My classroom redesign grant was used to purchase furniture to create alternative seating and seating choices for my students. I have seen more student engagement during lessons and individual work as well as improvement in time-on-task. The students have really enjoyed the change and say they look forward to coming to class each day. I feel…Read More

Although we are in the early stages of implementing this project, the Digital Reader’s Library appears to be a success. The Digital Reader’s Library is a class set of 25 Kindle Fires used to address a number of growing concerns in the classroom. The library has allowed us to create a classroom environment with up-to-date content-heavy literary res…Read More

The Paperless classroom was intended to allow more student collaboration and eliminate the need for individual paper assignments. While it hasn’t eliminated the need it has reduced the usage of paper and has encouraged more collaboration. The cricut cutter has allowed me to create visuals and manipulatives, which has been the most beneficial…Read More

I bought ZooPhonics with my grant. My children have been highly motivated to learn the animal letter names, sounds, and signals. For some of my students, I am able to give them a quick prompt (hand signal) when they see the letter and they are able to produce the letter sound.

Yogibos, Lap pads, calming sensory items, music stations, and books on tape are all in use in our “chill out” station. My students are responding EXTREMELY well to this so far. One of the students that I felt would benefit most from this has already proven the statistics to be true. He has amazed how far he has came in such a little time. The…Read More