Help me give my students the appropriate keyboarding resources needed to present their work samples with confidence and pride.
$1,049 goal
This project expired on October 4, 2025.
This project expired on October 4, 2025.
My Project
My school is a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Music) that requires special projects and activities all year long by school leadership. As a first year keyboarding teacher, one desperately desires to have appropriate resources to make my class run more efficient and productive. Due to major school budget cuts, I need a color laser jet printer to be able to print out student work samples as required by all teachers for meetings. Additionally, I would like to have laminating pouches to protect work that is often touched and dismantled by students in the main hallways of the building. Lastly, purchasing headphones will help address a large population of students who struggle with focus and concentration issues. Using headphones in my keyboarding class will improve the learning environment for not only students with disabilities, but auditory learners such as students with Autism, or students with ADHD as well. Headphones will help cancel out internal distractions within the classroom that tends to make students become off task.
The goal of this project is to acquire keyboarding resources that allow student work samples to be presented to the public in a manner that promotes creativity and professionalism.
My students are very unique in that initially at the beginning of school they were somewhat reluctant to take a keyboarding class. However now, they recognize that taking keyboarding can be helpful in other ways as well. For example, the majority of students are very familiar with video games and why speed and accuracy is important to score a win. The intent of the class is not to make students better video game players, but rather to improve their digital literacy and communication skills. However, if keyboarding inadvertently helps this generation of students in other areas, I personally consider learning keyboarding as a benefit.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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HP Color LaserJet Pro 3201dw - printer - color - laser
• Best Buy Education
$369.99
1
$369.99
Yunsailing 20 Pack Bulk Classroom Headphones with Microphone Students Kids Wired School Class Set Headphones for School Library Computer Office Adults 3.5 Jack Universal Plug(Multicolor)
• Amazon Business
$50.99
4
$203.96
218A 218X Toner Cartridges 4 Pack 3301dw Compatible Replacement for HP 218A 218X Color Laserjet Pro MFP 3301fdw 3301cdw 3201dw 3301sdw Printer High Yield Ink Set W2180A (Black Cyan Yellow Magenta)
• Amazon Business
$161.99
1
$161.99
CAREGY 600 Pack Laminating Sheets,Holds 8.5 x 11 Inch Sheets,Thermal Laminating Pouches, 3 Mil, 9 x 11.5 Inches Lamination Sheet Paper for Laminator, Round Corner Letter Size
• Amazon Business
$44.95
1
$44.95
Materials cost
$780.89
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$68.33
3rd party payment processing fee
$11.71
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$890.93
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$157.22
Total project goal
$1,048.15
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