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Ms. Sims from Springfield, MA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Sims's classroom raised $1,092

Boys and Girls, Please Take Your Seat

My students need 8 new chairs to sit at throughout the school day.

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Ms. Sims Alfred G Zanetti Montessori School
Springfield, MA Grades 3-5

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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

Can you do your best work when you are physically uncomfortable? I can't and neither can my students. Unfortunately, since the school year began, some of my students have been trying to do just that.

I work with 21 third graders, some with special education plans and others who are English Language Learners.

The majority of my students have been here since they were 3, and, because of this gift of a shared history, we have become a true community. We work hard to help each other achieve at high levels. Our school is an urban school with more than 400 students from preschool through eighth grade. In 2009, we were designated as an under-performing school as measured by our state's standardized test. Since then, we have implemented many changes throughout the school. While the needs are still great, we are already showing gains in student achievement.

My Project

A comfortable learning environment is essential to students' progress toward proficiency. Students are expected to spend a great deal of time doing small group, pair, and individual practice at their tables. We do not have enough appropriately sized chairs in good condition for all the students. Some chairs are clearly too small because they were originally for the first- and second-grade classrooms. Other chairs have seen many years of use and, as a result, are quite rickety and creaky. The 8 new chairs would allow each child an appropriately sized chair in good working order. Students would be able to sit comfortably for table work without their slightest movement disrupting neighboring students.

Well-fitting chairs are an integral part of a comfortable learning environment, and all our students deserve one.

Your donation will help create such an environment and make it easier for students to do their best work.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

21 students impacted 17 donors
Ms. Sims Alfred G Zanetti Montessori School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Springfield, MA 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

21 students impacted 17donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
RH15 - 15" Oak Chair • Lakeshore Learning $109.95 8 $879.60

Materials cost

$879.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$927.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$163.73

Total project goal

$1,091.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,091.52

13 Donors

-$1,081.52

Donations toward project cost

-$919.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$162.23

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

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 $0.00

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