Past projects 3
Keeping It All Together
Funded Aug 23, 2024Thank you so much for helping us reach our supply goal semester! My sanity is saved and my kids have all the supplies they need to succeed in my room this year. I just let them know that a handful of terrific people made this possible for them and they were joyous!
It takes a village... in so many ways.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Teeka
Writing in Action!
Funded Apr 17, 2024Thank you so much for helping to fund my latest wish list! I am so excited to start this practice right away - especially since I've just learned that my class sizes are going to more than double next year. Using the iPad in my classroom is going to make it way more feasible for me to move about my room and directly assist each student. Most sincerely, thank you - from me and my students.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Teeka
Put All of That Extra Energy Into Learning!
Funded Aug 27, 2023My students were thrilled to get the standing desk and wobble stools - they even use them appropriately 60% of the time!
Technically, I am a special education language arts teacher. Historically, this has meant small group instruction, modified lessons so to make the general education content more accessible for neurodivergents. Our school district, however, has all but ended SPED classrooms. They have forced our neurodivergent students (and subsequently, all SPED teachers) into large classes of 30+ average learner students - all under the guise that this is the "least restrictive" environment for our students with learning disabilities. In actuality, the district keeps having to make staffing cuts that have made being a SPED teacher an untenable job. But this solution is making all teaching untenable. GenEd teachers are lost trying to diversify content so they can teach simultaneously to students with cognitive delays who struggle with comprehension (and often, behaviors) and high performing students who are hungry for new daily content.
This is all to say, all of the supplies in my classroom that help me with diversifying content and making grade-level content equitably available and accessible to all of my students have been purchased by me - and now you. Thank you so much for the crayons, markers, pencils, stools, standing tables, organizer bins, and snacks. You have made a huge impact on helping create and maintain a classroom that is safe to learn and make mistakes.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Teeka