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Mrs. Banks from Orlando, FL is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning to Take Notes Like a College Student.

Help me give my students note guides with this printer and paper. I can print note guides for all 130 of them as they face the challenge of studying and learning French online.

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My Project

I have 130 students from 7-12 grade in Miami public schools learning French virtually with me. Their main struggle is learning. They do not know how to take notes and study them. We created what we call "Star guides" that guide them through the lessons and help them take note of the important information in the lessons. The goal is to then have them graduate to taking Cornell notes independently without the scaffold of the star guides.

The students do not have access to printers and many of them are not allowed to download the notes onto their cpublic school computers, making the course doubly challenging for them, and unnecessarily so.

By printing the star guides for the entire course, my students will experience the success that comes from taking clear notes and using those to further learning and knowledge. Note taking, reviewing and studying notes is a critical skill to learning and that is not being explicitly taught to my students.

This will also allow us to delve deeper in the language and have some fun with it.

Mrs. Banks Florida Virtual School FVES Grades 9-12

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More than a third 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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
HP LaserJet Pro 4001n Black White Printer • CDW-G $305.91 1 $305.91
Elementree - Sustainable Printer Paper For Everyday Printing and Copying 8.5 x 11 20lb/ 75gsm 500 Sheets Per Ream (00918) - White • Best Buy Education $5.82 20 $116.40

Materials cost

$422.31

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$458.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.94

Total project goal

$539.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $539.58

1 Donor

-$539.58

Donations toward project cost

-$458.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$80.94

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