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Ms. Guzman from Chicago, IL is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Professional development

Better Teacher = Student Success

Teacher professional development: I need these resources to provide better interventions and improve my teaching to supplement students' learning for fluency and comprehension. <profdevpilot>

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Guzman's classroom raised $990

This project is fully funded

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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

"Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.” ― Elizabeth F. Barkley. Having resources to improve my teaching will result in more student learning and improve motivation and engagement.

I am a Special Education Teacher servicing students from Kindergarten through third grade.

I am currently in my second year of teaching. Throughout my two years of teaching, I have learned that working with students with disabilities requires a lot of resources at different levels to help them succeed. As a special education teacher, we also take a lot of data to show student progress. I create all the assessments for each student. Working at a low-income public school, there are a lack of resources, which makes it more difficult to provide students with the appropriate materials to help them progress. I also make my own materials for interventions and to aid student learning at their individual levels. Students are at such different levels, even within grade levels, that having one set curriculum for all does not work. Students also learn in different ways, so having a variety of materials to teach things in multiple ways is also beneficial to help students progress.

My Project

I am requesting the Six-Minute Solution program, which will help me learn different strategies that will target students who are reading at, above, and below grade level. This resource will help me differentiate instruction. I will build students' reading fluency. I am also requesting the QuickReads program. This program will increase my knowledge on how to use complex text to build content area vocabulary, background knowledge, and fluency at each student's reading level. The Basic Reading Inventory by Jerry Johns is a great resource that will enable me to learn and to try a variety of informal reading assessments. They will help me gather information about instructional decision making in reading. I will learn more about student’s reading behaviors and reading abilities (word identification, fluency, and comprehension). The Building Fluency Cards, Readers' Script Box and Quick-Pick Reading Cards include useful strategies that will also increase my professional development.

These resources will improve my teaching by allowing me to learn new interventions that will improve students' fluency and comprehension.

I will have resources that are well crafted with interventions and activities that will help me meet their individual levels. These resources will help me become a better teacher that will lead to student success. Thank you for considering my project.

Ms. Guzman Hedges Fine Arts and Performing Arts School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Quick Reads Level A • Pearson $422.47 1 $422.47
Six-Minute Solution-Primary Level • Voyager Sopris Learning $149.95 1 $149.95
Basic Reading Inventory: Pre-Primer through Grade Twelve and Early Literacy Assessments • Amazon $60.74 1 $60.74
EE501 - Building Fluency Card Bank - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
EE987 - Readers’ Theater Script Box - Gr. 1-2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
DD296 - Quick-Pick Reading Comprehension Activity Cards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99

Materials cost

$736.13

Vendor shipping charges

 $52.28

Sales tax

 $11.36

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$840.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.38

Total project goal

$989.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $989.19

2 Donors

-$88.00

Donations toward project cost

-$74.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.20

Matching donations from our partners

-$901.19

Match offers toward project cost

-$766.01

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$135.18

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