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Ms. Leibundgut from Saratoga CA is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Professional development

Teacher Book Study Group

I need 20 copies of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain to achieve my goals.

  • $730 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our students are inquisitive, hard-working, and desire to be successful. They come from different socioeconomic levels, cultures, many are English language learners, but one thing they have in common is the desire to be the best they can be.

We want our students to feel supported in the classroom, and to help them achieve their fullest potential.

This means working towards understanding how to teach students in a way that fosters independent and resilient mindsets, and helping our students to become more aware of learning strategies that will help them.

My Project

We will read this book as a group and meet regularly and discuss portions of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain.

In our meetings, we will discuss our reflections on the reading, how it relates to the students in our classroom and our methods of instruction.

Our goal is to learn how to adjust our teaching methods so that we are able to effectively meet our students where they are to help them become more independent learners, more resilient, and more self-aware about their own learning process.

Our classrooms are diverse, and we desire to close the achievement gap and to help all our students reach their full academic potential. We are excited to start reading this book together and start shifting our methodologies to support all of our students.

Ms. Leibundgut
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students • Amazon Business $26.49 20 $529.80

Materials cost

$529.80

Vendor shipping charges

$3.98

Sales tax

$48.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$620.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$109.45

Total project goal

$729.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$729.66

1 Donor

-$72.96

Donations toward project cost

-$62.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.94

match offer

-$656.69

Match offer toward project cost

-$558.19

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$98.50

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$0.00

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