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Ms. Cernuda from Miami, FL is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Professional development

Professional Development to Enhance Classroom Magic

Teacher Professional Development: I need a MacBook Air by Apple to assist with professional development in the classroom and help provide a better learning environment! <profdevpilot>

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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

My students are unique, innovative people who love to learn! This project could be the magic that transforms our classroom into a forward thinking and creative learning environment where the students thrive!

I am a teacher who started in Athletic Training.

Three years ago, I made the switch to include teaching high school students at our school as well. I gained my certificate to teach Biology and I am currently working on the addition of my Health certificate. I have worked tirelessly to improve our science department through staff collaboration and by attending professional development courses and sharing new information with my colleagues. Due to my background in athletics, I have a strong belief that our science department should be like a sports team, working together to improve our service to students. I have assisted with projects such as grants for classroom tablets and I have created cooperation groups for new teachers to be assisted by veteran teachers. Overall, the transition to teaching has been a challenging and rewarding time in my life!

My Project

The Macbook Air will allow me to take the course, "Reading Competency," to enhance my ability to teach reading skills embedded in science courses. This will enable me to incorporate the "Claim, Evidence, Reasoning" activity in the cardiovascular lab. Students will create a hypothesis on the effects activity on heart rates, then they will gather evidence by reading articles and performing a lab. The class will give me tools to use during this lab and others to incorporate common core into our classroom. The laptop will serve as a place where I can save course documents, take notes and a format for creating presentations by using www.prezi.com. Also, I will be taking, "Evolution, a course for educators" through Coursera. This course will assist me with providing information on natural selection and population genetics. The computer will also allow me to demonstrate the Natural Selection Gizmo at www.explorelearning.com over the projector to reach visual learners.

The donations to this project will directly affect the experiences of the students in my classroom.

They need to have a teacher who can reach all types of learners with new information and who is up to date on the most current teaching techniques! The MacBook Air will help me become the teacher who these students deserve! My students are a unique group of people, and they need a teacher who has the resources and information to present classroom material in a diverse and inspiring way.

Ms. Cernuda Miami Sunset Senior High School Grades 9-12

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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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Miami, FL 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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple� - MacBook Air� (Latest Model) - 13.3'Display - Intel Core i5 - 4GB Memory - 128GB Flash Storage - Silver • Best Buy Education $949.99 1 $949.99

Materials cost

$949.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$994.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$175.45

Total project goal

$1,169.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,169.69

5 Donors

-$359.00

Donations toward project cost

-$327.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.35

Matching donations from our partners

-$784.23

Match offers toward project cost

-$666.60

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$117.63

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

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 $0.00

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