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Ms. Spiegelthal's Classroom

  • Central Elementary School
  • Allentown, 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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  • Headphones for STREAM

    Funded Dec 25, 2024

    I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude for your generous contribution to our classroom project on DonorsChoose. Thanks to your support, we have successfully funded a new set of headphones for our students.

    These headphones will greatly enhance our learning environment by allowing students to engage in individualized learning activities without distractions. Your kindness and commitment to education make a significant difference in the lives of our students, and we are incredibly thankful for your support.

    The headphones are already being utilized in our classroom and they have had a positive impact on our students' learning experiences.

    Once again, thank you for your generosity and belief in our mission.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Spiegelthal

  • Head(phone) Into a Great School Year!

    Funded Sep 11, 2024

    The headphones we received from this project were very helpful in the classroom while they lasted. Unfortunately, the quality of the headphones I selected was apparently not very good, and almost all of them have broken since they arrived.

    However, I am grateful for the support from the DonorsChoose community to get these supplies. The few headphones that are left are still in use daily by the students, who use them for personalized learning on our online phonics program, to listen to music while doing independent work, and to hear audiobooks and other read-alouds which make reading more accessible and enjoyable for many of the students.

    Thank you again for your contribution toward this project-- please consider supporting more from our school!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Spiegelthal

  • Cultivate Concentration

    Funded Dec 3, 2019

    Thank you so much for your donation to help us get noise-canceling headphones for our classroom! As you can see, we've been using them to help us focus on a huge variety of activities— reading, projects, word study, taking tests, and more. Our class's focus and our ability to work on multiple things in the room at once has increased immensely! Reading levels and test scores are up, distractions are down, and our whole class is chasing learning with voracity :)

    Thank you again for helping to make this a possibility!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Spiegelthal

    This classroom project was brought to life by An anonymous classroom supporter and 5 other donors.
Many of my students have a problem: they struggle to focus, no matter what the task. In my classroom, there is flexible seating, collaboration in learning tasks, and plenty of fun, engaging activities that gives kids an outlet for their energy and caters to their preference for social learning. However, the emphasis on small-group teaching in my school often means that there are many different activities going on at the same time, including independent work. For some of my students, even the noise from small-group meetings can distract them. My kids want to learn, but many of them have a hard time focusing on independent work, which means less learning when they're not in small group with me and late or missing assignments. Noise-cancelling headphones will give my more easily distracted students a way to tune into their work so they can get the most out of their learning and complete their assignments in a timely fashion.

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Many of my students have a problem: they struggle to focus, no matter what the task. In my classroom, there is flexible seating, collaboration in learning tasks, and plenty of fun, engaging activities that gives kids an outlet for their energy and caters to their preference for social learning. However, the emphasis on small-group teaching in my school often means that there are many different activities going on at the same time, including independent work. For some of my students, even the noise from small-group meetings can distract them. My kids want to learn, but many of them have a hard time focusing on independent work, which means less learning when they're not in small group with me and late or missing assignments. Noise-cancelling headphones will give my more easily distracted students a way to tune into their work so they can get the most out of their learning and complete their assignments in a timely fashion.

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