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Ms. Potchen-Webb from Saint Louis MO is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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I Can't See The Board! What Board?

My students need a magnetic whiteboard, transparency film and dry erase markers.

  • $243 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.

Can't see the board? What board? We have the projector, but because we share the back half of a classroom, we do not have a chalkboard or marker board on which to project images for our daily reading and writing lessons. The students have a lot of trouble seeing images projected on the bumpy yellow cinder block walls of our classroom. I teach special education language arts classes to 8th through 12th grade students in a high needs community high school.

The students are really beginning to respond to our structured reading and writing programs, and they are making progress in their skills, but the daily struggle to see the overhead material is disheartening to them.

We need a white board that can double as a projection screen to allow students to easily see the instructional materials and would rescue copying time for learning. The students would no longer need to strain to see, reading the material would become easier, and we could make greater progress in our reading and writing skills. With markers and overhead transparencies I can personalize these materials and allow students practice opportunities for their sentence writing steps and strategies. We need ink jet transparencies so we can print images we have downloaded.

Your help would make it possible for my students, who have double difficulty in that they have reading and writing disabilities and that they come from families living in poverty, to make needed progress toward becoming competent readers and writers. They know what they need to do to be ready for college or advanced training toward their life goals, and they are willing to put in the effort it will take. Your gift will make it a little bit less of a struggle, on a very real, day-to-day basis, for them to get the information and learn the skills they need to be successful in the adult world.

Ms. Potchen-Webb
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
VIS- -VIS WET-ERASE FINE-8PK Expo Vis-A-Vis Wet-Erase Markers; Fine-Point, 8-Color Set • Quill $7.91 1 $7.91
Quartet(R) Matrix(R) Magnetic Marker Dry-Erase Board, 48 x 31, White • Office Depot Inc. $85.24 1 $85.24
EXPO LOW ODOR DRY ERASE MARKERS 16 COLOR SET Expo Low-Odor Dry-Erase Markers; Chisel Tip, 16-Color Set • Quill $17.99 1 $17.99
UNIVERSAL INKJET TRANSPARENCY FILM 3M Overhead Transparencies for HP DeskWriter, HP DeskJet, HP PaintJet XL300; 50 Per Box • Quill $44.99 1 $44.99

Materials cost

$156.13

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.61

Sales tax

 $6.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$199.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.68

Total project goal

$242.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $242.68

4 Donors

-$234.12

Donations toward project cost

-$199.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.56

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