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Ms. Hollander from Granada Hills, CA is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Hollander's classroom raised $1,080

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

My students need 3 digital cameras for their Service Learning Project, a project where, through hands-on work, students are educated about issues affecting their community.

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Ms. Hollander John F Kennedy High School
Granada Hills, CA

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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.

My Students

Our students are confronted with social issues every day. The Service Learning Project is an effective way to empower students to change the world, starting with our own community. Students research an issue important to them and create visual assets telling the issues' story.

My students attend a diverse high school in one of the largest school districts in CA.

My students are part of a magnet school program, an academic program that offers students a curriculum more focused on digital art aiming to better prepare graduates for real world careers. An integral part of the district's magnet program is allowing students from around the district to participate in the program. Many students are bused into school each day, some even traveling more than an hour each way in order to receive this unique public education. Because of the student busing program, my student body is not just a reflection of the community surrounding the school, but represents our large metropolitan city. I have many students in the Title 1 program, who receive free or subsidized lunches due to their family's economic state. I have students of multiple ethnicities, sexualities and varying abilities, each bringing their distinct visual perspective to my curriculum.

My Project

With these digital cameras, students will be able to visually demonstrate issues important to them through allowing them to capture high-quality photos of their urban communities. Through the Service Learning Project, my students will learn how to transform these photos into interactive presentations, showcasing the issue and a suggested solution to our diverse academic community. Giving my students cameras empowers them with a tool to voice their unique artistic vision of the complex world around them. Armed with a curriculum that not only trains them with a technical skill set with advanced software like PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign and PowerPoint, I also integrate art history and theory into the course work, giving my students a well-rounded understanding of the fundamentals. Many of my students' families cannot give their children a camera that can capture high-quality photos. By using these cameras, they will have one of the best tools to express themselves.

Empowering my students with these cameras will give them an artistic voice to tell the stories of issues that are most important to them.

Arming my students with the ability to capture high-quality images and transform them from just photos to key pieces of an interactive presentation offers them with a real world skill set. Additionally, these cameras offer these teens a creative outlet to express themselves while simultaneously serving their community.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

40 students impacted 38 donors
Ms. Hollander John F Kennedy High School

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Granada Hills, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

40 students impacted 38donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fujifilm FinePix F300EXR digital camera • CDW Inc. $326.65 1 $326.65
Fujifilm FinePix XP30 digital camera • CDW Inc. $202.44 2 $404.88

Materials cost

$731.53

Vendor shipping charges

 $73.15

Sales tax

 $66.93

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$917.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$161.93

Total project goal

$1,079.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,079.51

35 Donors

-$954.51

Donations toward project cost

-$811.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$143.18

match offer

-$125.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

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 $0.00

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