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Mrs. Lopez from New York, NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Social Emotional Care for Students & Families

Help me give my students The Family Calming Kit; a child-friendly teaching tool designed to support families in helping children learn essential strategies to identify and regulate the "big" feelings and emotions that are critical to success.

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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

Our school is a vibrant, supportive community that students living in East Harlem call home. We are a Title I and special education school in a low-income community with specific programs for learners of varying needs and abilities. We teach students in their least restrictive environment in classroom communities including general education classes, self-contained, ICT, ASD Nest, and Dual Language. Free breakfast and free lunch are available to every child in our building each day, which are now remotely served.

Our students are creative, kind, and resilient.

On March 15th, Mayor De Blasio announced that all NYC public schools would be closed and that students and teachers would transition to remote learning. For young children from any background, this is scary and confusing. Our students never got a chance to say goodbye to their teachers or friends and it has now been announced that school is officially closed for the rest of the school year. We know that it is not enough to support our students academically at this time. These young learners are experiencing much more than they can understand and it is crucial that we do everything in our power to support their social and emotional needs as well.

My Project

As a Title I special education school, we are always working to support and meet the needs of our students and families. Before NYC public schools transitioned to remote learning in March, our school began to research and utilize the Calming Kits & Meddy Teddy mindfulness bears to facilitate student mindfulness, meditation, and self-care. With the schools shut down, we were unable to put these wonderful resources to good use. Now that schools are open again, we are eager to utilize these tools at school and want to expand this to the home as well by providing each family with a Family Calming Kit.

With school budgets frozen indefinitely, we are unable to purchase or deliver these supports for families.

It is our hope that with your help, we can purchase enough Family Calming Kits for each family in our school community. Children will learn calming strategies that allow them to both understand and regulate their emotions effectively—how to successfully interact with siblings, lower their feelings of stress, and be better prepared to understand their feelings and to use on their own.

The kits would not only support students and families in East Harlem, NYC during this difficult and traumatic time, but would also serve as a great transition piece to acclimate students back to school as we return. A piece of familiarity from home in school. Please help us support the emotional and mental wellbeing of our lovely students as we continue to press forward with resilience in our remote learning.

Mrs. Lopez PS 112 Jose Celso Barbosa Grades PreK-2

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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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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Individual Child & Family Calming Kit • Discovery Source $39.95 250 $9,987.50

Materials cost

$9,987.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $998.75

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$149.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$11,166.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$1,970.48

Total project goal

$13,136.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $13,136.54

2 Donors

-$13,136.54

Donations toward project cost

-$11,166.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1,970.48

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