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Mrs. Rudnicki Samson from Chicago, IL is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Shared Texts For Shared Learning

Help me give my students a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card for text activities we can use to finish out the school year with remote and hybrid students

  • $155 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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 amazing and resilient. Many are immigrants or from immigrant families. Many are affected by being homeless and by neighborhood violence, but come to school every day ready to learn. In a neighborhood where violence is an everyday part of life, school becomes so much more than just a place to learn. The students​ in my classroom recognize the value of an education as a means to a positive future and, hopefully someday, a safer community as well.

My students are English language learners in an urban neighborhood.

School is their safe haven and a place where they can focus on a positive future. They are eager to learn and take pride in the investment of others in their education.

My Project

Most of my students will continue to learn remotely for the remainder of the school year. In order to make it easier for us to practice nonfiction reading with paired texts I am hoping to fund a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card. These paired texts will allow student to share their reading experience together no matter where they are learning from. Despite the unique learning environment this year my students have formed a strong community. I know they will enjoy these reading passages together as we close out our school year.

Mrs. Rudnicki Samson
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers • Teachers Pay Teachers $100.00 1 $100.00

Materials cost

$100.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$131.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.21

Total project goal

$154.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $154.71

2 Donors

-$86.47

Donations toward project cost

-$73.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.97

Matching donations from our partners

-$68.24

Match offers toward project cost

-$58.00

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.24

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 $0.00

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