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Ms. Falvo from Mesa, AZ is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Falvo's classroom raised $377

Reaching from Classroom to Community

My students need 14 various arts and crafts supplies such as markers, glitter, glue, beads, and craft projects.

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Ms. Falvo Mesa Education Center
Mesa, AZ Grades 9-12

"One of the best parts of teaching is watching students grow inside and outside of the classroom”. I am a high school English teacher at an alternative school for a public school district. I am also the service learning coordinator. My school was developed 4 years ago to address the growing number of students that were being asked to leave the mainstream schools due to attendance or behavioral issues. My students are a diverse group living primarily in low income communities. The vision of our school, known by all students, is "Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of a true education" (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). It is our goal to help students connect academics with the world around them.

Service learning projects are projects developed by students that get them involved in the community around them. Last year, a group of students came to me and wanted to work with homeless children. As a group, they contacted a homeless shelter in our area and proposed a project that connects reading and art. My students went after school and read a storybook to kids, ages 4-6, who live with their families in the shelter. After story-time, the kids did an arts and craft project that connected with the book. This project was met with such enthusiasm from my students that they want to continue their work there this school year. To do this, we will need art and crafts material to take to the homeless shelter. My students would love to continue this project and it would be a travesty if they couldn't.

My students need art and craft materials to continue with their Arts For Kids project. Materials such as paint, glue, construction paper, foam shapes, and any other material that can be incorporated into an art project are desperately needed. My students have proved to be very resourceful and creative when it comes to the art projects that they are using. This project has been as meaningful to my students as it has to the numerous homeless children that they are working with.

Let me say in advance, thank you for helping us with this project. You may be asking yourselves--how does this project benefit my students? As I mentioned before, my students are those kids that have been dismissed by the mainstream schools and have been on the verge of dropping out of school all together. Their involvement with the homeless children and their families has and will increase their empathy for the world around them. It also allows them to work on their public speaking skills (reading to the children) and their organization skills. It gives them a reason to come to school, and while they are there, it gives me a chance to teach them.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

20 students impacted 13 donors
Ms. Falvo Mesa Education Center Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Mesa, AZ 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

20 students impacted 13donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Animal Mosaics for Paper Crafts, Pkg. of 1000 1" Squares • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $7.28 2 $14.56
School Smart™ Paste-On Wiggle Eyes 400-Piece Classroom Pack • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $8.99 1 $8.99
School Smart™ Paste-On Wiggle Eyes Assortment • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $4.59 1 $4.59
Peel 'N' Stick Charming Eyes, Pkg. of 384 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $9.99 1 $9.99
Papier–Mache Bird House • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $2.87 15 $43.05
Wooden Door Hangers, Pkg. of 12 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $10.99 2 $21.98
Wood Frames Classroom Pack • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $54.99 1 $54.99
School Smart™ Lustre Glow Assorted Seed Beads • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $9.99 1 $9.99
MARKERS WASHABLE ECONOMY SET • Childcraft, Inc. $49.99 1 $49.99
GLITTER GREEN SCHOOL SMART 16 OZ • Childcraft, Inc. $6.99 1 $6.99
GLITTER BLUE SCHOOL SMART 16 OZ • Childcraft, Inc. $6.99 1 $6.99
GLITTER SILVER SCHOOL SMART 16 OZ • Childcraft, Inc. $6.99 1 $6.99
GLITTER PURPLE SCHOOL SMART 16 OZ • Childcraft, Inc. $6.99 1 $6.99
BEADS SCHOOL SMART ALPHABET RAINBOW • Childcraft, Inc. $3.29 3 $9.87

Materials cost

$255.96

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.60

Sales tax

 $14.33

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$308.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.77

Total project goal

$376.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $376.51

12 Donors

-$372.12

Donations toward project cost

-$308.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.38

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.39

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