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Dr. Grey from Orlando, FL is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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In Our Own Drawings: The Sketchbook Project

Help me give my students markers and drawing materials to provide an opportunity for them to create, foster self reflection, express their hopes, worries and dreams in their own sketchbooks.

  • $247 goal

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My Project

Sketchbooks are an engaging, meaningful and intentional way to create! Using sketchbooks and integrating social-emotional learning (SEL) prompts we can connect with students in a way like no other. This is critically important for students. My students live in a high poverty neighborhood and are faced with unthinkable challenges and trauma. They have limited access to create outside of school. This project will provide my children the opportunity to create, dream and express their worries in their own sketchbooks. Drawing in a sketchbook is important for children to record events, explore creativity, work through emotions and experiences. Prompts in sketchbooks can help children to tackle challenges. Through reflective drawing, students learn to identify challenges, build self-worth and motivate themselves by expressing themselves in their own drawings. The sketchbook along with social-emotional (SEL) prompts will help to foster an attitude of resilience as they create visual stories.

Teaching skills foundational to drawing further fosters in children a positive means to translate their ideas into art and art into a positive path for self expression and story telling.

Self reflection is critical to The Sketchbook Project. “In Our Own Drawings” will spark hands-on art making, while at the same time enable the students to create a personal work(s) of art.

Dr. Grey Mollie Ray Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Orlando, FL View local requests

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

300 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sharpie Ultra-Fine Point Marker - Color Burst Colors, Set of 24 • Blick Art Materials $21.74 6 $130.44
Sharpie Permanent Marker, Ultra Fine Tip, Black, Dozen (37001) • Quill.com $12.23 2 $24.46
Crayola Metallic Colored Pencils - Assorted Colors, Set of 8 • Blick Art Materials $3.66 6 $21.96

Materials cost

$176.86

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$209.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.97

Total project goal

$246.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $246.48

3 Donors

-$246.48

Donations toward project cost

-$209.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.97

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 $0.00

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