Working as a DIGITAL Community With Our Special Needs Students!
Help me give my students access to classwork and communicating with me during remote learning and chats with student families. I require a computer that allows me to use current technology and add-ons.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. C's classroom raised $407
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 a vibrant Special Education High School community with students' special needs and some with severe multiple disabilities. Students twelve to twenty-one years old and their families live in the heart of Harlem, New York or surrounding neighborhoods. Over half of the student population are English as New Learners (ENLs).
One of our greatest challenges is bringing classroom resources to our special needs school as we are now on remote learning.
Our goal is to ensure every student has sufficient opportunity to create work in the remote learning classroom via the computer. Many of our students live in shelters and some do not have access to computers due to finances. To communicate with families during remote learning I require a device that allows me to use new technology and add-ons for the Google Classroom and chats with student families. I am not able to incorporate and create the remote learning lessons the students need to keep up with their 21st century curriculum. When you have students living in the heart of Harlem, you realize they need to persevere through obstacles and discover their strengths. We need the most up to date computer resources to work with the students.
My Project
I presently utilize an older model computer that does not allow access to the latest technology for a successful remote learning Google Classroom curriculum. Many of the interactive programs are not applicable to my computer system.
The Chromebook is essential to bringing the best possible educational program to my students.
Many of the families join us for the lessons and I need a Chromebook system available to chat with the families and to upload lessons to the Google Classroom website.
My students are classified as Autistic and require multiple forms of learning. Their preferred means of communication need multi - sensory information that I would be able to produce using an updated computer. Communication with families and students is a long term goal and a new computer would be utilized for many years to come.
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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