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Mr. Gitlin from Brooklyn, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Self-Portraits- Days of our Lives

My students need encouragement and confidence through the arts so the biggest and scariest of life lessons become easy to accomplish. Painting with the requested easels provides all of that and much more.

  • $640 goal

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My Students

From the best place on earth, Brooklyn, New York, my students are hungry, willing, and simply amazing. I teach the whole 8th grade, which is roughly around 300+ students a week. Each are eager to express and explore their inner creativity and imagination. Most of my students consist of African/Caribbean descent who love to dance, sing, and paint/draw. Arts have been proven to increase state assessments and my students need to continue keeping a prideful tradition of high achievement through a rich art program because they are highly motivated in their art making and test scores. This school is not a magnet school for the arts, but in the future, one day, it will be.

My Project

All day and every day, students come in wanting to paint. Paint canvases, paint the walls, the halls, the desk. They eat and breath painting. My students are requesting to paint even more and in order to do this, they need the proper tools necessary to use to get the full results of painting

Painting is very therapeutic with all the mixing of colors.

How colors impact our moods, our thoughts, our understanding of life plays a big role in how they develop as greater human beings. So, painting on easels requested is important because my students need to be exposed to the proper skills and techniques that only easels can provide.

Mr. Gitlin Middle School 61 Dr Gladstone H Atwell Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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 three‑quarters 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

300 students impacted 8donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
50391-1001-Blick Tabletop Easel - Mini, H-Frame • Blick Art Materials $9.21 50 $460.50

Materials cost

$460.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $46.05

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$543.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.90

Total project goal

$639.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $639.36

6 Donors

-$589.36

Donations toward project cost

-$500.96

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.40

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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 $0.00

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