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Ms. Torres from Baldwin Park, CA is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Winding Up Worktables to Wobble While We Work

Help me give my students new tables as an alternative for flexible seating in my classroom.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Torres's classroom raised $1,778

This project is fully funded

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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 Project

Flexible seating is a great classroom resource. While we all know the difficulties of sitting in a standard desk chair all day working as the norm, most of my students are finding it too difficult. After virtual learning, students found creative ways of sitting while attending class virtually. With in-person learning, students find it extremely difficult to stay put at one hard, confining, 25-year-old desk to learn.

As teenagers, it is unnatural for students to sit still in the same spot (a standard desk) for hours at a time as they are being asked to.

Wanting to encourage movement and comfort so that each student can find their best learning style is my objective.

These tables are an amazing resource to keep students in their seats, doing their work while wiggling and moving and yet remaining seated. These tables also offer my students some much-needed extra space. Our current standard desks are more than 25 years old, very restricting, small, and falling apart with duct tape holding them together.

For the past three years, I've written several DonorsChoose projects asking for flexible chairs and tables. Luckily, we've received 75% of the tables needed to have a full classroom. Giving students the opportunity to move a little will help them focus on the academic task at hand and be successful during these trying times. These tables will optimize our classroom learning as the ones I do have, have proven.

Thank you for your time, consideration, and support of public school children. When you care about students, you support equity, making our future better.

Ms. Torres Sierra Vista High School Grades 9-12

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Baldwin Park, CA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Flex-Space Mobile Trapezoid Table - Modern Maple • Lakeshore Learning Materials $669.00 2 $1,338.00

Materials cost

$1,338.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $122.43

3rd party payment processing fee

$20.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,510.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$266.56

Total project goal

$1,777.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,777.06

2 Donors

-$1,374.12

Donations toward project cost

-$1,213.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$161.12

match offer

-$350.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$297.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$52.94

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 $0.00

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