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Ms. Erez from Burien, WA is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Professional development

Help Me Empower and Inspire My Special Education Students

I need funding to attend an advanced live-streamed evidence-based training that will help me become a more effective and empowering facilitator when providing therapy to my special education and BIPOC teen students.

  • $629 goal

This project expired on March 15, 2024.

This project expired on March 15, 2024.

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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 Project

I work full time as a speech therapist, serving high school and transition (18-21 year old) students with communication needs (and often additional concomitant learning and/or health-related needs such as learning disabilities, ADHD, Autism, etc.). The majority of my students are BIPOC, from lower SES backgrounds, and primarily multilingual, with English being only one of the languages spoken at home. Needless to say, this population is at the intersection of special needs and racial inequalities, and it has been traditionally disempowered and marginalized.

Working with this student population, over the past few years I began training in and using Motivational Interviewing (an evidence-based communication technique) in my speech therapy sessions.

This form of communication supports treating students like equal partners, increasing student engagement, and facilitating greater student ownership over their own change process. It also highlights students' innate strengths and values. As such this process helps students feel more seen and heard, and as a result - more empowered. I have used this technique to create treatment goals in partnership with my students that are more student-centered (rather than dictated by me), making treatment more relevant to their lives, and as such - more impactful.

Motivational interviewing is a skill that needs yearly maintenance, practice, and feedback, and I would love to continue my professional development in this area for the benefit of my students.

Ms. Erez Highline High School Grades 9-12

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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

45 students impacted

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Component Company Total
Activity The Institute for Individual and Organizational Change $497.00

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$497.00

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3rd party payment processing fee

$7.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$534.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.32

Total project goal

$628.78

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