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  • PS 89 Jose Peralta School of Dreamers
  • Elmhurst, NY
  • More than three‑quarters 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. Learn more

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My outdated laptop recently broke, with the mouse and the keyboard no longer working, further complicating the challenges of online teaching. Furthermore, I move between multiple rooms to teach, lugging all my equipment with me each time. A lightweight, working laptop would mean the world to me and my precious students: I'd be able to focus more on effective instruction, making joyful and creative literacy videos, teaching with interactive slides, and engaging my English language learners in rich, curious discussions rather than worrying if my battery is about to die or if my external mouse will fall out of the USB port! A MacBook Air would allow me to achieve my goal of creating engaging content videos accessible beyond my live instruction. This is invaluable to my English Language Learners, enabling them to go back and access the lesson again, facilitating their comprehension while enhancing their vocabulary. It would help me create interactive slides so my students can engage in hands-on learning as they write their sight words and other responses directly on the slides in our Google Classroom. I'd also love to continue to record a series of songs that were a hit in the spring: Shared Reading poems set to music and movement using ESL strategies. I am requesting a MacBook Air to lighten the load on my 3-hour roundtrip commute to Queens! My special students are totally worth the commute, but my back is paying the price for carrying all this equipment back and forth on three modes of public transport each way every day! A lightweight, working laptop would greatly lighten my physical and mental load and keep this teacher in it for the long haul! Thank you so much for your consideration!!

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My outdated laptop recently broke, with the mouse and the keyboard no longer working, further complicating the challenges of online teaching. Furthermore, I move between multiple rooms to teach, lugging all my equipment with me each time. A lightweight, working laptop would mean the world to me and my precious students: I'd be able to focus more on effective instruction, making joyful and creative literacy videos, teaching with interactive slides, and engaging my English language learners in rich, curious discussions rather than worrying if my battery is about to die or if my external mouse will fall out of the USB port! A MacBook Air would allow me to achieve my goal of creating engaging content videos accessible beyond my live instruction. This is invaluable to my English Language Learners, enabling them to go back and access the lesson again, facilitating their comprehension while enhancing their vocabulary. It would help me create interactive slides so my students can engage in hands-on learning as they write their sight words and other responses directly on the slides in our Google Classroom. I'd also love to continue to record a series of songs that were a hit in the spring: Shared Reading poems set to music and movement using ESL strategies. I am requesting a MacBook Air to lighten the load on my 3-hour roundtrip commute to Queens! My special students are totally worth the commute, but my back is paying the price for carrying all this equipment back and forth on three modes of public transport each way every day! A lightweight, working laptop would greatly lighten my physical and mental load and keep this teacher in it for the long haul! Thank you so much for your consideration!!

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