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Ms. White from Oakland, CA is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Kindles for Middle Schoolers!

Help me give my students Kindles so they can access any book they want to read!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. White's classroom raised $914

This project is fully funded

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My Students

My students are amazing! We serve approximately 370 students in grades 6-8. Middle schoolers often say they hate reading. However, it's a beautiful thing to see students fully engaged in a story. Most of our students enter our school reading far below grade level. They don't hate reading...it's just difficult. We seek to build confidence in our students so they see themselves as readers.

It is a core goal of our school to foster a love of reading.

Our students read books of their choosing in at least one of their core classes each day. They compete to see which grade level can read the most. They smile for pictures when they reach milestones. And they champion their favorite books with one another. They begin to see themselves as readers!

My Project

Reading is freedom. Every kid deserves access to whatever book they want to read. Classroom libraries, while important, have concrete limitations due to the expense of physical books. Additionally, because of this lack of accessibility to multiple copies of books, students cannot read the same book at the same time. Unfortunately, this means reading crazes that marked some of our most impactful engagement with literature (think Harry Potter, the Divergent Series, and Hunger Games) can be lost on students with the most to gain from a broad cultural excitement to read. With our Kindle program, our students can read any book at any time, digging into their own super series like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the Dork Diaries and The Day My Butt Went Psyhco (that's the thing about freedom...no one said we had to like their books...).

With the start of our Kindle program, we have already seen a change in the number of kids reading and their engagement in their books.

Students read over 60 MILLION words this last school year, literally twice as much as the year before-a year without access to Kindles. Next year, our school will be expanding, and we will have twice as many students to welcome into our reading program.

It's clear: putting a Kindle in every student's hands is a powerful way to engage students and build their identities as readers. Kids are more invested in independent reading when they have choice. Independent reading builds knowledge of the world, which helps student reach success. Kindles will help our students read what truly interests them and help to make lifelong readers out of a new and powerful generation of change agents.

Ms. White Elmhurst United Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fire 7 Tablet with Alexa, 7" Display, 8 GB, Black - with Special Offers • Amazon Business $44.99 15 $674.85

Materials cost

$674.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $61.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$776.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.07

Total project goal

$913.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $913.79

9 Donors

-$600.00

Donations toward project cost

-$517.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$82.50

Matching donations from our partners

-$304.97

Match offers toward project cost

-$259.22

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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