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
Menu
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.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. Rich’s Classroom Edit display name

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/1050011 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
My students are alternative education students. I teach art to mixed classes of 9th through 12th grade students. My students find it easiest to succeed in a smaller-sized class. Twenty-five percent of my students are special education students. Seventy-five percent or more of our students receive free school lunches. Many of our students "learn by doing", which is why it has been so exciting for me to provide them with the opportunity to use ceramics as an art medium. Most of the students have had no prior experience in clay. These students find the transformation of making something in wet clay through the glazing process exhilarating. Ceramics has been an important part of my existing art curriculum, and though we have a working kiln, and glazes from two years ago, our budget has been cut so that we have no money for the clay. My students take art for an elective as well as a requirement, and many of them have been planning to take it this May. They are so expressive!

About my class

My students are alternative education students. I teach art to mixed classes of 9th through 12th grade students. My students find it easiest to succeed in a smaller-sized class. Twenty-five percent of my students are special education students. Seventy-five percent or more of our students receive free school lunches. Many of our students "learn by doing", which is why it has been so exciting for me to provide them with the opportunity to use ceramics as an art medium. Most of the students have had no prior experience in clay. These students find the transformation of making something in wet clay through the glazing process exhilarating. Ceramics has been an important part of my existing art curriculum, and though we have a working kiln, and glazes from two years ago, our budget has been cut so that we have no money for the clay. My students take art for an elective as well as a requirement, and many of them have been planning to take it this May. They are so expressive!

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":1050011,"teacherId":1050011,"teacherName":"Ms. Rich","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1050011_272x272.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1462988171042","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":195579,"followAbout":"Ms. Rich's projects","teacherVerify":-979569048,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Rich","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/1050011","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=1050011","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":17,"numSupporters":46},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.