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Ms. Bolich from Spokane, WA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Visual Thinking Strategies = Very Thoughtful Students!

My students need the first year curriculum and materials for Visual Thinking Strategies, grades 1-5

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Bolich's classroom raised $662

This project is fully funded

My Students

The longer I teach, the more I realize that KNOWING how to think and express that thinking are imperative for student success.

My students all have at least one disability.

Many of them receive speech services as well as academics with me. Thinking and speaking don't come easily, and writing is even more challenging! Our urban school serves children in regular, behavioral, and designed instruction classrooms, grades K-6. Because our overall SES is high, we have fewer resources available than other schools in our city.

My Project

My weekend job has provided training in Visual Thinking Strategies with a nationally-recognized trainer at our local museum. I LOVE using VTS with my weekend students! They are becoming discriminating, creative thinkers and communicators. (And I am becoming a better listener!) I would love to use VTS in my public school classroom. It will not only promote thinking and reasoning, but verbal and written communication.

VTS is a finely-tuned technique, easily adaptable to other mediums (such as text).

These materials will not only help my students, but will make me a better teacher. Everyone wins!

Ms. Bolich Jefferson Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Spokane, WA View local requests

More than a third 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
VTS Grade 1 Posters • Visual Thinking Strategies $180.00 1 $180.00
grade 2 posters • Visual Thinking Strategies $180.00 1 $180.00
vts grade 3-5 year 1 CD • Visual Thinking Strategies $75.00 1 $75.00
VTS Grade 3-5, Year 1 Manual • Visual Thinking Strategies $25.00 1 $25.00

Materials cost

$460.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.00

Sales tax

 $40.25

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$562.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.20

Total project goal

$661.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $661.35

1 Donor

-$661.35

Donations toward project cost

-$562.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$99.20

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