This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
Can't see the board? What board? We have the projector, but because we share the back half of a classroom, we do not have a chalkboard or marker board on which to project images for our daily reading and writing lessons. The students have a lot of trouble seeing images projected on the bumpy yellow cinder block walls of our classroom.
I teach special education language arts classes to 8th through 12th grade students in a high needs community high school.
The students are really beginning to respond to our structured reading and writing programs, and they are making progress in their skills, but the daily struggle to see the overhead material is disheartening to them.
We need a white board that can double as a projection screen to allow students to easily see the instructional materials and would rescue copying time for learning. The students would no longer need to strain to see, reading the material would become easier, and we could make greater progress in our reading and writing skills. With markers and overhead transparencies I can personalize these materials and allow students practice opportunities for their sentence writing steps and strategies. We need ink jet transparencies so we can print images we have downloaded.
Your help would make it possible for my students, who have double difficulty in that they have reading and writing disabilities and that they come from families living in poverty, to make needed progress toward becoming competent readers and writers. They know what they need to do to be ready for college or advanced training toward their life goals, and they are willing to put in the effort it will take. Your gift will make it a little bit less of a struggle, on a very real, day-to-day basis, for them to get the information and learn the skills they need to be successful in the adult world.
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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