You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

This teacher needs your help!

Ms. Cottle from Preston, ID is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Ms. Cottle is requesting

Be Green. Go Blue.

My students need players and headphones to support our Scholastic READ 180 audio learning library, as well as visual vocabulary support via word walls.

  • $535 goal

This project expired on November 18, 2010.

This project expired on November 18, 2010.

Classroom photo
Ms. Cottle Preston High School
Preston, ID Grades 9-12

My Students

El aprendizaje de una lengua es difícil. (Translation: Learning a language is difficult.) My students are struggling with many challenges and barriers both academically and culturally. I want to give them as much support and success as possible in achieving their dreams - their American dreams.

My school is considered "high poverty." In my state, our school has less per pupil spending than any other public school and my state is 47th in the Nation for per pupil spending.

Unfortunately, we are the lowest of the low in the nation. However, we have a can-do spirit. We will and do overcome these financial challenges and obstacles daily. Ask my students and they will tell you that they have a good school, because the teachers care and the students are great leaders, learners, and believers. We believe in making the world a better place; not just our classroom, not just our school, not just our town, not just our state, but our world. We are wealthy in that we have strong families, strong communities, and strong beliefs. My students feel empowered, encouraged, and enthused when they see the classroom as an extension of the outside world. What they learn in the classroom does not only reflect the outside world, but it can also form, inform, and transform it.

My Project

These resources will enable my students’ access to learning coaches via the Scholastic Read 180 program. We have used the program for the past three years and have seen tremendous improvement in vocabulary development, understanding, comprehension and fluency. The equipment is used daily and therefore is beginning to show wear. These resources will allow the program to be refreshed and renewed. With a new cassette player, a new CD player and new headphones, the students will be excited to use the system. As it is, electrical tape is holding some of the headphones together. One of our cassette players mutilates the tapes and students fight to get the better players. The eight player system will allow more students to participate at once and keep “fighting” out of the room. As far as the word wall equipment, I currently use a homemade version. However, I think that the professional and clean look of the charts will help create a better classroom atmosphere.

My title for this project is “Be Green.

Go Blue.” Not only is this theme apparent in the colors that I selected for the equipment, but it is also an important message that I will be sharing with my students this year. With the current environmental changes in the world, my students have and will continue to learn that they are an important part of that impact. That what they say and do can and does affect change. I will be focusing our classroom projects around this theme, "Be Green. Go Blue.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Half of students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 60 students impacted
Ms. Cottle Preston High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Preston, ID View local requests

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

Never Before Funded 60 students impacted

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Ms. Cottle is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
JJ665 - Portable CD Player • Lakeshore Learning $79.95 1 $79.95
CU660 - Portable Cassette Player/Recorder • Lakeshore Learning $69.95 1 $69.95
LA802 - 8-Station Junction Box With Volume Controls • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 2 $49.90
DD220X - Multipurpose Headphones with Volume Control - Set of 8 • Lakeshore Learning $59.95 2 $119.90
NF9767 - Mini Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $3.49 1 $3.49
NF9764 - White Sentence Roll • Lakeshore Learning $6.95 1 $6.95
LC1561 - Sentence Strip Storage Box • Lakeshore Learning $6.95 2 $13.90
WS157 - Write & Wipe Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $6.49 1 $6.49
WS158 - Write & Wipe White Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $5.49 1 $5.49
NF9765 - Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $4.99 1 $4.99
NF9763 - White Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $3.99 1 $3.99
RA415 - Extra Chart Stand Rings - Set of 5 • Lakeshore Learning $4.95 1 $4.95
GG551BU - Space-Saver Pocket Chart - Blue • Lakeshore Learning $14.99 1 $14.99
GG551GR - Space-Saver Pocket Chart - Green • Lakeshore Learning $14.99 1 $14.99

Materials cost

$399.93

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $24.20

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$465.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.50

Total project goal

$534.63

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Cottle and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"ID","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":4,"name":"High School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":535,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/-/401664/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":60,"isEquityFocusV1":false,"teacherScreenName":"Ms. Cottle","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"-972693048","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":0.00,"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"shouldTrackEquityFocusV2":true,"schoolCity":"Preston","teachersOnPage":[532187],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":false,"proposalId":401664,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"schoolId":52534,"schoolName":"Preston High School","authorIds":{"532187":{"owner":"Ms. Cottle","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":0.0,"proposalsOnPage":[401664],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":7,"teacherChallengeId":42855,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":532187,"schoolCounty":"Franklin","fullyFunded":false,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"ID","name":"Idaho"}}