You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Mrs. Klee's Classroom Edit display name

  • Portage Middle School
  • Fort Wayne, IN
  • More than three‑quarters of 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

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Klee a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Mrs. Klee's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Klee a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Mrs. Klee can use on her next classroom project.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/5574462 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
We have many students who come into school in a state of fight/flight/freeze. They have difficulty transitioning to the educational setting and regulating their bodies and brains to focus on school. Our district has been focusing on brain research, specifically the adolescent brain and trauma. We have learned that as a school we can create areas with specific items to help realign student's brains and allow them the change to calm down which eventually helps them to return to class. The mp3 players will be loaded with calming music such as nature sounds and meditations, and can also be connected to the mood lamps which offer soft lighting and reflect calming images such as water or clouds for our children who have sensitive sensory issues. The bean bag chairs are meant to be comfortable and form to the child's body, while the kaleidoscopes, etch-a-sketches, stress balls, and kinetic sand are meant to be tactile devices. The items are meant to reach the 5 senses and help calm the amygdala which helps regulate our emotions. We would like to set up a station for each grade to help our students emotionally and behaviorally regulate.

About my class

We have many students who come into school in a state of fight/flight/freeze. They have difficulty transitioning to the educational setting and regulating their bodies and brains to focus on school. Our district has been focusing on brain research, specifically the adolescent brain and trauma. We have learned that as a school we can create areas with specific items to help realign student's brains and allow them the change to calm down which eventually helps them to return to class. The mp3 players will be loaded with calming music such as nature sounds and meditations, and can also be connected to the mood lamps which offer soft lighting and reflect calming images such as water or clouds for our children who have sensitive sensory issues. The bean bag chairs are meant to be comfortable and form to the child's body, while the kaleidoscopes, etch-a-sketches, stress balls, and kinetic sand are meant to be tactile devices. The items are meant to reach the 5 senses and help calm the amygdala which helps regulate our emotions. We would like to set up a station for each grade to help our students emotionally and behaviorally regulate.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":5574462,"teacherId":5574462,"teacherName":"Mrs. Klee","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5574462_orig.jpg?crop=474,474,x1,y0&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1626367802025","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":21223400,"followAbout":"Mrs. Klee's projects","teacherVerify":-1663613450,"teacherNameEncoded":"Mrs. Klee","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/5574462","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=5574462","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":2,"numSupporters":4},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.