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Experiences with trauma, instability, and chronic stress often show up in the classroom as difficulty managing emotions, trouble focusing, and struggles with peer relationships. \r\n\r\nThis Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) gift card will allow my behavior team to quickly access research-based social-emotional resources—such as visual supports, feelings activities, journal prompts, problem-solving tools, and social skills lessons—that will help my students regulate their emotions and fully engage in learning. For many of my students, school is the safest and most consistent place they know. However, without the tools to understand and regulate their feelings, even simple academic tasks can feel overwhelming. Emotional dysregulation is one of the biggest barriers to learning in our classroom. Students may become easily frustrated or shut down during tasks, have difficulty solving conflicts with peers, struggle to express their feelings appropriately, and lose valuable instructional time due to emotional outbursts.\r\n\r\nWhen students are overwhelmed, their brains are not ready for academic learning. Before we can teach reading, writing, or math, we need to help students feel safe, calm, and understood. With a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, I will be able to immediately access high-quality, classroom-ready resources created by educators and specialists. These materials will include visual supports (emotion charts, choice boards, coping strategy visuals), feelings identification and regulation activities, guided journal prompts to help students process emotions, problem-solving and conflict-resolution lessons, and social skills groups and structured activities.","proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/calm-down-tools-that-build-up-learning/10264289/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"imageURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/user/src/u4012139_src.jpg?crop=1532,1532,x257,y0&width=210&height=210&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1578256328937","id":10264289,"state":"OR","title":"Calm Down Tools That Build Up Learning"},{"stateFullName":"Washington","schoolName":"Challenger Elementary School","city":"Everett","costToComplete":23.76,"teacherName":"Mr. Jameson","fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students more impactful learning through sports and outdoor play.","totalPrice":254.35,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"essay":"Our project is designed to bring more energy and excitement to outdoor physical education lessons by providing key equipment that helps teachers and students get the most out of every class.\r\n\r\nWith new wiffle balls for our baseball unit and soccer goals for our soccer unit creating more engaging activities that motivate students to stay active.\r\n\r\nOur old soccer nets just need a little update. We would love to add more colorful new balls to our baseball unit for students to work on their hitting, throwing and catching skills outside. Together, these tools will create a fun, organized, and dynamic PE experience that encourages teamwork, participation, and a love for movement.","proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/outdoor-pe/10279577/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"imageURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/user/retina/u5155042_retina.jpg?width=210&height=210&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1541187311129","id":10279577,"state":"WA","title":"Outdoor PE"},{"stateFullName":"Kentucky","schoolName":"Cordia School","city":"Hazard","costToComplete":23.36,"teacherName":"Coach Teater","fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students the ability to line their own field so that we can play.","totalPrice":186.89,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"essay":"My students are from rural eastern Kentucky. When the coal mines started to close down, our area took a big hit, and so did the schools and sports programs. Many of my students are from non-ideal home situations or foster care programs.\r\n\r\nThis paint will be used to line and stripe our field so that we will be in regulation to play games. \r\nThey will also be used by our baseball team for practice. With the help of our Head Coach and other coaches, we are bringing baseball to an athletic key.\r\n\r\nWe plan to make a safe place for students to be when classroom time is over. The more time they spend with us playing baseball, the less time they spend in bad situations. This may be the one thing that breaks the cycle of drug use, crime, and poverty that these kids see every day. I thank you for considering our kids and school.\r\n\r\nIn our area, the income is very low, and the drug abuse is very high. 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My students are very sociable and can be easily distracted. I feel that having extrinsic motivators, such as stickers and fidgets, will create an internal drive for them to do well and accomplish work. My hope is for them to be intrinsically motivated learners by the end of the school year. ","proposalURL":"project/goals-and-rewards-/10098313/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"N. 