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Mrs. Jessica from Stuttgart, AR is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Flexin' Our Way Through Financial Literacy!

Help me give my students a variety of financial literacy reading opportunities with the use of flexible seating.

  • $570 goal

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My Students

"Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart." - Oprah Winfrey

My fourth graders are a group of nine and ten year old students who are excited about reading, learning new things, and are working to enhance their growth mindset in order to persevere through difficult tasks.

Although we are a small school district, we have a wonderful school made up of students, parents, teachers, and administrators who wholeheartedly believe in working together to increase student achievement. We are a small school in Arkansas. One hundred percent of our students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The majority of our students live in a low poverty area and do not participate in extracurricular activities outside of school due to circumstances beyond their control.

We are continuing to improve upon our teaching strategies in order to be more culturally responsive towards the diverse makeup of our student population. We want our students to know that all means all when it comes to their academic and emotional success.

My Project

The makeup of our student population continues to grow and change. As an educator, I strive to help my students see themselves in the books we read; this will also aid in helping with their financial literacy learning. I love to expose my students to a variety of texts while in a comfortable environment. These resources will allow my students the opportunity to be comfortable while reading and learning, expose them to new books, and increase their financial literacy learning.

Diversity allows students the opportunity to broaden their vantage point and see life in a variety of ways.

I truly believe that providing my students the opportunity to read a variety of texts in financial learning will help them to learn vital skills such as saving, savings goals, interest, borrowing, and opportunity cost. These books will also allow us to spend time on many standards, including money. Money is a difficult concept for some of my students, and I believe these books will allow each of my students to gain meaningful experiences that can strengthen their current skills. Through more engaging techniques that strive to meet the needs of all of our students, we are seeing relationships strengthen, an increase in trust and excitement over learning, and increased student achievement.

The books in this project will allow my students to engage in meaningful conversations, find comparisons between themselves and the characters in the books, and provide opportunities for them to write about what they've read. The flexible seating will allow my students to read in a more relaxed and comfortable setting and can also be used for small groups when students are engaging in reading discussions. We all learn better when we're comfortable, and these seating options will provide us with several choices that will maximize the learning process.

Mrs. Jessica Park Avenue Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Stuttgart, AR View local requests

Nearly all 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

45 students impacted 5donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Active Kids Chair by Studico - Wobble Chairs Juniors/Pre-Teens (Grades 3-7) - Children Who Can’t Sit Still - Great 17" Wobble Chair Kids ADD/ADHD - Corrects Posture | Blue - Age Range 7-12y • Amazon Business $57.99 4 $231.96
ZHUIQU Portable Air Chair Durable Balance Outdoor Camping Chair Inflatable Stool Round Shape Fashion Home Furnishing for Healthy Parent-Child Play Home Office Yoga(Green) • Amazon Business $14.99 4 $59.96
The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Separate is Never Equal • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Black Girl Magic • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
I Don't See Color • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.03 1 $7.03
A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Lemonade for Sale (MathStart 3) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Penny Pot (MathStart 3) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Berenstain Bears' Dollars and Sense • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$413.98

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $34.15

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$484.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.47

Total project goal

$569.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $569.81

2 Donors

-$183.00

Donations toward project cost

-$173.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.45

match offer

-$365.64

Match offer toward project cost

-$310.79

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.85

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.18

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