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Mrs. Blackford from Portland, OR is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Lit Analysis and Literary Celebration, in Living Color

Help me give my students spray chalk for a community literacy project and highlighters in targeted colors to analyze texts according to AP standards.

  • 6 donors
  • $290 goal

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Mrs. Blackford has another project! Donate to Roots in the Stars: Culturally Rich Fiction for Mll Students to help her classroom.

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My Project

Our students are passionate, curious, and deeply engaged in both creative expression and critical thinking. They are multilingual, community-minded, and eager to use their voices—in writing and in art—to speak truth and spread hope.

This project supports two distinct but connected goals.

First, we are requesting spray chalk to bring a student-led project to life: an outdoor installation of powerful, justice-oriented quotes in public spaces around our campus and community. Using stencils cut by our CTE classes, students will spray quotes from the memoirs they’re reading in literature circles onto sidewalks around our campus and community. Each stencil will feature a powerful quote that resonated with them, along with the memoir’s title and author, turning public spaces into literary invitations. This project transforms personal reading into public art, spreading awareness of diverse stories while encouraging others to pick up these books. It centers literacy as identity, connection, and creative expression—bridging the gap between classroom learning and the wider world.

Second, we are requesting multi-color highlighter sets in yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green. These specific colors align with a strategy taught in AP English courses that helps students break down and annotate complex nonfiction texts. Each color has a purpose—such as marking claims, evidence, counterclaims, rhetorical choices, and commentary—so students can visually organize their thinking and deepen their understanding of argument. With these tools, they gain confidence and clarity while working with college-level reading.

Both components of this project are designed to make literacy visible, joyful, and accessible. The spray chalk brings reading into the streets, and the highlighters empower students to mark meaning in the margins.

These resources support their growth as critical readers, expressive writers, and public thinkers—and we can’t wait to see how far they’ll go.

Mrs. Blackford Leodis V McDaniel 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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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

400 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Boley Spray Chalk - 8 Pack Washable Sidewalk Chalk Spray Paint, 7 oz Each, Safe & Non-Toxic, Vibrant Colors for Outdoor Fun, Chalk for Asphalt, Grass, Snow, Sand, Concrete - Ages 14+ • Amazon Business $38.49 4 $153.96
cloudriver Highlighters Bulk Pack of 72, Assorted Color, Chisel Point, Quick Drying Ink, Highlighters Suitable For Classroom, Office And Shop • Amazon Business $19.69 3 $59.07

Materials cost

$213.03

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$246.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.45

Total project goal

$289.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $289.68

4 Donors

-$211.46

Donations toward project cost

-$181.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.22

match offer

-$76.46

Match offer toward project cost

-$64.99

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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 $0.00

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