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Ms. Sottile from Astoria, NY is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Empowering Social Growth: Resources for Autisim Social Skill Teaching

Help me give my students a gift card to support social skills teaching in an Autism school.

  • $155 goal

This project expired on September 22, 2025.

This project expired on September 22, 2025.

My Project

This project will fund a gift card to Teachers Pay Teachers so I can purchase specialized materials and curriculum designed specifically for teaching socail skills to Autistic students. With this gift card, I plan to acquire: visual social stories to support behavioral understanding, role-play scenarios and board games that teach conflict resolution, interactive worksheets focused on emotional recognition and expression, and video modeling resources for real world social situations. These materials will enhance our daily social-emotional lessons and give my students more engaging, concrete tools to understand the world around them.

Ms. Sottile PS255Q @ PS397 Grades 3-5

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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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More than three‑quarters of 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

24 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on TPT • TPT $100.00 1 $100.00

Materials cost

$100.00

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 FREE

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 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$131.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.21

Total project goal

$154.71

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