My students need 100 binders to start the school year.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Thomas's classroom raised $446
This project is fully funded
My Students
"My backpack was stolen, I got caught in the rain and everything in my bag is ruined, I changed bags and left my work at home". These are just a few of the many excuses I hear from my students each year as to why they are unprepared or unable to complete their work.
My students are primarily children who have grown up in a city environment.
They range in age from 13 to 20 and they run the gamut in terms of personality, but what they do have in common is an untapped ability to learn. Unfortunately, by the time they reach me in high school many of them have already formed bad learning habits and have little desire to learn new ones because they feel it is too late and too difficult to change. They are good kids who are trapped in a vicious cycle of underachievement but have amazing potential for success if they would only stop working against themselves.
My Project
During my 10 years as a teacher, I have found that being organized and having the right tools is one of the biggest challenges faced by my students. They honestly have no idea how to organize their work or use their notebooks as tools. They do assignments because they are told to do so but don't understand their value or how each assignment builds upon another to create a learning ladder. Instead, work is completed and then disregarded, lost or thrown out.
By supplying my students with individual binders that will remain in the classroom, I am hoping to teach my students how to use the tools they are given. This will help them to adopt good learning habits that will follow them to college, where they will be working independently and where they will need the skills I can teach them.
My students have such potential but it is often lost because they do not have the proper foundations for learning.
They have spent many years trying to be successful in school without understanding that the bad habits they have developed are working against them. I'm hoping to show them that learning can be fun and easy with the development of good learning habits and simple organization.
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
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