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Ms. Ortega's Classroom

  • Santa Monica Blvd Community School
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • 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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  • Colorfully Diverse Library

    Funded Feb 17, 2021

    Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping our school reach this goal so quickly!

    Our little free library will be stocked with an array of beautiful titles that reflect each and every one of our students! Books are a gateway to the imagination and a reflection of our present.

    I am so pleased to be able to add in all these colorfully diverse books for all our students to enjoy! Much thanks!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Ortega

  • Flexible Collaborations

    Funded Jul 30, 2019

    Thank you so much for gifting my classroom with these wonderful whiteboards! We have been actively building our learning community with the flexibility of movement. Our math teams are engaging in wonderful Socratic learning pods and has filled my classroom with tons of conversations. Without your donation, movement around the classroom would have been very limited. Now we can have the kids working outside the door, in the corner of rooms or placed right in the middle of the classroom! It brings me joy just to see them engaged in this way!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Ortega

    This classroom project was brought to life by Yellow Chair Foundation and 10 other donors.
Collaborative work provides students with multiple pathways that help students express their thinking in critical ways. Within each subject area, students will engage in collaborative conversations, partake in team roles, and share their ideas with the class. When a classroom provides students with flexible options to interact with their peers in various places, students can engage in high quality conversations about their learning. Each vertical easel whiteboard will bring new meaning and life to how students learn within the classroom. They will encourage students in openly discussing their ideas and allowing them to learn that their mistakes are never set in stone. Each whiteboard will act as a non-permanent surface that will enrich student voice and build student engagement. The stools will act as an alternate seating option to provide students with the flexibility of moving around the classroom freely and allowing those rich conversations to continue forming.

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Collaborative work provides students with multiple pathways that help students express their thinking in critical ways. Within each subject area, students will engage in collaborative conversations, partake in team roles, and share their ideas with the class. When a classroom provides students with flexible options to interact with their peers in various places, students can engage in high quality conversations about their learning. Each vertical easel whiteboard will bring new meaning and life to how students learn within the classroom. They will encourage students in openly discussing their ideas and allowing them to learn that their mistakes are never set in stone. Each whiteboard will act as a non-permanent surface that will enrich student voice and build student engagement. The stools will act as an alternate seating option to provide students with the flexibility of moving around the classroom freely and allowing those rich conversations to continue forming.

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