My students live in a very needy area of town, they are Latinos, and they are English Language Learners. Those three factors make it so they have a lot stacked against them from the start. However, they have even more going for them!

At our school, we are fortunate to have multiple staff members collaborating together. We have three teachers per grade level, as well as special education staff, ESL staff, reading interventionists, and guided reading teachers, who all work together to teach our students. However, with having that many people working as a team, it is often difficult to keep everyone on the same page and keep things consistent for our students to help them learn best and doing so often takes lots of time.

My hope is that with the use of this poster printer, we will be able to have similar posters across the board, and use our time more effectively.

The printer will be used to make posters to put in our rooms for the students to use as a visual resource to help them learn. It will save many teachers' individual hours by designing each poster only once and printing an extra copy for all the teachers who will use it with our students; versus every teacher making their own, likely different, posters and risking the students not understanding one version (especially our ELL students, who need consistent language when first learning a concept). Or, even if the posters are all consistent, it would mean us teachers would have to meet extra to spend the time to discuss and then hand make each poster. We want to work smarter, not harder!