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Ms. Clara's Classroom

  • Urban Assembly New York Harbor School
  • New York, NY
  • 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. Learn more

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  • Empowering Voices: Diverse Books for Harbor School's Lit Club

    Funded Oct 3, 2024

    I returned to work this Monday morning and checked my email to find a delightful surprise - our project is fully funded! I am blown away by the quick response from all of you. I'm so excited to share the news with our students this week at our first meeting! :)”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Clara

    This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Foundation and 8 other donors.

  • Listen Up: Headphones for Literature

    Funded Aug 26, 2019

    I want to extend my gratitude for your generous donation to my classroom. My class set of headphones was delivered at the start of the school year, and I was so excited to share the news with my students. It feels very special to have a little piece of my family and friends in my classroom. I feel so grateful and thankful each time I glance at them or use them in my classroom. It's a constant reminder that I have support behind me from each of you. Thank you again.

    During five years at Harbor School, my access to and experience with technology has been a rollercoaster. I came from a school where I had my own class set of iPads, so I was shocked to work at a school that seemingly has so many privileges but didn't even have a functional set of laptops to teach writing. There were two laptop carts for the whole school to share (30+ teachers), and very quickly the laptops were destroyed thus rendered useless. As you can imagine, it's nearly impossible to educate students to be college and career ready with inadequate technology. We were fortunate at the end of last school year to obtain a set of laptops for the English department to share. However, I soon realized that wasn't enough! I need to teach my students through the plethora of mediums available, including videos, podcasts, briefings, news radio, documentaries, and other video sources. This is why I desperately needed the headphones and have used them on weekly basis.

    We used the headphones most recently when we were working on projects that examined various American Indian led activists movements in the 20th and 21st century. Students were able to access a variety of sources to learn about their topic and ultimately compile their research and created infographics. It was nice to be able to allow students to learn in different ways and let them choose the best way to absorb information. Technology in education is a wonderful way to appeal to students' varying needs and preferences. This project was another cool way to use technology and a new project format I hadn't tried before. The students enjoyed the project and enjoyed learning a new tool. We have also been using podcasts this year in class and hope to have students move to creating their own. My next project is to try and obtain quality microphones to do this. I'm looking forward to continuing to explore how I can use technology in my classroom to appeal to different learning styles and open up new modalities of expression.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Clara

The English department at my school was fortunate enough to purchase a class set of laptops at the end of last year. This was a huge need in our department, and we are committed to keeping our technology in excellent condition to ensure longevity. As a department, we all agreed that it was important to have headphones to accompany the computers to take full advantage of the laptops as learning, educational tools. For example, one of the units I taught at the end of last school year was about human rights. Students were asked to take a position on an issue they cared about and comprise their own list of resources modeled after our collaborative research in class. In class, I used articles, Ted Talks, podcasts, radio features, documentaries, and infographics. However, this became challenging for students to replicate because they couldn't all complete their individual research at the same time! Imagine 30+ Ted Talks playing at the same time. It was a nightmare! Luckily, the generous ESL teacher let us borrow her headphones and students had huge success with their projects! Needless to say, as a department, we understood getting a class set of headphones to accompany our laptops was imperative. We tried to order them at the end of the year through funding available from our school. Unfortunately, it fell under the classification of "utilities" and did not meet the budget requirements. So, now we are hoping to try another route. We would love any donation to help us reach our goal. Our students are amazing, unique innovators and we should have necessary supplies to support their interests and passions! Thank you for taking the time to consider my project.

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The English department at my school was fortunate enough to purchase a class set of laptops at the end of last year. This was a huge need in our department, and we are committed to keeping our technology in excellent condition to ensure longevity. As a department, we all agreed that it was important to have headphones to accompany the computers to take full advantage of the laptops as learning, educational tools. For example, one of the units I taught at the end of last school year was about human rights. Students were asked to take a position on an issue they cared about and comprise their own list of resources modeled after our collaborative research in class. In class, I used articles, Ted Talks, podcasts, radio features, documentaries, and infographics. However, this became challenging for students to replicate because they couldn't all complete their individual research at the same time! Imagine 30+ Ted Talks playing at the same time. It was a nightmare! Luckily, the generous ESL teacher let us borrow her headphones and students had huge success with their projects! Needless to say, as a department, we understood getting a class set of headphones to accompany our laptops was imperative. We tried to order them at the end of the year through funding available from our school. Unfortunately, it fell under the classification of "utilities" and did not meet the budget requirements. So, now we are hoping to try another route. We would love any donation to help us reach our goal. Our students are amazing, unique innovators and we should have necessary supplies to support their interests and passions! Thank you for taking the time to consider my project.

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