SMALLab @ Coronado HS |
| In Summer 2007 we began a long-term partnership with a large urban high school in the greater Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area. We have permanently installed SMALLab in a classroom and are working closely with teachers and students across the campus to design and deploy new learning scenarios. This site is typical of public schools in our region. The student demographic is 50% white, 38% Hispanic, 6% native American, 4% African American, 2% other. 50% of students are on free or reduced lunch programs, indicating that many students are of low socio-economic status. 11% are English language learners and 89% of these students speak Spanish at home. A focus has been our collaboaration with 9th grade students and teachers from the school’s C.O.R.E. program. The C.O.R.E. program is a specialized “school within a school” with a dedicated faculty and administration to address specific student needs. We have developed SMALLab Professional Learning Communities with a cohort of K-12 teachers and ASU researchers. These PLCs have designed, implemented, and deployed learning scenarios in languages arts, earth science, and chemistry in the past year.
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Installation Images from SMALLab in the classroom:
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