Standing for UnderSTANDing

Funded Aug 23, 2018

The standing desks have been a big hit in my classroom! There are students utilizing the desks every period of the school day. Since there are only 2 desks and 30-32 students in each of my classes, students share the desks and only stand for a portion of the class time. However, in one of my classes, there is a student who uses a standing desk for the whole double period. The standing desk has made an enormous impact on his focus in class.

When the desks arrived in the classroom, students were excited to use them. Since so many students were interested in using the standing desks. My co-teacher and I developed a system so that anyone interested in using the standing desks would have the opportunity to use them.

Although I was not the first teacher to get standing desks at my school, it seems that more and more teachers are witnessing the positive effects on students in my classroom. In fact, a teacher across the hall from me also was able to get a standing desk for her classroom funded through Donor's Choose too!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Lavelle