Our middle school serves 800 students from various ethnic backgrounds. We strive to involve all of our families in their children's education. To make this happen, we often have to go out to the communities because many of our families do not have transportation to come to us. This outreach is important to our students and their success.
We are working hard to ensure that all of teachers are responsive to students’ cultural backgrounds and that we incorporate culturally-relevant material in our classrooms.
It is important that students see themselves in the curriculum to make learning personally meaningful.
We are also working hard to provide hands on learning and problem solving in collaborative groups. We want our students to be leaders and to see their potential beyond the walls of our school and community.
My Project
Please help my students have a subscription to the book boxes from the Junior Library Guild. The Junior Library Guild is a community of librarians committed to fostering a love of reading and a hero for advancing literacy. Every month, with this subscription, the guild will send new books to our school library that have been curated as the best new books for our students. The guild rigorously reviews over 3,000 titles each year to make sure school library shelves are filled with quality titles.
There is a difference in reading performance equivalent to just over a year's schooling between young people who never read for enjoyment and those who read for up to 30 minutes per day.
Children who read books often at age 10, and more than once a week at age 16, gain higher results in math, vocabulary and spelling tests at age 16 than those who read less regularly. The best thing we can do for our students is to connect them with good books.
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