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
I serve students who have learning and emotional disabilities as well as English language learners. The majority of my students live in low-income neighborhoods and/or shelters in the Bronx, New York. Although many of my students have trouble-some home lives, they strive to become better readers and writers through a rigorous reading and writing curriculum.
I use technology to aid in students’ assessments and classwork.
My students utilize sites such as NewsELA, Readworks, and Bookshare to annotate and engage in close reading activities. My students also learn to write expository essays and design persuasive slide presentations through Google Classroom.
My Project
Our classroom currently has outdated laptops that do not work efficiently. Many of the laptop batteries are not in working condition or only work while the laptop is plugged into an outlet, which does not account for the laptops that just do not work. Unfortunately the poor array of laptops means that my class of thirty-five students cannot have a working laptop to work effectively on classwork. Asking other colleagues to borrow laptops is not a great solution if they also experience the same concerns. There is no money in the budget to fix, replace or purchase laptops for my classroom.
Luckily, these ten Chromebooks would help my students maximize the use of our forty-five minute period blocks to read a wide array of fictional or non-fictional texts and write expository essays.
Nearly all 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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