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Decreasing the Digital Divide


Our Need
My teachers need to have access to mobile devices to support student's in their learning across the curriculum.  The teachers, at our charter school, don't have all the technology they need to teach, model, and evaluate students in their 21st-century skill development.

Our school, The Founders Academy Public Charter School in Manchester, NH receives one-third of the funding, of traditional public schools in our area from the state.  This creates an economic hardship for our school.   In addition, we draw upon a student population which mostly comes from the city of Manchester.  The traditional public schools, in our area have a high poverty rate and we are drawing from the same student population for enrollment.   As a result, we have a challenging time acquiring materials to support advancing our curriculum for our students.

My Project
By acquiring Chromebooks, teachers will be able to engage in collaborative projects with students and access digital content in all academic areas. At the present point, our staff are not provided with devices to conduct their classes.  With our students mostly working on Chromebooks, those staff that bring personal devices from home aren't all modeling on Chromebook device.   As a result, this can create confusion in the learning process where students are working with a device that has different capabilities or the interface doesn't look the same from that of the instructor.

Please aid our school and our teachers to provide the best quality education by aiding us in getting the tools necessary for our staff to support our learners.  Our teachers need reliable devices to connect our students with the outside world, model 21st century skills, create interactive curriculum, to communicate with parents, and collaborate with each other for planning curriculum.  Having all staff with the same operating system will also aid in streamlining IT issues thus saving valuable time for our technology teachers to focus on instruction of their content.

Our school currently serves students in grades 6-10 with 300 students enrolled.  In the 2017-2018 academic year, we will be adding 11th grade and increasing enrollment to 400 students.  In addition, to our student population, our staff will also be growing in order to accommodate the additional enrollment.  It is imperative that our staff is able to meet the students diverse learning by leveraging technology in their classroom instruction, modeling, collaboration with students and staff, to ensure the success of our learns.

We are seeking to get 1 Chromebook for each member of the teaching staff.

Thank you in advance for considering supporting our staff.

Organizer

Joanna Bausch Marcotte
Organizer
Manchester, NH
Founders Academy
 
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