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Ms. Wedderburn from Chicago IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Calculated Strike Against Giants

Help me give my students by investing in their independence and agency skills! They will need student planners and manipulatives to help keep them organized and self-reliant during remote and blended learning this year.

  • $561 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My favorite part of the day is when I greet each student before we start the day. Each Monday, I add a new step to our handshake. My students eagerly wait in line, watching attentively as the student before them greets me with the added fist bump, snap, or dance move. A sense of pride fills students who were able to master the new handshake in the first attempt, giggles for students who make mistakes and receive the opportunity to try again, and a loving nudge for students who purposefully make mistakes so they can have just a little extra personal time with Ms. W.

As students enter my classroom with smiles, they leave a world of chaos and uncertainty and embark into an environment of confidence, organization, and peace.

They understand that they are stakeholders who help to create this realm of success just as much as me.

My Project

Faced with the belief that they aren't intelligent enough to tackle algebraic equations or exponential notation, my students have internalized the false truth that they don't deserve to compete in the academic arena with their general education peers.

Once they step in my mathematical ring, it is my responsibility to show them that their resiliency takes them one step closer to knocking down their competitor-their fixed mindset.

Along with combating their fixed mindset, my students have been presented with other challengers due to COVID-19 and current racial tensions. It is my hope that despite my inability to continue cultivating their resilient spirits in person, that they will continue to deepen their confidence during our time in remote learning.

My scholars are bright and more then capable of accessing grade level material. Exposing them to grade level standards but also teaching my students on their instructional level is the key to closing the gap between the two for my students. Your donation of math manipulatives, white erase boards, and student planners will assist me in keeping my scholars organized and closer to grade level during this time of remote learning.

Ms. Wedderburn
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dated Elementary Student Planner for Academic Year 2020-2021 (Matrix Style - 8.5"x11" - Reach for The Starts Cover) - Bonus Ruler/Bookmark and Planning Stickers • Amazon Business $12.95 20 $259.00
DD102 Magnetic Write Wipe Markers with Eraser Caps Set of 4 Black • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 15 $74.85
KC70 Write Wipe Lapboard Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 2 $65.98
RA529 Linking Cubes • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 2 $39.98

Materials cost

$439.81

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$476.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.07

Total project goal

$560.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$560.48

6 Donors

-$522.98

Donations toward project cost

-$444.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.43

Matching donations from our partners

-$37.50

Match offers toward project cost

-$31.88

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.62

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$0.00

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