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Mr. Zanger from Mendon, IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. Zanger's classroom raised $285

Let's White-Out The Blackboard!

My students need a 4 x 8 whiteboard to replace a 1950's cracked blackboard.

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Mr. Zanger Unity Middle School
Mendon, IL Grades 3-5

My Students

Save us from the chalk dust and dry fingers. I have taught for the past ten years on a whiteboard and it was so easy and painless to write and erase with a whiteboard. The blackboard eats into my teaching time. The students and I use more physical time writing and erasing on the blackboard.

I am teaching in a fifth grade classroom in the Midwest.

I have 21 students in my classroom. Then we have our students from 3 classes rotate to Science, Social Studies, and Writing. This helps our fifth graders get ready for 6th grade where they switch classrooms for all of their classes. This basically means that I see all of our fifth grade students every day. Our building has been updating at a slow rate. However, due to the economy, this year I feel we are at a standstill. My students hate using the chalkboard and I have never had students dislike coming up to the board. Usually they enjoy that physical movement and acknowledgment but not with the chalk.

My Project

The whiteboard will help me in two main ways. The first is it allows me to display information at a quicker and much easier to read format. From this first example it will also expand my teachable time with the students. The second is that it will be more enjoyable for students to participate in the classroom.

Please help!

It is great people like yourselves that meet the teachers' needs, not our out-of-control state budgets. I truly hope that education continues to grow and improve. I teach students in my classroom as I want my own children taught in my peers' classrooms. Nothing less than excellent!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Half of students from low‑income households

62 students impacted 7 donors
Mr. Zanger Unity Middle School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Mendon, IL View local requests

Half 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

62 students impacted 7donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Quartet Total Erase Whiteboard • CDW Inc. $185.53 1 $185.53

Materials cost

$185.53

Vendor shipping charges

 $18.55

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$241.86

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.68

Total project goal

$284.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $284.54

3 Donors

-$172.00

Donations toward project cost

-$146.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.80

match offer

-$112.54

Match offer toward project cost

-$95.66

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.88

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 $0.00

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