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Cesar Chavez Community School Analysis

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Cesar Chavez Community School is a kindergarten through 8th grade school. They also offer head start for all the families. The school is located 6000 South Seventh Street, Phoenix, AZ right by south mountain in the Roosevelt school district. Cesar Chavez serves a diverse group of students but the majority of students are from hispanic/latino backgrounds. To be specific 90.3% are hispanic and 9.7% are caucasian. The school was a failing school a couple years back until the principal Ivette Marquez took over and it's now a B+ school. The school is a leader in me school so they practice the seven habits daily and incorporate them in their daily lives. Since most of the school's population comes from a hispanic/latino background 36.5% are English Language Learners. The school offers intervention for those students or students struggling with english. In my classroom there are a total of four english language learners, one monolingual spanish speaking students and the rest are ELD. Usually when the teacher is explaining a lesson I sit and explain in depth and with more examples to the ELL’s. While we do reader's workshop I work with them on their sight words and have them read to a buddy. When the students practice reading I have them coach each other if they don't know a word. When i sit with them to …show more content…

This is actually the first time i've felt welcomed in a school. Almost all the teachers are there to help and answer your questions if you have no clue but most importantly they are all there for the same reason and that reason is to help the students. All the teachers want to see the students succeed and improve. Honestly the location of the school is not the best but the teachers make the best out of it. The school recently invested in a safe security system and the school has many beautiful cesar chavez

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