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Challenge: Khan Academy is an awesome resource for educators. One challenge in a high poverty school setting is the lack of iPads or Chromebook for students to use this resource.

The challenges can be met by having using Title 1 funds or writing a grant to fund the technology to be used for this resource.

The benefit is that it is free, fun, and educational for students. It has videos that shows students how to do different tasks. I, personally, have used Khan Academy videos for parents who have a lack of understanding on math instruction.

This resource can provide support for and assist teachers in improving teaching and learning by using it to assist students with concepts at home. It ensures program rigor because it gives step by step instructions and engages students in core subjects.

This resource can ensure equity with students who are not impacted by poverty because it is something that they can use at home and it is fun and engaging. It has videos to explain concepts for lack of understanding for all ages and abilities.

This resource enable students to participate in multiple cultural environments because it is like a tutoring tool to reiterate concepts that have already been taught. It also breaks it down, and gives a visual representation of the concept.

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Challenges: iXL is a great resource for personalized instruction. One challenge is that iXL is very expensive. With the lack of funding and resources, this may pose a problem for schools in rural communities because they may not have the money to fund this resource every year for their students.

This challenge may be met by writing a grant, seeking out sponsors, or using funds from the government.

The benefits of using iXL is it has instruction for grades preK to 12th grade in every core subjects. It also has the common core standards with instruction, and if students get something wrong, it gives explanations on how to make it right.

This can be used as a resource to support teaching and learning and ensuring program rigor because it gives teachers the ability to differentiate instruction. If students need to be challenged teachers can assign instruction on a higher grade level, and if students need enrichment, teachers can also find those lessons through iXL.

This resource can ensure equity who are not impacted by poverty and rural location because it provides instruction for students at every level.

This resource enables to students to participate in multiple cultural environments because students have their own personal log in information to access inside and outside of school.

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A common challenge for all of these technological resources is funding. The lack of funding to get meaningful resources for students in rural communities will continually be present.

The challenge can be met with title 1 funding for technology, sponsors, or PTA fundraising.

The benefits of this resource in a high poverty setting is it tailors instruction to students based on their learning needs.

This resource provides support to assist teachers in improving teaching and learning and ensuring program rigor because it develops a learning path based on a diagnostic screening test that students take at the beginning middle and end of the year. It also gives data and creates a reachable goal to the next grade level and a stretch goal.

This resource ensures equity with students because it tailors instruction to the individual child. It is also child friendly, and it gives brain breaks in between instructions, practices, and quizzes.

This resource enables students to participate in multiple cultural environments because it can be done at home. It also has resources and a teacher toolkit that teachers can use in instruction and printable resources that students can complete at home.

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Log in to i-Ready®, online assessment and instruction that helps teachers provide all students a path to proficiency and growth in reading and mathematics.

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Challenges: One of the challenges of this resource is funding. This resource is free, however, you get limited services to the platform. There is also a limit to BOOM cards you can add, and some of them teachers will have to create themselves.

The challenge may be met by seeking out resources to fund the platform, and also looking on teacherpayteachers.com for free BOOM cards as an extension to learning.

The benefits of using this resource in a high poverty, rural school setting is it is fun and interacting. It helps to engage students and allows them have fun while learning.

This resource provides support for teachers and learning because it is a fun and engaging way for students to practice already taught standards.

This resource can ensure equity because it allows teachers to be creative and differentiate instruction to meet the needs of their students. Teachers can create their own BOOM cards and personalize them to align with what they are teaching in class, or they can go online and find ready made cards.

This resource enables students to participate in multiple cultural environments because it is fun and engaging, and every student can be apart of doing BOOM cards.

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Boom Learning | Empowering teachers and students

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Boom Cards transform the classroom into an interactive, gamified learning experience with data to track progress and identify learning gaps.

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The challenge with this resource as with the other resources is funding. BrainPop is a great resource for teachers in showing visual representations that are student friendly that align with elementary standards. However, it can be pricey.

The challenge can be met by using PTO funds, sponsorship, grant, or teacher money from the state.

The benefits of this resource in a high poverty setting is there are videos created to help students with educational concepts and standards. The videos are kid friendly it blends hands-on tasks with digital learning activities to deepen and extend comprehension.

This resource provides support and assists teachers with teaching and learning and ensures program rigor by cultivating early literacy skills, supports readers with visual and audio content, and it helps to build background knowledge. There are also professional development certificates for teachers.

This resource can ensure equity because it is fun and engaging, it helps to build early literacy skills, standard alignments, and there are lesson plans for every topic.

This resource enables students to participate in multiple cultural environments because it teaches through storytelling. It has relatable characters that build background knowledge and teach new ideas and concepts that are aligned with the standards.

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology