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Mrs. Tomczyk from Scottsdale AZ is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Conquering Stress & Anxiety

Help me give my students the tools to regulate their stress and anxiety with the EmWave2.

  • $290 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My classroom is a place for the kids who carry the world on their shoulders. I teach gifted students from fourth through sixth grade in reading and math, but I also provide for them an environment where it's okay to be who they are.

We achieve great things academically—I incorporate STEM and current events and a blended learning model with technology and traditional best practices—but if a student doesn't leave my room feeling more capable of handling the world than when he or she walked in, I haven't done them any favors.

My students are brilliant and kind and caring and anxious and perfectionistic and quirky and awesome, and together we will accomplish amazing things.

My Project

Research tells us that 25% of school-aged students have been diagnosed with some type of anxiety disorder. This, of course, does not include those who go undiagnosed.

Children need to feel comfortable in order to learn.

School can be a stressful place, and the world can be a stressful place. This is why it is so important that students learn how to regulate their emotions and what it means to calm down. This is a skill students will take with them no matter where they go in life.

The technology used in the EmWave2 gives students a visual way to perceive what is going on in their minds through their heart rate. Not on that, but it gives them a step-by-step process that can be repeated in a variety of situations to regulate their heart rate and return to a state of calm. I can't overstate the significance of this in a classroom setting where there are so many different needs.

Mrs. Tomczyk
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
EmWave2 • HeartMath $199.00 1 $199.00

Materials cost

$199.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $14.23

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$246.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.45

Total project goal

$289.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $289.66

3 Donors

-$251.46

Donations toward project cost

-$246.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.20

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