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  • Smalley Elementary School
  • New Britain, CT
  • 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 school district is shifting towards a student- centered and student directed learning environment. Our goal is to create hands-on centers for student to use during center rotations that they’ll be able to choose. Currently, my students are using almost all paper and pencil work for their centers. My current literacy centers are not as hands on as they should be, and do not provide my students with much choice at all. My first graders need to be creating words, playing with words, and working collaboratively to learn together, and unfortunately the centers that they have right now cannot do that for them. First graders are expected to be readers by the end of first grade, and I cannot prepare them to be fluent readers without the correct center work to reinforce my teaching. I work in a Title I school district, and we unfortunately do not have the resources or funds to provide our students with the hands on centers that we’d like them to have. With these new centers, students will have much more choice in how they want to learn by being able to pick from different stations, and be able to have their needs met more effectively through better differentiation in these centers.

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My school district is shifting towards a student- centered and student directed learning environment. Our goal is to create hands-on centers for student to use during center rotations that they’ll be able to choose. Currently, my students are using almost all paper and pencil work for their centers. My current literacy centers are not as hands on as they should be, and do not provide my students with much choice at all. My first graders need to be creating words, playing with words, and working collaboratively to learn together, and unfortunately the centers that they have right now cannot do that for them. First graders are expected to be readers by the end of first grade, and I cannot prepare them to be fluent readers without the correct center work to reinforce my teaching. I work in a Title I school district, and we unfortunately do not have the resources or funds to provide our students with the hands on centers that we’d like them to have. With these new centers, students will have much more choice in how they want to learn by being able to pick from different stations, and be able to have their needs met more effectively through better differentiation in these centers.

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