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Mr. Hougas from New Britain CT is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Virtual Learning Lifesaver

Help me give my students the interactive online lessons and materials from Teachers Pay Teacher. This will help my students be more engaged and inspired in their stressful virtual learning environment.

  • $394 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Can you imagine living and learning during a pandemic? Most of us cannot and we never had a classroom struggle quite the way our youngsters do at this point in history.

The students I teach are a wonderful diverse bunch from all walks of life.

I have remote learners and hybrid learners who have been catapulted into a world of technology whether they were ready or not. Some have been super successful and navigate all obstacles. Others struggle and pop in and out and some look at me like deer in the headlights.

No matter what, we still work together and make time for virtual fun as often as possible.

My Project

As a teacher during this pandemic, I have found it extremely difficult to create engaging and navigable lessons that can be easily used with a Google learning platform day after day.

Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) is an organization with a huge number of inventive individuals who create incredibly helpful digital lessons and tools.

Although we, as teachers, have been very innovative with our lessons, we've run into quite a few obstacles. For example, planning for math has proved itself to be particularly. We've found it very frustrating when asking students to show work and still make it exciting.

TPT has some incredible math and literacy escape rooms and games that will help push engagement and attendance in our Google Meets. The whole goal is to create more "stickiness" that will bring back our students enthusiasm for school and learning and .... hopefully, make them forget about the stresses of living through the pandemic... at least for a little while.

Thanks in advance to all who are willing to help out. I have personally already bought a number of things off TPT, but I humbly ask for some help if you feel so inclined.

Mr. Hougas
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers • Teachers Pay Teachers $100.00 2 $200.00
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers • Teachers Pay Teachers $100.00 1 $100.00

Materials cost

$300.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$334.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.03

Total project goal

$393.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$393.53

6 Donors

-$196.50

Donations toward project cost

-$167.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.03

match offer

-$196.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$167.03

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.48

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.52

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$0.00

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