My students need a hole punch, books, a chair, and paper.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Thaler's classroom raised $416
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
A day in my class involves crazy amounts of movement and thinking for a high school English class - the students are expected to grow their mindsets beyond anything they (or most adults) could ever imagine. A normal day ends with the students leaving, joyful over the fact that their brains hurt.
Inner-city schools have a variety of students and stories - my school is one of those.
I have students ranging from all different social and ethnic backgrounds. The majority of my students do not speak English as their first language - the main languages spoken are Spanish, Somali, and Kirundi. The great thing about all the different languages is that everyone learns from everyone! There are students that love teaching words or phrases from their native language, and not a single soul is afraid of misspeaking, because all my students know that it is okay to make mistakes. This level of acceptance runs deep in my school, given the fact that the community we live in is kind and thoughtful. No one minds that we are severely lacking in funding - we make do with what we have, and we love each other all the more for it!
My Project
At the moment, my classroom is lacking some basic essentials. We need a working hole punch - thank goodness for the students that come in early and stay late to help me hole punch stacks of papers, six papers at a time! We need books - we normally sit 3 students to 1 book during literature circles. And, we need a chair. I have a small wooden chair that does not exude professionalism in any manner, nor is it conducive to grading the excess of papers (the need to get up and walk around after every couple of papers greatly lengthens the time to grade essays).
In addition, we need colorful copy paper (well, any copy paper, but the normal type is easier to persuade people to give up), which helps 9th graders find those easy-to-lose, but ever-so-important papers (essay prompts, rubrics, etc.).
In short, my students will be able to have some extra sanity in their lives that comes from ease-of-living (which many of them rarely get).
The donations to this project will help my classroom look more like an actual classroom and less like a rummage sale of broken parts.
Through these donations, my students will have more organization tricks in their database, and they will be able to see what it is like to learn in an environment that is not lacking basic necessities. It is amazing to see how much more a student can learn when they have access to the necessary materials and receive timely feedback.
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
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