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Mrs. Weis from Independence MO is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Read & Ride - Increasing Literacy & Fitness

My students need two Schwinn 270 Recumbent Bikes to begin a read & ride program at our school.

  • $1,228 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Many of my students are struggling in literacy in their regular classrooms, but love coming to PE. As a building-wide goal to increase literacy, I have found an awesome program that would allow students to read while they pedal on a recumbent stationary bike.

Pioneer Ridge Middle School is a 7-8 grade building, located in the Kansas City Metro area.

We are a high poverty school, with more than 50% of our students on free or reduced lunch. In an urban/suburban setting, exposing students to as many activities as possible will only increase the achievement of our kids.

My Project

We have a large diverse group of students who enjoy coming to school. Yet many of our students struggle with their literacy. Adding literacy into our physical education classes is a challenge. But after researching the READ & RIDE program, I believe that this would have a huge impact on our students. We teach many lifetime and competitive sports in Physical Education, but this would help those kids who are not into the competitive or lifetime sports. And help all the kids in my school with literacy.

My students would be able to read their book and work to get themselves closer to their fitness goals and increase their literacy.

A healthy student makes better grades, has better attendance and increases overall achievement.

Mrs. Weis
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Schwinn 270 Recumbent Bike • Amazon Business $499.00 2 $998.00

Materials cost

$998.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,042.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.05

Total project goal

$1,227.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,227.02

4 Donors

-$1,174.38

Donations toward project cost

-$1,000.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$173.91

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.64

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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