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Ms. Steadele from Chesapeake VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Steal Like an Artist: Tapping into Creativity

My students need a class set of Steal Like an Artist to become the artists I know they are.

  • $393 goal

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My Students

If you could be in my class during 4th bell, you'd hear a horrible buzzing from the speaker system connected to my computer and my feet clopping across the room, for I never sit down. But then, you'll start to start to listen harder, and you'll hear the sounds of 29 kids working meticulously on their works of literary genius that many of their friends will have no idea what blood, sweat, and tears they put into it.

My creative writing classes are often made up of 29 kids that many have never had the opportunity to write what they really want to write because English classes are now full of test prep and essays about topics they are bored with.

The problem: the class is still pretty brand new and I have very literally nothing to teach with.

My Project

Creative Writing is one of the newer classes at the high school where I teach. After seeing that more and more students were seeking a place to tap into their creative sides more, I worked for two years to bring the class to my school. But without any resources provided to the me nor students, I have had to become creative myself in developing a class that allows the students to really see their potential come to life. Mostly though, I have just paid for items myself.

The book Steal Like an Artist is going to be a great resource for students of all ages to help them really realize that they can be creative geniuses!

Whether they are writing poems, children stories, or one-act plays, students need more than just instruction, they need to be inspired and Austin Kleon does just that!

These books will be used at the beginning of the course for not only formal instruction, but after each projects students will be challenged to follow the newly learned tenant and begin their journey to tapping into their own creativity.

Ms. Steadele
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative • Amazon Business $9.98 30 $299.40

Materials cost

$299.40

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$333.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.92

Total project goal

$392.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$392.81

1 Donor

-$222.59

Donations toward project cost

-$222.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$130.94

Match offer toward project cost

-$111.30

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.64

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$39.28

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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