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Community Comparison Project Share

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            I decided to view Taylor's community comparison project, as his cover page caught my attention. Taylor was creative with his project and enjoyed the GIFs he inserted on every topic of discussion. He provided a lot of information and covered all of the major points. It was surprising to see the differences and similarities within the school. I live in Lindenhurst, so Copiague is fairly close to me, and it was surprising that the majority of Copiague's student population is Hispanic/Latinos compared to north port. It was nice to see the number of diverse students in the Copiague district. One of the parts that I enjoyed the most was the relationship between students and family that the school had. Both districts enforce the involvement of the community and parents. Since things like this might not always be seen it was nice to see the support both districts had. Considering my experience with my board of ed meeting and my project. Parent Invo...

Home/School

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       Connecting home and school is important as parents should be involved in their children's work, and should be learning at home too. Sometimes working from home can be difficult since we are comfortable at home. That is where we wind down, so it can be hard to focus. It's essential to be creative and think of ways to incorporate both home and school to refrain from low student performance.       For example, recently, I attended some workshops online that were long. Specifically, the DASA workshop I attended was seven hours long. Now, seven hours is already a long time but not trying to learn in the comfort of your own home can be difficult. The activities have to be engaging to keep everyone attentive to the lesson. Luckily, I had a great teacher for the workshop who constantly broke us out into breakrooms. We even had additional assignments we had to do before the class to present on the day of.  Homework or any kind of work give...