Language Arts Program Benefits From Your Annual Campaign Donation

If your child is enrolled at Eckstein, he or she is taking a Language Arts class and benefiting from Eckstein Annual Campaign donations. Annual Campaign funds for the language arts department are directed in large part towards improving each student’s writing skills. As the WASL assessments have demonstrated, writing skills are important in all subjects, including math, where students are increasingly asked to explain their answers in narrative.

Your Annual Campaign donation funds composition books and other supplies, items for special projects, and books that support the L.A. curriculum. It also pays for theme readers—trained professionals who review and correct papers so that teachers can return written assignments to students more quickly. Typically, theme readers are retired teachers who can provide an unbiased assessment of each student’s writing.

Timely feedback is very important for students, so they can see how they need to improve, and have grades posted quickly to the Source. If a teacher has 150 students, and it takes an average of 15 minutes per paper to correct and offer positive feedback, it could take a teacher 37.5 hours to grade just one assignment for every student, time spent well outside the contracted school day! Theme reading cuts the time it takes to score papers by half. As teacher Tammy Moon notes, “For me, having theme reading money means students can have more thorough writing assignments, because I know I can get the 6-10+ pages per student graded in a timely manner.”

Please help support our Language Arts Department by donating to the Eckstein Annual Campaign today! Send your donation (payable to the Alliance for Education-Eckstein) to Eckstein Annual Campaign, Eckstein Middle School, 3003 N. E. 75th St., Seattle, WA 98115.  Or, donate online through the secure Alliance for Education website (https://www314.safesecureweb.com/alliance4ed/) using your Visa or Mastercard. Please indicate that your donation is for the Eckstein Annual Campaign in the An Individual School text box so that your donation will be properly credited to this fundraiser. Thank you!