Flexible Seating: Bringing The Classroom Learning Environment To Life
My students need wobble stools, clipboards and stadium chairs to provide everyone the opportunity to choose their best work space and tools that allow them to focus during lessons and work times.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Evans's classroom raised $939
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our title 1 school is made up of a community of diverse learners coming from a range of backgrounds and life experiences. Our school supports a full inclusion model for students receiving special education services to ensure that all students feel a part of the community. In our co-taught classroom, which is comprised of two full time teachers and a mix of regular education and special education students, we have a wide variety of learners.
We are a Responsive School, which values students' emotional and social development alongside academics.
We strive to create an environment where students feel comfortable to take risks, make mistakes, and develop a love of learning. We have found that in order to truly foster this setting in our classroom students need to be able to move around, take breaks when necessary and be active while learning. When we are able to provide a variety of physical movement and hands on opportunities, our fifth grade students are more enthusiastic and engaged during lessons and work times and in turn more willing to take risks and grow.
My Project
Our students thrive when their needs are being met each day. This project, which will bring additional flexible seating options into our classroom, an initiative that we have done in previous years and know is extremely effective, will allow our students to move around while being seated as well as utilize various spaces in our classroom to complete their best work. We believe that the entire classroom should be available for learning in the way that helps each student the most. This may be students laying down to complete a written assignment, lightly bouncing on a yoga ball to remain focused, working at a standing table, wiggling on a wobble stool while reading or taking a clipboard and stadium seat to a quiet corner in the room to really focus on their work.
These materials will give our students the chance to discover what works best for their body to help them remain focused and engaged learners.
Our goal is for the students to begin to understand more about themselves and how they are best able to complete their work. Providing them with additional choices with these wobble stools, stadium seats and clipboards, students will be able to explore different modalities throughout the course of the day and year, increasing opportunities for safe and calming movement while completing a higher level of work. These seating options can easily be incorporated into group lessons as well as independent work times, increasing their impact on our students by helping them stay engaged for longer periods of time throughout the day.
More than half 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
Kore Patented WOBBLE Chair | Now Antimicrobial Protection | Stem Flexible Seating | Made in the USA - Active Sitting Kids - Pre-Teen, Purple (18in)
• Amazon Business
$89.99
3
$269.97
Kore Patented WOBBLE Chair | Now Antimicrobial Protection | Stem Flexible Seating | Made in the USA - Active Sitting Kids - Pre-Teen, Green (18in)
• Amazon Business
$89.99
3
$269.97
ONIVA - a Picnic Time brand Oniva Portable Reclining Seat, Light Blue
• Amazon Business
$26.06
6
$156.36
Trade Quest Plastic Clipboard Transparent Color Letter Size Low Profile Clip (Pack of 6) (Assorted)
• Amazon Business
$14.95
4
$59.80
Materials cost
$756.10
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$11.34
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$797.44
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$140.72
Total project goal
$938.16
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$938.16
12 Donors
-$596.26
Donations toward project cost
-$510.57
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$85.69
Matching donations from our partners
-$337.50
Match offers toward project cost
-$286.88
Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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