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
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
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.

Mrs. Tindol’s Classroom Edit display name

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Tindol a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Mrs. Tindol's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Tindol a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Mrs. Tindol can use on her next classroom project.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/8333842 Customize URL

I recently heard someone say, “You can’t teach wifi kids with landline strategies.” But that’s exactly what we’re expecting of our outdated classrooms. Why are we teaching today’s students in classrooms that look exactly as they did 30 years ago? Why is the only seating option a desk—and the only arrangement, rigid rows? Why does the classroom still have that cold, bleak “institutional” feeling? As professionals in the workplace we adjust and personalize our work space to create a happy, comfortable and work productive environment. Why in the 21st century aren’t we doing the same for our students, especially me teaching seniors, so close to being out in the real world? Today’s young adults spend more time in coffee shops, friends’ rooms, and their own rooms on beds and bean bags for studying and completing assignments. My own 7th grader chooses her bed or overstuffed chair over the dining room table everyday to complete homework. I want my classroom to foster happiness, comfort, and independence to help elevate my environment of real word learning. Coming into my classroom and being able to choose to sit on a sofa, a bean bag, on a cushion by a coffee table, or a gamer’s chair would completely change the mindset of my seniors. I want to jump on the trend, be a trendsetter. This is taking place all over our country at all grade levels with recurring success, and I want my students to be a part!! This "Starbucks" setting has been proven in studies to foster more social engagement student to student, which has been destroyed by Covid, student grades improved, students seemed happier and more engaged during instruciton, students were participating more, and students were having more invigorating conversations!! My students NEED these life skills going into the real world!!

About my class

I recently heard someone say, “You can’t teach wifi kids with landline strategies.” But that’s exactly what we’re expecting of our outdated classrooms. Why are we teaching today’s students in classrooms that look exactly as they did 30 years ago? Why is the only seating option a desk—and the only arrangement, rigid rows? Why does the classroom still have that cold, bleak “institutional” feeling? As professionals in the workplace we adjust and personalize our work space to create a happy, comfortable and work productive environment. Why in the 21st century aren’t we doing the same for our students, especially me teaching seniors, so close to being out in the real world? Today’s young adults spend more time in coffee shops, friends’ rooms, and their own rooms on beds and bean bags for studying and completing assignments. My own 7th grader chooses her bed or overstuffed chair over the dining room table everyday to complete homework. I want my classroom to foster happiness, comfort, and independence to help elevate my environment of real word learning. Coming into my classroom and being able to choose to sit on a sofa, a bean bag, on a cushion by a coffee table, or a gamer’s chair would completely change the mindset of my seniors. I want to jump on the trend, be a trendsetter. This is taking place all over our country at all grade levels with recurring success, and I want my students to be a part!! This "Starbucks" setting has been proven in studies to foster more social engagement student to student, which has been destroyed by Covid, student grades improved, students seemed happier and more engaged during instruciton, students were participating more, and students were having more invigorating conversations!! My students NEED these life skills going into the real world!!

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":8333842,"teacherId":8333842,"teacherName":"Mrs. Tindol","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-2_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":21898191,"followAbout":"Mrs. Tindol's projects","teacherVerify":-572203073,"teacherNameEncoded":"Mrs. Tindol","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/8333842","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=8333842","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":0,"numSupporters":3},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}