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Ms. Cloyd from Rocky Mount, NC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Cloyd's classroom raised $425

We Go From Sidewalk To Gallery, With Art Chalks & Charcoal

My students need an assortment of cotton fiber papers in colors to enhance projects drawn with colored chalks and charcoal.

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Ms. Cloyd Rocky Mount Senior High School
Rocky Mount, NC Grades 9-12

My Students

Kids think it's so much fun to draw on the driveway and sidewalks. I want to bring that enthusiasm into the classroom with chalk pastels. We have a large covered walkway on one end of the school that gets very little use. I want to do one sidewalk chalk project, then come indoors onto good paper.

We go to school in a building that is over fifty years old.

Today our classroom is the old auto body shop. The best thing is, it's big. We're located inside the older part of the town near the railroad tracks. However, our mostly minority students are on the fast track to better educations with a motivated faculty and curriculum opportunities. The arts programs help keep our students engaged in school through music, drama, and visual arts. We are decreasing our drop out rates and improving test scores with innovative programs to keep kids in school, get into colleges and teaching career skills that will provide a savvy workforce for our community. Our community has traditionally been agricultural and textile manufacturing. Families have struggled to cope as many of those jobs go overseas. This generation needs new skills to compete, but they also need exposure to life long habits and hobbies.

My Project

Most years I can only purchase white paper. I supplement this with rolls of recycled paper from the construction business, paper used to cover floors and walls. We've even used tar paper from roofing to get something black. This year I got a big donation of charcoal sticks, white chalk and cheap kids sidewalk chalk. This will be best used on colored papers. I found a web site that shows incredible side walk art for inspiration for the sidewalk project. The sidewalk is available, but we need the paper for the inside projects. Inside I plan a still life project and a portrait project. All three will teach drawing skills, shading and value and color blending. The sidewalk project can be a group activity and the inside projects can be for individual work. The contrast of having a colored background surface will be a new experience and teach the use of highlights, plus positive and negative space to create emphasis.

I have noticed students get more excited about projects if something about the materials are unusual.

They feel like they have reached a higher level of skill and quality. The same project on white paper just isn't as impressive. We display art all over the school from every level and make sure our students participate in shows at several locations and events in the community. The parent, community and peer recognition is so important to the self esteem of our students.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

75 students impacted 2 donors
Ms. Cloyd Rocky Mount Senior High School Grades 9-12

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

75 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
PAPER DRAWING CHARCOAL ASST 19X25 PACK OF 150 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc/School Spec $164.34 1 $164.34
PAPER DRAWING MI-TEINTES 98 LB 19 X 25 FASHION PK 10 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc/School Spec $14.53 4 $58.12
PAPER DRAWING MI-TIENTES 98LB BRIGHT 19X25 PK 10 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc/School Spec $14.53 4 $58.12

Materials cost

$280.58

Vendor shipping charges

 $28.06

Sales tax

 $21.89

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$369.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.25

Total project goal

$424.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $424.99

2 Donors

-$424.99

Donations toward project cost

-$369.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.25

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