More than half of students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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A reliable computer is an absolute necessity in our classroom. Our school district utilizes an amazing academic literacy program called IRLA (Independent Reading Level Assessment). However this program and all of its features require a reliable computer to save and monitor student literacy growth. The program has the potential to truly motivate students to read more frequently and with greater accuracy however without access to a reliable computer students miss out on many features this program as to offer.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Having a laptop computer would allow me to sit one-on-one with each of my students and truly listen to them read in a separate quiet space in the classroom. Also this allows students to track their goals as they will be able to obtain reading points as they improve and move up reading levels. They would even be able to track their reading level independently.
In the past we have used a desktop computer for this program that occasionally would turn off in the middle of a student reading a passage, or word list that was displayed on the screen. Often all progress for that one-on-one conference would be lost. The computer would then take time to reload wasting valuable teaching time. The desktop also does not provide privacy for students to read and feel comfortable because often other tables of students are in close proximity to the desktop.
In summary, a reliable laptop would provide the ability for students to read passages, wordlist and vocabulary words in a comfortable area and provide a reliable source of technology to monitor and motivate student literacy growth.
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A reliable computer is an absolute necessity in our classroom. Our school district utilizes an amazing academic literacy program called IRLA (Independent Reading Level Assessment). However this program and all of its features require a reliable computer to save and monitor student literacy growth. The program has the potential to truly motivate students to read more frequently and with greater accuracy however without access to a reliable computer students miss out on many features this program as to offer.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Having a laptop computer would allow me to sit one-on-one with each of my students and truly listen to them read in a separate quiet space in the classroom. Also this allows students to track their goals as they will be able to obtain reading points as they improve and move up reading levels. They would even be able to track their reading level independently.
In the past we have used a desktop computer for this program that occasionally would turn off in the middle of a student reading a passage, or word list that was displayed on the screen. Often all progress for that one-on-one conference would be lost. The computer would then take time to reload wasting valuable teaching time. The desktop also does not provide privacy for students to read and feel comfortable because often other tables of students are in close proximity to the desktop.
In summary, a reliable laptop would provide the ability for students to read passages, wordlist and vocabulary words in a comfortable area and provide a reliable source of technology to monitor and motivate student literacy growth.