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.
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While the backgrounds, interests, personalities, and learning styles of my second graders represent a wide range, the students do have a few things in common. For one, they are all full of curiosity and an eagerness to learn. They are also high-energy and love to be stimulated and engaged at all times throughout the day. As a school, we are working towards enhancing English Language Arts performance through promoting student discourse. We want reading and writing to be more of a collaborative experience, where students can learn from one another. This is especially true for our large English Language Learner population. While my second graders love to create and share their own work, they need increased opportunities to closely examine and analyze their peers' thinking. The document camera will support this type of learning because any document, be it a page of text or a piece of student work, can be instantly displayed on a projector or Smartboard screen.
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While the backgrounds, interests, personalities, and learning styles of my second graders represent a wide range, the students do have a few things in common. For one, they are all full of curiosity and an eagerness to learn. They are also high-energy and love to be stimulated and engaged at all times throughout the day. As a school, we are working towards enhancing English Language Arts performance through promoting student discourse. We want reading and writing to be more of a collaborative experience, where students can learn from one another. This is especially true for our large English Language Learner population. While my second graders love to create and share their own work, they need increased opportunities to closely examine and analyze their peers' thinking. The document camera will support this type of learning because any document, be it a page of text or a piece of student work, can be instantly displayed on a projector or Smartboard screen.