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Mrs. Hall from Norfolk, VA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Graphs for Days!

Help me give my students reusable graphing boards, markers and other materials to use for upcoming math units.

  • $254 goal

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My Students

Despite challenges with virtual learning, my students are coming to class ready to learn and are eager to try new things! However, our school is a Title I inner-city school, and most of our students are relying on me to show them how to navigate this new learning environment. While I am excited about being able to teach my students, I am nervous about the new challenges we are facing with distance learning and how it will affect them going forward. We are 100% virtual for the foreseeable future, and that is something no one was planning on. I am currently teaching from home, so I invite 60 students into my makeshift classroom 4 days a week for 90 minutes at a time. An average of 90% of my students show up to class, so I feel immense pressure to make online learning engaging, so they continue to come to class.

Even though our school schedule mirrors a typical middle school day, this year is anything but typical.

Just like my students, I am learning as I go. We are helping each other with technology, and they are giving me daily feedback on what methods are working.

My Project

In three weeks we start in person learning after a year of being virtual. Along with many safety regulations students are not allowed to share materials and we are encouraged to stay away from paper materials. I have several units coming up that use coordinate planes and graph paper to aid with instruction: Transformations, Slope/Y-Intercept, Quadrilaterals, Similar Figures, Histograms, Surface Area and Volume, 3D models, and Composite Figures. If students had access to a graphing whiteboard then they could avoid sharing materials while still being able to visually learn the content. While most content will be online, technology isn't guaranteed to work every day. Therefore, a supply of pencils will be necessary if the need arises. Since pencils can't be shared, students would be able to keep the pencil I give them and use it all day.

Students are not allowed to use lockers and must carry their bookbag full of materials around from class to class.

The other side of the whiteboard is blank, so it could be used for computation. Having a dual purpose whiteboard and marker with eraser eliminates the amount of materials students will have carry in their bookbags. This transition will be difficult and I want to try and make it as easy and stress free as possible.

Mrs. Hall Crossroads School Grades 6-8

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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Norfolk, VA 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

60 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
KleenSlate Dry Erase Markers with Eraser Caps, Black, 24/Pack (43324) • Staples $25.29 3 $75.87
GT279 Write Wipe Graphing Boards with XY Axis Set of 30 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 2 $59.98
LC198 Giant Magnetic Graph Array Chart • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Staedtler Wooden Pencils, No. 2 Medium Lead, 144/Box (13247C144A) • Staples $16.67 1 $16.67

Materials cost

$182.51

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$215.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.99

Total project goal

$253.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $253.24

1 Donor

-$126.62

Donations toward project cost

-$107.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.99

match offer

-$126.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$107.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.99

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 $0.00

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