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This project will bring in books written by diverse authors and featuring characters who look, sound, and live like my students, some bilingual for emerging readers, and others in English only for students ready to be stretched. \r\nMy goal is to build an inclusive reading space where every child can see themselves represented and feel proud of who they are. These books will help students grow academically by strengthening vocabulary and reading comprehension, and socially/emotionally by fostering confidence, belonging, and connection to their own and others’ cultures. 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Though my students take very good care of their supplies, sometimes we just run out! Our classrooms needs some of the basics such as index cards, sharpies, and glue sticks.\r\n\r\nWe would still love to continue our learning and the fun end of the year activities we have planned, but we are in need of some new supplies.\r\nPlease help support this project soon so that we have the necessities to end our year strong! 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They will partner with early readers to read aloud, practice fluency, and help them choose books that match their interests and abilities. My students will also create simple comprehension activities, ask thoughtful questions, and encourage their buddies as they grow into confident readers.\r\n\r\nThe community we hope to serve includes younger students in our school who are still developing foundational reading skills. Many of these students benefit from additional one-on-one attention, positive role models, and access to engaging, high-interest books. By building relationships with older student mentors, they will gain confidence, improve fluency, and begin to see reading as something enjoyable and empowering.\r\n\r\nThe materials we are requesting will directly support this student-led community service project. Books will be used for read-alouds and partner reading, while hands-on literacy tools and activities will help my students guide meaningful interactions with their buddies. These resources will empower my students to take ownership of their roles as mentors by giving them the tools they need to lead reading sessions, support comprehension, and create a positive learning experience for others.\r\n\r\nBy leading this initiative, my students will develop leadership, responsibility, and empathy as they serve their school community. They will learn that their knowledge and skills can make a real difference in the lives of others.\r\n\r\nThis project will not only support younger readers, but also empower my students to become confident leaders and role models who help build a strong culture of literacy and community across our school.","proposalURL":"project/students-teaching-students-reading-budd/10204572/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Houston, TX","id":10204572,"title":"Students Teaching Students: Reading Buddies in Action"},{"profilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2145538_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y772&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1768254662575","schoolName":"Wilbur & Theresa Faiss Middle School","costToComplete":39.59,"teacherId":2145538,"povertyLevel":"Nearly all students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Mrs. Beeghly","numDonors":12,"numStudents":200,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students a modern way to study the history of Victory Gardens and the importance of sustainable food sources using AHOPEGARDEN hydroponic system.","totalPrice":561.88,"essay":"My students are curious, hands-on learners who thrive when they can see the \"why\" behind the history we study. To bring our curriculum to life, I am requesting an Ahopegarden Indoor Garden Hydroponics Growing System and various fruit and vegetable seeds.\r\n\r\nIn our history classroom, we will use these tools to investigate the concept of \"Victory Gardens\" from WWI and WWII. By growing our own food, students will gain a deeper understanding of how citizens contributed to the war effort and the importance of self-sufficiency during times of global crisis. Additionally, we will use the Assorted Vegetable Seeds to explore the Columbian Exchange, studying how the global trade of crops forever changed human history. These resources will bridge the gap between historical text and modern-day sustainability, helping my students become informed, global citizens.","proposalURL":"project/victory-gardens-lessons-in-history-and/10212431/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Las Vegas, NV","id":10212431,"title":"Victory Gardens: Lessons in History and Sustainability"},{"profilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8563880_orig.jpg?crop=1725,1725,x317,y657&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1745579573409","schoolName":"Ruffner Elementary School","costToComplete":39.24,"teacherId":8563880,"povertyLevel":"Nearly all students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Mrs. Groves","numDonors":8,"numStudents":22,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students engaging, hands on tools to become confident readers.","totalPrice":269.24,"essay":"My first grade students are curious, energetic, and love learning through hands on experiences. They come to school each day excited to grow as readers and writers, and they thrive when lessons are engaging, interactive, and meaningful. Many of my students are currently working hard to strengthen foundational reading skills such as phonemic awareness, decoding, and word recognition. I love watching their confidence grow as they begin to connect sounds, letters, and words together independently.