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  • Nicholas Senn High School
  • Chicago, IL
  • 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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I teach a diverse group of low-income students in Chicago. Some are born and raised in Chicago, while many are seeking a new life after leaving their home countries of Sudan, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Congo just to name a few. 95% of the students that attend our school receive free and reduced lunches. My students are hungry for knowledge. Although at this point most of them wouldn't pick up a book on their own, they do love to read and love to find connections in the stories we read together. There excitement over "The Crucible" or "I Hear America Singing" makes me smile every night and encourages me to push them further in their learning. They want to go to college, but have no parents, grandparent, aunts or uncles that have been. Their college role models are teachers. That is why I need to show them what it is like in college. They need to practice reading books on their own, finding the words they don't know, analyzing the meaning, and engage in thoughtful discussions.

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I teach a diverse group of low-income students in Chicago. Some are born and raised in Chicago, while many are seeking a new life after leaving their home countries of Sudan, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Congo just to name a few. 95% of the students that attend our school receive free and reduced lunches. My students are hungry for knowledge. Although at this point most of them wouldn't pick up a book on their own, they do love to read and love to find connections in the stories we read together. There excitement over "The Crucible" or "I Hear America Singing" makes me smile every night and encourages me to push them further in their learning. They want to go to college, but have no parents, grandparent, aunts or uncles that have been. Their college role models are teachers. That is why I need to show them what it is like in college. They need to practice reading books on their own, finding the words they don't know, analyzing the meaning, and engage in thoughtful discussions.

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