Help me give my students the gift of personalized literary growth where they can form peer learning communities around self selected texts.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Blake's classroom raised $600
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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 Project
Help me to bring my students the gift of personally tailored literacy. Too often students are deterred from pursuing literary growth because the options presented simply don’t appeal to them. In our course, AP Seminar and Writing Seminar students are tasked with becoming facilitators of their own literary development. Our upcoming unit will feature an interdisciplinary focus on “enduring issues” in which students can explore issues such as substance use, poverty, conflict, and identity all the while utilizing texts as a vehicle. Our students will create peer learning communities around texts of their choice to become further informed about a specific topic facing adolescents today and
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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