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Ms. S from Long Is. City, NY is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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An Apple for a Teacher and Her Students

Help me give my students fast, responsive, and individualized support as they transition back to school after months of unpredictability and hardship.

  • $1,229 goal

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My Students

My students are a lively crew. They add excitement and adventure to anyone's day with their fun questions, witty observations, and delightfully random anecdotes. I teach in one of the most diverse cities and neighborhoods in the world and am convinced each day that my students deserve nothing short of the best. As a Special Education teacher, I work with students in multiple subjects across all grade levels, and it's a privilege to see them grow, overcome challenges and gain more confidence as they begin to take on more responsibilities while moving closer to graduating high school.

My students are kind to each other, their teachers, and to strangers, a quality that is rare to find in even some adults.

They inspire me, strengthen me and leave me in awe with their grit, determination, and perseverance. Some travel far from lower-income neighborhoods, about to become the first in their families to graduate high school. Some will be the first to attend college in their family. Some want to fulfill dreams that their parents and older siblings never had the opportunity to accomplish. My students are dreamers, achievers, and hard workers, and I am blessed to be with them each day.

My Project

The past seventeen months have been some of the most challenging, grueling, and stressful months that we've experienced, students and adults alike. Teaching from home, the lines between work hours and personal hours became blurred.

To better support my students, I became constantly accessible and on-call for them, at any time day or night, whether it was for academic matters such as making up work or personal struggles like losing a pet or getting sick.

This steady stream of availability took a toll on my laptop. As the new school year begins, I find myself needing a new one to support a new group of students who have just gone through an unprecedented, traumatic event unlike anything before in their lives and will now need more assistance than ever before.

With a new laptop, I can provide my students with the individualized and creative support they need as Special Education learners. I can pull students outside of class for extra support if I notice they are confused and work with them on a laptop to provide any resources they need. With building space limited in all schools this year, a laptop would allow me to turn any free space into a classroom for students, even if it's an empty corridor. Within the classroom, I can run around to meet each student's need, whether it means pulling up videos, images, articles, and definitions, so they can keep pace with the lesson. I can let students use the laptop to finish assignments if they are falling behind or come up during lunch to edit an essay together. I can also use the laptop to write IEPs, which will help advocate for my students' needs. My students' needs are great, but with a laptop, so are the solutions.

Ms. S Academy of Finance Enterprise Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Long Is. City, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters of 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

150 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple MacBook Air with Retina display - 13.3' - M1 - 8 GB RAM - 256 GB SSD - US • Best Buy Education $998.92 1 $998.92

Materials cost

$998.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,043.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.22

Total project goal

$1,228.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,228.12

4 Donors

-$800.12

Donations toward project cost

-$725.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.02

Matching donations from our partners

-$375.06

Match offers toward project cost

-$318.80

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.26

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$52.94

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 $0.00

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