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Ms. Mangialardi from Oswego, IL is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Organization Is Key to Student's Reading and Math Success

Help me give my students an organized classroom system during their reading and math centers.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Mangialardi's classroom raised $573

This project is fully funded

My Project

Thank you for considering our project for the 2025-2026 school year. I teach amazing students with autism. We are a Title I school, and my students receive ELL support. They have impressive artistic abilities and are very creative. Their academic abilities range from kindergarten to 2nd grade. I found out that my special education program will be moving to a new building. With that being said, my classroom will need an organization system for our reading and math centers.

My desire is to challenge them even more than the previous year.

We need separate compartments for students individual tasks during centers. I have a wide variety of current tasks and academic activities for math and reading. As my students grow I continually add a wide range of activities to support their math and reading goals. We are in need of a place to keep our task bins and other materials for my students. This will give students the opportunity to work on academic skills to reach their full potential.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Classic Birch 12-Cubby Storage Unit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $429.00 1 $429.00

Materials cost

$429.00

Vendor shipping charges

$21.45

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$486.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.92

Total project goal

$572.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$572.81

49 Donors

-$341.34

Donations toward project cost

-$326.26

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.08

Matching donations from our partners

-$188.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$159.80

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.20

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$42.50

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$0.00

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