\r\n\r\nThe magnetic letter tiles and trays will provide students with hands on opportunities to build, manipulate, and read words during small group instruction and literacy centers. These materials will support explicit phonics instruction aligned with the Science of Reading and help students practice decoding and encoding skills in an engaging way. The additional phonics manipulatives will allow students to actively participate in word work activities while strengthening their understanding of letter sounds, spelling patterns, and high frequency words.\r\n\r\nThe book The Very Special Heart Words will help students better understand heart words and support orthographic mapping through meaningful read aloud experiences. The colorful fly swatters will be used during interactive literacy games to increase student engagement while practicing phonics skills, sight words, and letter recognition.\r\n\r\nThese resources will help create a classroom environment where students feel excited, supported, and confident as they continue their journey toward becoming successful readers.","proposalURL":"project/hands-on-science-of-reading-fun/10231716/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Charleston, WV","id":10231716,"title":"Hands-On Science of Reading Fun"},{"profilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8131389_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1717451804355","schoolName":"Dorothy Eisenberg Elementary School","costToComplete":31.86,"teacherId":8131389,"povertyLevel":"Nearly all students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Ms. Francese","numDonors":12,"numStudents":20,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students materials to motivate them to make responsible and respectful choices.","totalPrice":981.86,"essay":"My goal for this project is to give my students the resources to be able to create their own classroom climate. With the help of the desk pets that are on my project, students will be motivated to earn them by showing cooperation, self control, empathy, and just being a good example for others. My hope is for my students to take pride in their pets, their classmates pets, and also learn responsibility while making great choices!\r\nThe more excited and motivated by the desk pets, the more my students will be engaged in lessons and wanting to do their best. \r\nMy next goal for my students is to celebrate writing! With the use of twisty crayons, markers, colored pencils and the pattern tape my students will have endless limits on illustrations. The file boxes will be to store students \"Hall of Fame\" writing. The laminating pouches will protect these special assignments, and the new chair is a special author's chair for students to be able to present their masterpieces.\r\nMy last goal is to be able to put more emphasis into different cultures and address what is happening in our world. 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Young children learn best when they can touch, see, hear, and experience concepts in meaningful ways. This project will support our students in developing early academic and social-emotional skills through engaging, sensory-rich materials that encourage curiosity and learning across all areas of development.\r\n\r\nThis project will provide our classroom with a variety of tools that help children explore the world around them in creative and meaningful ways. Musical instruments will allow students to explore sound, rhythm, and patterns while building early listening and language skills. Sensory bottles will support self-regulation and provide calming tools that help children manage emotions and focus during the school day.\r\n\r\nScience viewers and the ramps & balls exploration set will encourage curiosity and discovery as students observe objects up close and develop early science skills through hands-on investigation. Art supplies and the instant print camera will give children opportunities to express their ideas, strengthen fine motor skills, and build creativity and confidence through open-ended projects.\r\n\r\nRecess journals will extend learning outdoors by allowing students to draw, write, and reflect on their experiences during play. 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With a new group of students comes the need for essential supplies to keep our classroom running smoothly. This project will help ease that burden by providing desk organizers, name tags, crayon holders, pencil pouches, line-up spots, batteries (for all the battery operated devices in the classroom), laminating pouches, and more. 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They would build and create all day if they could, so the goal is to make that happen with flexible seating, clipboards to free themselves from desks, and tools to spark interaction and wonder.\r\n\r\nProviding these opportunities for learners is one of the reasons why I went into teaching. I can see my learners sitting outside on the leaf pads, clipboards in hand, exploring the Redwood forests around us. I can see them examining the roots of seeds we have planted from local farmers, and studying the decomposition of plants, as well as plastics.