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Mr. Mikel from Muncie IN is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Flexible Seating For Focused Minds Pt. 2

My students need flexible seating to help focus their excitable and exuberant selves.

  • $394 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students walk into school every day with a desire to learn, despite starting each day behind the average child. Our area of reach has a high rate of drug usage. We also experience a high rate of poverty.

Despite this, my students are fighting to become engineers, doctors, teachers, lawyers, and politicians.

They are persevering through their circumstance to make these dreams a reality, and they do so with the biggest hearts and the most optimism I've ever seen.

My Project

I have been lucky enough to receive some flexible seating from a previous project. My students have felt the immediate impact from just a few stools and stability balls. They love to bounce and lean in their seats during our lessons. The chairs provided by the schools make this dangerous and impractical, and I do not have enough seating for every student who wants to move.

Having the ability to move around in their seats makes the biggest difference.

Far too often my students feel the need to move, but doing so is a distraction for the other students. If they bounce and move in the squeaky school chairs, others aren't focused. If they don't move, they're not focused. It's a no win situation.

Having flexible seating allows my students to discreetly move, and will allow everyone to stay focused and engaged.

Mr. Mikel
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Active Kids Chair - Active Chairs for Toddlers, Pre-Schoolers & Children Who Can’t Sit Still - Great 14" Wobble Chair for Kids with ADD / ADHD - Corrects Posture | Black • Amazon Business $49.99 2 $99.98
Active Kids Chair - Active Chairs for Toddlers, Pre-Schoolers & Children Who Can’t Sit Still - Great 14" Wobble Chair for Kids with ADD / ADHD - Corrects Posture | Green • Amazon Business $49.99 2 $99.98
Active Kids Chair - Active Chairs for Toddlers, Pre-Schoolers & Children Who Can’t Sit Still - Great 14" Wobble Chair for Kids with ADD / ADHD - Corrects Posture | Red • Amazon Business $49.99 2 $99.98

Materials cost

$299.94

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$334.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.02

Total project goal

$393.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$393.46

1 Donor

-$393.46

Donations toward project cost

-$334.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.02

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$0.00

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