Help me give my students physical books and annotation tools so they can have the satisfaction of turning pages, hear the skritch of a highlighter across a page, and see the margins fill up with their brilliant thoughts!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Rangel's classroom raised $992
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 Students
I teach in a 6-12 Horace Mann in-district charter school in a large urban district. We have about 85 students per grade level, making for a small, closely-knit school with the feel of a family. We pride ourselves on welcoming and meeting the needs of an extremely diverse student population. Our students are 90% minority, 85% free and reduced-price lunch, 30% special needs, and 15% ESL learners. Our faculty works to differentiate for our kids in the most inclusive environments possible, meaning that any one classroom will have a bright mix of all these populations.
The students you'll be particularly impacting make up our junior and senior classes -a bright, enthusiastic, eclectic bunch with a strong desire to challenge themselves.
I want to reward that commitment with materials befitting their level of engagement, providing them with books that will expand and challenge their world views, technology to support their ambitions, and a text-rich, literate environment that will encourage them to stretch and take the risks needed to further their education and development.
My Project
Our district just made the decision to go fully remote for the foreseeable future. With COVID resurging in our city, it looks like my juniors and seniors will be spending the majority of their school year staring at a Chromebook screen. And they're drowning.
My kids have expressed overwhelming screen fatigue, and I want to get them physical copies of their very own of the books we'll read this year as a class - books they can mark up to their heart's content to give our Zoom class discussions purpose.
No more juggling tabs between our notes, our readings, and our class! No more trying to navigate well-meaning annotation Chrome extensions! No more headaches from too much blue light and backaches from leaning over a laptop screen! I'll deliver each of my kids a care package full of books and the tools they need to make them their own.
You'll be helping my AP Lit kids continue their fascination with gothic literature via Shirley Jackson and Mary Shelley. My AP Lang kids will analyze Bryan Stevenson's powerful rhetoric on the prison system. Lastly, my seniors will take in George Orwell's hopefully-not-prophetic warnings about technology. All of them will get a return to normalcy, however small, in this wild and depressing school year.
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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