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• Books for Magnificent Mathematicians!

  Funded Apr 2, 2023

  We thank you so much for bringing this dream of a project to the everyday realities of our math classroom.

  It continues to be a dream of mine to curate a classroom where students are immersed in the positive ideas that have influenced our world for the better - most often found in beautiful books! When our students peruse the classroom library they find themselves freed from the constraints of the classroom walls and their ideas can extend into infinity and beyond. As they take in the ideas from the texts, ideally they too are inspired to change the world for the better, driving towards innovation and ideation on the path to become independent and creative problem solvers.

  Thank you for helping add to the artful, awe-inspiring texts of our classroom library. You have certainly helped changed our classroom for the better, and we promise to return the favor to our world.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by Olga Graham Inspiring Teachers Fund and 5 other donors.

• Basic Supply Refresher to Finish Our Year Strong!

  Funded Aug 26, 2023

  Thank you for contribution to our classroom! Your kindness has given us a jump start on achieving great academic, social, and personal accomplishments for the upcoming school year. We honor your charity and deeply appreciate that you have provided us with essential supplies that will foster our development of creative projects that will lead to meaningful learning experiences. We promise to make you proud!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by Olga Graham Inspiring Teachers Fund and 6 other donors.

• A Scanner-Printer for Super-Portfolios!

  Funded Jan 23, 2023

  Thank you so much for your kindness! We deeply appreciate your contribution to our classroom in the form of a proper printing and scanning setup. As we move forward throughout the year, we try our best to honor the learning preferences of our students, continuously attempting to merge the benefits of digitizing our work, leveraging appropriate and productive technologies, and developing the skills of creating physical work that capitalizes on the use of all of our senses. Your donation has helped our students craft lasting understandings of math in the contexts that they find interesting, worthy of discussion and debate, and result in works of wonderful academic art in the form of math standards mastery. We greatly appreciate your help and honor your contribution to our class community. We promise to make you proud!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 6 other donors.

• Basic Classroom Supplies as We Shake Off the Dust!

  Funded Nov 8, 2021

  Thank you for your generous and kind contribution to our classroom. Your donation of essential supplies for our classroom came at a time when we were seriously struggling. Your charity has fulfilled a deep need for necessary classroom materials that we otherwise would have gone without and continued to struggle.

  To know that we were supported by community members like yourself means the world to us and inspires us to continue our mission to uplift and strengthen ourselves so that we may inspire and assist the people in the world around us.

  We honor your gifts of essential classroom materials and we promise to make you proud.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by Con Edison and 4 other donors.

• A Proper Remote Teaching Setup, Please!

  Funded Apr 28, 2021

  Thank you for the opportunity to increase my potential to affect positive growth in the students that I taught this year. Before your kind contributions took hold, I admittedly struggled to enact opportunities for cohesive and impactful conversations with my students during the times that they were relegated to using mobile devices and spotty technology, if at all available, when our schools were unfortunately closed.

  Your generosity has brought us the ability to effectively organize learning sessions by enhancing our capacity to share documents, display real-time work, and make hand-written comments on the fly. You have created the opportunity for us to make authentic connections while working online and you have dramatically improved the course of the education of my students in a deeply meaningful manner.

  Thank you for your contribution to our newly-redefined classroom.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by Optimum and 14 other donors.

• A Nice New Notebook for Each Algebra I Student!

  Funded Jan 1, 2021

  I would like to profoundly thank you for bringing this project to life. it was literally life-changing to have the power to equip my students with essential materials for their math exploration during such a wonderfully challenging year.

  The beautiful, empowering notebooks were a physical gift to my students that they will carry with them into their journey into high school. The notebooks serve as a reminder that my students were able to not only endure, but thrive during a year wherein school closures, illnesses, and borderline chaos were omnipresent. Despite the conditions, we were able to create colorful graphs, denote mathematical diagrams, and otherwise create works of math and science inspired art all in a handheld package that my students carried daily, and shall carry with them into their future - reminding them of the mathematical strengths that they developed during seriously challenging times.

  We promise to continue to make you proud.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by FamilyAlbum and 5 other donors.

• We Need the Bare Necessities of Math Class (and Life)!

  Funded Nov 20, 2020

  We profoundly thank you for your kindness in helping bring this project from a dream to our reality. Both myself and the students are tremendously inspired by the support you have shown in equipping our classroom with some much needed supplies (some of which we have shared with neighboring classrooms, due to the extraordinarily lean times). It is because of community members like yourselves that we are able to continue to challenge our students to grow. We deeply appreciate your generosity and promise to make you proud.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Donor and 3 other donors.

• Books for Magnificent Mathematicians!

  Funded Nov 16, 2018

  Thank you kindly for further outfitting our classroom library with beautiful books! In the vein of a personal mathematics hero Mr. Leonardo DaVinci, we love to adorn and embellish our math notes with illustrations, diagrams, and visual organizers. In class, we draw inspiration from the gorgeous texts that you have provided for our class with your kindness and generosity. We draw from the books that speak to us personally, frequently taking the opportunity to peruse the class library for a voice, or image, of inspiration.

  We find that having beautiful books to relate to inspires our students to engage in creating their best work, be it through note taking, summarizing new ideas, or illustrating basic concepts in a manner that invokes practices of design, creativity, or other process that invokes the imagination.

  Thank you for your support of our classroom. We promise to make you proud!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by Staples and 4 other donors.

• Jocko Willink Is for the Children: Make Us Math Warriors!

  Funded Nov 15, 2018

  We sincerely thank you for your support in bringing this project to life in our classroom! Jocko Willink has become a personal hero to me and it is incredibly inspiring to our school community that you have brought his inspirational, creative, and thrilling novels to our students. The books are extremely accessible to our students and they vividly describe life-changing experiences that are certain to improve our lives for the better. Jocko's tales inspire students and instill in them the value of working hard in school, taking care of oneself, and maintaining certain discipline in the face of life's challenges. Thank you for bringing the support of an amazing author to our math classroom, an environment that often requires resilience, discipline, and courage: all of the values that Jocko highlights in our beautiful new books!

  Thank you!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by Be Internet Awesome.

• Help Us Celebrate Student Achievement and Recognize Success!

  Funded Mar 27, 2018

  Thank you kindly for bringing this project to life in our classroom! Though it is currently summer time, I appreciate that opportunity to reflect on the positive impact that you brought to our students by contributing materials that celebrate both the smaller accomplishments and the larger contributions that students bring to our space. It has been said that gratitude is the healthiest human emotion, and through this project I have intended to increase the amount of moments in class when we are able to express our thankfulness for the positive actions undertaken by students. In turn, the intention is to have students grow more confident in finding moments to celebrate. Your contribution to our classroom has built our sense of community in a significant manner. We honor your kindness.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Seymour

  This classroom project was brought to life by Ripple and 3 other donors.