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4th-grade student who is recently diagnosed as Emotionally Disturbed, Female

Unique Strength
Missy has a huge imagination and enjoys talking to her classmates (and teachers) about HER interests. She can recall details she sees with amazing accuracy.

Unique Challenges
Missy does not like to be questioned or confronted by others and will take any counterpoint as a threat. She does not recall what she hears from others and will create a narrative that did not occur. She prefers to work alone without any classmates around.

Unique Aspirations
Missy loves animals and has mentioned her desire to work in a zoo.

Unique Interests, Talents, & Passions
Creativity is off the charts, she is an amazing artist who can see an item and recreate it with a pencil and colored pencils. She loves to read books above her grade level.

Personal Learning Backpack- tools that best support
Limit distractions, visual timer not an auditory ring. Many breaks to draw or read, so chunking small tasks or lessons work best. Needs to know the plan for the next day and does not handle changes of plans. She has friends but she does not know how to be a friend. She is more of a leader and expects others to follow her.

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Diverse Population Trait
Diagnosed with Dyslexia in First Grade

Unique Strengths
Heather loves to color and watch cartoons. She loves sports and acting and has a very good memory. Super imaginative and can tell amazing stories, but struggles to write her stories down.

Unique Challenges
She displays depression traits weekly, very little confidence, and will cause interruptions and disturbances that lead to being sent out of the classroom. (Intentional because learning is tough and easier to miss and not be in class.) She will also use her dyslexia as a crutch to announce not being able to complete work because of her dyslexia.

Unique Aspirations
Heather wants to be a Director in the theater and on screen.

Unique Interests, Talents, & Passions
Heather loves creating and is very social but not in an academic setting. She can create characters and voices with ease and can become the center of attention because of her vocal talent and characters.

Personal Learning Backpack- tools that
best support
Extra time, audiobooks, e-readers, ability to use speech-to-text, one-on-one support. Weighted fonts, and highlighted rulers for book or paper reading.  She also needs a distraction-free workspace.

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[Unique Strengths] TJ has a strength with numbers and mathematical equations. Although he is at a 4th grade level in age he is working out and comprehending some 5th grade level multi step word problems. He is also comprehending and reading at a 7th grade reading level.

[Unique Challenges] Although TJ makes strides with Math and Reading he has a hard time explaining the steps to the process of solving those problems. He can calculate the problem but having to explain where he got the answer is difficult for him.

[Unique Aspirations]: TJ has a unique view on space ever since the lesson on the planets. He has stated that he would like to work for NASA not as an astronaut but has an individual within the control room making calculations of distances to different planets.

[Unique Interests, Talents, & Passions]: TJ is a very passionate reader. He would rather be reading a book at his level rather than learning about dramas and spelling words that the class is learning for the day.

[Personal Learning Backpack- tools that best support]: Allowing TJ to be the creator of this learning will help him be successful. Project Based Learning where he is given a choice of something he can represent using his own imagination will help him show and explain his learning.

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[Unique Strengths] Annabeth is exceptional at science. She loves to do experiments and create things with her hands. She likes to see how things work and build things to make different and new inventions.

[Unique Challenges]: She has a difficult time sitting and reading for long periods of time. This has given her trouble when  it comes to her reading comprehension. Because she cannot focus on the passage for  a long period of time she cannot recall key information or give a full summary of the story.

[Unique Aspirations]: Annabeth wants to be an inventor. She likes to break things apart and put them back together the way they are or in a new and interesting way.

[Unique Interests, Talents, & Passions]: Annabeth likes playing the drums. She has been discussing how she will be joining band in middle school and continuing this throughout high school as well.

[Personal Learning Backpack- tools that best support]: Giving Annabeth extra time and reminders to stay on task helps her concentration. Teaching Annabeth strategies to summarize paragraphs as she reads can help her retain and recall information that she has read in passages.

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[Unique Strengths] Jaziel can retell and comprehend information at a 4th grade level. After beginning a Dual Language class last year Jaziel has made great progress in his comprehension of the English language.

[Unique Challenges]: Jaziel moved to the United States a year ago and was put into a Dual Language class. At the beginning of the year he was unable to communicate using English, by the end of 3rd grade he was able to communicate using English in the correct tense.

[Unique Aspirations]: Jaziel would love to be a professional soccer player. He is also very passionate about math. He likes that with Math there is one answer.

[Unique Interests, Talents, & Passions]: He is very passionate about soccer. He is very talented with math and multiplication. He was the first student to master multiplication tables in his class. He was given 4 digit by 3 digit multiplication to challenge his math skills.

[Personal Learning Backpack- tools that best support]: Text to Speech support for testing reading passages. Manipulatives for more difficult math problems.