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  • Weaver Odom Elementary School
  • Houston, TX
  • 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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In a special education room, students are met with their greatest educational challenges. Math, reading, and writing are the concepts and skills they struggle the most with. When they walk in, they see anchor charts and libraries of books and strategies they know are challenging to them. Instead of seeing this room as the place where they go to work on the things that are most difficult, I want them to walk in and see those challenges, but also activities and toys that directly address their unique needs as learners, thinkers, and future adults. My resource classroom has more than just "students": I have budding scientists, musicians, coders, and graphic designers. I want to build a WILLWIN station in my classroom - What I Love to Learn and What I Need - that directly targets those areas of passion and excitement alongside providing them the sensory and social supports they need to grow the additional skills that are required for them to succeed. This gives them a visual incentive of what they get to do when they complete reading, writing, and math tasks that frustrate them. It also gives them a way to independently find and use accommodations they need without the need of a teacher or peer getting the accommodation for them .Yes, these parts of school are hard, but you WILLWIN if you integrate those hard parts with the parts that you love and can access the accommodations you need to succeed. I want them to know that they WILLWIN at life and their dreams. They just need a couple different strategies and tools to get there.

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In a special education room, students are met with their greatest educational challenges. Math, reading, and writing are the concepts and skills they struggle the most with. When they walk in, they see anchor charts and libraries of books and strategies they know are challenging to them. Instead of seeing this room as the place where they go to work on the things that are most difficult, I want them to walk in and see those challenges, but also activities and toys that directly address their unique needs as learners, thinkers, and future adults. My resource classroom has more than just "students": I have budding scientists, musicians, coders, and graphic designers. I want to build a WILLWIN station in my classroom - What I Love to Learn and What I Need - that directly targets those areas of passion and excitement alongside providing them the sensory and social supports they need to grow the additional skills that are required for them to succeed. This gives them a visual incentive of what they get to do when they complete reading, writing, and math tasks that frustrate them. It also gives them a way to independently find and use accommodations they need without the need of a teacher or peer getting the accommodation for them .Yes, these parts of school are hard, but you WILLWIN if you integrate those hard parts with the parts that you love and can access the accommodations you need to succeed. I want them to know that they WILLWIN at life and their dreams. They just need a couple different strategies and tools to get there.

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