Many children learn by interacting with objects or manipulatives. Touching, seeing and moving things around is crucial to their learning. That’s where Legos will come into play.

The Social Emotional Learning project helped online students close the gap of non-peer interaction. Each student had their own set of 25 books to follow along with topics that covered being respectful, kind, patient, honest, fair, not giving up, and dealing with your feelings. The Scribble book dealt with a gray rock that was turned into a purposeful, beautiful, and colorful rock. Each student painted their own rock. Once the in-person students came on campus, the topics were covered in real life situations.

The purpose of the Relaying Ratios Project was to offer students an innovative mathematical and scientific activity that challenges English Language Learners to describe the process of finding a ratio using academic vocabulary.  Students gained the abillity to communicate like a mathematician, use hands-on learning to acquire mathematical language and encourage sharing of one’s own cultural identity with others of a different culture.

Special Education Teacher, Crystal Aguilar, was able to purchase materials for high school ATP students that focused on all areas of transitioning, including vocational training, life skills, and employability skills. A Transition Assessment Package was also incorporated and it has proven to be very successful at targeting students’ interests for person-centered transition planning.

21st Century Skills Through Arts and Engineering was a project designed to help TK and Kindergarten students develop their ability to create, communicate, think critically, and collaborate.

Students constructed, installed, and maintained a dozen food skyscrapers to date on the campus of Roosevelt High School.  Students could collaboratively work outside while learning with these hands-on vertical gardens to harvest their own strawberries while learning important lessons about nutrition, photosynthesis, soil health, and pollination.  While the original scope of the project needed to be adjusted due to safety measures and in-person limits, the outcomes of students communicating the joy of science and gardening to their friends, campus and commun