Our school is a therapeutic day school program whose task is to provide emotional support and academic opportunities to children who have been unable to succeed in community school settings due to emotional, learning, and behavioral difficulties.
The majority of our students live at a residential children's home and are wards of the state.
Our school runs as a trauma-informed program, aiming to help our students grow from their pasts and learn how to cope in effective ways.
Despite the challenges that our students face, they are incredible children. Their resiliency, love for learning, and curiosity are truly inspiring. I strive to make my classroom a welcoming and safe community and to help my students explore learning and grow into independent and productive citizens.
My Project
I am on a mission to make my students love books! It's not an easy task, but I am up for the challenge!
I have found that books are an amazing way to engage my students in tough social topics.
We have a few books that I have read aloud to them that have sparked conversations about emotions, tough situations, and accepting themselves and others. Our supply of these books is low, but the demand is high.
I have shopped for a group of books that teach important skills like empathy, kindness, emotional regulation, managing anger, perseverance, anxiety, accepting differences in others and poverty. I really believe that with targeted teaching, I can help to slowly build skills and understanding in my students, while instilling a love of books. I am requesting a wide variety of titles to help explore these concepts.
More than a third 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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