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  • Early College Career at Rise
  • Springfield, MA
  • 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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Having finally returned to the classroom after over a year of remote and hybrid teaching, one of my main goals is to foster social and emotional learning amongst my students. As a science teacher, there is no better way for me to do that than with my class pet, Coco, a bearded dragon, who my students have come to know and love. Coco is ready to move onto a bigger and better enclosure where the students themselves will also be able to take more responsibility for caring for her. Having a larger enclosure will allow students to work together to change the food, take the temperature of the space and learn about ecology. My hope is that through this project Coco can be more at home in her space, in order to promote respect, responsibility, and empathy in my classroom.

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Having finally returned to the classroom after over a year of remote and hybrid teaching, one of my main goals is to foster social and emotional learning amongst my students. As a science teacher, there is no better way for me to do that than with my class pet, Coco, a bearded dragon, who my students have come to know and love. Coco is ready to move onto a bigger and better enclosure where the students themselves will also be able to take more responsibility for caring for her. Having a larger enclosure will allow students to work together to change the food, take the temperature of the space and learn about ecology. My hope is that through this project Coco can be more at home in her space, in order to promote respect, responsibility, and empathy in my classroom.

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