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Mrs. Taylor-Smith from Detroit, MI is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Testing!! Green, Yellow, and Red!

Help me give my students testing power with headphones for my iPads, this will give privacy to the iReady, also incentive charts, award certificates, and rewards.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Taylor-Smith's classroom raised $727

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students lively, busy, creative and love to come to school. Even though they are from an area in Detroit, Michigan that does lend many opportunities, they love to come to school. Many just come for free or reduced lunch getting education is a perk. Day to day live is challenging for them. Come sunshine, rain sleet or snow they show my classroom is full.

My students are six and seven years old and learn best through hands-on learning.

They love to absorb knowledge whether it's from a chalkboard or technology. They thrive on learning when they are engaged and have numerous experiences in school as they do not have those opportunities at home.

My Project

My students use iReady as an online lesson and assessment. We use it weekly with a goal of 50 minutes per week with a 75% or higher score. My students can benefit from using headphones to concentrate on the assessments and meeting their target goal.

The class will love to track their scores by using incentive boards and star stickers of red, yellow and green.

Certificates of achievement excite and motivate students to try harder to reach target scores weekly.

Small treats will be given when scores are reached, bring such joy of accomplishment to the student. The joy of achievement makes a student want to be more successful at learning.

Mrs. Taylor-Smith Carstens Academy of Aquatic Science Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Detroit, MI View local requests

Nearly all 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

45 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Koss KPH7V Portable On-Ear Headphones, Violet • Quill.com $8.49 30 $254.70
HP 65XL Color Combination Ink Cartridge, High Yield (N9K03AN#140) • Quill.com $30.59 3 $91.77
Great Papers Rainbow Stars Certificate, 60/Pack • Quill.com $8.92 5 $44.60
Trend Incentive Charts Stars 'n Swirls • Quill.com $4.24 10 $42.40
Creative Teaching Press Incentive Charts, Small Vertical, Variety Pack • Quill.com $19.12 2 $38.24
Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers, Cheddar, 1.5 Oz., 72/Carton (13539) • Quill.com $29.74 1 $29.74
Welch's Fruit Snacks, Fruit Mix, 0.9 Oz., 66/Box (209-00320) • Quill.com $23.79 1 $23.79
Rice Krispies Treats Bars, Marshmallow, 0.78 Oz., 60/Carton (17120) • Quill.com $20.14 1 $20.14
Quaker Chewy Bars, Variety, 0.84 oz., 60/Box (220-00434) • Quill.com $17.84 1 $17.84
Carson-Dellosa Star Power Dazzle Stickers • Quill.com $4.24 2 $8.48
Trend superShapes Stickers, Star Medley • Quill.com $3.56 2 $7.12

Materials cost

$578.82

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$617.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$108.97

Total project goal

$726.47

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$726.47

1 Donor

-$364.00

Donations toward project cost

-$309.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.60

match offer

-$362.47

Match offer toward project cost

-$308.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.37

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$0.00

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