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Mrs. Maurer from Westerville, OH is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Privacy Is the Key to Success!

Help me give my students the privacy they need while they are taking tests, working on independent work, or simply want to put it up so a friend doesn't talk to them while they are working on work with privacy partitions.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Maurer's classroom raised $183

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students come to school with a love of learning and excited to read stories. They absolutely love to read books that they can go to another world in. They come to school each ready to read and be challenged in their reading.

Our school is a charter school in Westerville, Oh, which is a suburb in Columbus, OH.

I have 26 second grade students in my homeroom classroom. Our school is a Title I school which means the majority of my students come from a low socioeconomic background.

Like many charter schools we do not receive the same funds as a traditional public school which makes it difficult to obtain materials needed to teach my students. This impacts the supplies that we have in the classroom to help children learn the academic content. My students want to use materials that will help them understand!

My Project

Privacy is the key to success! My students are in need of good privacy folders to help them during work, test, and silent reading. It will make a difference in that they are currently using privacy folders that I made 12 years ago. They have been torn, ripped, and simply falling apart. The students need these in order to do their best work and be independent when taking a test or working on independent work.

Privacy folders allow my students to concentrate on their work with little to no distractions!

The materials will be used while students take their tests.

Mrs. Maurer Cornerstone Academy Grades PreK-2

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

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Westerville, OH View local requests

More than a third 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

26 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
JJ689 - Privacy Partitions - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 3 $89.97
JJ670 - Privacy Partitions Storage Rack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99

Materials cost

$122.96

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$154.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.32

Total project goal

$182.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$182.12

2 Donors

-$157.12

Donations toward project cost

-$133.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.57

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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$0.00

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