The seventh grade students at our rural Eastern North Carolina school are focused on getting to and through college, despite the challenges they face living in a low-income setting.
They are excited to grow their knowledge, and to develop the skills necessary to be successful later in life.
They work with urgency and grit to reach their goals, and they truly understand that their work and learning is never done. They are eager to make a difference in their lives, the lives of their families, and in their community as a whole.
My Project
Our class badly needs a printer. Because our fifth grade team does not currently have a printer, as our old one recently broke, we are unable to print the work we create for our students. This makes it extremely difficult on our students, as we cannot print our classwork, homework, tests, quizzes, notes or projects, and students must instead hand write everything.
Not having access to a printer provides an additional challenge for our emerging readers and writers, and uses a lot of our class time which could be better spent learning if students had printed worksheets available instead.
Our school does not have the funds available to provide our grade level with a printer, so, in addition to students having to hand write their assignments, we also are unable to create new hands-on activities (such as card-sorts, graphic organizers, and anchor charts) for our students to use. This greatly impacts the day-to-day functioning of all of our classrooms, and we hope to remedy this problem with a new printer as well as black and colored ink.
It is essential that our students have their learning time maximized so they can focus on growing their brains and reaching their personal goals. Our world needs our students to grow up and be able to change it for the better, and providing them with a quality education will make this possible.
More than a third 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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