My students need composition notebooks to explore the English language and express their ideas in a low stakes space.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Amanda's classroom raised $184
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
English is more than just reading stories and writing essays. Just ask any student about the songs they wrote advocating for one aspect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or about the menus they created to open a discussion about foods from their home countries. English for these students is a pathway to connection and to exploring a new community of people from all over the world.
My students are all recently arrived newcomers.
They have been in the United States for less than four years. They come from a wide variety of countries such as Yemen, Haiti, Tibet and Senegal. In my classroom, there are over 15 languages spoken including Urdu, Arabic and Haitian Creole. We see this diversity as an incredible opportunity, but one that needs different types of support to be successful. This success is supported through the project-based approach of my school and classroom. We love to create and build things to help us understand concepts and to help us show what we know about what we have learned. Such hands-on support builds opportunities to learn a language while celebrating diversity.
My Project
These notebooks will be used each day to by my ELL students to practice writing and to express themselves in a private space. For example, each day students will be given a prompt to encourage them to write about topics related to the social and emotional implications of our units of study.
Your donation will provide my English language learners with journals where they can practice expressing themselves using the English language and just write!
I will not be grading these journals. Instead, these daily journal entries will be used to encourage my English language learners to take risks and try new words!
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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