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Ms. Coleman from Reno, NV is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Trauma Informed Classroom Spaces

Help me give my students great tools, such as the Papasan chair and bean bag chairs, for our calming corner, to improve student self regulation, manage behavior, and build social emotional skills.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Coleman's classroom raised $484

This project is fully funded

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My Students

My students are inspiring! They motivate me to be the best teacher I can be. My school has the highest percentage of students within our district who are limited English proficient and we are 100% free and reduced breakfast/lunch. Our students are considered "low performing" academically according to current trends in how public schools, teachers, and students are "held accountable."

As a teacher in a low income, high poverty school I have learned that trauma informed classrooms with safe spaces have an immediate calming effect on students who have lived through adverse traumatic experiences.

The outcomes of trauma in a child's life, especially repeated trauma, such as substance abuse in the home, parental separation, domestic violence, suicidal household members, parental or sibling incarceration, and/or experience of abuse or neglect is strongly correlated with a negative effect on students' readiness to learn. Not to mention their capacity to cope in complex social situations within the school environment.

With your generous support toward creating a calming corner with flexible tactile seating in my classroom, my goal to improve student self regulation, manage behavior, and build social emotional skills so all of my students can thrive, can become a reality.

Thank you.

My Project

The materials I am requesting for my students will be used to create a safe classroom space where students can practice self regulation skills and help maintain a positive, calm classroom.

There are two large factors in dealing with trauma: emotions and relationships.

Neither fit into a nice, neat, little box. They can be wild and unpredictable. They can change quickly and be demanding.

For educators, it is more important now than ever, that we create a classroom where hurting students feel welcome and safe enough to let their guard down to learn. A classroom where, for maybe the first time, a student realizes they can trust an adult, and they won’t get hurt.

Safe and comforting classroom spaces are important, because teachers are able manage our classrooms in a way whereas outcomes of the trauma that one child may be experiencing, do not effect the entire classroom negatively.

Ms. Coleman Echo Loder Elementary 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.

Reno, NV 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
OSP Designs Papasan Chair, Blue Cushion/Gray Frame • Amazon Business $149.88 1 $149.88
Big Joe Bean Bag, 98-Inch, Sapphire • Amazon Business $39.99 2 $79.98
Big Joe Roma Chair, Zebra • Amazon Business $59.88 1 $59.88
Big Joe Roma Bean Bag Chair, Spicy Lime • Amazon Business $58.99 1 $58.99

Materials cost

$348.73

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.38

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$411.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.59

Total project goal

$483.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $483.93

3 Donors

-$412.84

Donations toward project cost

-$411.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$71.09

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 $0.00

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