writing. My students like to compare their essays from early in the year, to the end of the year. They often comment on how embarrassed they are for writing an early essay.

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My students attend a middle school, grades 6-8 in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. Our school is not Title I, but over 40% of our student population receives free or reduced meal assistance. The language arts curriculum centers around writing. Our school's total enrollment is over 400 and serving those 400 students are 3 computer labs. Once I'm able to get my students into one of the labs, I'll have them there for a week working on their personal essays. Unfortunately, they cannot save their work to their particular work station; it has to be saved to an open, unsecured server to which all 400 students and 40 faculty members have access. Teaching writing is all about the steps of the process. Once students can break it down, part by part, they are able to build essays they never dreamed of writing. My students like to compare their essays from early in the year, to the end of the year. They often comment on how embarrassed they are for writing an early essay.

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