Erin Small and Sarah Rainey

Small’s and Rainey’s innovative teaching idea, “Tech for Title 1 Students,” is focused on assembling a Chromebook mobile lab for the disadvantaged students of Riverside Middle School. The collaboration will equip students with the digital skills necessary to be an asset in the community as well as enhance their foreign language and musical skills. The unimpeded access to a Chromebook lab will allow Small and Rainey to design a curriculum that will take students beyond the walls of the classrooms and above the typical teaching "approach.” The two educators believe that through technology integration, students will become creators and collaborators within the learning process, rather than consumers of technology alone.