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.
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Ms. Casalta from Brooklyn NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
My students need 25 guitars to begin the new school year in September.
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.
I teach core music through an integrated program to high-needs students grades 6-8 in a middle school. Many of my students are special needs students.
My students excel through hands-on learning, and music education has shown to be exceptionally valuable in helping them develop skills crucial to academic success.
Our goal the coming year was to purchase a class set of guitars, an instrument my students have a great interest in learning to play, but due to severe, increased citywide budget cuts, we find ourselves without the funds to purchase them. I need a class set of instruments in order to continue the work I have begun. The students began playing recorders and percussion last year, which continued into this year, and I had hoped to have them progress to a more advanced instrument. They are continuing their music education, of which music literacy is a crucial component. In order for them to become proficient at reading music, they have to have a means by which to use it either through vocal music or through instrumental music.
Our students have a great interest in instrumental music and learning to play an instrument has contributed to honing their ability to focus and to develop task perseverance. These skills are skills that my students severely lack and their development has shown to be crucial to their academic success in core subject areas. This success is evidenced in their ability to transfer these skills to core curricular areas across the board.
As expected, whenever there are budgetary concerns, Arts Education is the last priority, and as such, it takes the hardest hit when administrators are creating financial designations for the upcoming school year.
My students and I understand that this is out of necessity which is why I take this time to approach the generous supporters of Arts Education at Donors Choose when my students and I are in dire need.
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