This spring, the Ahmanson Foundation made a much-needed investment in the future of Nativity’s students by awarding our school a substantial grant to integrate iPads into our curriculum! The grant has allowed Nativity to purchase two iPad carts – one for each campus. The iPads rotate throughout each classroom through the day, enabling each of our students to have the opportunity to use this tremendous new learning technology at least once each day.

“Bringing iPads into the classroom has been on our wish list for a long time,” acknowledges Principal Antonio Felix. “We have been working to enhance our science and math curriculum and having iPads will allow us to make even greater strides with our students, especially because they find them so fun to use — they don’t even realize they’re learning.”

Integrating such cutting-edge technology can often be tricky and expensive. Luckily, Nativity has been blessed by a unique collaboration with St. Paul the Apostle School in Westwood, which has generously offered to allow Wilma Plucinski, their technology coordinator, to volunteer at our school to help incorporate the new devices into our school. This includes providing much-needed teacher training as well as her indispensable advice on how to smoothly transition them into the classroom. Having gone through the same process herself at St. Paul’s several years ago, Wilma and her team is a wealth of information for us.

Thank you, Ahmanson Foundation and St. Paul’s!