\r\n\r\nThank you for opening up windows of wonder for my learners.","proposalURL":"project/third-grade-learners-love-to-explore/10245991/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Eureka, CA","id":10245991,"title":"Third Grade Learners Love to Explore"},{"profilePhotoURL":null,"schoolName":"PS 229 Emmanuel Kaplan","costToComplete":34.79,"teacherId":302057,"povertyLevel":"More than half of students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Mrs. Sietas","numDonors":8,"numStudents":33,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students popits, Elkonin boxes, and Koosh-type string balls to help with phonemic awareness activities.","totalPrice":209.32,"essay":"Our school is a barrier-free Title I-funded school, home to over fifteen hundred students, with over seventy languages spoken. My children are resilient, dedicated, and determined to overcome any obstacles that they may need to overcome to soar to new heights. I am in awe of their perseverance and how they strive to be the best possible. To say that I am proud to be their teacher is truly an understatement.\r\n\r\nSo many of our diverse students are in need of extra activities in reading to help bridge the achievement gap, which makes these phonemic awareness activities so important.\r\n\r\nThe Koosh stringy ball will be used to play an alphabet chunk game to help with sequencing. The Elkonin boxes, both large and small, will help to orthographically map words. The pop-its will help to segment words, and the pens will be used for special small-group activities. These materials will help my class become better readers.","proposalURL":"project/becoming-expert-readers/10255401/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Woodside, NY","id":10255401,"title":"Becoming Expert Readers!"},{"profilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6606572_orig.jpg?crop=498,498,x0,y0&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565216420323","schoolName":"H.V. Helbing Elementary School","costToComplete":38.11,"teacherId":6606572,"povertyLevel":"Nearly all students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Ms. Soria","numDonors":4,"numStudents":22,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students a system to streamline their daily learning challenges.","totalPrice":188.11,"essay":"Students are ready to explore and learn more everyday. They enjoy being independent after their daily Demonstration of Learning. With organizing items such as plastic trays and caddies, my students will be able to find and use more supplies in the classroom, while keeping things in order for the next students.\r\n\r\nBy providing students with clear expectations and locations of supplies, it allows them to be more successful and independent while the teacher is working with other students.\r\n\r\nOrganizing their learning tools will help guide them as they take ownership of their own learning.","proposalURL":"project/stupefy-the-messy-paper-challenges/10261360/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Fort Worth, TX","id":10261360,"title":"\"Stupefy\" the Messy Paper Challenges!"},{"profilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4012139_orig.jpg?crop=1536,1536,x0,y25&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1578256262775","schoolName":"Four Corners Elementary School","costToComplete":34.71,"teacherId":4012139,"povertyLevel":"More than half of students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Ms. Stephanie","numDonors":6,"numStudents":400,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card to purchase visual supports, feelings activities, journal prompts, problem solving activities, and social skills materials!","totalPrice":154.71,"essay":"In our elementary school, many students come to class carrying the weight of trauma, stress, and big emotions that can make learning incredibly difficult. Our students are bright, resilient, and full of potential—but many face significant challenges outside of school. Experiences with trauma, instability, and chronic stress often show up in the classroom as difficulty managing emotions, trouble focusing, and struggles with peer relationships. \r\n\r\nThis Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) gift card will allow my behavior team to quickly access research-based social-emotional resources—such as visual supports, feelings activities, journal prompts, problem-solving tools, and social skills lessons—that will help my students regulate their emotions and fully engage in learning. For many of my students, school is the safest and most consistent place they know. However, without the tools to understand and regulate their feelings, even simple academic tasks can feel overwhelming. Emotional dysregulation is one of the biggest barriers to learning in our classroom. Students may become easily frustrated or shut down during tasks, have difficulty solving conflicts with peers, struggle to express their feelings appropriately, and lose valuable instructional time due to emotional outbursts.\r\n\r\nWhen students are overwhelmed, their brains are not ready for academic learning. Before we can teach reading, writing, or math, we need to help students feel safe, calm, and understood. With a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, I will be able to immediately access high-quality, classroom-ready resources created by educators and specialists. 