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Coach Cox from Charleston, SC is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Neat Notebooks for Novice Science Nerds!

Help me give my students composition notebooks and electric staplers to create help organize our learning!

  • $856 goal

This project expired on August 27, 2025.

This project expired on August 27, 2025.

My Project

As a high school teacher, my students jump straight into content the first week of classes. With varying backgrounds and situations outside of school beyond their control, some students are not able to either afford certain school supplies or they cannot get them within a reasonable amount of time. We begin setting up and adding materials to our notebooks on day 2, and in the past, I've found that those without a notebook for that first week, struggle with organization throughout the course.

Keeping all of their material organized increases students' likelihood for success.

With your generous donation, we will be able to provide each student with a notebook at the start of the school year so that everyone has the same strong start to the semester. Your donation will also help with the cost of electric staplers, which students will utilize daily to attach handouts into their notebooks. My goal each year is that, by the end of the semester, their notebooks will be a beautifully-organized study tool for their cumulative final exams!

Coach Cox James Island Charter High School Grades 9-12

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

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Charleston, SC View local requests

More than 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

125 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bazic 1-Subject Composition Notebooks College Ruled 100 Sheets Multicolor 12/Bundle (BAZ5050-12) • Staples $46.44 12 $557.28
Bostitch Impulse 30 Sheet Electric Stapler Value Pack - Heavy Duty, No-Jam with Trusted Warranty Guaranteed by Bostitch, Black (02638) • Amazon Business $28.42 3 $85.26

Materials cost

$642.54

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 FREE

Sales tax

 $45.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$727.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$128.38

Total project goal

$855.86

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