Help me give my students wall files to create a true office environment for Computer Science classes next year.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Chandley's classroom raised $504
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
No one fights through adversity like my students. Over half of my students have immigrated here in their young lives from countries where English is rarely spoken and most arrive here with no knowledge of the language. Those of my students who were born in the US and are native speakers of English still live in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the country. But they are dedicated, determined young people who show up every single day, eager to learn and grow.
The students in my classes are part of a Career and Technical Education pathway designed to help them become computer scientists and to ready them for a major in Computer Science when they graduate; they learn as many as six coding languages before they begin their Senior year.
My colleagues and I always tell the students that being bilingual is a superpower. But in coding that's more than a cute line; learning to program is now shown by research to be closer to language acquisition than it is to mathematics, and we all know that a bilingual person will statistically be more successful learning a new language than a monolingual person.
Help me develop their superpowers!
My Project
In the summer of 2021, I set out to make my classroom an IT company. I organized everything to the best of my ability to create an atmosphere that would mimic a Twitter or a Google. My students have appreciated the effort and I certainly believe they like the environment I've created in my classroom. But it's just not complete.
On some level, high school students can't suspend disbelief when you put tape on the floor and tell them, "this is your area," they need walls to believe they're in an office.
My goal has always been to make this classroom look and feel like an office. The resources requested in this project will allow me to create that atmosphere for my students and allow them to feel they are really preparing to code in the workplace.
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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