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
My students have had to face some truly unforeseen circumstances and unprecedented times. Unfortunately, these trying challenges from this global pandemic has caused my students to miss many days of instruction. Some have missed over a full school year and have fallen up to 5 grade levels behind. They are eager to be back on campus for in person learning for the 2021-2022 academic school year. Sadly, our school has had over 500 student exclusions at one time due to contact tracing, COVID exposure, or compromising health conditions. North Valleys High School is very diverse. The diversity can be seen in both the ethnicity and economic levels of our students. This means that some students have done well during COVID due to resources available to them, while many have struggled. While some of our students come to class prepared, a much greater number of students show up to class chronically behind. They have missed so much instruction they lack fundamental prerequisite skills for their grade level. We need to do our best to help students catch up, and ensure they are not falling further behind. All of our students want to do well and can succeed with more individualized support.
My Project
Many students continue to get excluded from in person learning. This is due to COVID and/or exposure determined by contact tracing. As a result, students are missing valuable instructional class time. They are expected to learn from home while they are excluded and when this happens they miss up to ten consecutive class periods. This makes it impossible for them to participate in a regular classroom setting during these exclusion days. Teachers try to help by recording videos of the lessons, but with videos, students can't ask questions. Teachers also try to help these students by Zooming class or having Teams meetings during class. Unfortunately, desktop and laptop computers require teachers to stay in front of the device. This does not allow us to walk around to help in class students while streaming the class live with those students learning from home. Either the at home students or in class students tend to miss out on critical needs/attention from the teacher. This in turn leads to teachers not being able to respond to students questions, comments, or concerns. With a MacBook a teacher can hold it and walk around while helping both groups of students.
This will help with all Nevada Academic Content Standards in Mathematics.
The Standards expect students to use appropriate tools. This includes the use of technology to solve problems and model mathematics. Students and teachers will be able to use this technology to graph, solve, and model mathematics. There is no one specific math standard this will address; it addresses them all.
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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