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Ms. Cohen from Mesa, AZ is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Recording Our Future

Help me give my students digital voice recorders for an opportunity to record themselves.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Cohen's classroom raised $394

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate 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

My students are hard-working third graders from a low-income environment. They all have their own individual and unique personalities but come together to create a family dynamic within my classroom. My students come to school each day with a smile on their faces.

They are smart, adventurous, and eager to learn.

Our school is located in Arizona. We often lack classroom funding, and our parents are not capable of helping beyond their means. This means my students often must go without. These students deserve more.

My Project

Throughout the year, we will be working on improving our school's reading literacy and comprehension. Although there are many different ways to do this, we often ask students to work in partnerships. Having recording devices will allow me to hear what each partnership is discussing as well as keep them on task.

Listening to a recording of their peers reading the story they are reading is shown to improve fluency.

Having recorders will give my students the opportunity to record themselves reading a book. These recordings then can be played back by other students while they are reading along. Doing this promotes appropriate intonation and speed. Utilizing these recorders in multiple ways will greatly benefit my students.

Ms. Cohen Whittier Elementary School Grades 3-5

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.

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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

19 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mansso 8GB Digital Voice Recorder - Audio Recorder, 8GB Voice Activated Recorder with Playback, Dictaphone, MP3 Voice Recorder for Lectures/Meetings/Interviews/Class, Support up to 128GB • Amazon Business $27.99 10 $279.90

Materials cost

$279.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$20.01

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$334.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.96

Total project goal

$393.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$393.07

1 Donor

-$393.07

Donations toward project cost

-$334.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.96

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$0.00

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