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Ms. Kotto from Watsonville CA is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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First Violin, Please

Help me give my students a beginning violin to foster the love of music and motivate them to do better in school!

  • $348 goal

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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

I teach seventh grade math at a high-need, at-risk, predominately Spanish-speaking college prep middle/high school. We have students from 6th grade through 12th grade. I have three math classes where I teach 3rd and 4th grade math skills to seventh grade students while teaching them the seventh grade standards. My goal is to have them reach grade level by the end of this school year.

Even though this is a college prep school, most of my students are way below grade level and they need all of the extra help and support possible to bridge the gap so that college can be an attainable dream.

Our middle school is comprised of about 220 amazing students, many of whom come from bilingual households. Their goal is not only to make it to college but to finish college as well.

My Project

I work at an amazing 6-12 school with students who are the first to go to college in their family. We do not have a music program so the students are not exposed to instruments. Many of them would love to learn how to play the violin. There is a teacher who spends one hour a week teaching guitar and he is willing to teach students to play the violin also. But, he doesn't have any violins. Learning to play an instrument means students could experience the love of music.

What if we could reach a struggling student by offering him/her the chance to learn how to play a violin?

Many of our students struggle in school but if a student were exposed to learning how to play a violin, maybe he or she would feel more motivated to do better in school. Doing better in school could possibly lead them to college.

Ms. Kotto
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Student Series Violin Outfit • Woodwind and Brasswind $79.99 3 $239.97

Materials cost

$239.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $21.96

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$295.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.15

Total project goal

$347.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $347.68

2 Donors

-$347.68

Donations toward project cost

-$295.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.15

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