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Mr. Kaplan from Los Angeles, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. Kaplan's classroom raised $218

Kids Become eReaders!

My students need digital reading devices to encourage their continued reading.

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Mr. Kaplan Hollenbeck Middle School
Los Angeles, CA Grades 6-8

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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

"Books are dead," said Carlos, an eighth grade student. "If it's not electronic, I'm not interested." Sadly, this is too true for too many of today's kids.

Our middle school serves a low-income, high crime area in East Los Angeles.

We are a Title I school, with a large percentage of our students reading well below grade level. The students are imaginative, and vivacious, but have grown up on technology, and disdain reading traditional books. Their need to improve their reading skills is critical, but opportunities to do so are limited to Internet research. Yet they have trouble accessing the meaning of the texts they find on the internet. They are caught between a demand to score well on grade level tests, and District-mandated curriculum that is not designed to address their individual reading needs.

My Project

Many of my students are embarrassed to be seen reading books that are written at their level,which is often three or four years below their reading level. They therefore refuse to read. A Kindle will permit them to read exactly the books that are leveled to their needs without the public announcement that an eighth grader is reading a third grade level book. Students can improve their reading as individuals during independent reading time, gain access to the worlds available to them in books, and avoid any of the stigmas they fear will come if their peers see how low their reading level is.

This project can provide many 14 year olds with an opportunity to improve their reading that they might otherwise never access.

By respecting their privacy and fulfilling their needs, we can change their lives by helping them become better readers on their own terms.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

125 students impacted 7 donors
Mr. Kaplan Hollenbeck Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

Nearly all 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

125 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Archos 70c eReader - eBook reader - Android 2.1 - 4 GB - 7' • Best Buy $124.99 1 $124.99

Materials cost

$124.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $11.44

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$185.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.70

Total project goal

$218.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $218.00

4 Donors

-$186.24

Donations toward project cost

-$185.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$31.76

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 $0.00

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