My students in our low-income, rural community are fun-loving, sweet, yet some of them struggle with engagement, especially when it involves traditional subjects or conventional approaches to education.
My students of wildly differing abilities thrive when they can collaborate on engaging activities, especially when I provide a teen-friendly environment for them to explore!
They love to laugh and move and think together, especially when I can show them the joy in learning academic subjects! School may not always be their natural, primary focus, but they are bright, confident, caring and excited to try new endeavors, especially when I can connect literacy to their lives in the real world. What can I say? I love them!
My Project
My students could not have been more thrilled when they opened three boxes of new books we got through a Donors Choose project a few months back. They've been reading avidly and with aplomb ever since and, my favorite part, recommending their books to others, including friends and family members.
I promised my students more high interest, young adult books that span broader genres and wider reading abilities than we currently have in our classroom library.
With the books we've requested, the students can continue their reading journey. My goal for them is to increase their appreciation for pleasure reading and make it a lifelong habit. The books we've requested are ones my students have asked about and indicated high interest for, though they are difficult to get at the local library and the school library does not have them.
When this project is fulfilled, my collection will be nearly complete: full of diverse titles that appeal to every kind of reader represented in my English classes, available for years to come.
More than a third 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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