Celebrate Black Teachers and Students
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
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Ms. Laura from Seattle WA is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
My students need flexible seating options because, just like adults, they have a hard time staying focused while sitting in a desk and chair for the whole day.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
Students in our classes differ in culture, language, socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicity, academic and social skills, but we function as a family to help everyone feel included and valued as a member of our tight little learning community.
Because of the remarkable socio-economic, ethnic, and international diversity at our school, our classrooms are small models of the real world and we work hard to ensure equity for all.
Our classroom is in a small school in an urban setting. We have a diverse school demographic composed of students rich in culture and language. Our international students range from those visiting from around the world as their parents attend graduate school to those eligible for refugee status. We have students who have faced crisis, homelessness, and students attending while they or a sibling undergoes treatment at our local hospital. We also have students that have special needs and students that are advanced learners. Building up academic skills for all of our diverse population will help provide our students with more opportunities for success as they grow older and smarter!
Last year I added cushions to my classroom to allow places for the kids to work on the floor, but what our room really needs are seating options for working at their desks. Some students are not comfortable working on the floor, and they deserve flexible seating choices, too. I'm looking to add stools, bouncy bands, and stability balls as options for students that prefer to work at a desk or table. I'd also like a floor lamp for fluorescent light sensitivity.
This project will help students that need adaptive furniture to be able to fully engage and access learning, but it will also reach students that connect with school more when they feel that they have choices in their environment.
I saw students become different learners last year with a change as simple as a stool instead of a chair. Adding these seating options into our classroom will help each student physically feel comfortable which can greatly impact productive work time.
Our school has an incredible Social Emotional Learning curriculum and one of the things that we teach students, at all grades, is self-awareness. Students must have self-awareness skills while using flexible seating because they have to decide what types of seating work and don't work for them. Flexible seating will tie nicely into our SEL skills since they need to be aware of what works for themselves, but they also have to understand that the way they use the seating may distract others and that they have to share and take care of the furniture together. When students take care of their materials together, they expand their self-awareness skills into social-awareness skills. Adding this flexible seating will increase overall productivity and provide an authentic SEL platform for talking about our self-awareness and social-awareness skills all year long.
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