Help me give my students books to educate them and do the work to be anti-racists in our society today.
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My Students
Our students at our school absolutely have a love for learning. They walk onto our school campus with a smile on their face, happy and ready to learn. Our students have a huge pride for our school and community.
Our students have a love for books!
Our school is a small school that serves preschool through 8th grade students. Most of our students come from low-socio-economic background. They do have a drive to learn, and better themselves through hard work, perseverance and getting an education. They know lots of learning and growth can take place through books!
My Project
Every year my focus is to create a space in my classroom where students feel safe to share and interact with their peers. A place where they can be themselves, and learn how to have conversations with one another. Our focus is not only to learn to speak respectfully to one another, but to listen attentively with respect as well. These skills take time to teach and learn, but my students have proven to be successful at this through partner work and group collaborations.
We do this through the work of reading novels.
With the current events of 2020, I believe it is important to continue these conversations in my classroom. Even though our learning will happen virtually, my desire is to continue to create a safe place even it's behind the screen. My 6th & 8th grade students will be able to have these books in their hands, annotate and explore different themes throughout each of these books. These books will not only educate our students on being anti-racist, but we can have meaningful conversations in our classroom to where we can also work on making a difference, and begin doing the work!
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