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Mr. Hayes from Buckeye, AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. Hayes's classroom raised $652

Look It Up and Other Impossibilities of a Rural School

My 25 diverse and knowledge-hungry students need good, thorough dictionaries to enhance their awesome budding vocabularies.

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Mr. Hayes Bales Elementary School
Buckeye, AZ Grades 6-8

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I teach 7th Grade Language Arts in a rural K-8 school in Arizona. We are in an area of high financial need in a rapidly growing district that has been unable to keep up with the impending urbanization.

I believe that vocabulary development is an essential factor in developing strong, capable, lifelong learners. Studies continue to show that simply exposing children to a large variety of challenging words is a foundational step in future successes. This is a philosophy I fully espouse and openly strive to turn my students into full fledged "Word Nerds," like me. That is, I want them to love words and the empowerment they can give an individual. My classroom has a handful of obsolete dictionaries that are in various states of tatter, from torn covers to entire letter-sections missing. I am in the unique situation of teaching in the same district I grew up in, and I remember using some of these dictionaries when I was a student 17 years ago.

Though I use a wide variety of project-based learning activities to build my students' vocabularies, the beginning step is absolutely dependent on a good, up-to-date dictionary. I need a classroom set of Intermediate Dictionaries that are complete and comprehensive, and, at the very least, are in one piece! I need the peace of mind that comes with knowing that when I tell a student to "look it up," that they can. Without the necessary resources, the goal of self-direction and authentic learning is an impossibility.

You are the gatekeepers to a better world for our students. With your help, their already voracious appetites for knowledge can grow into a frenzy of learning. Thank you for your consideration, and your dedication to fostering our future world leaders!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

75 students impacted 14 donors
Mr. Hayes Bales Elementary School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Buckeye, AZ View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

75 students impacted 14donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Merriam-Webster's Intermediate Dictionary • Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. $17.95 25 $448.75

Materials cost

$448.75

Vendor shipping charges

 $44.88

Sales tax

 $25.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$534.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$117.33

Total project goal

$651.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $651.82

14 Donors

-$651.82

Donations toward project cost

-$534.49

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$117.33

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