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Past projects 31

• Incredible Bulletin Boards to Display Their Milestones!

  Funded Sep 19, 2023

  At our school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households.

  Before school starts, teachers are assigned different bulletin boards to create throughout the school. Creative bulletin boards make students feel proud to have their work displayed and lets them know they are cared for and that the work they produce matters.

  When bulletin boards are interactive, interesting and organized, students can learn from them and appreciate the effort put in the bulletin board by them and the teacher putting them together.

  In order to create the fun, educational bulletin boards, teachers need the supplies and the time to create the boards. But with the cost of simple bulletin board supplies, like letters, increasing each year, it's more difficult to create the fun bulletin boards.

  For my project, I am asking for frames to set up a gorgeous and organized bulleting board to display my students hard work on the bulletin boards.

  
My students are curious, open-minded, inquisitive, tangible, and eager. Every personality makes every day worth coming to school because I know it will be a story or movie.

I teach Title I students from different economical backgrounds, including Special Ed students and English language Learners. They are a fun group to teach every day and I just want them to enjoy middle school by finding ways to provide them with scientific hands-on activities and games to make science more engaging. 

thanks for making our project possible and my students proud.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by Young Sheldon on CBS and 5 other donors.

• Science Hands-on Stations for Living Environments

  Funded Mar 11, 2023

  Delta Education Nutshell Clusters are thematic class units comprised of activities and materials from 4-6 individual Nutshell titles packaged together in one convenient storage tote.

  In our school, science lessons are classified into physical Science, earth science and life science.

  These kits from Delta Education: Science in a Nutshell, allowed me to create multiple science stations for my class to explore the topics of life science from our curriculum, and these support our students in the preparation for the living environment regents.

  Each Cluster includes materials for over 32 Activities that will allow me to support my students in their multiple learning styles.

  I teach in a Title 1 School (Equity Focus) where most of our population is either ENL or SWD or both.

  Thanks for your support! You helped make this possible!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Walt Disney Company and 6 other donors.

• Multiple Science Hands on Stations for Earth & Physical Science

  Funded Dec 24, 2022

  Delta Education Nutshell Clusters are thematic class units comprised of activities and materials from 4-6 individual Nutshell titles packaged together in one convenient storage tote.

  In our school, science lessons are classified into physical Science, earth science and life science. These kits from Delta Education: Science in a Nutshell, allowed to create multiple science stations for my class to explore the topics of both physical science & Earth Science from our curriculum.

  Each Cluster includes materials for over 32 Activities that will allow me to support my students in their multiple learning styles.

  I teach in a Title 1 School (Equity Focus) where most of our population is either ENL or SWD or both.

  Thanks for your support! You made this possible!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Walt Disney Company and 5 other donors.

• Bilingual Certificate for a STEM Bilingual Teacher

  Funded Apr 29, 2023

  This course was the last one I needed to complete to meet the requirements for my Bilingual Certificate in the individual pathway certification program. This certification will further develop my teaching toolbox.

  I'm a math and science teacher who plans around STEM and hands-on activities but sadly without this certification I couldn't teach the English Language Learners at my school and that's our biggest population.

  This school year, thanks to this certification, I'm teaching a bilingual program. My students didn't have a math teacher for almost all last year, and I am happy to be able to fill that place in their education thanks to your help.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

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

• Printing Like Scientists

  Funded Sep 29, 2022

  At our school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households.

  My students are curious, open-minded, inquisitive, tangible, and eager. Every personality makes every day worth coming to school because I know it will be a story or movie.

  I teach Title I students from different economical backgrounds, including Special Ed students and English language Learners. They are a fun group to teach every day and I just want them to enjoy middle school by finding ways to provide them with scientific hands-on activities and games to make science more engaging.

  thanks to you, our classroom science experience includes daily activities more fun and visually appealing, science content is not the same without a color printer.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Allstate Foundation and one other donor.

• Engaging Middle School Science Experience with Curriculum Scaffolds

  Funded Oct 21, 2022

  At our school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households.

  My students are curious, open-minded, inquisitive, tangible, and eager. Every personality makes every day worth coming to school because I know it will be a story or movie.

  I teach Title I students from different economical backgrounds, including Special Ed students and English language Learners. They are a fun group to teach every day and I just want them to enjoy middle school by finding ways to provide them with scientific hands-on activities and games to make science more engaging.

  thanks to you, our classroom science experience includes scientific hands-on activities and games to make science more engaging, that benefit different learning styles.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation and 2 other donors.

• STEM fun at Home

  Funded Sep 29, 2022

  At our school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households.

  My students are curious, open-minded, inquisitive, tangible, and eager. Every personality makes every day worth coming to school because I know it will be a story or movie.

  I teach Title I students from different economical backgrounds, including Special Ed students and English language Learners. They are a fun group to teach every day and I just want them to enjoy middle school by finding ways to provide them with scientific hands-on activities and games to make science more engaging.

  We all know working as a team with parents provides best results to achieve the best learning outcome for students! thanks to you, our classroom science experience has been extended to my students homes!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Allstate Foundation and 2 other donors.

• Bilingual Certificate for a STEM Bilingual Teacher

  Funded Oct 20, 2022

  Thank you for supporting professional development!

  This course will help me meet the requirements for my Bilingual Certificate in the individual pathway certification program. This certification with further develop my teaching toolbox.

  The course Methods of Teaching English Language Arts and Content introduces methods and strategies for teaching English Language Arts and Content Areas to bilingual English language learners in ENL/ESL and regular education classrooms. The course is centered on learning standards for English as a second language which serves as the foundation for ENL curriculum, instruction, and assessment. I already started this course as you can see in the photos and I am learning SO Much!

  After this course I just need one more and then I can apply for the certification! Thanks again for supporting Teachers and their classrooms!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation and 2 other donors.

• Scaffolded & Engaging Middle School Science Experience

  Funded Sep 29, 2022

  My students are curious, open-minded, inquisitive, tangible, and eager. Every personality makes every day worth coming to school because I know there will be great stories and memories.

  They are a fun group to teach every day and I just want them to enjoy middle school by finding ways to provide them with scientific hands-on activities and games to make science more engaging.

  Thanks to this project and your support we have had the opportunities to include hands on activities in our classroom and there has been more participation and enthusiasm towards science.

  Thank you so much again :)”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Allstate Foundation and one other donor.

• Engaging Earth Science With Fossils

  Funded Sep 19, 2022

  Thank you for being a hero and helping us get this project funded!

  Learning about fossils and our Earth is always fun. We enjoy slide shows, books, and videos to explore. Students however learn much more when the learning is hands-on with fossil samples. We get more participation and better understanding.

  We got some materials last year and thanks to you we got this awesome set of rocks, minerals and fossils this year. Our population consists mostly in students SWL and ENL students. We are extremely thankful!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Portillo

  This classroom project was brought to life by Con Edison and one other donor.