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

Mrs. Aguirre’s Classroom Edit display name

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/316619 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
I teach Culinary Arts and Food Nutrition to 134 California high school students. Students learn about foods and cooking techniques from around the world, the fundamentals of nutrition, food service career opportunities, team work and leadership skills. Students that earn an A or B, receive college credit. This project will be a part of a unit on healthy dining with an emphasis on sustainable farming and an awareness of how food makes it from the farm to the table. Cooking labs preparing various types of protein using recipes from around the world will be enhanced by a class library with books on preparing, choosing and purchasing meat. In my classroom the minority is the majority. In a class of 35 students you will see an average of 5 White/Caucasian students. The remaining are Asian, Philippine, African American and Hispanic. 20% of my students are Special Education, & over 40% are on the free/reduced lunch program.

About my class

I teach Culinary Arts and Food Nutrition to 134 California high school students. Students learn about foods and cooking techniques from around the world, the fundamentals of nutrition, food service career opportunities, team work and leadership skills. Students that earn an A or B, receive college credit. This project will be a part of a unit on healthy dining with an emphasis on sustainable farming and an awareness of how food makes it from the farm to the table. Cooking labs preparing various types of protein using recipes from around the world will be enhanced by a class library with books on preparing, choosing and purchasing meat. In my classroom the minority is the majority. In a class of 35 students you will see an average of 5 White/Caucasian students. The remaining are Asian, Philippine, African American and Hispanic. 20% of my students are Special Education, & over 40% are on the free/reduced lunch program.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":316619,"teacherId":316619,"teacherName":"Mrs. Aguirre","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-5_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":100727,"followAbout":"Mrs. Aguirre's projects","teacherVerify":-1527679967,"teacherNameEncoded":"Mrs. Aguirre","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/316619","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=316619","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":2,"numSupporters":20},"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.