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Ms. Queen from Winston Salem, NC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Helping ADD Students Achieve Success

My students need Hokki Stools and Disc O Sit as alternative seating options. The Writing Claw and Smart Stacks will help improve learning and writing for ADD students.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Queen's classroom raised $583

This project is fully funded

My Students

"The best way to think of ADD is not as a mental disorder but as a collection of traits and tendencies that define a way of being in the world." (Edward M. Hallowell) As a teacher with ADD, I understand the distractions, constant movements, and overwhelming thoughts some of my students face daily.

I have several students that have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD.

Our school is predominantly low income and the students have minimal background experiences and positive support systems in place. Often students with ADD/ADHD are considered behavior problems. Because I experience ADD personally, I know many of the tendencies and how they effect work habits, behavior and even attitudes. These students deserve a positive learning environment, need to be provided with ways to move without distracting others and given new opportunities for success in the classroom.

My Project

I try to find new ways to make learning easier for them. I offer alternative seating such as stools, bean bags, pillows, lap boards, exercise balls and more. I am upfront with the parents about my own ADD. That opens the door for communication, questions and concerns and a better understanding about ADD/ADHD. Parents seem more willing to discuss options and see the possible opportunities for helping their child. This grant will help me offer Hokki stools and Disc O Sit as additional seating options that move with the ADD child so they are less distracting to those around them and so they can focus more on the task at hand. The other materials will encourage improved handwriting, help with learning facts, vocabulary and other important information. The teacher guide will provide me with various new activities to try in the classroom.

Will Smith said, "If you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.

Your life will become better by making others lives better." My goal as a teacher is to provide my students with the best possible learning environment. With this grant you will be helping me help my students who deal with ADD/ADHD. That will make your life better, my life better and more importantly, the lives of my students better.

Ms. Queen South Fork Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Winston Salem, NC View local requests

Nearly all 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

21 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hokki Stool - 20" Light Blue • Kaplan Early Learning Company $104.51 1 $104.51
Hokki Stool - 20" Orange • Kaplan Early Learning Company $104.51 1 $104.51
18" Limited Susan B. Komen Pink Hokki Stool • Kaplan Early Learning Company $101.11 1 $101.11
DISC O SIT JUNIOR • School Specialty $27.54 2 $55.08
The Writing Claw - 12 Ct • Teachers' School Supply $21.60 1 $21.60
Smart Stacks Green Yellow 100 Per • Teachers' School Supply $3.29 5 $16.45
Carson Dellosa - Empower Adhd Kids • Teachers' School Supply $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$415.25

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.01

Sales tax

 $32.39

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$494.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.33

Total project goal

$582.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $582.21

10 Donors

-$580.45

Donations toward project cost

-$494.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$85.57

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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