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Ms. LaVonnia Banks' Classroom

  • Anna B Day Elementary School
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • 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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  • Mantlepiece Masterpiece

    Funded Aug 15, 2024

    Thank you for your generosity! I am so excited to start the new school year at my new school with my new bookcases. Without you this project would still be a dream. I can't wait to tell my students how people who don't know them still care about them.

    Each bookcase will hold lots of books that can take the students to far away adventures and give examples of what they can accomplish when they read and dream.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. LaVonnia Banks

    This classroom project was brought to life by The Gates Foundation and 8 other donors.

  • The Literacy behind Engineering for Diverse Populations

    Funded Aug 16, 2023

    If literacy is the gateway to learning, then you provided the keys with your generous donations. I can tell a thousand stories about people becoming engineers but books helps my students to really envision themselves as engineers. These books provided a concrete example of people who look like my students engineering as professionals.

    Thank you for providing these books to our classroom library, where they can sit relax, read and visualize themselves to become whomever they can imagine themselves to be. One student really enjoyed the book about skyscrapers and couldn't put the book down.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. LaVonnia Banks

    This classroom project was brought to life by The SONIC Foundation and 9 other donors.

  • Engaging Future Engineers!

    Funded Aug 2, 2023

    "Great Things in Business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people" Steve Jobs. This quote embodies the gratitude that I want to express to the donors. Without your assistance, my project would not have become a reality. Often times the students could not complete a project due to a lack of materials such as magna-tiles, bristles, modeling foam, etc.

    Your generosity allows the students to learn first hand that there are kind people in the world that without knowing them have demonstrated kindness. And in turn, they can show generosity to others.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. LaVonnia Banks

    This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 16 other donors.

  • STEMing the Way of the Future

    Funded Aug 23, 2019

    Two, four, six,eight who do we appreciate!!!Thank you donors for making a dream come true. The students will benefit from your generosity and their skills will be honed from the ipads that they will get to work with in class. "It takes a village to raise a child"(African proverb) and our village just increased in size. Thank you again.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. LaVonnia Banks

    This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 13 other donors.
The tablets will be used to download and learn coding. These coding apps are not downloadable on the laptops currently used at our school. The learning of coding will be an eye opening experience for the students on what goes on to design programs. The skill of coding will be valuable to any person entering the 21st century job opportunity. Moving students for college and career readiness is imperative to sustain America's future job force. Making the shift to STEM, with coding practices will make my students more marketable and transform my classroom to an odyssey of opportunity and fun.

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The tablets will be used to download and learn coding. These coding apps are not downloadable on the laptops currently used at our school. The learning of coding will be an eye opening experience for the students on what goes on to design programs. The skill of coding will be valuable to any person entering the 21st century job opportunity. Moving students for college and career readiness is imperative to sustain America's future job force. Making the shift to STEM, with coding practices will make my students more marketable and transform my classroom to an odyssey of opportunity and fun.

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