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Ms. Amanda from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Getting Crafty to Share Our Stories

My students need a Silhouette Cameo machine to assist them in creating books to tell their personal immigration stories.

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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

English is more than just reading stories and writing essays. Just ask any student about the songs they wrote advocating for one aspect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or about the menus they created to open a discussion about foods from their home countries. English for these students is a pathway to connection and to exploring a new community of people from all over the world.

My students are all recently arrived newcomers.

They have been in the United States for less than four years. They come from a wide variety of countries such as Yemen, Haiti, Tibet and Senegal. In my classroom, there are over 15 languages spoken including Urdu, Arabic and Haitian Creole. We see this diversity as an incredible opportunity, but one that needs different types of support to be successful. This success is supported through the project-based approach of my school and classroom. We love to create and build things to help us understand concepts and to help us show what we know about what we have learned. Such hands-on support builds opportunities to learn a language while celebrating diversity.

My Project

I am requesting a Silhouette Cameo craft cutting machine. With the Silhouette craft cutter, students will be introduced to the world of digital fabrication as a way to share their stories with the world. They will learn how to use digital files and their own drawings to cut, draw and/or etch designs into a variety of materials such as paper and vinyl. Having a craft cutter in our English classroom will provide opportunities for students to develop traditional language literacy alongside the ever-growing need for technological literacy. Students can use the Silhouette craft cutter in innovative, new ways. For example, students will be challenged to develop a short memoir about their lives, develop and design a book cover, and then use the craft cutter with vinyl or paper to cut the shapes needed to create the book to share their stories.

Having a Silhouette Craft Cutter in our classroom will change my students' lives for the better by helping them explore their creativity using new and exciting materials and processes while developing language and technological literacy.

As technology continues to have a larger and larger role in the job market, providing students with the opportunity to practice their English while also expressing their ideas freely through multiple modalities in high school will help my students become more college and career ready.

Ms. Amanda Brooklyn International 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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Brooklyn, 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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Silhouette America CAMEO-3-AMAZON-BLD-2 Touch Screen, Bluetooth, Sketch Pen Set, Pixscan, 2 Full Rolls Vinyl, Transfer Paper and Tools kit • Amazon Business $299.99 1 $299.99

Materials cost

$299.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$334.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.03

Total project goal

$393.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $393.52

7 Donors

-$255.00

Donations toward project cost

-$224.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.75

match offer

-$129.69

Match offer toward project cost

-$110.24

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.45

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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