Learning Empowerment Project Paper

Green View Middle School in New Orleans has 436 students, of which 62 have been determined to be at risk in learning capabilities due to autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, as well as other language-based and economic complications. The school is eligible for Title 1 funds to assist the at risk students improve their learning skills to avert instances of dropping out of school or lagging behind as their peers progress to higher levels of learning.
The learning empowerment program is significant since it will provide the opportunity to help the first-grade struggling readers to acquire reading skills that will allow them to reach their appropriate reading level. The program would ensure that the students get help not only now but would allow them to be productive citizens in future. The progress should be seen in …show more content…
The school is understaffed and thus each at risk student cannot get a one-on-one time with a teacher since the paraprofessionals working within the classrooms are not licensed to instruct. Therefore, the grant funding will assist our school to address the learning needs of students in first grade and thus get them near grade-level by providing the necessary skills to get them to the year reading level.
Goals and Expected Results
The goal of the learning empowerment project is to enable at-risk students with learning and reading disabilities to improve their learning skills to succeed in school and develop the skills that will prepare them for higher levels of learning. Another goal is to gather data that wil1 help secure future funding in addition to getting the students to an acceptable learning level before reading becomes more difficult. The school will also use the findings to gather support for future funding from agencies of positive results are