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Ms. Freed from Framingham, MA is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Power of Seat-Choice

Help me give my students seat choice from standing to floor sitting options as we strive to meet the diverse needs of our learners.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Freed's classroom raised $821

This project is fully funded

My Students

Every day, a diverse group of scholars walks through our 6th-grade doors, eager to engage both the material and the social-emotional challenges of being a middle schooler. Our school has a high population of students with special needs who receive many services, both within and outside of the classroom. In our humanities classroom, a number of our students require significant adult support and modifications to the curriculum in order to keep up with their peers. We recognize each individual student learns differently, and as part of the inclusive nature of our classroom, we teach and encourage our students to find for themselves how they best learn.

We challenge our students to find meaning in the curriculum through ties to current social-justice issues as well as foster independence through an emphasis on social-emotional awareness in the classroom.

We are proud to see our students push themselves to overcome obstacles and make meaning of both social experiences and their personal lives. We are eager to continue our work to meet the needs of each unique learner that comes in our classroom, as we develop a community based on respect.

My Project

For decades, the traditional classroom has been organized in a face-forward orientation, with students observing and absorbing the teacher's directions. However, times have changed and the pedagogy continues to be challenged and shifted to increase student responsibility and control for their own learning. We are eager to offer more seat choices to our students as a way to increase their engagement with the curriculum, and also to increase the variety of modes in which we can deliver content. Seat choice is a small but powerful opportunity for students to gain a sense of self and control in the classroom community.

This project seeks to increase flexible spaces within our classroom as a way for students to access the curriculum, as well as to give teachers more spaces to meet with struggling learners.

In addition, this increases the flexibility for instructional design in our room. In our classroom, we have students who prefer walking, standing, or sitting on the floor, and each student who has chosen ‘their best place’ experiences a sense of success because they made that choice.

This project will further our work with social-emotional learning in the classroom as well as meet the needs of our diverse population of scholars. Our new furniture will also decrease the amount of time we will have to pull struggling learners away from the classroom in order to pre-teach, re-teach, or provide content specific targeted instruction, which can feel isolating. With this project, we will be able to design meaningful layouts with specific spaces where we can work with struggling scholars amongst peers, and even access more learners. Through onboarding this project, we hope to instill a sense of community through student choice both within our classroom and the school large.

Ms. Freed Christa McAuliffe Charter School Grades 6-8

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.

Framingham, MA View local requests

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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Active Kids Chair by Studico – Wobble Chair Juniors/Pre-Teens (Grades 3-7) - Age Range 7-12 - Flexible Seating Classroom - 17.75" Tall - Helps ADD/ADHD - Corrects Posture – Black • Amazon Business $57.99 4 $231.96
Casual Home 3-Piece Breakfast Set with Solid American Hardwood Top, White • Amazon Business $119.99 1 $119.99
LC405RG - Flex-Space Comfy Floor Seat - Orange • Lakeshore Learning Materials $54.99 2 $109.98
Zinus Becky Farmhouse Wood Coffee Table • Amazon Business $99.99 1 $99.99
Winsome 53784 Tabby Stool, White • Amazon Business $57.26 1 $57.26
Trideer Inflated Stability Wobble Cushion with Pump, Flexible Seating Classroom, Extra Thick Core Balance Disc, Wiggle Seat for Sensory Kids (Office & Home & School) (33cm Robin Egg Blue) • Amazon Business $18.99 2 $37.98

Materials cost

$657.16

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$697.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$123.00

Total project goal

$820.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $820.02

9 Donors

-$693.26

Donations toward project cost

-$590.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$102.49

match offer

-$125.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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