Help me give my students the basic resources needed to take notes in my class and participate in collaborative class discussions. I have been unable to secure notebooks for my students so far this semester!!!
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Chandley's classroom raised $585
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
No one fights through adversity like my students. Over half of my students have immigrated here in their young lives from countries where English is rarely spoken and most arrive here with no knowledge of the language. Those of my students who were born in the US and are native speakers of English still live in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the country. But they are dedicated, determined young people who show up every single day, eager to learn and grow.
The students in my classes are part of a Career and Technical Education pathway designed to help them become computer scientists and to ready them for a major in Computer Science when they graduate; they learn as many as six coding languages before they begin their Senior year.
My colleagues and I always tell the students that being bilingual is a superpower. But in coding that's more than a cute line; learning to program is now shown by research to be closer to language acquisition than it is to mathematics, and we all know that a bilingual person will statistically be more successful learning a new language than a monolingual person.
Help me develop their superpowers!
My Project
I'm hoping to secure funding for notebooks to aid in vocabulary exercises and mini whiteboards to be used for collaborative class discussions and other thought exercises. These would seem to be the kinds of materials readily available at even the most underfunded schools, at least in the US.
Unfortunately, the sad reality is that I have been unable to secure notebooks for my students since September.
I am hopeful that we can focus in on building our technological vocabulary in the Spring semester, with the help of vocabulary notebooks for each student. I have spent about 80 hours over the course of the last 6 months developing color-coded vocabulary documents with visual aids and translations. The final piece to the puzzle is a notebook for my students, into which the can transcribe their vocabulary words and take any addition notes.
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. Learn more
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