Printing for Preservation: Capturing the New American Experience
My students need an HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M553n w/ HP FutureSmart Firmware printer so that we can print and preserve our work throughout the publishing process.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Pond, M.Ed.'s classroom raised $693
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our school is nestled within a rural community full of hardworking families who strive to raise well-rounded students. As a school community, we recognize the need for strong ties to our community because we know that without their support, educating thoughtful, respectful, and innovative students would be a difficult endeavor.
As a "rural-fringe" school, it is highly important to us to continuously challenge and expand all of our students' perceptions of the world and the many cultures that exist so that they are able to understand the different facets of the human condition from a personal, community, and global perspective.
As our school population continues to become more diverse, we continue to place a high degree of emphasis on developing the capabilities to support the needs of all of our students and their families so that engaging, innovative, and relevant learning takes place.
My Project
As I think about the ways in which I can offer my students access to pieces of writing/works from a variety of cultures, I am reminded of a quote by Haruki Muraka which states: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." As such, I have come to realize that one of the ways to truly allow all of my students to own the publishing process in our English Language Arts class, while also offering my ELL, ESL, immigrant, and refugee students a voice with which to share their culture, is to be able to have all of my students write and capture their uniquely personal experiences that can then be printed and shared with others, including their friends and family. By focusing on the academic task of writing, editing, revising, and publishing with the goal of publishing their own personal experiences, all of my students, especially my ELL/ESL/immigrant/refugee students will be able to approach writing from a meaningfully personal perspective.
Imagine the power of being able to write and print your own story if you are an ESL/ELL/immigrant/refugee student so that you can continue to have a bridge, a connection, between your native culture and the new culture that you now find yourself.
The true power of student publishing is that it allows for the creation and sharing of relevant, personal, and revelatory works that will ultimately allow my students to know each other's experiences which will, in turn, build an empathetic and supportive classroom community. Rather than separating ourselves by cultures, we will be supporting and celebrating each other through the sharing of our experiences and growth as an individual within these unique cultures.
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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