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Ms. Salzmann from Dorchester, MA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Communicate Everywhere!

Help me give my students Core Communication Boards in multiple languages, so our students can communicate throughout the school community.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Salzmann's classroom raised $741

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our students are preschool through first grade who are learning how to communicate through many different modalities. The modalities include nonverbal gestures, vocalizations, verbal language, sign language, and augmentative and alternative communication devices. Our students are creative and love to have fun, this project will help them communicate their wants, needs, and ideas while out on the playground.

My Project

These materials will help aid students to communicate across school settings, in their home languages. It will allow teachers to model across settings, and figure out our students' wants and needs. The materials are "Core Vocabulary Boards". Core vocabulary is a set of basic words in any language that are used frequently and across contexts. 80% of what we say is communicated with only the 200 most basic words in our language (Baker & Hill, 2000). Some core vocabulary words are: help, more, want, open, go, stop, happy, and sad; among many more!

The donations to this project will help us provide core boards in every language that is spoken at the William Monroe Trotter School.

Some of these languages include: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Somali, and Portuguese. By having core boards in every language spoken, we can give students and staff the support needed to implement a total communication approach throughout our school community.

Ms. Salzmann William Trotter K-6 School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Dorchester, MA View local requests

More than three‑quarters of 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

30 students impacted 18donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Custom Vinyl Sign • Build A Sign $49.21 12 $590.52

Materials cost

$590.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$629.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$111.07

Total project goal

$740.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $740.45

5 Donors

-$706.62

Donations toward project cost

-$608.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$98.49

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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