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Ms. Drake from Baton Rouge, LA is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Creating an Exciting Environment for ELA

Help me give my students a comfortable and motivating classroom environment with essentials like headphones, and incentive-based flexible seating options, like yoga balls, to promote engaged learning.

  • $600 goal

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My Project

I believe in making scholars feel at home and providing a safe learning space. The feeling of students entering my classroom with smiling faces ready to learn is unexplainable. As an educator, it motivates me to continue doing all I can to uplift the scholars. My classroom needs organization supplies, headphones, and reading books to ensure a comfortable and effective learning environment for our future authors.

Providing a comfortable environment is essential for successful learning.

Flexible seating is one way to provide a comfortable environment that motivates scholars to want to learn. This flexible seating incentive encourages students to want to take charge of their learning, work hard, and make great choices. As an incentive for great behavior and engaged learning, a scholar will have the option during independent work to get a yoga ball and comfortably complete their task in a preferred area of the classroom. My scholars are ready to learn and try their best when they are in class, this alone makes them more than deserving!

Ms. Drake Geo Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge Charter School Grades 3-5

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

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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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Baton Rouge, LA View local requests

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

70 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Topment Plastic Boxes 15 Drawer Rolling Organizer Cart Utility Storage Tools Scrapbook Paper Multi-Use • Amazon Business $89.64 1 $89.64
Kids Headphones Bulk 24 Pack Multi-Colors Student Headphones Wired Class Headphones Set for School Classroom Students Children Toddler Boys Girls Teen and Adult • Amazon Business $66.79 1 $66.79
6 Pcs Flexible Seating for Classroom Elementary Yoga Ball Chairs for Kids Inflatable Yoga Ball Office Chair Stability Balance Trainer with Black Inflator for Student Desk Chairs • Amazon Business $62.99 1 $62.99
Double Sided Dry Erase Boards, Ohuhu 30-Pack 9 x 12 Inch Whiteboards Set, Including 30 x Lap Board, 30 x Black Markers, 30 x White Boards Eraser for Students, Classroom, Back to School Supplies • Amazon Business $39.49 1 $39.49
Crayola Classpack Kids' Colored Pencils Assorted Colors 240/Carton (68-8024) • Staples $33.76 1 $33.76
AFMAT Electric Pencil Sharpener for Colored Pencils, Auto Stop, Fast Sharpen in 3s, Large Hole Pencil Sharpener Plug in for 6-12mm No.2/Jumbo Pencils-Purple • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $21.57 1 $21.57
4 Book Bundle - Who HQ: Civil Rights Figures (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $21.56 1 $21.56
A Kids Book About Anxiety - social emotional learning collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
I Am Enough (hardcover picture book) • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
Bridge to Terabithia • Quill.com $12.59 1 $12.59
Paperback Holes Book By Louis Sachar, Grades 4th - 12th (ING0440414806) • Quill.com $11.33 1 $11.33
Rourke Educational Media Kids Speak Out About Inequality―Young Racial and Gender Equality Activists and How Kids Can Help End Discrimination, Grades 1-4 Leveled Readers (24 pgs) Reader • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50

Materials cost

$429.31

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.02

Sales tax

 $37.56

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$509.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.88

Total project goal

$599.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $599.21

1 Donor

-$299.60

Donations toward project cost

-$254.66

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.94

match offer

-$299.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$254.67

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.94

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