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Mrs. Kenny from Chicago, IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Visual Timers Please!

Help me give my students a visual timer to help keep them on track!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Kenny's classroom raised $179

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

My students live in a low-income/high-poverty, urban school district. They are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom, including emotional trauma, a high mobility rate, and many other special needs. Many of them are being raised in single-parent households and 99% receive a free lunch and breakfast. My students are 70% Hispanic and 30% African-American. The majority of my students are far below the national and state standards in reading and math.

Our school is very limited when it comes to distributing resources.

We would like to do more to provide our children with the supplies they need, but our school budget crisis makes this difficult.

My Project

Classroom timers are a great, subtle way for teachers to reinforce classroom management. Defining timed segments for each activity helps get students on board by signaling there's a plan. And it will help students more seamlessly move from, say, a group activity back to their desks for individual work. My students desperately need this in order to stay on track.

Giving students time to do a Think-Pair-Share or any type of group work will be so much easier with a clear stopping point.

The visual timers will allow students to make presentations that don’t go over their allotted 5 minutes to make that speech or give their report. This will keep my entire schedule on track.

Mrs. Kenny West Park Academy Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Chicago, IL 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

60 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
EA210X - Giant Sand Timers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
PP181 - Giant Classroom Timer • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99

Materials cost

$119.98

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$151.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.78

Total project goal

$178.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $178.56

1 Donor

-$89.28

Donations toward project cost

-$75.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.39

match offer

-$89.28

Match offer toward project cost

-$75.89

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.39

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 $0.00

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