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Mrs. Shaner from Aurora CO is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Creating Community Through Drumming

My students need five drums for a drum circle unit that we will be doing in the spring.

  • $1,503 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Have you ever worked on a team and accomplished something big? Drum circles create cultural awareness, self confidence, consideration of others, and pride from being involved in something bigger than yourself. Drumming will help my students positively affect the world around them.

My students attend a high-risk, high impoverished Title I school.

Despite many of their difficult, uncertain home lives, they come to school thirsty to learn, are incredibly intelligent and talented, and light up the hallways with their humor. They never fail to surprise me with their insightful thoughts about our learning and have a desire to play the drums! (It has been my most highly requested class!)

My Project

Many of the students are refugees that have witnessed terrible things and need an outlet for their feelings. My students desperately need to see that they are important and are valuable to others. Many times they are made to feel small and alone. Working as a team in a drum circle will help them see the value they bring to others and feel proud of what they accomplish during our performance. With these five drums, we will spend time building their rhythmic and musical understanding and improving their hand-eye coordination, listening ability, and dexterity. All of those skills will help them in their classroom with learning English, reading and writing, as well as help them be more well-rounded as future citizens of the world.

Music is a subject that helps students think in a different way from their other learning.

For some, it is simply a creative outlet, for many it is a way to escape their troubles and serves as an outlet for their emotions, and it certainly makes well-rounded, sensitive, creative, bright, intelligent, independent, outside-the-box thinkers of all. Drumming is the BEST way to reach some of those "unreachable" students because it is engaging, fun, and connects us with the pulse of life.

Mrs. Shaner
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
100 Series Tunable Tubanos • Woodwind & Brasswind $262.99 2 $525.98
100 Series Tunable Tubanos • Woodwind & Brasswind $209.99 3 $629.97

Materials cost

$1,155.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$73.98

3rd party payment processing fee

$17.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,277.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$225.40

Total project goal

$1,502.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,502.67

19 Donors

-$927.67

Donations toward project cost

-$830.96

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$96.71

Matching donations from our partners

-$575.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$488.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$86.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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$0.00

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