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Mrs. Mclachlan from Chicago IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Visual Flex-ability

The cost of this proposal is $623, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

  • $623 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

I teach at Swift Elementary in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. Edgewater is an extremely diverse area, and the students in my class are from various backgrounds, making our class a melting pot of ethnicities. This year I had 14 English language learners and nine different languages spoken in my classroom alone. I teach all subjects in a self-contained classroom -- Reading, Writing, Science, Social Studies, Math, Health, and a zillion life-lessons a day. Sometimes, when my students don't seem to be comprehending a particular lesson in ways I had not anticipated, I naturally want to reach for a supplemental video such as Bill Nye the Science Guy or something from the Nova series or School House Rock. I have some of these videos in my collection and can borrow others from the public library in anticipation of an upcoming lesson. Some would be VHS and some DVD. Swift Elementary has a few televisions that are shared by all the classes. Some of the video supplements might be four or five minutes long and the idea of, finding the television and checking it out, for the possible viewing of such a short segment that I might or might not show seems very overwhelming. Yet those four or five minutes can get the students really excited about the lesson. It would be amazing to have the flexibility to make that decision on the spur of the moment.

Mrs. Mclachlan
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
27" COLOR TELEVISION • Best Buy $209.00 1 $209.00
TOSHIBA DVD/VCR COMBO -- Toshiba SD-V394 DivX DVD/VCR Combo • Quill Corporation $119.99 1 $119.99
UTILITY CART 42 HIGH -- H. Wilson 42"H Audio/Visual Carts; Black • Quill Corporation $107.99 1 $107.99

Materials cost

$436.98

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$510.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$112.05

Total project goal

$622.50

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $622.50

7 Donors

-$600.53

Donations toward project cost

-$510.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$90.08

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.97

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 $0.00

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