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Mrs. Cruz-Iasiello from Long Island City, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Drumming to Your Own Beat

Help me give my students the ability to learn how to play drums, even in a remote teaching situation--each one will receive a drumpad and a set of drumsticks.

  • $1,095 goal

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Mrs. Cruz-Iasiello has another project! Donate to Musical Supplies to Keep Aspiring Young Musicians Playing! to help her classroom.

$3,211 - complete this project and be a hero

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students are dynamic and thirsting to learn music.

Most of my students have never had the opportunity to study instrumental music before, and I take them from knowing nothing to being able to play Stars and Stripes Forever by the end of their high school career.

We are a Title I School, which means my students do not have the means to own an instrument, let alone take private lessons, so we give them everything from the instrument itself, to the equipment to take care of the instrument, to group and personal instruction so that they can become the best musician possible.

My Project

I teach in an inner-city school where 95% of the students have not had the opportunity to play instruments before joining my class. Unfortunately, all of my beginning band students are currently in remote learning, which makes teaching wind instruments from scratch utterly impossible. They spent all of the fall semester learning how to read, write, listen and analyze music.

These drumsticks and drumpads will give my students the opportunity to become working musicians, and be able to apply all the theory they have learned the past semester into practice.

Mrs. Cruz-Iasiello Long Island City High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Long Island City, NY View local requests

More than half 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

170 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
4-Pack Drum Practice Pads - 11" Round x 3/8" Thick (11") • Amazon Business $14.83 40 $593.20
Ly Rosebush 12 Pairs 5A Drumsticks Hard Maple Wood Drum Sticks Wood Tip Student Drum Sticks • Amazon Business $20.99 14 $293.86

Materials cost

$887.06

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$930.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$164.18

Total project goal

$1,094.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,094.55

1 Donor

-$1,094.55

Donations toward project cost

-$930.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$164.18

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