Help me give my students individual art materials that can be used in a post Pandemic classroom and as a component of trauma-informed instruction.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Coleman's classroom raised $603
This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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 Project
My Students
My students are inspiring!
They motivate me to be the best teacher I can be. My school has the highest percentage of students within our district who are limited English proficient and we are 100% free and reduced breakfast/lunch. Our students are considered "low performing" academically according to current trends in how public schools, teachers, and students are "held accountable."
As a teacher in a low income, high poverty school I have learned that trauma informed classrooms that integrate art with core academic content can have immediate calming effect on students who have lived through adverse traumatic experiences.
The outcomes of trauma in a child's life, especially repeated trauma, such as substance abuse in the home, parental separation, domestic violence, suicidal household members, parental or sibling incarceration, and/or experience of abuse or neglect is strongly correlated with a negative effect on students' readiness to learn. Not to mention their capacity to cope in complex social situations within the school environment. Traumatic stress can dismantle one’s entire sense of belonging, safety, and self-control.
My Project
Humans retain traumatic memories in physiological and cerebral ways. The use of art integration with core academic content in education addresses both facets. Art making provides a container for trauma and can promote feelings of safety, security, belonging, grounding and validation. Creative output engages the student in organizing, expressing and making meaning from traumatic experiences.
The individual student art kits will not only enhance our trauma informed classroom, but artistic expression is unique in its ability to bypass speech-production areas in the brain and construct wordless somatic paths to expression which is fundamental for second language learners.
By providing these resources, multiple Nevada Academic Content Standards for grade 3 multi lingual and bi lingual students will be promoted utilizing artistic expression output.
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
POPYOLA Art Supplies, 180 Piece Drawing Painting Art Kit with Clipboard and Coloring Papers, Gifts Art Set Case with Oil Pastels, Crayons, Colored Pencils, Watercolor Cakes
• Amazon Business
$19.78
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$474.72
Materials cost
$474.72
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$7.12
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$511.84
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$90.32
Total project goal
$602.16
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$602.16
12 Donors
-$602.16
Donations toward project cost
-$511.84
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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