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Learning Supported by Community-School Partnerships

2/26/2016

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Submitted by Niamh McQuillan 
S.T.A.T. Teacher, 
Windsor Mill Middle
6th grade Reading Teacher and Language Arts Department Chair at Windsor Mill Middle School, Sonja Jackson, reached out to the local Rolling Road Exxon Station to create a community-school partnership, and Exxon responded. Jackson asked the owners to support the WMMS Lighthouse conversion by donating earbuds for students. And support they did. Exxon owners gifted Jackson’s students with 100 pairs of earbuds for use in the classroom. Jackson infuses the use of technology daily in her classroom for collaborative, small group, and independent work. The earbuds allow students to expand their tools for learning beyond texts to videos and to work at their own pace without disturbing other students and activities in the classroom. “Students are now able to listen independently to audio and video,” said Jackson. “Today we studied about Japan, and students were able to listen to and actually hear the words of the Japanese national anthem. They can also use IReady, a reading intervention program that meets students where they are and increases reading skills. My students can personalize their learning and listen to oral instructions and have stories read to them.”
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