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.
I am a school library media specialist at a brand-new school that serves approximately 570 pre-k to 5th grade students in a rural area. About 60% of our student body are English language learners and a little over 90% of our kids get free and reduced lunch. As the library media specialist I serve all the children in the school.
Since our school is brand-new (we actually aren't in the building yet although school has started) we have a nice physical facility but we're lacking things that many schools have managed to accumulate over the years. In our library, for example, we will have many lovely books and shelves but no containers for special collections and no way to easily move larger quantities of books down to the classrooms.
It's very common for classes to request 30+ books for projects or for the media specialist to visit classrooms with more books, puppets, stuffed animals and other manipulatives than she could easily carry in her arms. Most of the time children come to the library to check out books and other materials, but there are many occasions when I would visit them (the library is being used by other classes, for example, or a meeting, or even testing).
The solution for this is to get a wagon for the media center so that materials can be easily carted around when I go visit the children in their classrooms.
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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