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My name is Donna Howes. I currently teach 1st grade at Horace Mann Elementary School. This year, I have a classroom of sixteen students and I am in my 11th year of teaching. I was a non-traditional student who went back to school to earn my teaching certificate back in 1988, graduating in 1992, when my now 21-year-old was a toddler. Even though I began a full-time teaching position in 2000, I feel I have finally found my purpose in life.

This wiki will act as my ePortfolio for my Action Research Project. As part of the STAT 21 grant, I am extremely passionate about and therefore interested in examining my mathematics data to see in which areas my students have historically had trouble. I have come to the conclusion that money (which is inclusive of money, number sense, place value, problem solving, addition/subtraction skills) is an area of mathematics that is consistently an issue for all grades within my building.

I am absolutely thrilled and excited to use 21st Century Skills to motivate my students and improve student achievement. I know that linking technology to content standards as well as solid research based strategies, will make my new lesson plans effective.

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