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When the coal mines started to close down, our area took a big hit, and so did the schools and sports programs. Many of my students are from non-ideal home situations or foster care programs.\r\n\r\nThis paint will be used to line and stripe our field so that we will be in regulation to play games. \r\nThey will also be used by our baseball team for practice. With the help of our Head Coach and other coaches, we are bringing baseball to an athletic key.\r\n\r\nWe plan to make a safe place for students to be when classroom time is over. The more time they spend with us playing baseball, the less time they spend in bad situations. This may be the one thing that breaks the cycle of drug use, crime, and poverty that these kids see every day. I thank you for considering our kids and school.\r\n\r\nIn our area, the income is very low, and the drug abuse is very high. My students need ways to stay at school where they are loved and cared for.\r\n\r\nThese tools will help us make plans for future improvements.\r\n\r\nThank you for your time and consideration.","proposalURL":"project/striping-aint-easy/10285283/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Hazard, KY","id":10285283,"title":"Striping Ain't Easy!"}]

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They come to school each day excited to grow as readers and writers, and they thrive when lessons are engaging, interactive, and meaningful. Many of my students are currently working hard to strengthen foundational reading skills such as phonemic awareness, decoding, and word recognition. I love watching their confidence grow as they begin to connect sounds, letters, and words together independently.\r\n\r\nThe magnetic letter tiles and trays will provide students with hands on opportunities to build, manipulate, and read words during small group instruction and literacy centers. These materials will support explicit phonics instruction aligned with the Science of Reading and help students practice decoding and encoding skills in an engaging way. 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With the help of the desk pets that are on my project, students will be motivated to earn them by showing cooperation, self control, empathy, and just being a good example for others. My hope is for my students to take pride in their pets, their classmates pets, and also learn responsibility while making great choices!\r\nThe more excited and motivated by the desk pets, the more my students will be engaged in lessons and wanting to do their best. \r\nMy next goal for my students is to celebrate writing! With the use of twisty crayons, markers, colored pencils and the pattern tape my students will have endless limits on illustrations. The file boxes will be to store students \"Hall of Fame\" writing. The laminating pouches will protect these special assignments, and the new chair is a special author's chair for students to be able to present their masterpieces.\r\nMy last goal is to be able to put more emphasis into different cultures and address what is happening in our world. 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Young children learn best when they can touch, see, hear, and experience concepts in meaningful ways. This project will support our students in developing early academic and social-emotional skills through engaging, sensory-rich materials that encourage curiosity and learning across all areas of development.\r\n\r\nThis project will provide our classroom with a variety of tools that help children explore the world around them in creative and meaningful ways. Musical instruments will allow students to explore sound, rhythm, and patterns while building early listening and language skills. Sensory bottles will support self-regulation and provide calming tools that help children manage emotions and focus during the school day.\r\n\r\nScience viewers and the ramps & balls exploration set will encourage curiosity and discovery as students observe objects up close and develop early science skills through hands-on investigation. Art supplies and the instant print camera will give children opportunities to express their ideas, strengthen fine motor skills, and build creativity and confidence through open-ended projects.\r\n\r\nRecess journals will extend learning outdoors by allowing students to draw, write, and reflect on their experiences during play. 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With a new group of students comes the need for essential supplies to keep our classroom running smoothly. This project will help ease that burden by providing desk organizers, name tags, crayon holders, pencil pouches, line-up spots, batteries (for all the battery operated devices in the classroom), laminating pouches, and more. 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They would build and create all day if they could, so the goal is to make that happen with flexible seating, clipboards to free themselves from desks, and tools to spark interaction and wonder.\r\n\r\nProviding these opportunities for learners is one of the reasons why I went into teaching. I can see my learners sitting outside on the leaf pads, clipboards in hand, exploring the Redwood forests around us. I can see them examining the roots of seeds we have planted from local farmers, and studying the decomposition of plants, as well as plastics.