Students with emotional problems

Just a note to tell you of a recent experience I had in my classroom. The 7th graders in my computer class were creating digital stories of the Israeli Arab conflict and I had a new student who had recently come from a bad home situation and was in foster care. She had no clue about what the other students were creating because this topic was something the other students had recently studied in their Social Studies class. I asked her what she would like to create and it was a story about her dog she had to leave behind. I told her to create a story about her dog and what it meant to her. Her final project was amazing and she was so proud of her accomplishment.