I'm just going to put it out there... I'm going to look amazing for the month of February. "But Taylor, you looked amazing in January" you might be saying to yourself... yeah, well I just one-upped myself.
That's right, for the next four weeks, I will be rocking the most ridiculous looking Mustache western Pennsylvania has ever seen. Horrified looks from strangers on the bus? Check. Befuddled looks from small children? Check. Free-flowing tears from my wife? ... more
I'm just going to put it out there... I'm going to look amazing for the month of February. "But Taylor, you looked amazing in January" you might be saying to yourself... yeah, well I just one-upped myself.
That's right, for the next four weeks, I will be rocking the most ridiculous looking Mustache western Pennsylvania has ever seen. Horrified looks from strangers on the bus? Check. Befuddled looks from small children? Check. Free-flowing tears from my wife? Check.
It's for the kids my friends. In order to justify this endeavor I need your support. Please sponsor my Mustache (and support my ego) by picking a classroom project from the list below to support. The more money we raise, the more kids we can help. And let's face it... helping kids is almost as cool as rocking a stache. (By the way, DonorsChoose.org is a 501(c)3 charity. See below for approvals from Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau.) hide
Thank you so much for your generosity. My children absolutely love the train table and set! It is so wonderful to see just how much the train set brings about a unified community and spirit in my classroom despite the many diverse needs. On any given day, at any given time, you will see children playing together with the trains..........verbal children, nonverbal children, boys, girls, kindergarten students through third grade children, children with autism, children with anxiety issues, students with behavioral needs, and staff that would just like to participate in child's play!
We utilize the train table to build rapport with our children through play. We also are able to use the train as a motivator for task completion and / or as a reward for exhibiting appropriate behaviors. The higher level problem solving skills coupled with a fun filled activity makes for the perfect addition to any school environment!
Thank you so much for bringing about such a wonderful sense of community to our classroom through your generous donations!”
Thank you all so very much for your support. As we speak I am currently at a statewide educational conference and expo, and many of the presenters are using the Flip cameras you all helped my class to secure. These will allow my students to truly create their own learning experiences and gain higher order thinking skills that are too often missing in classrooms today. The reality of society is that technology now surrounds us and I appreciate you helping me embrace the philosophy so wisely spoken by Benjamin Franklin, "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Thanks again for your generosity and I only hope you see the benefits of projects like mine positively impact the future of tomorrow.”
Thank you so much for all of your generosity. These books have made such a huge impact on the school community. We were able to distribute the books to each staff member from administrators, teachers, secretarial staff, custodians, and even cafeteria employees! The information and real world account described in the book was able to increase knowledge and provide an understanding of just how much the parents we serve with children on the autism spectrum go through each and every day. Hopefully, the knowledge staff was able to gain will lesson the daily struggle many of our parents go through to advocate for their child!
My parents were so appreciative of the generosity of so many people through donors choose. Many of my parents felt that the story they were reading was parallel in so many ways to theirs. If we could bring about increased compassion and understanding in one person.....and they could help bring about change in another.....and them for another.......what a greater world we'd be !
I am so appreciative. My staff is appreciative. My parents are appreciative.
My students thank you from the bottom of their hearts!”
Thank you all for your generous donations! I wish you would be able to see the impact that your donations have made, but since you can't see it firsthand, let me tell you. The children were so amazed to get the big boxes in the mail. We stopped class (just for a few minutes) to open them up. It was amazing.
Now that we have these new tools, I am able to be a better teacher. A lot of our reading lessons are now more engaging because of the projector. We studied for our PSSA's (our state standardized test) on the projector.
I also want to thank you for enabling me to purchase a new CD player. Previous to the new one, I had brought in an old one from my house, and it was not nearly loud enough! That is, if it even worked at all. (My kids always joked and asked my CD player if it felt like playing our story that day!)
Your kind and generous donations made such an impact in my classroom, and I am brought to tears to think of your kindness. It's nice to know that people out there care about my kids just as much as I do. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. DeFazio
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