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Social Work Office, Expression..Safe & Secure

Help me give my students the tools that they need to express themselves with emotion balls and mood squares while staying centered with the boundary chairs and visual time tracker clock.

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My Students

Most of my students are Special Education students who lack social/emotional skills, and many have behavioral and mental health diagnoses.

Many of my students suffer from traumatic experiences to include death of a loved one, domestic violence, physical and/or verbal abuse, homelessness, incarcerated parents/family members, parental divorce/separation, gang violence, and foster care.

When students come to my school, we provide them with a safe haven to express their feelings, wants, and needs through a loving and supportive environment both in the classroom and in the counseling office.

My Project

I am working to build my social work office and secure tools for my most vulnerable students. While I have basic toys; I am serving an urban school of approximately 508 students, with over 20% identified as special needs students. We need supplies that students can use to not only express their feelings, but to strengthen skills such as social, emotional, sensory, and auditory.

My goal is to ensure that my Social Work office has the supplies necessary to empower my students and help them succeed in every aspect possible.

Many of my students express their feelings through behaviors. Some of them are unable to find the words to express themselves, while some do not even understand or recognize what they are feeling. The tools I have chosen for my project will help my sensory seeking students to remain calm and focused, while teaching them about feelings, and helping them to recognize them in a variety of ways. More specifically, my students come from a place where they do not feel centered, grounded, or secure, and they seek those feelings when they come to school. The emotion balls, regulation putty, and mood squares will be incorporated in therapeutic play to engage and teach students to recognize and describe their feelings, a basic expectation that often many students lack. The boundary chair, time tracker, and weighted bean bags will assist those students that are sensory seeking to feel secure and self-regulated while learning and sharing in a safe space.

I hope that I can receive some assistance in obtaining these necessary items. These children are future leaders, and they need me to help them learn what so many are lacking, how to express, share, and communicate effectively. Thank you to all who took the time to read about my project.

Ms. Anderson J.O. Wilson Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Emotion Balls • AKJ Education $44.99 2 $89.98
Mood Squares • AKJ Education $38.69 2 $77.38
Time Tracker® Visual Timer & Clock • AKJ Education $30.66 2 $61.32
Boundary Chair • AKJ Education $29.69 2 $59.38
Noise Reduction Headphones • AKJ Education $23.39 2 $46.78
Weighted Tactile Beanbags-Set of 5 • AKJ Education $20.69 2 $41.38
Visual Cards for Calming • AKJ Education $14.39 2 $28.78
Regulation Putty™ • AKJ Education $13.49 2 $26.98

Materials cost

$431.98

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $25.92

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$494.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.24

Total project goal

$581.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $581.62

2 Donors

-$187.95

Donations toward project cost

-$164.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.15

match offer

-$387.74

Match offer toward project cost

-$329.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.16

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.93

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 $0.00

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