My students need parachutes, soccer balls, basketballs, basketball nets, and a document scanner to help rebuild our sports program after Hurricane Irma.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Shepard's classroom raised $924
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
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Every day my students come ready to learn and apply their new knowledge. Yet, attending a school with little resources makes it difficult to implement the most innovative and effective teaching strategies.
My students attend a historically low performing school and are in desperate need of some transformational changes in how they are educated.
The majority of the students I teach are faced daily with the struggles of poverty, violence, and low expectations. Despite this, my students are profoundly inquisitive. They are resilient and creative beyond belief. They are light-hearted, caring, and vocal. They process and interpret the world with a point of view that only a small portion of our society has the opportunity to witness. I come excited to work every day because there is so much potential and promise with these young minds.
My Project
For my kids, after-school sports provide an escape from the everyday struggles that they experience and puts their minds at ease as they dream and work towards a better life.
Physical activity is not just a requirement for our bodies, but for many of my students, it is a mental exercise as well.
The basketball nets will be used to replace the tattered ones that were damaged during the hurricane. The same is true for the soccer balls and training parachutes. The scanner will be used to preserve documents forever electronically without worry of water damage or flooding that natural disasters can bring.
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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