Reaching+All+Students

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Students have changed is demographically. [|Watch this clip] and share with us how your classroom's demographic has changed over the last five years? Do you feel that ELL (ESL) students have different instructional needs? How so? What types of instructional delivery do you feel works best for these kids? Where does Web 2.0 (the new tools like blogs and wikis) play in that dynamic?

Today's learner has been given different [|opportunities for learning] than you and I had. Traditionally, most of the opportunities for learning didn't happen within schools. Think of ancient Greece. How could the apprenticeship model play out today? Would helping your students develop personal learning networks enable them to have some of the depth and diversity in learning that students in the past experienced?

Change is NEEDED so we do not have children with six hour handicaps
Have you ever known a child that in school was an at-risk learner, but outside of school was competent and capable? How about a student who comes back to see you years after they graduate and you find out they became much more successful than you ever thought possible.

[|Well this video explains why.]

Jane Mercer's research proves that many kids we think are handicapped are simply situationally handicapped.

................................................... The Hole in the Wall Experiment- Digital Divide, Web 2.0 and Homeless Children

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Creative Ways to Help the Homeless (wink)
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[|Hole in the Wall] (story and video) [|Changing Demographics] (video) [|Learning Environments and Assumptions about Competence] (video) [|Empty Children] (video) [|Information Disadvantaged (podcast)] [|Global Exposure Counts] (podcast) [|Technology builds confidence of ESL] (video) [|Homeless Shanties] (video)

Helping the Needy Get Nerdy
media type="youtube" key="625LPUACix0&rel=1&border=0" height="366" width="425" People who have access are living in a different society than those who do not have access. It seems the more social change is happening on cutting edge of technology, the more we are leaving the needy in society behind that social curve. Free Geek is doing something about it. Working for 24 hours at Free Geek will give you a free computer-(adoption). Build six computers and you keep the 6th computer for yourself. (education) Free geek is a community....run by a community council.

[|Cabrini Connections]
Cabrini Connections is a one-on-one tutoring and mentoring program serving 7th through 12th grade students living in Chicago's Cabrini-Green public housing project.

[|Project Hope]
Project HOPE, the Virginia Education Program for Homeless Children and Youth, is a federally-funded grant authorized by the [|McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act]. Project HOPE ensures the enrollment, attendance, and the success of homeless children and youth in school through public awareness efforts across the commonwealth and subgrants to local school divisions. Local Education Agencies (LEA) develop customized programs to meet the needs of homeless children and youth in their area. Project HOPE funds activities throughout the school year, including early childhood education, mentoring, tutoring, parent education, summer enrichment programs, and domestic violence prevention programs. In addition, emergency services, referrals for health services, transportation, school supplies, and costs related to obtaining school records may be provided through the local Homeless Education Program.

**Powerful Learning Practice, LLC**
A sustained, job-embedded professional development opportunity for schools both nationally and internationally around Read/Write Web technologies and concepts. Planning for the 2008-09 school year is already underway. PLP will be forming a limited number of cohorts from around the country and internationally by March 1, 2008. To express an interest in the program or for information on putting together a cohort, e-mail powerfullearning@gmail.com

[|Public Web]
Recycling Computers to make powerful, maintenance free machines.

Articles
[|Pocket PCs for At-Risk Kids] [|Technology, Equity, Access] [|Geeking our Way to a Better World] [|America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters,]

http://www.sparesomechange.com/ is a search engine dedicated to helping homeless find resources created by a former homeless guy. [|Austin Free-Net] has a cool idea. Austin Free-Net tries to involve computers in the everyday lives of high poverty citizens. Through showing them how to look up bus schedules, use email or even research potential employers, Free-Net integrates the Web into their lives." Austin Free-Net is attempting to arrange classes on using the Web and software while people wait in line each week at the food pantry in hopes that more disadvantaged members of society will get online. [|Net Squared] a site about remixing the web for social change. [|Laptops for the Homeless] [|The Homeless Guy] [|Wandering Scribe] List
 * Other Ideas and Sites**
 * Homeless Bloggers**

[|National Coalition for the Homeless] [|National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth] [|Project Hope] [|National Alliance to End Homelessness]
 * Organizations**

Additional Resources about Teaching At-Risk Kids
[| Making a Difference for teens experiencing homelessness.ppt] [| Opening doors for children experiencing homelessness.ppt] [| Parents and Teachers Working Together for Children -.ppt] [| What Makes a Difference in Educational Settings with2.ppt]