\r\n\r\nThank you for opening up windows of wonder for my learners.","proposalURL":"project/third-grade-learners-love-to-explore/10245991/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Eureka, CA","id":10245991,"title":"Third Grade Learners Love to Explore"},{"profilePhotoURL":null,"schoolName":"PS 229 Emmanuel Kaplan","costToComplete":34.79,"teacherId":302057,"povertyLevel":"More than half of students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Mrs. Sietas","numDonors":8,"numStudents":33,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students popits, Elkonin boxes, and Koosh-type string balls to help with phonemic awareness activities.","totalPrice":209.32,"essay":"Our school is a barrier-free Title I-funded school, home to over fifteen hundred students, with over seventy languages spoken. My children are resilient, dedicated, and determined to overcome any obstacles that they may need to overcome to soar to new heights. I am in awe of their perseverance and how they strive to be the best possible. To say that I am proud to be their teacher is truly an understatement.\r\n\r\nSo many of our diverse students are in need of extra activities in reading to help bridge the achievement gap, which makes these phonemic awareness activities so important.\r\n\r\nThe Koosh stringy ball will be used to play an alphabet chunk game to help with sequencing. The Elkonin boxes, both large and small, will help to orthographically map words. The pop-its will help to segment words, and the pens will be used for special small-group activities. These materials will help my class become better readers.","proposalURL":"project/becoming-expert-readers/10255401/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Woodside, NY","id":10255401,"title":"Becoming Expert Readers!"},{"profilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6606572_orig.jpg?crop=498,498,x0,y0&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565216420323","schoolName":"H.V. Helbing Elementary School","costToComplete":38.11,"teacherId":6606572,"povertyLevel":"Nearly all students from low‑income households","hideDetails":false,"teacherName":"Ms. Soria","numDonors":4,"numStudents":22,"fulfillmentTrailer":"Help me give my students a system to streamline their daily learning challenges.","totalPrice":188.11,"essay":"Students are ready to explore and learn more everyday. They enjoy being independent after their daily Demonstration of Learning. 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Our students are bright, resilient, and full of potential—but many face significant challenges outside of school. Experiences with trauma, instability, and chronic stress often show up in the classroom as difficulty managing emotions, trouble focusing, and struggles with peer relationships. \r\n\r\nThis Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) gift card will allow my behavior team to quickly access research-based social-emotional resources—such as visual supports, feelings activities, journal prompts, problem-solving tools, and social skills lessons—that will help my students regulate their emotions and fully engage in learning. For many of my students, school is the safest and most consistent place they know. However, without the tools to understand and regulate their feelings, even simple academic tasks can feel overwhelming. Emotional dysregulation is one of the biggest barriers to learning in our classroom. Students may become easily frustrated or shut down during tasks, have difficulty solving conflicts with peers, struggle to express their feelings appropriately, and lose valuable instructional time due to emotional outbursts.\r\n\r\nWhen students are overwhelmed, their brains are not ready for academic learning. Before we can teach reading, writing, or math, we need to help students feel safe, calm, and understood. With a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, I will be able to immediately access high-quality, classroom-ready resources created by educators and specialists. 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We would love to add more colorful new balls to our baseball unit for students to work on their hitting, throwing and catching skills outside. 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When the coal mines started to close down, our area took a big hit, and so did the schools and sports programs. Many of my students are from non-ideal home situations or foster care programs.\r\n\r\nThis paint will be used to line and stripe our field so that we will be in regulation to play games. \r\nThey will also be used by our baseball team for practice. With the help of our Head Coach and other coaches, we are bringing baseball to an athletic key.\r\n\r\nWe plan to make a safe place for students to be when classroom time is over. The more time they spend with us playing baseball, the less time they spend in bad situations. This may be the one thing that breaks the cycle of drug use, crime, and poverty that these kids see every day. I thank you for considering our kids and school.\r\n\r\nIn our area, the income is very low, and the drug abuse is very high. My students need ways to stay at school where they are loved and cared for.\r\n\r\nThese tools will help us make plans for future improvements.\r\n\r\nThank you for your time and consideration.","proposalURL":"project/striping-aint-easy/10285283/","hasReceivedDonations":true,"hasBeenFunded":true,"matchMultiplier":"2X","location":"Hazard, KY","id":10285283,"title":"Striping Ain't Easy!"}]