Help me give my students proven activities that worked for other teachers in these trying times.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Heywood's classroom raised $155
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
We are requesting support to purchase texts which we will use for bibliotherapy work with our 12th graders. Our students attend E.H.S., a Title I school in North Philadelphia. The transformative dimension of literacy is part of what makes reading, writing, and other meaning-making practices so powerful; in engaging in bibliotherapy with our students, we hope to tap into this transformative power and support students in processing, managing, and growing from difficult personal challenges they may have experienced.
The exacerbated challenges of the current moment -- between COVID-19, economic downturn, and America's reignited racial reckonings -- have only heightened the injustices that shape our students' daily school experiences.
Students at school have been learning virtually since March, frequently balancing this learning with unreliable internet and technology access and the responsibilities of home and work. Being able to access books for bibliotherapy will be critical in supporting students' abilities for personal growth and emotional regulation, which will in turn influence their abilities to learn successfully in other classroom contexts at school and in subsequent challenging life situations they find themselves navigating. Further, accessing these books will support students' digital literacies acquisition, balancing the other multimodal text-driven activities.
My Project
Utilizing activities that work would alleviate some stress in lesson planning. I'm going to use the Teachers Pay Teachers gift card to purchase a variety of activities and resources, especially graphic organizers, for my students with an IEP.
There are many resources that have been proven to work and the teachers have used them.
This will ensure activities that will meet the needs of my students for specific skills that I would be teaching. I need a variety of resources to increase academic engagement in this virtual world. I could really use this project to help me teach effectively.
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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